Stay in incognito mode to get secure texting Google has launched its new mobile messaging app Allo today in a bid to challenge Facebook's stronghold in instant messaging.…
Lees meerAnd Bill Gates approves Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have promised at least $3bn in funding for a medical initiative to cure, prevent or manage all known diseases by the end of the century.…
Lees meerFlaw allowed hijacking via HTTP snippets Cisco has provided a patch to address a remote hijacking vulnerability in its Cloud Services Platform (CSP).…
Lees meerWorld collectively bangs its head against wall Just when you thought discussion over the transition of the internet's technical functions couldn't get any more ridiculous, here comes Donald Trump.…
Lees meerIANA transition threatens to become focus of dysfunctional Congress The transition of the internet's critical technical functions from the US government to non-profit organization ICANN, planned for next week, remains under threat thanks to an ongoi…
Lees meerGrowing demand for greater oversight of how snoopware is obtained by cops A handful of US cities are banding together in an effort to change the way police acquire and use surveillance technology.…
Lees meerCupertino giant told to cough up equivalent of a rounding error on its financial sheets Apple has been found guilty of patent infringement and told to pay $3m in damages.…
Lees meerBarreleye server offers Power8 alternative to Intel boxes Freshly acquired hosting slinger Rackspace has built a custom-developed server based on IBM’s Power chips and the Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications.…
Lees meerUnleashes Xiphias gladius – Swordfish to you and me The SNIA has unveiled its v1.0 Swordfish storage management specification to standardise management of storage products and services in cloud-era data centres.…
Lees meerProject Titan + F1 supercar brains + ??? = profit Apple, the reassuringly expensive maker of iThings, is reportedly trying to convince Formula One racing car firm McLaren's execs to fall into line with a buyout, according to reports.…
Lees meerWe asked them and they said it's all good, so we're happy The Financial Conduct Authority has said there’s no need to launch a full market study into insurers’ use of big data, despite concerns that insurers' could be using to charge consumers more.…
Lees meerFlying death spotted in the Cotswolds, boffins move in for the kill A sleepy Cotswold town could be about to witness the genocide of local honey bees following the discovery of invasive predatory giant Asian hornets.…
Lees meerIt's a bug, not a feature – Linux distro vendors are responsible Lenovo has denied deploying BIOS "hacks" to lock Windows 10 installations to its signature edition PCs.…
Lees meerWorld, meet the Dell EMC Validated System Dell is all about engineered systems, or so its CEO Mickey D said recently, but actions speak louder than words and today the Texan infrastructure baron rolled out a box targeting firms running SAP HANA.…
Lees meerFrom mainframe to DevOps in just 40 years... Veteran software outfit CA has hoovered up Israeli testing outfit BlazeMeter to burnish its DevOps and testing credentials.…
Lees meerHPE asset disposals exercise - to possibly prep for an acquisition? Comment On the day the Dell/EMC acquisition/merger completed, HPE announced it was selling off a load of non-core software assets in a “spin-off” merger with UK’s Micro Focus.…
Lees meerFlashy NVMe pair up to 1TB – for now.... Samsung has introduced 960 EVO and 960 PRO M.2-format consumer SSDs with an NVMe interface and a promised 2TB capacity.…
Lees meerSeagate's Kinetic drives get a new twist on ye olde JBOD Frog object storage startup OpenIO is banging on with supporting Seagate’s Kinetic disk drives, and has certified its software on the drives in a Kinetic Plugfest.…
Lees meerWater got into where water should not have been Weird new warship USS Zumwalt has broken down while on sea trials, three weeks ahead of her formal commissioning ceremony.…
Lees meerNow only local spy agencies can slurp your data. Hurrah! Microsoft has started to serve up Azure services from a new cloud region in Germany – operated under the supervision of a data trustee – to pitch for European punters with concerns about secur…
Lees meerMan flees with family Yet another British family has been forced to flee its habitat after an infestation of Brazilian wandering spiders smuggled itself into their nest on the back of a bunch of supermarket bananas.…
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