Assange takes refuge in Ecuadorian embassy |
- Assange takes refuge in Ecuadorian embassy
- Schneier spanks AV industry over Flame failures
- Ludicrously lucky teen survives spear through brain
- Google blocks MP3 rippers from YouTube
- HP taps Intel Atom for next-gen Moonshot hyperscale servers
- Top US Senator to Apple, Google: 'Curb your spy planes'
- LG shelves future tablet efforts
- Achtung Penguin! SUSE tunes up Linux for SAP
- Mad Apple patent: Cloneware to convice trackers you don't like porn
- Google to ICO: We had no idea Street View data slurp was happening
- Surface: Because Microsoft does so well making hardware?
- Internet Explorer bug patched only a week ago now being exploited
- British Waterways charity mapping data handed to Google for free
- FATTIES are DESTROYING THE WORLD, scream mad professors
- ICANN may have to operate without a chief during gTLD rollout
- Introduction to Virtualisation, Microsoft-style
- Sony slams Nintendo Wii U functionality
- Microsoft details latest Windows Phone update
- Ingram Micro in talks to acquire SDG, say sources
- Trust fined £225k for leaving patient files in abandoned hospital
- Apple extends Liquidmetal sole rights until 2014
- So you wanna be a Wall Street techie? Or anyway, get paid a lot
- Songkick Concerts
- ARM unleashes 8-core Mali 450 GPU, heads down both forks in road
- Oracle pumps out Q4 financials in premature release: See? We're OK
- Mobile device enslavement a plague on British workers' health
- Cable & Wireless Worldwide shareholders OK Vodafone takeover
- China aims to redraw the petaflop graph with 100 Pflops in 2015
- Whitehall goes to White House for advice on 'ID assurance' plans
- This Old Box. And that Old Box. And that one. All of them, in fact
- Samsung S3 finally catches up with the Palm Pre - if modified
- Cabinet Office: Lid comes off UK.gov £4bn IT porkbarrel 'at month end'
- New Samsung chief: I want SOFTWARE
- Brussels could 'clash' with London over UK snooper's charter
- Ofcom: High-speed hookups still a UK monopoly - except in London
- Estonia pitches itself as the new Silicon place
- UV 2: RETURN of the 'Big Brain'. This time, it's affordable
- Gov mulls ban on wallet-draining charges for card payments
- R18+ games still not over the line in Oz
- Budget smartphones all the rage as punters look sub-£100
- Ten... dual-band wireless routers
- Mozilla teaches coding with new Thimble 'Webmaker'
- Fujitsu cracks 278-digit crypto
- Google in dock again over defamatory auto-complete
- IBM storage kit keeping admins awake at night
- Microsoft takes on tablets with keyboard-equipped Surface
- Earthquakes will release captured carbon: Stanford study
- VLSCI's supercomputer passes acceptance test, lands in top 50
- Big layoff (singular) at Oracle on Thursday
| Assange takes refuge in Ecuadorian embassy Posted: 19 Jun 2012 02:12 PM PDT Seeks asylum over Swedish chargesJulian Assange has sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and is seeking asylum over the decision by the UK courts to extradite him to Sweden.… |
| Schneier spanks AV industry over Flame failures Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:14 PM PDT The problem is in the processSecurity guru Bruce Schneier has questioned some of the excuses coming from the antivirus industry as to why it is taking them so long to pick up advanced malware like Flame and Stuxnet.… |
| Ludicrously lucky teen survives spear through brain Posted: 19 Jun 2012 12:42 PM PDT X-ray reveals reason for 'miraculous recovery' from three-foot intruderSixteen-year-old Yasser Lopez will likely have a "miraculous recovery" despite a three-foot spear having been thrust through his head.… |
| Google blocks MP3 rippers from YouTube Posted: 19 Jun 2012 12:03 PM PDT YouTube-mp3.com calls for help from |
| HP taps Intel Atom for next-gen Moonshot hyperscale servers Posted: 19 Jun 2012 11:15 AM PDT Living in a Gemini dreamWhen HP unveiled its "Project Moonshot" effort last November to create hyperscale servers based on Calxeda's EnergyCore variant of the ARM RISC processor, cynics said it was no doubt interesting in terms of engineering, but that the "Redstone" servers were nonetheless a publicity stunt. Tuesday's preview of the next-generation "Gemini" servers, due later this year from HP sporting server-ready Intel Atom processors also due later this year, confirms that sentiment.… |
| Top US Senator to Apple, Google: 'Curb your spy planes' Posted: 19 Jun 2012 10:21 AM PDT 'Military-grade' surveillance can see through windowsOne week after Apple announced it was booting Google Maps from iOS and photographing the world with its own aerial fleet, a top US Senator has written to both companies expressing concern over their "military-grade spy planes."… |
| LG shelves future tablet efforts Posted: 19 Jun 2012 09:01 AM PDT Will focus on smartphones insteadLG has ceded the tablet arena to Apple. Effectively chucking in the towel, it has put the development of future tablets "on the back burner".… |
