He also downplayed the threat of Dell Computer (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) in the enterprise space.

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That seems to be the case with the hype that is portraying the Year 2000 computer bug as the biggest threat to civilization since Godzilla destroyed Tokyo.

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When computer scientists talk about the possible threat to humanity from superintelligent AI, they don't mean the Terminator or Matrix.

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Both should also benefit some from the recent problems that Dell is having with its direct sales model, once thought to be a bigger threat to retail store computer sales.

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Hambre asserted the great threat to citizen privacy in the computer age is not from government, but from criminals and certain highly-invasive private sector businesses.

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Don DeBolt, director of threat research at CA, a computer security company, said it's too early to tell who or what may be behind the Twitter attack.

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The proof-of-concept computer won't give silicon circuits any threat when it's running at just 0.15Hz and takes up as much space as a mini fridge, but the hope is to dramatically speed up and shrink down future iterations to where there are advanced computers that occupy the same size as real muscles.

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Officials there concluded that the FBI did not have sufficient proof that Lee posed a national-security threat grave enough to merit a raid on his computer.

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Last month, President Barack Obama signed an executive order aimed at bolstering computer-network protections, and he noted the "rapidly growing threat from cyberattacks" in his State of the Union address.

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According to Neil Smith, a researcher from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team, unauthorized access to those devices could be a very real threat -- if you happen to own a Samsung model.

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On the cyber-security threat, Blair's written testimony described an inability to contend with attacks using computer networks and telecommunications systems.

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The most common threat was a technique known as spear-phishing, which can corrupt a company's computer system by uploading malicious attachments and gaining access to sensitive information.

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