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Tech News Flash: Wednesday -- September 3, 2014

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Headline Scan
Admins Grapple With Shadow Tech
Victimized Celebs Blamed for Their Indecent Exposure
Fanning the Flames of the Systemd Inferno
What Lies Beneath Social Media Users' Self-Censoring Ways
Leap Motion Gets Your Hands in the Game
Digital Clone: You Won't Be Able to Live Without One
Peach OSI Is Fresh and Juicy

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Today's Story Highlights

Admins Grapple With Shadow Tech
If you want to see an IT pro twitch, bring up Shadow IT in a
conversation. "Shadow IT" is a term applied to technology deployed by an
organization's users outside the purview of the IT department. It's
bothersome to system shepherds because it can open up an organization to
data leakages. It's also growing. Many Shadow IT programs run in the
cloud, but all clouds are not created equal.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80981.html

Victimized Celebs Blamed for Their Indecent Exposure
Apple on Tuesday issued a statement blaming the posting online of more
than 100 celebrities' photos in various stages of dishabille on a highly
targeted hack attack to gain access to their usernames, passwords and
answers to security questions. None of the cases investigated resulted
from any breach in the company's systems, including iCloud or Find my
iPhone, Apple maintained.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80978.html

Fanning the Flames of the Systemd Inferno
They say art imitates life, but it's surprising how often the same can
be said of the Linux blogs. Case in point: Just as the world at large is
filled today with fiery strife -- Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, Ferguson -- so,
too, is the Linux blogosphere. Of course, it's not political, social or
racial struggles tearing the FOSS community apart. Rather, the dividing
issue here is none other than Systemd.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80980.html

What Lies Beneath Social Media Users' Self-Censoring Ways
People have been reluctant to discuss whistle-blower Edward Snowden's
revelations about the NSA's surveillance activities in social media, the
Pew Center Internet Project reported last week. Only 42 percent of the
1,800 adults interviewed by the center were willing to post their views
on the topic on their Facebook and Twitter accounts, although 82 percent
were willing to discuss it face to face.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80966.html

Leap Motion Gets Your Hands in the Game
Leap Motion last week announced a virtual reality headset developer
mount for Oculus Rift and a new API that together will take the VR game
to new heights. The API feeds raw infrared imagery straight from Leap's
sensors to the controller on the headset, giving users a real time view
of the environment. The API expands the tracking space to any direction
the user is facing.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80960.html

Digital Clone: You Won't Be Able to Live Without One
A very interesting book just hit the market. Written by Martine
Rothblatt -- apparently she is America's top paid female CEO -- its
title is Virtually Human: The Promise -- and the Peril -- of Digital
Immortality . The subject is digital clones, and Rothblatt goes into
depth about what they are, when they are coming, and the likelihood they
eventually will have equal human rights.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80971.html

Peach OSI Is Fresh and Juicy
Peach OSI is a new Linux distro that stands apart from the crowd. Its
first stable version was just released in June -- yet it displays more
performance traits and sophistication than many Linux distros that have
been searching for an audience for years. In the crowded Linux distro
field, it is very rare to find a newcomer that is not like any of the
others.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80965.html

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