OTCQX replaces delisting NYSE as its share trading body In an astoundingly fast piece of work Violin Memory shares were listed and trading on the OTCQX market a day after the New York Stock Exchange said it was halting trading in Violin’s shares.…
Lees meerToo much 'tinkering round' the edges means transformation yet to happen The UK government could save £2bn by 2020 by overhauling its clunky technology and legacy contracts and shifting citizens to digital services, according to the Institute for Gov…
Lees meerAnd break every computer crime law along the way Security researcher Jerry Gamblin has created an anti-worm "nematode" that could help to patch vulnerable devices used in the massive Mirai distributed denial of service attack.…
Lees meerAdds double-buffered rendering to stop terminal-era flickering Software developer and Google employee Daniel Colascione has cooked up what he calls “Buttery smooth Emacs” by adding rendering code to the venerable text editor that does away with long…
Lees meerRoot? Horticulture? Geddit? Okay, on with the BSODs Entries are thinning out for our irregular roundup of Blue Screens of Death, so the series will take a break (unless, of course, readers flood us with amusing sightings).…
Lees meerDon't fence us in, sings British Infrastructure Group Parliamentary bloc the British Infrastructure Group (BIG) has dropped something of a bombshell, calling for Ofcom to push roaming between mobile carriers.…
Lees meer'Scout' scope gives us an asteroid-misses-Earth-by-not-much horror story for Halloween NASA's pleased with its still-under-development asteroid-hunting program after it spotted a 25-metre rock that buzzed Earth at about 1.3 times the distance to the…
Lees meerWix admits to code sniff, says it groks the GNU vibe WordPress daddy Matt Mullenweg says the editor offered by drag-and-drop website-builder Wix.com “explicitly contravenes the GPL” (GNU General Public License) and “is built with stolen code, so you…
Lees meerCrew threw it in a bucket of water before things got nasty Perhaps more airlines could install more phone pockets on seats: two more instances have emerged of crushed smartphones putting aircraft at risk.…
Lees meerCertificate Transparency for Chrome will ruin phishing spots by Oct 2017 Criminals are about to lose a reliable attack vector for malware infection and phishing, thanks to Google's Certificate Transparency initiative that will force websites to enfo…
Lees meerCuts aviation safety IT positions to 265 AirServices Australia is set to axe around 50 jobs across its IT department as part of sweeping cuts that could see 900 positions cut.…
Lees meerWe hear the ban is biting as buyers tire of waiting The United States International Trade Commission (ITC) has “instituted a formal enforcement proceeding” relating to the ban on Arista importing certain networking kit.…
Lees meerCash for new reporting tool, of which we already have two, plus smuttmeister research Australia's Department of Communications has found AU$4.8m to “go towards the development of a national online reporting tool to help counter the effects of non-co…
Lees meerMid-morning bulk buys signal raids on newly-expired domains and evil intent A group of American boffins is loosing artificial intelligence on Web scams, demonstrating that analysis of domains at the time of registration can provide an early warning …
Lees meerBug bounty still bearing bugs. Mozilla has shuttered more than 130 serious vulnerabilities reported by community hackers this year.…
Lees meer'Regeneration' splinter party will likely be the captain-maker Iceland's Pirate Party has won ten seats in the nation's 63-seat parliament, the Alþingi.…
Lees meerInvestigation replicates cryogenic helium #FAIL VIDEO Conspiracy theorists can stop looking for a grassy knoll near SpaceX's Cape Canaveral launch complex: the company reckons it's close to explaining why its September launch failed so spectacularl…
Lees meeriCloud and iTunes on Windows also need patching Apple has published security updates for Xcode, iCloud for Windows, and iTunes for Windows.…
Lees meerDesign could nail Feynman Grand Challenge Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara have developed a design of a working nanoscale computing device that could complete the Feynman Grand Challenge.…
Lees meerRoboSimian up in smoke after engineering error Samsung might think it's the king of exploding kit, what with smartphones and washing machines going up in flames, but in June NASA engineers schooled the firm on how to really make a bang.…
Lees meerAnd humans don't understand how it works Neural networks trained by researchers working at Google Brain can create their own cryptographic algorithms – but no one is quite sure how it works.…
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