Flame Malware

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/flame/

HomeOS from Microsoft

To simplify the management of technology and to simplify the development of applications in the home, Microsoft is developing an "operating system" for the home. 

Learn more about it @ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/homeos/

Google Knowledge Map

http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/search/knowledge.html

Free jQuery Book

https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=58aac97211c98e70&id=58AAC97211C98E70%21185

Generative Jigsaw Puzzles

http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/projects/puzzles/

They are using Diffusion-Limited Aggregation model in condensed matter physics as well as reaction-diffusion type of partial differential equation for pattern formation in their work.

Fascinating, or so I think.

5 Ways to Bring AI to Your Application

From Software Development Times:

http://www.sdtimes.com/TOP_FIVE_WAYS_TO_BRING_MACHINE_LEARNING_INTO_YOUR_PROJECT/By_Alex_Handy/About_AI_and_BIGML_and_MACHINELEARNING_and_MAHOUT_and_OPERA_and_PYBRAIN_and_STANFORD/36603

Larry O'Brien on Functional Programming

We read:

"Functional programmers have applied modern advances in type theory to yesterday's Smug LISP Weenie to generate today's Insufferable Haskell Prick. Just as LISP advocates carefully avoid the reality of decades of Scheme- and LISP-exposed CS students who happily left those languages behind, functional advocates carefully avoid acknowledging the programmers who have filed in to the functional programming room, listened to the conversation for a bit, read the literature, and quietly left."

Computers Left On Overnight

This is what happens on your computer if you leave it on overnight:

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf

Significant Cyber-Security Incidents Since 2006

From the Center for Strategic and International Studies:

http://csis.org/files/publication/120504_Significant_Cyber_Incidents_Since_2006.pdf