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.&
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.&
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.&
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.&
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.&
US company Department 13 claims it has been able to reverse-engineer several popular drones' commands, even when they are encrypted before transmission.&
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.&
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.&
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.&
Look forward to hearing lots more about how great he is
US President Donald Trump has formally designated Ajit Pai as the new chairman of America's powerful broadband and telly regulator, the Federal Communications Commission.&