Sai ano, entra ano, e a plataforma Java continua sendo um dos vetores mais explorados para comprometer a segurança dos computadores. Nessa semana foi divulgada uma nova vulnerabilidade na JVM (Java Virtual Machine) que permite que programas sejam instalados e executados sem o consentimento do usuário, simplesmente visitando um site comprometido. Relatos afirmam que essa falha está sendo ativamente explorada nos últimos dias. Portanto, só instale a JVM se você realmente precisar e, mesmo assim, só a habilite nos sites que você sabe que necessitam dela. Também deixo como sugestão a leitura de um artigo sobre como os robôs estão se tornando populares e como isso vai impactar nossas vidas, assim como a popularização dos computadores fez.

Fabio Akita ‏@AkitaOnRails After Disappearing For More Than 3 Years, Why The Lucky Stiff Returns To The Internet  http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/06/after-disappearing-for-more-than-3-years-why-the-lucky-stiff-returns-to-the-internet/

Ed Bott ‏@edbott Big numbers for Apple’s App Store, tiny returns for developers  http://www.edbott.com/weblog/2013/01/big-numbers-for-apples-app-store-tiny-returns-for-developers/

Scott Hanselman ‏@shanselman Great Web Developer Checklist! Bookmarked:  http://webdevchecklist.com/

Scott Hunter ‏@coolcsh Great new book on ASP.NET Web API (http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449337711/) written by both the team and community.

Fabio Akita ‏@AkitaOnRails Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/12/ff-robots-will-take-our-jobs/

Cristina De Luca ‏@DeLuCa 66% of phone, tablet owners don’t really care if they run iOS, Android, or Windows http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/07/66-of-phone-tablet-owners-dont-really-care-if-they-run-ios-android-or-windows/

Henrique Lobo (Kico) ‏@loboweissmann Link MARAVILHOSO: “A Arquitetura de Aplicações de código aberto”: http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html

Scott Hanselman ‏@shanselman Large list of Open Source Virtual Machine images for Windows Azure http://vmdepot.msopentech.com/List/Index

Scott Hanselman ‏@shanselman Wow. Watch this video now. THIS is the future in our living rooms. http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/01/09/microsoft-researchs-illumiroom-puts-3d-to-shame-literally-projects-images-into-your-living-room/

damien katz ‏@damienkatz The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C, or why we are using C more and more in @Couchbase http://damienkatz.net/2013/01/the_unreasonable_effectiveness_of_c.html

Fabio Akita ‏@AkitaOnRails Critical Java zero-day bug is being “massively exploited in the wild” http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/01/critical-java-zero-day-bug-is-being-massively-exploited-in-the-wild/

Fabio Akita ‏@AkitaOnRails How Steve Jobs tried to save HP http://www.tuaw.com/2013/01/10/how-steve-jobs-tried-to-save-hp/

Scott Hanselman ‏@shanselman Good resource to read and bookmark: “Top Azure Best Practices.” http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rickandy/archive/2012/12/20/top-azure-tips-and-best-practices.aspx

Fabio Akita ‏@AkitaOnRails ‘Safari is released to the world’ http://www.osnews.com/story/26692/Safari_is_released_to_the_world

IDG Now! ‏@IDGNow Alerta! Falha no Java ameaça usuários de Internet Banking no País http://idgnow.uol.com.br/internet/2013/01/11/falha-no-java-ameaca-usuarios-de-internet-banking-no-pais-alertam-experts/