IT Trends :: Thursday, April 27, 2006

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Man Charged With Hacking USC Database

A computer network administrator in San Diego says he was testing network security when he hacked into a University of Southern California database containing personal information of roughly 275,000 school applicants, including their social security numbers. He reported his ability to access this information to a non-USC Web site, which in turn notified the university. Now facing up to a decade in prison, Eric McCarty is schedule to appear in court this week…(ABC News)

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Reforming a Digital Pirate

This Kansas University senior recommends open source programs to her fellow students. She acknowledges the prevalence of software pirating among college students and wants to figure out a better way for them to avoid buying expensive boxed programs. She also points out how the school itself uses open source technology in its Networking and Telecommunications Services…(Kansan.com)

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College Bans MySpace.com to Free Up Bandwidth

Will news of MySpace never end? Del Mar College, a community college in Corpus Christi, Texas, has officially made the social networking site inaccessible from campus computers. With all the research college students should be conducting online, it's hard to believe that 40% of Del Mar's overall network activity is attributed daily to MySpace.com. Some students say that since they pay technology fees, it's wrong of the school to ban sites popular among students...(chron.com)

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My, What You Can Do Without a Mouse!

You probably already use some of these keyboard-only shortcuts, but you'll find at least a couple that are new. The one thing Microsoft did that slammed Apple way back when was making everything in Windows accessible by a simple keyboard shortcut. True, it d'esn’t help most mouse junkies, but for techies who grew up on the command line, the handy keyboard shortcut has saved many an ugly situation especially when the mouse failed…(RealTechNews)

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    Report: Cloud Certifications Bring Biggest Salary Payoff

    It pays to be conversant in cloud, according to a new study from Skillsoft The company's annual IT skills and salary survey report found that the top three certifications resulting in the highest payoffs salarywise are for skills in the cloud, specifically related to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Nutanix.

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    IBM Releases Granite 3.0 Family of Advanced AI Models

    IBM has introduced its most advanced family of AI models to date, Granite 3.0, at its annual TechXchange event. The new models were developed to provide a combination of performance, flexibility, and autonomy that outperforms or matches similarly sized models from leading providers on a range of benchmarks.

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    California AI Watermarking Bill Garners OpenAI Support

    ChatGPT creator OpenAI is backing a California bill that would require tech companies to label AI-generated content in the form of a digital "watermark." The proposed legislation, known as the "California Digital Content Provenance Standards" (AB 3211), aims to ensure transparency in digital media by identifying content created through artificial intelligence. This requirement would apply to a broad range of AI-generated material, from harmless memes to deepfakes that could be used to spread misinformation about political candidates.

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    Delightful Progress: Kuali's Legacy of Community and Leadership

    CEO Joel Dehlin updates us on Kuali today, and how it has thrived as a software company that succeeds in the tech marketplace while maintaining the community values envisioned in higher education years ago.