HPC
Start learning parallel programming and make these supercomputers sing, Prez Obama orders
If you want exascale toys, you gotta make 'em dance
30 Jul 00:13 | 11
30th > July > 2015 Archive
Security
US to rethink hacker tool export rules after mass freakout in security land
Second draft of Wassenaar to take public comments under advisory
30 Jul 00:27 | 12
Legal
Telcos given a breather to meet Oz metadata retention laws
AG Dept offers rollout extension
30 Jul 00:50 | 2
Software
Git a load of this: GitHub now valued at $2 billion
Investors pump yet more millions of dollars into online source-code silo
30 Jul 00:56 | 9
Storage
NetApp sees IBM/Cisco VersaStack as 'huge' threat to FlexPod
Competitive intel docs leak to forums, reveal NetApp beaten by SolidFire for Cisco sale
30 Jul 01:29 | 18
Personal Tech
Tired tablets don't tickle the imagination, so sales fall again
Market fragmenting as Apple and Samsung lose dominance, say new IDC numbers
30 Jul 01:58 | 19
Security
Cisco IOS-XE update time: Squash that DoS bug
Fixes how the daemon triggers error messages for packets it can't reassemble
30 Jul 02:58 |
HPC
China announces petascale super for FAST radiotelescope
Big dish will need top-100-sized iron
30 Jul 04:00 | 2
Security
Critical BIND bug scores PATCH YESTERDAY grading
Easy to hack universal remote BIND DoS hole leaves DNS open to attack
30 Jul 04:29 | 5
Bootnotes
Bloke cuffed for blowing low-flying camera drone to bits with shotgun
Sharpshooter exercises Second Amendment rights
30 Jul 05:02 | 219
Science
Boffins get the inside dope, craft white laser
If this works, your light bulbs will deliver hundreds of gigabits per second
30 Jul 05:32 | 16
SFW
Octogenarian accused of performing sex act with a SHRUBBERY
Possible inspiration for character of Roger the Shrubber revealed
30 Jul 05:58 | 34
Security
Rackspace cooking up security-secret-sharing cloud cabal
Top-tier clouds invited into information-sharing club to speed defence deployment
30 Jul 06:31 |
Video
Don't want pranksters 'bricking' your Android? Just stop using the internet, duh – Google
Thanks for the top tip, now where's the patch?
30 Jul 07:02 | 24
Networks
SPUD – The IETF's anti-snooping protocol that will never be used
Author Joe Hildebrand explains why a dead-end effort to reinvent networks isn't futile
30 Jul 07:27 | 18
Legal
Google turns cookie monster on AdSense, DoubleClick clients
'Just do what the EU wants and no-one will get hurt' suggests Mountain View
30 Jul 07:57 | 28
Mailbag
'Fix these Windows 10 Horrors': Readers turn their guns on Redmond
Readership turns to Microsoft as one and asks 'what are you DOING?'
30 Jul 08:29 | 228
Antique Code Show
The Breakfast (Table) of Champions: Micro Machines
Desktop gaming in every sense of the phrase
30 Jul 09:02 | 28
Virtualization
Beyond virty boxen and hyperconvergence: Regard the mighty data centres of the future
Riding that software-defined wave
30 Jul 09:33 |
On-Prem
Contractors who used Employee Beneficiary Trusts are in HMRC's sights
Think you're alright because it was all over years ago? Nope
30 Jul 10:03 | 125
HPC
IARPA: Come, quantum computing boffins. We've got cash for you
Funds for 'logical qubit' development, no less
30 Jul 10:32 |
Science
This is TRUE science: Harvard boffins fire up sizzling BACON LASER
Pork experiment elicits baffled awe from fellow scientists
30 Jul 11:19 | 36
Channel
Never mind falling revenues, BT watchers, look at the footy offering
Consumer monies up, mostly off the back of price-hiked telly packages
30 Jul 11:39 | 19
Legal
UK.gov wants to stop teenagers looking at tits online. No, really
Think of the children! Wait. Er... DON'T think of the children
30 Jul 11:59 | 160
Legal
Download Fest goers were human guinea pigs in spy tech experiment, admit police
Mass surveillance exercise didn't catch a single criminal
30 Jul 12:18 | 51
Channel
What can't sell Galaxy S6s and keeps going down on you? Samsung and its profits
Smartphone giant feeling mobe market saturation sqeeze, suffers after supply shortage
30 Jul 12:38 | 32
On-Prem
Feeding the XPoint cuckoo and finding it a place in the storage nest
Intel/Micron tech looks to force its way into the memory storage spectrum
30 Jul 13:03 | 9
Legal
And on that bombshell: Top Gear's Clarkson to reappear on Amazon
Rejoice, petrolheads – team of boring old men back to act like prats again
30 Jul 13:21 | 113
Review
Microsoft Edge web browser: A well-presented mea culpa
Not perfect, but way better than IE – and it gives Chrome the willies
30 Jul 13:40 | 76
Security
Strong ARM scoops up Sansa to boost IoT security
Chipmaker adds Israeli company's bolt-on protection to its bulging armoured sack
30 Jul 14:04 | 4
Networks
BT hands £129m back to UK.gov after beating rural broadband targets
Super generous state monopoly? Fat chance – it's in their contract
30 Jul 14:29 | 25
Security
French dating sites spanked for laissez faire data protection
Data watchdog advises eager Gallic singles to say 'Non' to naked selfies
30 Jul 15:03 | 1
Security
Chinese hackers behind OPM megabreach also pwned United Airlines
Possibility of Beijing-sponsored triple hack makes industry sit-up, gulp, take notice
30 Jul 15:32 | 22
Channel
Will the PC glory days ever return, WD asks as its finances slip
Disk units and revenues spin down as desktop market declines
30 Jul 15:55 | 23
Comment
Obama endorses 3D TLC flash. How else can you do exaflop computing?
Disks in large enough numbers are volatile; they break...
30 Jul 16:27 | 16
On-Prem
Expansion-hungry Equinix posts bumper sales
Results for acquisition target Telecity look limp in comparison
30 Jul 17:01 |
Security
Small number of computer-aided rifles could be hacked in contrived scenario
Year-long publicity effort hits bullseye ... in a way
30 Jul 17:28 | 43
Security
Derelict TrueCrypt Russia portal 'is command hub for Ukraine spying op'
Backdoored code slung at officials, journos etc
30 Jul 17:58 | 8
Software
Oracle: Docker container tech will be in the Zone on Solaris
Larry's Unix to support cross-platform containers with unique Solaris features
30 Jul 19:32 | 18
Video
Alien dwarf 'star' flashes her dazzling brown rear at stunned space boffins
You won't see that headline in Nature
30 Jul 19:53 | 14
Legal
FCC swamped by 2,000+ net neutrality complaints against ISPs
Avalanche of gripes could come in handy once someone figures how to enforce new rules
30 Jul 20:19 | 10
Software
Edge out rivals? No! Firefox boss BLASTS Microsoft's Windows 10 browser brouhaha
Mozilla's Beard gets in SatNad's grille over killing choice fears
30 Jul 21:54 | 92
Pics
Giant Facebook SOLAR LASER DRONE to FEED interwebs into YOUR FACE
Aquila bird to zap globe with internet access, promises Zuck
30 Jul 22:10 | 35
On-Prem
Apple gobbles chunk of CNET, ZDNet – report
iPhone giant to get comfy with CBS Interactive in San Francisco, apparently
30 Jul 23:24 | 7
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