Day: April 8, 2011

Is that like “Happy kitties are happy?” Anyway, I watched Geekbeat Live on YouTube Live today. And, today is the first day the live feed for YouTube is up.

YouTube is going LIVE

“With over 2 billion views a day, it’s easy to think about YouTube as a place to watch videos recorded in the past. But you’ve told us you want more – and that includes events taking place right now. In response, we’ve live streamed a number of popular concerts, sporting events, and interviews, but primarily on a one-off basis.

Today we’re announcing the initial roll out of YouTube Live, which will integrate live streaming capabilities and discovery tools directly into the YouTube platform for the first time. This begins with a new YouTube Live browse page (www.youtube.com/live), where you can always find the most compelling live events happening on YouTube and add events to your calendar. Subscribe to your favorite YouTube live-streaming partners to be notified of upcoming live streams on your customized homepage.

Today, we’ll also start gradually rolling out our live streaming beta platform, which will allow certain YouTube partners with accounts in good standing to stream live content on YouTube. The goal is to provide thousands of partners with the capability to live stream from their channels in the months ahead. In order to ensure a great live stream viewing experience, we’ll roll this offering out incrementally over time.”

Lot’s o’ fixes! Critical security updates, pretty much what we have come to expect with Windows! 17 separate patches for 64 security issues… ouch!

Microsoft Preparing ‘Ugly’ Security Patch on Tuesday

“Windows security experts had been expecting a large April security update after last month’s thin offering, and Microsoft’s advance notice appears to meet those expectations — and then some.

Microsoft announced today that it plans to roll out 17 patches on Tuesday in its monthly security update, with nine fixes deemed “critical” and eight considered ‘important.’ Remote code execution (RCE) attack risks dominate April’s slate, as 15 of the 17 security bulletins address those considerations. Two security bulletins point to information disclosure and elevation-of-privilege threats.

‘No matter how you look at it, it’s ugly,’ said Paul Henry, forensic and security analyst at Lumension. ‘We’re well into a new year and things have not improved. In fact, they’ve gotten worse.’

The first critical security bulletin appears to be the long-awaited cumulative fix for Internet Explorer. It will address every supported Windows operating system and covers IE 6, 7 and 8 browsers.

The remaining eight critical security bulletins are all Windows OS-level fixes with RCE exploit risks. Critical security bulletin No. 6 also includes a fix for Microsoft Office.”