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• Microsoft pours out the patches as Windows 10 nears release

  Microsoft has been banging the Windows 10 patch drum almost daily as it prepares for Wednesday's launch.

• HP to help turn Avatar sequels into a digital attraction

  The 2009 sci-fi blockbuster Avatar created a stir with audiences and critics for its themes, storytelling and special effects. Three sequels are in the works, with the first planned for release in December 2017. But this time around, Avatar may become much more than a film.

• Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent just as John Chambers predicted

  ALLEN, TX -- Nokia's $16.6 billion acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent is an example of the industry shifting just as Cisco predicted, its CEO said this week.

• MIT alums celebrate 10th anniversary of bogus CompSci paper generator with cheeky new tool

  Three MIT grads this week are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their clever <a href="http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/">SCIgen</a> program, which randomly generates computer science papers realistic enough to get accepted by sketchy technical conferences and publishers, with a brand new tool designed to poke even more fun at such outfits.

• 3 enterprise gamification success stories

  Scientists have learned quite a bit about the brain lately.

• Conn. AG launches Lenovo-Superfish 'crapware' probe

  Three days after Chinese computer maker Lenovo promised to flush "crapware" from its consumer PCs, Connecticut's state attorney general announced a probe into the company's practice of bundling adware.

• Best Apple iTunes apps of the year are brain trainer, number puzzler

  Apple has named <strong>Elevate</strong>, a set of brain training games, and <strong>Threes!</strong>, an addictive numbers game, as its top 2014 app and game, respectively.

• Microsoft slates 7 security updates for next week, resurrects Exchange fix

  Microsoft today announced it will release seven security updates on Tuesday, three of them critical, to patch Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, various pieces of the Office suite, and the SharePoint and Exchange server software.

• U.S. government issues alert about Apple iOS "Masque Attack" threat

  Three days after security company FireEye warned of an iPhone/iPad threat dubbed "Masque Attack", the U.S. government has issued a warning of its own about this new risk by malicious third-party apps to Apple iOS devices.

• Carmakers promise they'll protect driver privacy -- really

  The world's 19 biggest automakers <a href="https://www.globalautomakers.org/topic/privacy">have agreed to principles</a> they say will protect driver privacy in an electronic age where in-vehicle computers collect everything from location and speed to what smartphone you use.

• British family gets texts from beyond the grave

  With Halloween on the horizon, an English prankster concocted one of the meanest trick-or-treat type jokes I've ever come across.

• Microsoft slates critical Windows, IE fixes for next week

  Microsoft will release nine security updates next week, twice the number of last month, with fixes slated for Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, SharePoint Server and Web app developer tools.

• Nobel Prize in Physics a Blue LED Special

  Three university researchers, two in Japan and one in the United States, have been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention in the early 1990s of the blue light-emitting diode (LED), an energy efficient breakthrough in producing longer-lasting white light.

• CIOs Share Their Secrets to Project Success

  Three CIOs discuss how they balance traditional and unconventional approaches to keep projects on track and deliver on their promises.

• Carmakers put Apple's CarPlay in the slow lane

  Some car manufacturers are delaying their rollout of CarPlay, the software platform from Apple that synchronizes an iPhone to a vehicle's infotainment system.