Big Music goes mad for chat bots and AI

It's all soooo intelligent The BPI has embraced the post-human era, with a report of the use of AI in music by consultancy MusicAlly.…

Meet the beautiful minds vying to be crowned the Student Cluster champs

40 per cent less tedium and weepy backstories than the Olympics HPC Blog  So who are the kids competing in the SC16 Student Cluster Competition this year? What are their hopes, their dreams – what makes them tick? Why did they travel all the way to …

Meet the beautiful minds vying to be crowned the Student Cluster champs

40 per cent less tedium and weepy backstories than the Olympics HPC Blog  So who are the kids competing in the SC16 Student Cluster Competition this year? What are their hopes, their dreams – what makes them tick? Why did they travel all the way to …

Home for the holidays: rediscover items of nostalgia

A Thanksgiving theatrical survival guide: nine movies to see (or avoid) with family

Valve introduceert Steam Awards op basis van stemmen community

Valve heeft de Steam Awards geïntroduceerd. Steam-gebruikers kunnen games nomineren voor onderscheidingen in negen ludieke categorieën. Voor het deelnemen aan het nomineren zijn er vier nieuwe badges beschikbaar gesteld.

There's gold in them thar hills! Rackspace latest firm to join Frankfurt data centre rush

VMware-friendly facility Rackspace has chosen Germany as home for its first data centre in mainland Europe.…

Huawei wheels out X Labs brainbox farm for wireless industry

Think of ways to make money from all these bright ideas GMBBF2016  Huawei rotating co-CEO Ken Hu today announced the company’s new X Labs initiative, which is aimed at helping stimulate the inevitable “ecosystem” for the wireless comms market.…

There's gold in them thar hills! Rackspace latest firm to join Frankfurt data centre rush

VMware-friendly facility Rackspace has chosen Germany as home for its first data centre in mainland Europe.…

'OM onderzoekt omkoping Google-topman voor locatiekeuze Gronings datacenter'

Het Openbaar Ministerie onderzoekt de omkoping van ex-Google-topman Simon Tusha. De Nederlandse vastgoedman Rudy Stroink zou hem hebben omgekocht voor een bedrag van 1,7 miljoen euro om het datacenter van Google in de Groningse Eemshaven aan te leg…

A closer look at HPE's 'Machine': Bring the compute to the data

It's a server design rule shakeup. Here's what we know so far Analysis  HPE is undertaking the single most determined and ambitious architectural redesign of a server’s architecture in recent history in the shape of The Machine.…

A closer look at HPE's 'Machine': Bring the compute to the data

It's a server design rule shakeup. Here's what we know so far Analysis  HPE is undertaking the single most determined and ambitious architectural redesign of a server’s architecture in recent history in the shape of The Machine.…

Have a great Thanksgiving

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Dutch scientists use color-changing graphene bubbles to create ‘mechanical pixels’

'Nederlandse ziekenhuizen meldden dit jaar 304 datalekken'

Nederlandse ziekenhuizen hebben tot nu toe 304 keer melding gemaakt van een datalek, schrijft Trouw op basis van gegevens van de privacytoezichthouder. De lekken zouden voornamelijk ontstaan door 'menselijke fouten en onbeveiligde verbindingen'.

CERT tells Microsoft to keep EMET alive because it's better than Win 10's own security

Vuln seeker saus EMET has 13 protections Win 10 doesn't Microsoft should reverse its planned axing of the lauded Enhanced Mitigation Toolkit (EMET) as Windows 10 cannot yet match its level of security, according to Carnegie Mellon University CERT fu…

Fancy the new HTML vSphere client? Go get it: The old one as a security problem

Virtzilla has one other security worry too, in Identity Manager VMware's popped out a couple of security advisories, one of which helps it in a perverse way.…

Tech giants warn IoT vendors to get real about security

Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group waves baseball bat at slapdash Thing-makers The heavyweights behind the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) are sick of Internet of Things (IoT) startups foisting insecure rubbish on consum…

Fancy the new HTML vSphere client? Go get it: The old one as a security problem

Virtzilla has one other security worry too, in Identity Manager VMware's popped out a couple of security advisories, one of which helps it in a perverse way.…

First Click: What Civilization 6 taught me about Black Friday

Wordpress lost ernstige kwetsbaarheid in updatemechanisme op

Wordpress heeft een ernstig beveiligingsprobleem opgelost, nadat dit door onderzoekers aan Automattic was gemeld. Door het lek was het mogelijk om via de functie voor automatische updates malware naar Wordpress-sites te sturen, die 27 procent van he…