Project to port Firefox OS to Raspberry Pi is under way
The Mozilla Foundation staged a Mozilla Festival in the UK over the weekend, and one of the projects developers delivered was a port of Firefox OS working to the Raspberry Pi.…
Monthly Archives: October 2014
UNCHAINING DEMONS which might DESTROY HUMANITY: Musk on AI
‘I invest only to monitor the threat’
Electro-car kingpin and spacecraft mogul Elon Musk has warned that meddling with Artificial Intelligence risks “summoning the demon” that could destroy humanity.…
Apple’s OS X Yosemite slurps UNSAVED docs into iCloud
Docs, email contacts… shhhlooop, up it goes
Apple’s OSX 10.10 – aka Yosemite – is silently uploading users’ unsaved documents and the email addresses of their contacts to Apple’s iCloud, according to security researcher Jeffrey Paul.…
Developers: Get down and dirty with IBM at Twickers
Scrum down at DeveloperConnect
Promo If you want an extra dose of fireworks this autumn, get yourself down to Twickenham Stadium on 6 November for IBM DeveloperConnect 2014.…
OpenStack upstart SwiftStack slurps up $16m from backers
The object of its object storage funding exercise
Interview OpenStack-using startup SwiftStack has got itself $16m in B-round funding, raising the total cash invested amount to $23.6m. Why should we care?…
GCHQ staff ‘would sooner walk’ than do anything ‘resembling mass surveillance’
House of Lords discovers Google Maps
QuoTW This was the week when GCHQ boss Sir Iain Lobban managed to exit stage left from the spook play without ever mentioning the Edward-Snowden-shaped-elephant in the room.…
GET A ROOM, yells Facebook as it stumbles on IRC, slaps it in an app
Party like it’s 1999
Facebook has built an internet chat-room app that lets people anonymously gossip with one another, just like on IRC.…
Techies: Meet the Microsoft A Team at Future Decoded
Brian Cox, Sir Nigel Shadbolt at Tech Day, ExCeL, 12 Nov
Promo Microsoft is running a huge conference – Future Decoded – in London’s ExCeL centre on November 10-12. The Tech Day on Day 3 has a huge agenda, big name keynote speakers, eight training tracks – and one track dedicated to entrepreneurial startups and students.…
Happy 2nd birthday, Windows 8 and Surface: Anatomy of a disaster
Heart of Windows 8 lives on in Windows 10
Analysis This weekend marks two years since Windows 8 and Surface were launched at a press event at Pier 57 on the Hudson River in New York.…
Ubuntu’s shiny 10th birthday Unicorn: An upgrade fantasy
Exciting possibilities. Just not yet
Review For a celebratory 10th birthday release, Ubuntu 14.10 is a bit of a damp squib.…