A Swedish engineer's umbrage at a traffic ticket has led to a six-year legal fight and now a global change in the speed with which traffic light signals are timed.
Updated A fundamental design flaw in Intel’s processor chips has forced a significant redesign of the Linux and Windows kernels to defang the chip-level security bug. Programmers are scrambling to overhaul the open-source Linux kernel’s virtual memory system. Meanwhile, Microsoft is expected to publicly introduce the necessary changes to its Windows operating system in an […]
“Today, we opened the application process for our next class of astronauts, extraordinary Americans who will take the next giant leap in exploration. This group will launch to space from US soil on American-made spacecraft and blaze the trail on our journey to the Red Planet.”
A spat between Google and Whitehat Security has erupted after engineers at the search giant revealed dangerous vulnerabilities found in the latter’s privacy-centric Chrome spin-off browser.
The firm running South Korea’s nuclear plants has decided to run cyber-war drills following the leak of sensitive data and threats from unidentified hackers. Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Co (KHNP) has decided to run the exercises after the online leak of plant equipment designs and manuals last week. The technical documents were dumped on […]
Boost IT visibility and business value The BBC is scrambling to fix what appears to be a number of severe technical glitches on its network, after its website and catch-up TV service were hit by a major outage at the weekend. At the time of writing, Auntie was still carrying a “simplified version” of its […]
Ross Ulbricht has lost his bid to have money-laundering and other charges dismissed.
The photograph appeared in local news outlet Correio Braziliense. In the background of the pic, it is possible to read the SSID “WORLD CUP” and password “b5a2112014”, leet speak for Brazil 2014.
The secret British spy base is part of a programme codenamed “CIRCUIT” and also referred to as Overseas Processing Centre 1 (OPC-1). It is located at Seeb, on the northern coast of Oman, where it taps in to various undersea cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian/Arabian Gulf.
5 questions to answer about your DR plan It’s no surprise it passed almost unnoticed since it was no Chelyabinsk, but the Earth has already been taken its first asteroid impact of 2014. The asteroid, with observations recorded here, burned in the atmosphere somewhere over the Atlantic on January 2, according to the International Astronomical […]
Email delivery: 4 steps to get more email to the inbox The Indian government is gearing up to switch on “NETRA”, a large scale internet surveillance system that will allow its spy agencies to monitor suspicious online communications in order to detect certain keywords. The Network Traffic Analysis system, to give NETRA its full name, […]
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It will forever be remembered as the butt of a-thousand-and-one jokes about its poor handwriting recognition, but Apple’s MessagePad was bold in its conception. Its legacy is ARM’s conquest of the mobile microprocessor world.
Win a Samsung 40-inch LED HDTV with The Reg and HP! Hot Chips The creator of Google Glass sees his baby as being nothing less than the next step in human communications and humanity’s “quest for knowledge.” “There are two main drivers for why we wanted to make Google Glass,” Babak Parviz, who founded and […]
Simply nobody will be giving any credence to officials in America who have stated that a mystery object which fell from the sky this week – after which the surrounding area was evacuated and sealed off for some time by police and military personnel – was just a “weather balloon.”
Guardsmen serving in Germany’s ceremonial display unit – the only formation which still parades with the Nazi-era service rifle – are much more likely than other soldiers to grow a single breast on the left side of their bodies, according to a medical study.
Double that number want creationism or intelligent design taught in public schools.
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SaaS data loss: The problem you didn’t know you had Oklahoma and Nebraska have joined Mississippi in calling on Google to crack down on internet ads for powerful drugs sold without prescription. The states’ attorneys-general have written to the Chocolate Factory about ads that pop up on YouTube videos for pharmacies willing to sell painkillers […]