Apple burns bridge for hot patching apps

Injecting arbitrary parameters into dynamic methods violates dev rules Apple has begun informing a limited number of developers using hot patching frameworks that doing so violates its rules.…

Microsoft: Can't wait for ARM to power majority of our data centers!

Redmond fires bullet into WinTel's belly Pic  Microsoft today signaled more than half of its cloud data center capacity is set to be powered by 64-bit ARM servers.…

Microsoft: Can't wait for ARM to power majority of our data centers!

Redmond fires bullet into WinTel's belly Pic  Microsoft today signaled more than half of its cloud data center capacity is set to be powered by 64-bit ARM servers.…

The Game of Thrones season seven poster promises ice, fire, and nothing else

Google says it’s already fixed many exploits from WikiLeaks’ CIA document dump

Google wants to turn every store into a Chrome-plated Android shop

AI-connected window signs that log your age and guess your mood: Who wouldn't want that? Google is pitching retailers on a total conversion of their floor, register, and warehouse systems to its Chrome, Android, and Cloud platforms.…

FBI boss: 'Memories are not absolutely private in America'

Comey blames Snowden for popularity of encryption FBI director James Comey has told a cybersecurity conference that any communications – be it with your spouse, your priest, or your lawyer – and any of your memories are up for grabs should a court o…

Google wants to turn every store into a Chrome-plated Android shop

AI-connected window signs that log your age and guess your mood: Who wouldn't want that? Google is pitching retailers on a total conversion of their floor, register, and warehouse systems to its Chrome, Android, and Cloud platforms.…

Department of Human Services says citizens, not systems, to blame

'People won't think we make mistakes if you stop reporting our mistakes' Australia's Department of Human Services (DHS) has doubled down, telling a Senate Committee yesterday its troubled robo-debt system will continue, and if there's something wron…

European states push for vote to get rid of EPO president

Battistelli fighting to avoid lame duck status European governments have finally had enough of the head of the European Patent Office, Benoit Battistelli, and are pushing for a vote that could turn him into a lame duck president.…

Excelero stumbles, squinting, into sunlight clutching its remote direct-access NVMe kit

Drink data from networked boxes with no CPU overhead Storage startup Excelero slides out of stealth today with its NVMesh v1.1 Server SAN software, which can drink data directly from a remote node, bypassing that node's CPU.…

Google Cloud gets better at seeing and hearing things

Video entity recognition and audio training data provide path to more learned machines Following on the heels of its image dataset dump last year to aid the training of image recognition models, Google has done the same for sound, even as it beefs u…

92 per cent of US government websites suck, says report

Other news: Windows 10 not that great; Uber a little bit nasty A new report into nearly 300 websites run by the US government has reached an unsurprising conclusion: they suck.…

Excelero stumbles, squinting, into sunlight clutching its remote direct-access NVMe kit

Drink data from networked boxes with no CPU overhead Storage startup Excelero slides out of stealth today with its NVMesh v1.1 Server SAN software, which can drink data directly from a remote node, bypassing that node's CPU.…

Facebook maakt app met beeldmateriaal in 360 graden voor Samsung Gear VR

Facebook maakt een app op beeldmateriaal in 360 graden uit de eigen nieuwsfeed te bekijken op de Gear VR van Samsung. De Zuid-Koreaanse fabrikant maakt de Gear VR met Facebook-dochterbedrijf Oculus.

Tommy Hilfiger en Hugo Boss gaan Android Wear-horloges uitbrengen

Modemerken Tommy Hilfiger en Hugo Boss gaan horloges met Android Wear uitbrengen. Dat heeft Movado, licentienemer van beide merken, bekendgemaakt. De collecties van beide merken moeten dit najaar in de winkels liggen.

Google buddies up to boost its business cloud

Chocolate Factory makes friends for support, integration Google Next '17  Google Cloud is in a full-on push to build an ecosystem for itself with a fresh line of partnerships.…

CIA hacking dossier leak reignites debate over vulnerability disclosure

Spy agencies more interested in stockpiling bugs than closing the gaps WikiLeaks' dump of CIA hacking tool documents on Tuesday has kicked off a debate among security vendors about whether intel agencies are stockpiling vulnerabilities, and the effe…

Uber will stop ‘greyballing’ government regulators

Mozilla Thunderbird 45.8.0

De Mozilla Foundation heeft versie 45.8.0 van Thunderbird uitgebracht. Mozilla Thunderbird is een opensourceclient voor e-mail en nieuwsgroepen, met features als ondersteuning voor verschillende mail- en newsaccounts, een spamfilter, spellingscontro…

Microsoft stopt met sociaal netwerk Socl

Microsoft stopt volgende week met zijn sociale netwerk Socl. De site, die bedoeld is als kruising tussen een regulier sociaal netwerk en een zoekmachine, is in totaal bijna vijf jaar online geweest. Microsoft geeft geen reden voor het stoppen van he…