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Tech News Flash: Tuesday -- May 6, 2014

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Facebook's $2B Baby Oculus Denies Rival's Rights Claims
Sony's Record-Busting Magnetic Storage Tape Unlikely to Stick
Security Pros Struggle With Cyberthreat Angst
Sexism in FOSS Rears Its Ugly Head Again... and Again

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Today's Story Highlights

Facebook's $2B Baby Oculus Denies Rival's Rights Claims
A simmering conflict between Oculus, a virtual reality startup Facebook
bought last month for $2 billion, and ZeniMax Media began to boil
Monday. ZeniMax las week claimed one of its former employees, John
Carmack, improperly shared some of its tech with Oculus for use in its
Rift virtual reality headset, which is touted as having the power to
bring VR to the masses.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80399.html

Sony's Record-Busting Magnetic Storage Tape Unlikely to Stick
Sony has announced magnetic backup tape with the world's highest areal
recording density -- 148 GB per square inch. It provides about 74 times
the recording capacity of conventional mag tape media, Sony claimed.
Data cartridges made using this technology could record more than 185 TB
of data each. This technology is aimed at applications that require high
density.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80396.html

Security Pros Struggle With Cyberthreat Angst
As the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks increase, system
defenders in the trenches are losing confidence in their ability to
protect their organizations' information assets, suggests a survey
released last week. The survey of almost 5,000 global IT security pros
found that 57 percent felt their organizations were unprotected from
sophisticated cyberattacks.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80394.html

Sexism in FOSS Rears Its Ugly Head Again... and Again
It seems there's always some kind of conflict at work in the FOSS
community lately, whether it's based on race, on gender or something
else. Most recently, it's the gender issue that has been felt most
keenly. Not only have we seen the whole GitHub debacle unfold and
explode, but then a certain post appeared online that got the Linux
community upset all over again.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80395.html

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