In the three weeks after Gates issued his dictum, Microsoft published three separate security bulletins.

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In its security advisory, Microsoft labeled three of the bulletins "critical, " meaning an attacker could remotely execute malicious code on unpatched systems.

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The BBC alone has four 24-hour news channels (two radio, two TV, one each respectively for domestic and international audiences) along with three TV news bulletins a day, four radio news programmes most days, radio news bulletins, summaries and our online operation.

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It says the on-demand video material would total around 20 minutes per day, plus an additional three daily news, sport and weather bulletins, each lasting up to 90 seconds.

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The bulletins did not mention the recent arrest of three men in connection with what the Justice Department has said was a plot to detonate bombs in the United States.

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