In application development, build it in Promo Earlier this week we ran a live broadcast looking at how to build security into your application development process. You can watch it here.…
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Lees meerAs Steve Jobs might say: You misunderstand 'design' Open Source Insider In all the years I have been using FOSS software, the most common complaint I've seen about FOSS software is that the "design" is "terrible", "laughable" or some witticism abou…
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Lees meerBack to the '80s Ignite Microsoft this week promised to increase desktop users’ productivity by bringing resizeable overlapping windows to Windows™ – a feature notably missing today. A spokesman also expressed hope that Mr Gorbachev’s new policy of…
Lees meerMan vows to steer clear of outside dunnies, 'I'll hold on for dear life' An Aussie builder has endured the agony of being bitten on the todger by a redback spider for the second time in five months*.…
Lees meer£80m infringement? £30m? £10m? Claimant bought patent for £160k two years ago British Gas has won a patent infringement claim brought against it by Smart-Tech, the holder of a certain smart meter patent. Had BG lost, it would have had to pay out ten…
Lees meerCEO of Allen Institute of AI: Be realistic. Hype only hurts research Many speeches at AI conferences begin with AlphaGo, the Google-built AI that beat Lee Sedol - one of the highest ranked Go players in the world – to illustrate how far AI has progr…
Lees meerSky hooks, tartan paint ... U wot m8? Strange things are afoot among the developer team at Argos, it’s just not clear if an ill-judged lunchtime trip to the boozer, high jinx related to the recent £1.4bn takeover by Sainsbury’s or a rogue staffer ar…
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Lees meerKnow when to opt for wet abrasive blasting or Self Polishing Copolymer? Mad mags The Ministry of Defence's naval arm maintains a regular publication focused entirely on types and shades of paint. It is not a spoof – or if it is, someone's gone to s…
Lees meerHelp find not-spots Telecoms regulator Ofcom has written a network tracking Android app so the great British public can help it sniff out not-spots.…
Lees meerSo what exactly did AU$800m buy? An option for bits of Optus network, says nbn™ nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN) has announced it will overbuild part of the hybrid fibre-coax network it acquired fr…
Lees meerAt least one department has no idea how much it's splurged Analysis If IT wasn't perceived to be such a boring topic by Joe Public, the amount the government still spends on expensive clunky technology would be viewed as a national scandal.…
Lees meerQueued up to self-certify Internet giant Google has signed up to the Privacy Shield, a framework designed to facilitate the transfer of personal data between the EU and US by businesses.…
Lees meerYes, let computers off the leash with unsupervised learning Unsupervised learning is a problem Yann LeCun, Facebook’s AI guru, really wants to crack. It promises to lead researchers to a next generation of AI – one where machines have higher intelli…
Lees meerNow available to all – and a 'breath of fresh air' says top Big Blue engineer Swift, the second-most-loved programming language by Stack Overflow's estimation, has showed up on IBM's BlueMix cloud platform, dressed for general availability.…
Lees meerRaw materials will be open and multi-source While HP Inc is getting a lot of flack over its DRM lockdown on 2D printing consumables, in the 3D world the company wants to address that it won't be setting the prices on consumables.…
Lees meerAnd you find it easy, it's through hard work – not a 'gift' Assume for the sake of argument that computer science grades are bimodal: there's a distinct group of students who excel at the subject, and then there's everyone else in another group.…
Lees meerYeah, it's self-certification. Give yourself a pat on your own back, Redmond Microsoft has issued a missive congratulating itself as the first global cloud service provider to get with the new EU Privacy Shield Framework agreed with the US, which mu…
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