Redmond reckons open source hardware needs Alphas to fork with, just like open source code Microsoft thinks the Open Compute Project (OCP) moves a bit too slowly, so has tossed out some half-baked server designs in an effort to speed things along.…
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Lees meerNative code spec gets buy-in from major browser makers Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on Monday announced preview versions of WebAssembly, a low-level safe binary format designed to allow C/C++ code to run in web browsers.…
Lees meerEven Adobe pushed its patch faster than Windows giant Google has slung a grenade at Microsoft by disclosing a Windows vulnerability before Redmond has a patch ready. The bug can be exploited by malware on a machine to gain administrator-level access…
Lees meerContrarian blood-sucker continues to confuse Billionaire venture capitalist and professional contrarian Peter Thiel hailed a new political reality this morning with another public endorsement of fellow billionaire Donald Trump just days before the U…
Lees meerLawmakers call for action over Rule 41 changes In one month, an obscure procedural rule tweak will come into effect allowing US cops and federal agents to hack any computer in the world using a single warrant issued anywhere in America.…
Lees meerBet shops ready for old layer 3 stayers, less for IoT swoopers, says Akamai "The race that stops a nation" could also stop betting agencies if the regular barrage of timely distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) extortionists utilise insecure e…
Lees meerComputer-generated horrors not just limited to Microsoft Exchange updates AI can learn to speak, drive, play games, and recognise faces – but can it learn to incite fear?…
Lees meerNow with less-random information wiping Apple has once again posted an update to iOS, this time to address a bug it introduced with the last patch.…
Lees meerDubbed Linux/IRCTelnet, nasty's source code based on Aidra Miscreants have put together a new strain of malware designed to turn insecure IoT devices into a DDoS attack platform.…
Lees meerMajor medical issues diverted to neighbouring hospitals An NHS trust shut down all of its IT systems today and has all but ground to a halt in general after a virus compromised them on Sunday.…
Lees meerIf you believe that, I’ve got a bridge for sale... Lockheed Martin, designers of the super-expensive F-35 fighter jet, is working on a system claimed to reassure foreign customers that the US won't be able to read their pilots' personal data.…
Lees meerExternal drive doubles console capacity and loads titles faster Seagate has produced an external 512GB flash drive for capacity-strapped Xbox One gamers.…
Lees meerWith 'I just casually chucked this here' magnetic stand Seagate’s LaCie unit has announced three Neil Poulton-designed Thunderbolt 3 desktop storage boxes, one being a flash drive moving data at up to 2.8GB/sec.…
Lees meerIn the 21st century, kids can be a real nuisance Customers of 123 Reg suffered more tricks than treats this morning when a DDoS attack hobbled the registrar's services.…
Lees meerSilicon for machine learning that it hopes will 'challenge Nvidia' A Bristol upstart backed by Samsung and ARM daddy Hermann Hauser has raised $30m to make chips designed especially for machine learning.…
Lees meerHPE adds Hitachi gen 2 VSP features to its XP7 array range-topper HPE's XP7 is an OEM'd Hitachi VSP array, which was announced in April 2014 as an update to the similar OEM'd XP.…
Lees meerCEOs can hardly contain their delight American telco firm CenturyLink has announced a merger with tier-one networking business Level 3.…
Lees meerAccompanying gibberish encourages disrupting US election The Shadow Brokers hacking group has posted a fresh dump containing a list of servers compromised by an NSA-linked group.…
Lees meerNow IT bricks it: A 'series of extremely unlikely events' Exclusive We are two weeks into the outage issues at King's College London, and a communiqué from IT has warned staff that those issues won't be completely resolved for at least a fortnight …
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