| Achtung Penguin! SUSE tunes up Linux for SAP Posted: 19 Jun 2012 08:49 AM PDT Vorsprung durch freiestoffgesellschaftIt seems natural enough that SUSE Linux and SAP would be technical allies; both hail from Germany and both try to peddle business-grade software to enterprises. SAP, which has a huge installed base of Windows customers and a considerable number of Unix customers, cannot be seen to be playing favorites with its OS suppliers just because of nationalism. But it cannot stop – and would not stop – SUSE Linux, the commercial Linux distributor now owned by Attachmate, from making optimizations to its OS stack that make SAP apps run better.… |
| Mad Apple patent: Cloneware to convice trackers you don't like porn Posted: 19 Jun 2012 08:47 AM PDT Does Cupertino want this to use, or to suppress?Apple have patented the idea of using data clones to hide from surveillance: data clones that will browse the internet under your name but will look at basket-weaving sites instead of porn.… |
| Google to ICO: We had no idea Street View data slurp was happening Posted: 19 Jun 2012 07:58 AM PDT We organise other people's information, not our ownGoogle has denied that it tried to cover up certain aspects of its Street View data slurp as the UK Information Commissioner's Office reopens its investigation into the incident.… |
| Surface: Because Microsoft does so well making hardware? Posted: 19 Jun 2012 07:15 AM PDT Perhaps they'll really imitate Apple and go to FoxconnAnalysis If you want a job done right, do it yourself: that's the consensus on the Windows 8 Surface tablets. Or, put another way: "OEMs, please pay attention. This is how you build a PC."… |
| Internet Explorer bug patched only a week ago now being exploited Posted: 19 Jun 2012 07:01 AM PDT Patch Tuesday - Malware WednesdayHackers have latched onto a vulnerability in Internet Explorer patched by Microsoft last week as a useful way to spread malware.… |
| British Waterways charity mapping data handed to Google for free Posted: 19 Jun 2012 06:40 AM PDT We're just so lucky they want itGoogle has gotten its hands on the GIS data for all of the UK's waterway paths for its Maps without handing over a penny.… |
| FATTIES are DESTROYING THE WORLD, scream mad professors Posted: 19 Jun 2012 06:33 AM PDT Reiterate call for everyone to become HobbitsComment A famous mad professor who has previously called for Britons to starve their children into dwarfism so as to ease strains on the planetary ecosystem has reiterated his arguments, this time insisting that the amount of surplus flab carried by the human race will soon be equivalent to having another half-a-billion people on Earth.… |
| ICANN may have to operate without a chief during gTLD rollout Posted: 19 Jun 2012 05:58 AM PDT New CEO may not take helm for months after Beckstrom leavesDomain name policy manager ICANN is set to be left with a vacant CEO's office for two or three months, according to sources close to the organisation.… |
| Introduction to Virtualisation, Microsoft-style Posted: 19 Jun 2012 05:50 AM PDT Checking out latest MVA courseReview Microsoft has introduced a new series of tracks into the Microsoft Virtual Academy (MVA).… |
| Sony slams Nintendo Wii U functionality Posted: 19 Jun 2012 05:39 AM PDT Vita will beat yaSony has stuck the knife into the Nintendo Wii U, claiming that a PlayStation Vita combined with a PS3 is a superior setup able to do "special things" that the Nintendo kit will struggle to match.… |
| Microsoft details latest Windows Phone update Posted: 19 Jun 2012 05:31 AM PDT Will you be Tangoed?Microsoft has shed light on its next Windows Phone 'Tango' update, which will see the smartphone OS gain the ability to import and export contacts to and from the Sim card, and attach multiple files to a single message.… |
| Ingram Micro in talks to acquire SDG, say sources Posted: 19 Jun 2012 05:13 AM PDT Yanks are in town looking to buy an umbrellaIngram Micro is locked in talks with Sir Peter Rigby over the acquisition of his Midlands-based outfit Specialist Distribution Group (SDG), sources have told The Channel.… |
| Trust fined £225k for leaving patient files in abandoned hospital Posted: 19 Jun 2012 04:56 AM PDT Is there a secret NHS sweep on who can blow most data?Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has been fined £225,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office for leaving patient and staff files in an abandoned hospital.… |
| Apple extends Liquidmetal sole rights until 2014 Posted: 19 Jun 2012 04:39 AM PDT Hinge benefitsApple has secured exclusive rights to Liquidmetal Technologies' IP, extending sole access to the company's unique metal until February 2014.… |
| So you wanna be a Wall Street techie? Or anyway, get paid a lot Posted: 19 Jun 2012 04:13 AM PDT Interviews considered as gang sadismFor at least a couple of decades now, if you've been a technologist and wanted to get paid as highly as possible for your work, there's been pretty much only one place to go: the financial industry.… |
