A spanner in the works: Google's cloud database hits beta, gets prices

Ye canna' hand a man a grander (Cloud) Spanner Google's close to plugging a long-standing gap in its public cloud, with its Cloud Spanner distributed relational database hitting public beta.…

Star Wars has a new R2-D2

VU-onderzoekers omzeilen geheugenbescherming aslr via javascript

De onderzoeksgroep softwarebeveiliging van de VU, die onder leiding staat van professor Herbert Bos, heeft een aanval gepresenteerd waarmee de beveiligingsmaatregel aslr omzeild kan worden. Bescherming is vooralsnog niet mogelijk, omdat de aanval ge…

Australian Tax Office's HPE SAN failed twice in slightly different ways

Rickety array still at work: In tax-speak 'Commissioned new SAN' doesn't mean it's live yet The Australia Taxation Office's HPE SAN failed twice, in different ways, when causing its infamous December and February outages that brought down online tax…

Toshiba chairman quits over $6bn nuclear loss

May have to sell even more of its chip business to cover costs The chairman of Toshiba has resigned following the release of figures showing a projected $6.3bn loss from the company's nuclear business – a loss that may continue to grow and threaten …

ASLR-security-busting JavaScript hack demo'd by university boffins

Amster-damn, that's a hell of a vulnerability to make browser bug exploitation easier Researchers in Europe have developed a way to exploit a common computer processor feature to bypass a crucial security defense provided by modern operating systems…

Australian Tax Office's HPE SAN failed twice in slightly different ways

Rickety array still at work: In tax-speak 'Commissioned new SAN' doesn't mean it's live yet The Australia Taxation Office's HPE SAN failed twice, in different ways, when causing its infamous December and February outages that brought down online tax…

Oracle reveals more rounded Australian *aas

Big Red's IaaS and PaaS land in Oz, as an entree to SPARC cloud and AWS-killer plans Oracle has flicked the switch on everything-as-a-service in Australia.…

Apple: Don't panic, but your Mac can be pwned via GarageBand .bands

macOS gets patch for critical flaw in music app Apple says a newly patched hole in its GarageBand music tool could allow for remote code execution on the Mac.…

'We need a new Geneva Convention to protect all citizens from snoops'

Private biz needs to push back against government pressure, says Microsoft prez RSA USA  In 1949, the world’s nations came together to sign the Geneva Conventions, according respect in times of war to civilians, soldiers incapable of fighting, and p…

Oracle reveals more rounded Australian *aas

Big Red's IaaS and PaaS land in Oz, as an entree to SPARC cloud and AWS-killer plans Oracle has flicked the switch on everything-as-a-service in Australia.…

Bruce Schneier: The US government is coming for YOUR code, techies

Open source has won, but victory may be fleeting OSLS  The Open Source Leadership Summit began on Tuesday amid roads closed by a landslide: held in The Resort at Squaw Creek near Lake Tahoe, California, it was not easily accessible to attendees trav…

Magic Leap sued for sex discrimination … by woman it hired to stamp out sex discrimination

Oh yeah, and its technology still doesn't exist either Cementing its reputation as a slow-motion corporate car-crash, made-up technology specialist Magic Leap has been sued for sex discrimination by the woman it hired to tackle sex discrimination.…

New Mac malware pinned on same Russian group blamed for election hacks

Xagent for Macs steals passwords, grabs screenshots, and exfiltrates iPhone backups.

The His Dark Materials trilogy is getting its long-overdue sequel

Kickstarter voor Apocalypse Now-game stopt, crowdfunding verder via website

De Kickstarter-campagne voor het maken van de Apocalypse Now-game wordt stopgezet. Met nog negen dagen te gaan is er zo'n 173.000 dollar opgehaald, terwijl het doel op 900.000 dollar staat. De makers willen desondanks doorgaan met de ontwikkeling mi…

Standards Australia might send Tesla's PowerWalls outside

Is the dining room the right place for 10 kWH of battery chemistry anyhow? Standards Australia is considering a change to building standards that might require storage batteries such as the Tesla PowerWall to be installed out-of-doors.…

No crypto backdoors, more immigration ... says Republican head of House Committee on Homeland Security

Is there something in the water in San Francisco? RSA USA  Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), head of the US House Committee on Homeland Security, seemed a tad off-message today at the RSA USA security conference.…

Roses are red, bugs make you blue, Patch Tuesday is late, because Microsoft loves you

Adobe, on the other hand... IT admins hoping to get out of the office early for Valentine's Day have received some welcome news from Microsoft.…

Facebook laat video's op smartphones automatisch met geluid afspelen

Facebook gaat filmpjes op het sociale netwerk automatisch met geluid laten afspelen op smartphones, mits die niet op stil staat. Het geluid zal langzaam in volume verhogen vanaf het moment dat het filmpje vanzelf start. Gebruikers kunnen de optie ui…

Fujitsu has its own line of storage boxes, so, uh, why is it reselling XtremIO in Japan?

Extreme measures called for in an extreme geography Why is Fujitsu touting all-flash XtremIO storage arrays in Japan when it has its own Eternus all-flash array product line?…