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IBM, Cisco, GE & AT&T form Industrial Internet Consortium
The Industrial Internet has made quite a few headlines since GE announced its existence a couple of years ago, but this is one of the biggest so far – tech heavyweights IBM, Cisco, GE and AT&T have all teamed up to form the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC), an open membership group that’s been established with ...
OkCupid makes war not love on Mozilla: ‘Don’t use Firefox’
The controversial appointment of gay and lesbian-hating Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla has provoked howls of discord within the company, and now others are beginning to weigh in on the matter, starting with the dating website OkCupid. In a move that looks suspiciously like a well-timed PR stunt, the dating site has spoken out ...
Journalists under attack : Hacks against media on the increase
New research from two Google security engineers has revealed a rise in the number of cyberattacks against journalists, with 21 of the world’s 25 top news organizations being targeted in the last year, most likely by government-sponsored hackers. While it’s true that everyone is at risk from cyberattacks, Reuters reports that the new study shows ...
Just too stubborn: Why Windows XP still has lots of life in it yet
It was around this time last year that Microsoft confirmed that it would be ending its support for Windows XP, refusing to extend the life of its old operating system any longer as it bids to push people to upgrade to its newer software. Windows XP is a battle-hardened warrior in the computer world, and ...
New study casts doubt on MtGox’s claims it was hacked
In the wake of its high profile collapse last month, Bitcoin exchange MtGox filed for bankruptcy protection in Japanese courts, claiming it had been hacked with around 850,000 Bitcoins stolen, worth about $450 million at the time. Then, just last week, it revealed that it had suddenly ‘found’ an unused wallet containing 200,000 Bitcoins. “We believed ...
Facebook’s planning to use laser-blasting drones to take over the world
Facebook wants to take over the world, and it’s gonna use some pretty awesome, heavy weaponry to do it. Lasers to be exact. Yep, Facebook is determined to get every living soul online and hooked into its social network so it can force yet more ads down people’s throats, and it’s dreamed up quite a ...
Facebook’s $2B gamble on tech’s next ‘big thing’, whatever that might be…
As we slowly begin to accept that yes, Facebook really did spend $2 billion on some stupid piece of virtual reality headgear that most of us didn’t even know existed, our attention turns to why on earth it would have done such a thing. Two billion dollars. For Oculus VR, the so-called leader of virtual ...
Microsoft shouldn’t stop with MS-DOS. It’s time to open-source everything
Microsoft took a few people by surprise earlier this week by releasing the source code for its old MS-DOS and Word for Windows software. The source codes for both programs are now available to the public, but that doesn’t mean we should get excited about the possibilities of forking Microsoft’s software just yet. So why ...
Google drops on a bomb on AWS, announces massive cut in cloud prices
Google has just slashed the costs of its cloud services way, way below those of its rivals, as the search giant steps up its efforts at unseating Amazon as the kings of the cloud. The company made a whole raft of announcements at its Google Cloud Platform event in San Francisco yesterday, the biggest being ...
Sorry Obama, your NSA reforms aren’t nearly good enough
Yesterday we heard that President Barack Obama is going to ask Congress to put the brakes on the NSA’s spying escapades, or at least a part of them. Obama’s plans were confirmed yesterday by the White House following a leak to the New York Times. Under the President’s proposal, the NSA will be banned from ...
