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The Nightly Build: Wednesday February 21

By Michael Calore February 21, 2007 Categories: Other

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The Nightly Build:

  • The long rumored CBS-YouTube deal appears to have fallen through. The Wall street Journal reports that the two companies were unable to reach an agreement.

  • Frances E. Allen, 75, was awarded the $100,000 Turing Award yesterday for her work at IBM. Allen helped create techniques that optimized the performance of compilers. The Turing Award is one of the most prestigious prizes in computing and this is the first time in the award’s 40-year history that it’s been awarded to a woman. Better late than never I guess.

  • Microsoft hastily removed a banner advertisement that appeared on its instant-messaging program for a software application that falsely hypes security threats on a user’s computer. Of the “scareware,” Microsoft spokeswoman Whitney Burk writes: “we immediately investigated the reports and removed the offending ads, as this is a violation of our ad-serving policy.”

  • Today’s web zen: broken image stamps.

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