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Huawei Smacks Of Desperation: Offers “Unrestricted Access” To Its Source Code
Desperate to restore its tattered reputation after being branded a “security threat”, Huawei has offered the Australian government unrestricted access to its hardware and source code, months after it was banned from supplying telecommunications equipment for the country’s broadband network. Australian authorities blocked Huawei from bidding on any of its contracts earlier this year, saying ...
Death By Big Data: The Peril of Predictions
To the uninitiated, the job of a data scientist probably doesn’t seem all that exciting, and certainly, it doesn’t seem like the kind of career where there would be too many occupational hazards that could pose a risk to your well being. But these assumptions are wrong. All told, the job of a data scientist ...
Newer, Faster Chips Save 30% On Cloud Computing Costs
New research has shown that it may be possible to cut the costs of cloud computing by 30%, but only if your data center server is using the right kind of chip. A team of researchers from Finland and Germany discovered that some server clusters are as much as 40% faster than others, with the ...
Another Victim of the Internet: Ceefax Bites the Dust
The BBC’s Ceefax service, the world’s first teletext service, will finally be laid to rest this evening when the UK’s analogue TV signal is switched off for the last time. The UK is set to complete the final stage of its long awaited digital changeover at 11.30pm tonight, when Northern Ireland’s analogue signal is turned ...
Anonymous Goes It Alone With Project TYLER: “WikiLeaks on Steroids”
Following last week’s high profile spat between Anonymous and WikiLeaks, reports from Russia say that the hacktivist collective is set to go it alone and launch its own “secure, no cost, decentralized” whistleblowing platform to rival the one started by Julian Assange. Details of the TYLER Project were revealed in an exclusive interview between one ...
Shock, Horror!! Pervy Porn Sites Grab 88% Of Teen’s Sexy Photos
In somewhat shocking but unsurprising news from the UK, a recent study suggest that as many as 88% of all “self-made” sexually explicit photos posted online by teenagers end up being stolen and posted on pornographic websites for the rest of the world to see. The study, which was carried out by the Internet Watch ...
Yahoo Has $2B to Play With. Millennial Media on the Buy List?
With Yahoo struggling to pull in revenue through its online content creation businesses, new CEO Marissa Mayer is rumored to be planning a new direction for the company, one that will see it revert back to its roots as a leader in all things technology. For some years now, Yahoo has attempted to juggle both ...
NTT DoCoMo Offers Instant Phone Call Translation
The ability to speak a foreign language is a highly prized skill in today’s globalized world, what with cultures and peoples mixing more freely now than at any other time in history. Particularly in a business sense, being able to converse with foreigners is essential for anyone who wants to get ahead of the game. ...
Google Under Attack: Battered By Brazil and the EU
It hasn’t been the best of weekends for Google, with the search engine giant suddenly finding itself backed into a corner by angry publishers in both Brazil and the EU. Google’s biggest problem seems to be in South America, where it’s made an enemy of Brazil’s mass media. Claiming that Google’s news service is costing ...
Yahoo Pulls Out Of Korea, Conditions “Too Difficult”
Yahoo has just announced that it plans to dump the Korean search market, as part of new CEO Marissa Mayer’s ongoing efforts to realign the firm’s global business and streamline its operations. Mayer was hired back in July of this year, and since then the former Google executive has wrung the changes, hiring several of ...