Putting secret AWS keys in software is a big no-no
Amazon’s crackdown on mishandling AWS credentials has astonished one software developer, who says the cloud giant is reverse-engineering Android apps for inspection.…
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Mozilla DENIES reported claims of board rift over new chief Eich
Board members planned to leave, not rebelling over controversial choice
Updated The Mozilla Foundation has denied that the departure of three members of its board is a vote of protest regarding the controversial appointment of Brendan Eich as CEO.…
Don’t touch my trunk! Intel is $740m lighter after Cloudera cash shot
Huge funding deal keeps Oracle, IBM away from upstart’s yellow elephant
Intel has shoveled $740m into Hadoop company Cloudera, giving the chipmaker an 18 per cent stake in the data analysis firm.…
Chinese patent app tries to own Wine on ARM
More software patent silliness
A group of coders from China is trying to patent the ability to operate the popular Wine environment on ARM processors.…
That’s it, we’re all really OLD: Google’s Gmail is 10 ALREADY
They just wanted to beat off Hotmail, AOL and Yahoo!
Gmail shook up the world of free web email in the mid-2000s, but 10 years after going public in 2004, Google’s service offers much more than simply firing emails around the world.…
Google asks April Fools: Want a job? Be our ‘Pokemon Master’
Mountain View is prankin’ like it’s 1999…
Video Google’s Maps team has made an early entry into this year’s April Fools’ crop of pranks with the introduction of Pokemon to the mobile application.…
Oracle shoves IBM out of world’s No 2 software seller spot – Gartner
Larry Ellison squeaks in behind Microsoft, Salesforce breaks into top 10
Oracle sold more software than IBM last year for the first time ever, making Larry Ellison’s database giant second only to Microsoft, at least according to analyst Gartner.…
Hotmail-gate: Windows 8 code leaker pleads guilty to theft of trade secrets
On the bright side, he’s won our world’s worst software pirate prize
A former Microsoft employee accused of leaking prerelease Windows 8 software has pleaded guilty to stealing the company’s trade secrets.…
Psst, you want NoSQL? We got NoSQL, says MariaDB: v10 now out
New CONNECT engine lets MySQL fork reach into non-relational databases
MySQL fork MariaDB has, with version 10 out today, shown it has woken up to the importance of giving its users access to non-relational databases.…
How Microsoft can keep Win XP alive – and WHY: A real-world example
Redmond needs to discover the mathematics of trust
Sysadmin blog What if Microsoft announced it’s not ending support for Windows XP next Tuesday after all, and instead will offer perpetual updates (for a small fee, of course).…