| Posted: 19 Jun 2012 04:00 AM PDT Hello, Cleveland...Android App of the Week I've been waiting for Songkick to land on the deck of the USS Android ever since it was released for iOS a year ago. Now it has and it's every bit as good as I was hoping for.… |
| ARM unleashes 8-core Mali 450 GPU, heads down both forks in road Posted: 19 Jun 2012 03:44 AM PDT There's no route less travelled by usARM is doubling the punch of its Mali 400 graphics processors with extra cores for tablet, phone and TV makers that are not ready for combined graphics and compute chips.… |
| Oracle pumps out Q4 financials in premature release: See? We're OK Posted: 19 Jun 2012 03:33 AM PDT Brouhaha over sales chief exit simply not a problemOracle rushed through the public filing of decent Q4 financials last night some three days earlier than planned to head off any industry talk that the pending exit of a sales bigwig was due to tumbling turnover.… |
| Mobile device enslavement a plague on British workers' health Posted: 19 Jun 2012 03:24 AM PDT After-hours fondling threatens office bodsBritish workers are ruining their health by fondling slabs and touching screens after the work day is done, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy said.… |
| Cable & Wireless Worldwide shareholders OK Vodafone takeover Posted: 19 Jun 2012 03:01 AM PDT Second biggest telco in Blighty grabs 20,000km of fibreMore than 99 per cent of voting shareholders have approved the takeover of Cable & Wireless Worldwide by Vodafone, despite suggestions that one of the largest was holding out for more money.… |
| China aims to redraw the petaflop graph with 100 Pflops in 2015 Posted: 19 Jun 2012 02:44 AM PDT Crouching Tiger, floppy DragonHPC blog China shocked the supercomputing world in late 2010 with a chart-topping 2.56 Petaflop/sec Tianhe-1A. It was a surprising system on several levels: 1) it topped the incumbent number one box (Oak Ridge's Jaguar) by almost 50%; 2) it was the first (and, so far, only) hybrid commodity combo of Intel Xeon and NVIDIA Tesla processors to hit the top spot; and 3) it seemingly came out of nowhere, and it came out of nowhere very quickly.… |
| Whitehall goes to White House for advice on 'ID assurance' plans Posted: 19 Jun 2012 02:28 AM PDT 'A big step forward on the identity assurance mission'The Cabinet Office is to join the Open Identity Exchange (OIX), a US-based non-profit providing "certification trust frameworks for open identity technologies", to help with the development of its identity assurance programme.… |
| This Old Box. And that Old Box. And that one. All of them, in fact Posted: 19 Jun 2012 02:15 AM PDT Collected strip-down reading that won't embarrasseBook While your other half might be perusing the latest bonk buster on the beach this summer, you might want something that's not going to leave you wriggling with embarrassment and wishing you'd packed a bigger towel.… |
| Samsung S3 finally catches up with the Palm Pre - if modified Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:56 AM PDT Hackthusiast brings plugless juicing to the pottery 'boneWireless charging was a key feature of Samsung's flagship Android blower when it was announced, but the replacement back plate it needs isn't on the shelves yet, so one brave soul has hacked a Palm Touchstone charger into the S3 case.… |
| Cabinet Office: Lid comes off UK.gov £4bn IT porkbarrel 'at month end' Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:44 AM PDT Just contain yourselvesThe Cabinet Office has confirmed it expects the delayed £4bn IT Hardware & Services framework to finally go live at month end.… |
| New Samsung chief: I want SOFTWARE Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:28 AM PDT Making actual stuff is bloody hard workSamsung is going to have to do better in software if it wants to stay up near the top of the tech industry, its new CEO said today.… |
| Brussels could 'clash' with London over UK snooper's charter Posted: 19 Jun 2012 01:15 AM PDT 'Maybe not everyone understands the Treaty of Lisbon'Exclusive A fine "balancing act" is needed to prevent a "clash" between British Home Secretary Theresa May's controversial plans to bring in a data communications-snooping law and the "rights" of the UK citizen, European Commission vice-president Viviane Reding warned when questioned by The Register.… |
| Ofcom: High-speed hookups still a UK monopoly - except in London Posted: 19 Jun 2012 12:58 AM PDT Well, two UK monopolies when you include HullIn a cascade of acronyms Ofcom has proposed price caps on high-speed leased-line connections: but only outside London where competition is having a hard time getting a foothold.… |
| Estonia pitches itself as the new Silicon place Posted: 19 Jun 2012 12:38 AM PDT The Valley may be cool, but we're Baltic. Sorry, NordicEstonia is seeking to reinvent itself from a cheap place to source top-notch programming expertise into the Nordic* Silicon Valley and bio-tech centre.… |
