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Leaked US antitrust report on Google adds weight to rivals' complaints A leaked report by staff at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission paints an ugly picture of Google as a bullying monopolist and adds credence to complaints from rivals who have long criticized its business practices.

AI [artificial intelligence] will not kill us, says Microsoft... but some leading thinkers/inovators disagree.
Such machines could "spell the end of the human race" - Prof Stephen Hawking. The physicist Prof Hawking has warned that conscious machines would develop at an ever-increasing rate once they began to redesign themselves.
"Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded," he said.
"Once you start to make machines that are rivalling and surpassing humans with intelligence, it's going to be very difficult for us to survive," - Sir Clive Sinclair
"With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon" - Elon Musk, chief executive of car firm Tesla and rocket-maker SpaceX

AI will not kill us, says Microsoft The chief of Microsoft's research division says he does not believe artificial intelligence systems are going to wipe out humankind.

What a Samsung Purchase of BlackBerry Could Mean for Both Companies
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View of Quincy Market, Boston... from client: Catlin Underwriting's new suite

RASF will be in Boston this week to deliver an infrastucture move for Catlin Underwriting ( on behalf of prosource.it )

"...we’ve created more information in the last 10 years than in all of human history before that..."
-Daniel Levitin, McGill University psychology professor

http://onforb.es/1EKsjpC

Important... Mac users be aware. Shellshock is a dangerous threat!

Shellshock Vulnerability: What Mac OS X Users Need to Know A flaw in the “Bash” shell—the command line interpreter for Unix-based systems including Linux and Mac OS X—has sent server administrators scrambling to patch their systems. They're calling it Shel...

Pleased to announce a new venture today... RASF is proudly partnering with Prosource.IT [ http://prosource.it ] to provide infrastructure consulting and Project Management for Catlin Underwriting Services LTD. [ http://catlin.com ]