June 20, 2008
Why Yahoo has no CEO in sight
Valleywag
Owen Thomas plays the guessing game by asking who could be Yahoo’s next CEO if Jerry Yang leaves.
“Jerry Yang’s days seem numbered; if he does not win reelection to the board at Yahoo’s annual shareholder meeting, now pushed back to August, he will almost certainly have to step down as boss, too. The likeliest CEOs are nostalgia plays: Former COOs Jeff Mallett and Dan Rosensweig.”
AMD readies rival for Intel’s Atom
Register Hardware
Tony Smith relays details about AMD’s new processor, codenamed Bobcat.
“A company presentation slide that appears on German-language site Eee PC News adds some flesh to the bones. Bobcat will contain a single, 1GHz AMD64 processor core, 128KB of L1 cache and 256KB of L2 cache. It’ll have an 800MHz HyperTransport and a DDR 2 memory controller capable of connecting to 400MHz memory.”
Insiders no longer the biggest threat to computer networks
Techdirt
Mike Masnick looks at the source of many business security breaches.
“For years, we’ve been told that the biggest threat to various companies’ computer networks doesn’t come from outside hackers, but from internal (often disgruntled) employees. However, a new study disputes that, saying that less than one in five security breaches were due to insiders. Business partners are nearly twice as likely to be the cause of an attack, and then outside hack attacks are the largest threat.”