| UV 2: RETURN of the 'Big Brain'. This time, it's affordable Posted: 19 Jun 2012 12:21 AM PDT Hefty loads bursting out of your box? Try thisSilicon Graphics is betting big on Intel's latest Xeon E5-4600 processor and its own revved up NUMAlink 6 shared memory interconnect, creating a "big brain computer" that can gang up to 4,096 cores into a single system image to run massive Linux workloads and fairly large Windows jobs, too. The new UV 2 is exactly the kind of box, says SGI, that customers with big data warehouse, big database, big data, and traditional HPC workloads have always wanted – and in many cases could never have afforded.… |
| Gov mulls ban on wallet-draining charges for card payments Posted: 19 Jun 2012 12:01 AM PDT Nobody gets to grab a big slice off payments but usThe government is to consult on plans to ban companies levying surcharges on consumers when they use payment cards later this summer, the Consumer Affairs minister has said.… |
| R18+ games still not over the line in Oz Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:44 PM PDT Feds sign off but States could set bar low, forcing more games into adults-only territoryAustralia's national Parliament has passed laws creating a new R18+ rating for computer games, but just what will earn that rating is now up to the nation's nine States and Territories, all of which must pass their own legislation before gamers can enjoy currently-banned fare.… |
| Budget smartphones all the rage as punters look sub-£100 Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:08 PM PDT Mobile reality a world away from the iPhoneNearly half of the world's largest smartphone market will be comprised of handsets under $200 (£127) by 2015 as local device makers and web firms compete to drag the great unwashed into the 21st century, according to analyst Canalys.… |
| Ten... dual-band wireless routers Posted: 18 Jun 2012 11:00 PM PDT His and hers Wi-FiProduct round-up A wireless routers is one of the most important items in any gadget lover's home. Performance, range and reliability are essential criteria to consider when deciding when buying a router. Also, bear in mind the configuration software, as routers can do quite a few tricks these days and accessing features from the on-board browser interface needs to be as painless as possible.… |
| Mozilla teaches coding with new Thimble 'Webmaker' Posted: 18 Jun 2012 10:42 PM PDT HTML and CSS for novices could re-ignite kiddie coding cogitationMozilla has released a web page creation editing tool that steps novice users through HTML and CSS.… |
| Fujitsu cracks 278-digit crypto Posted: 18 Jun 2012 09:24 PM PDT Breaking the code will help to fix othersJapanese computing giant Fujitsu is claiming a world record after successfully breaking a 278-digit (978-bit) pairing-based cryptography system, providing useful data on how far this next-generation encryption system can be trusted.… |
| Google in dock again over defamatory auto-complete Posted: 18 Jun 2012 08:29 PM PDT Cruel algorithm cost man his jobA Japanese man is suing Google again after claiming that when his name is typed into the web giant's search box, the auto-complete function brings up words and phrases related to criminal acts, which link through to articles defaming him.… |
| IBM storage kit keeping admins awake at night Posted: 18 Jun 2012 06:24 PM PDT Default software settings see DS series' arrays performance dip in wee hoursManagement software for IBM's DS3000, DS4000 and DS5000 series storage arrays is waking sysadmins at 2:00 AM, thanks to an obscure software setting.… |
| Microsoft takes on tablets with keyboard-equipped Surface Posted: 18 Jun 2012 05:29 PM PDT 10.6 inch tablet with kickstand and keyboardIn one of its most-hyped-up announcements of recent years, Microsoft has entered the tablet market with the Surface, a 10.6 inch table running Windows 8 on Intel and ARM platforms.… |
| Earthquakes will release captured carbon: Stanford study Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:30 PM PDT Shake, rattle, roll, leakCarbon capture and storage (CCS) won't work, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, because underground earthquakes are certain to cause the carbon to be released too soon.… |
| VLSCI's supercomputer passes acceptance test, lands in top 50 Posted: 18 Jun 2012 04:00 PM PDT BlueGene/Q nearly ready to unleash 65 TB of RAM, 65,536-coresThe Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative – VLSCI to its friends – is close to opening up its BlueGene/Q powerhouse for user jobs.… |
| Big layoff (singular) at Oracle on Thursday Posted: 18 Jun 2012 03:07 PM PDT Possibly a 'massive' reorganization, or notThe rumors are going around that someone high up in the organization was going to get the axe at software giant and systems playa Oracle when the company reports its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012 on Thursday.… |
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