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PCI compliance: The best defense is a great defense

CIO Business Intelligence

Cybersecurity experts at Verizon Consulting Services draw on hands-on experience in solving payment card security challenges dating back to the formation of the PCI security regulation in 2002. This begins with having the right goal for a PCI DSS compliance program, Philipsen notes.

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Computer scientist Frances Allen, known for her work on compiling, dies at 88

The Verge

Frances Allen, whose work on computer compiling helped establish a foundation for much of modern computer programming, died on August 4th, her 88th birthday. Allen was determined to make the tedious compiling process — converting software programs into ones and zeroes— more efficient. Allen spent 45 years at IBM, retiring in 2002.

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Danish artist to troll Northwest with giant public sculptures, backed in part by Allen Foundation

GeekWire

The project is being managed by the Seattle-based Scan Design Foundation , a private organization founded in 2002 to honor the legacy of Inger and Jens Bruun and advance Danish-American relations by supporting cultural exchanges focused on environmental sustainability. The Paul G.

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Preventing the next pandemic: WSU will lead $125M global project to find, analyze animal viruses

GeekWire

Washington State University this week launched a new $125 million program to collect and analyze animal viruses with the aim of preventing the next pandemic. The program is funded with an award from the U.S. WSU researchers Tom Kawula (right), Kariuki Njenga (center), and colleagues work on a project to test for the MERS-COV virus.

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Xbox Live is out, and the ‘Xbox network’ is in, as Microsoft rebrands its online service

GeekWire

Members of the Xbox Insider program, an opt-in service that lets customers get early access to new Xbox features, reported that their Xbox’ UI had begun to replace references to Live with “the Xbox network.” ” That underlying service has been known as Xbox Live since its launch on the original Xbox in November 2002.

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Book Excerpt: How Microsoft leverages employee giving to build a culture of purpose

GeekWire

When Bill Neukom showed up at Microsoft as its first general counsel in 1985, he made two critical decisions that have since impacted millions of lives over the last thirty-five years and have been instrumental in creating a program that has inspired thousands of employees to become engaged deeply into their communities. Akhtar Badshah.

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Meet the UFO website you were waiting for, aaro.mil

Dataconomy

government programs or activities to contact AARO directly to make a report. More recently, lawmakers have called for the intelligence community to share information about alleged secret programs related to recovering crashed UFOs and conducting technological reverse engineering. Featured image credit: ruddy.media/Unsplash

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