When Sophos pointed the finger at Apple recently over security in OS X, it sounded like a vendor trying to generate fear to sell products. But in this case, Sophos is also doing the industry a service, according to some security experts.

Sophos called out Apple last week for boosting the built-in protection in OS X in its recent 10.6.4 update without disclosing that it had done so. Sophos claims Apple updated its XProtect.plist, a file that contains basic signatures for various Mac threats, specifically to detect the HellRTS Trojan , which masquerades as the iPhoto application and has been making the rounds on various torrent sites.

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The hormones leptin and insulin work together in specific neurons in the hypothalamus region of the brain to affect both the regulation of blood sugar levels in the body and female fertility, say UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers.

«Many people, and even many physicians, think you develop diabetes that is solely secondary to obesity,» said Dr. Joel Elmquist, professor of internal medicine and pharmacology at UT Southwestern and senior author of the study, which appears online and in the current issue of Cell Metabolism. «Our findings indicate that is not necessarily the case, at least in mice. We can make the animals very diabetic without obesity, suggesting that there may be a circuit or path of resistance to these signals in the brain that helps explain the powerful anti-diabetic actions of leptin.»

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If you’re in the market for a smaller-scale computing device, which one should you get: the netbook with its physical keyboard or the iPad, which has sold more than 450,000 units in less than a week?

That was the question for this week’s Web Faceoff, our weekly poll series where we ask you, the reader, to choose between two web contenders. This week’s duel saw the iPad and the netbook square off in order to determine which device you prefer.

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Imagenomic has released Portraiture 2 Plug-in for Aperture 3, the latest version of Apple’s digital photography workflow application. The Portraiture 2 edition provides native 64-bit operation within Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”).

The Portraiture 2 Plug-in for Aperture 3 is being made available as a free upgrade for registered users of the previous Aperture 2 Plug-in edition. For new users, the suggested retail price is US$199.95. A demo is available for download.

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10 Things to Look For Steve Jobs took the stage at the Apple campus in Cupertino, Ca on Thursday, April 8 to announce the impending release of iPhone OS 4.0. According to the live blog of the event on CNet.com , Jobs began his presentation by illustrating how many iPhones, iPod Touches and IPads have been sold in the past year, touting the 4 billion apps downloaded by Apple customers as a plumb market for software developers. Those developers can now start working on products for the newly announced iPhone OS 4.0, a platform that features many user-friendly changes.

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Rumors that Bing was to be the default search engine in an upcoming iPhone OS update can continue to be filed in the rumor bin, at least based on the developer preview release of OS 4.0.

Bing is still nowhere to be seen in the iPhone’s Safari app, or anywhere else in the preview version of the OS. Besides Google, which remains the default search engine, the only other option remains Yahoo.

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I just wanted to thank our forum users for their support and thoughtful analyses about Apple’s new ToS (terms of service) for its iPhone OS 4.0, due to be released this summer.  As you are probably all aware by now, the new ToS has led to widespread speculation on blogs and in the trade press about how the change in wording could affect products marketed on the Apple AppStore.

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Have a problem? Ask in the forum: www. mob3. co. uk or the live chat: www. mob3. co. uk Don’t worry, I haven’t switched. I haven’t really used Linux that much, so here I talk about what I have done so far on ubuntu, how I have customised it, and installing apps. virtualbox for Windows (Free): www. virtualbox. org Ubuntu (Free): www. ubuntu. com Themes: www. gnome-look. org

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Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 4 edition (February 26, 2010)

The Definitive Guide to Windows API Programming, Fully Updated for Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Vista

Windows System Programming, Fourth Edition, now contains extensive new coverage of 64-bit programming, parallelism, multicore systems, and many other crucial topics.

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