Four new patches for open-source crypto libraries

Poodle  If you’re using the popular OpenSSL open source cryptography library, you have more to worry about than the recently disclosed POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) vulnerability, project devs have warned.…

It’s swee-eet trip to the Android shop

Pics  Google has released its latest iteration of the Android OS, plus a triple deployment for the new software in three new devices – a trendy big phone, a slablet and a telly box.…

If it ain’t Microsoft, it’s in fashion behind the Great Firewall

Worries about US spying in China have sparked new interest in Novell’s venerable NetWare product line.…

Zuck me, I feel a whole lot more secure today

Your loved one has been kidnapped and is about to be killed by a horde of barbaric jihadis. What do you do?…

A third of them are doing it in VMs, but early feedback focuses on frippery

Microsoft has revealed that a million people have signed up for the Windows Insider Program it is using to offer early access to Windows 10 for those willing to test the operating system’s early iterations.…

Drones on for three hours in keynote, peps self up with Coke-from-a-drone

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s keynote at the annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco is usually a theatrical affair, but his company may have outdone itself this time.…

First browser to protect networks’ bandwith using official spec

Google has recently pushed out Chrome 38, for desktop and mobile devices.…

Content aggregation, meet the workplace … oh

Review  Microsoft has released a preview of Sway, which the company says is a “brand new app in the Office portfolio.” But what is it? Sway is a “way to express yourself and bring your ideas to life,” Microsoft says. This kind of fluff is a poor way to define a product.…

Meanwhile, ‘control freak’ flight attendants try to wreck Kindle usage

It was 20 years ago today, Marc Andreeesen taught the band to play

Netscape Navigator, the browser credited with taking the World Wide Web into the mainstream, was released twenty years ago yesterday, on October 13th 1994.…