The $3bn philanthropy initiative led by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan has agreed to acquire Meta: an AI-based aggregator for medical research studies.&
Microsoft has patched a code execution hole in its Mac remote desktop client that grants read and write to home directories if users do no more than click a link, says Italian security researcher Filippo Cavallarin.&
Hackers Karim Rahal and Ibram Marzouk have found multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in the HTML Comment Box that opened avenues to compromise visitors to some used by some 2 million websites.&
Memory and monitor surges trump phlaming phablet fiasco
Samsung Electronics, the Chaebol's business that encompasses smartphones, monitors, memory and more, has reported a bumper fourth quarter despite its phlaming phablet fiasco.&
US company Department 13 claims it has been able to reverse-engineer several popular drones' commands, even when they are encrypted before transmission.&
Bought a Breathometer? You can get your money back
If youre trusting a personal breathalyzer to protect you from a drunk driving conviction, think again, since the devices might not work as advertised.&
If printer maker Lexmark International prevails against ink cartridge reseller Impression Products, tech giants and other American companies will gain the ability to control products through patent claims after they have been sold.&
Brit audio networking bods Chirp go all green and glowy
Audio-based networking may seem an unusual choice for the Internet of Things, especially when used for machines to bellow information at each other inside a nuclear power station.&
Big Blue claims 3 more releases coming to take us to mid-2018
IBMs XIV storage array has three more product releases coming, and is not going away, although it is not having a fourth generation version developed, the firm has claimed.&
Open Source Insider Vim text editor turned 25 late last year the first public iteration was launched on November 2, 1991, a couple of weeks after Linus Torvalds announced Linux. To celebrate Vim's anniversary, creator Bram Moolenaar recently dropped version 8.0.&
This years Razzie nominations - celebrating the worst that Hollywood has to offer - are in, with Zoolander No. 2 and Batman v Superman leading the pack with the most nominations.&
Cheerful chap writes off all mission-critical IoT software without realising it
"Software comes with two unique properties: it's basically impossible to inspect and test, and we don't know the sequencing of instructions at the basic level," Statoil's lead analyst for corporate IT digitalisation, Einar Landre, told today's IoT Tech Expo in London.&
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Gov spokesperson promises Mr Ring hell get to the bottom of it
Residents of the picturesque town of Westport, County Mayo are being driven to distraction by their confused countrymen attempting to call UK-based late night smut channel Babestation sans international dialling code.&
Botnets' power level over 9,000 thanks to gaping vulnerabilities
IoT botnets have transformed the threat landscape, resulting in a big increase in the size of DDoS attacks from 500Gbps in 2015 up to 800Gbps last year.&
Couriers allege their pay was slashed retrospectively
Unpaid workers for the "sharing economy" delivery outfit Jinn who claimed they hadn't been paid besieged the company's co-founder to demand their wages last week.&
And they're eyeing up the NHS as a customer for wearables
American telco Verizon reckons it's got a shot at being the next big Internet of Things player and might be eyeing up the NHS, the company's pet evangelist told IoT Tech Expo in London this morning.&
Microsoft has reinstated its overall CTO role for the first time in 17 years and hired Kevin Scott currently senior vice president of infrastructure with LinkedIn to do the job.&