Project throws CPU cores where RF wonks put ASICs

Microsoft has decided to open-source its six-year-old Sora software radio project.…

Ditch Office for more open standards, says DISIC

Microsoft could get the boot from the French government if a new recommendation from an official advisor is adopted.…

Are you serious, SatNad?

In Depth  After five years, the radical design experiment of Windows Phone is to end; Windows on phones is being subsumed into Windows 10, and alas, this means Windows phones will not only be less distinctive and inherit many of the flaws, but they’ll acquires some flaws no mobile platform today suffers.…

Now we can decipher whiteboards, children’s scribblings etc

Compsci boffins say they have developed neural-net software which can understand incomprehensible scrawled drawings of the sort created by children, marketing personnel, architects, design creatives and other scribblers of that general sort.…

All of them. Do it again, don’t care which Windows

No rest for weary sysadmins on Monday, whether biz sysadmins or family ones: Microsoft has released a security update for all supported versions of Windows to fix a remote-code execution vulnerability.…

Whistleblower addresses Prague meeting of ‘net engineers

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has urged the world’s leading group of internet engineers to design a future ‘net that puts the user in the center, and so protects people’s privacy.…

Flaw identified three years ago comes back to bite NoSQL crowd

Shodan hacker John Matherly says system administrators have exposed some 595.2 terabytes of data by using poorly-configured or un-patched versions of the popular MongoDB database.…

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Google-inna-box orchestration tool hits general availability

There’s tumultous applause for the Kubernetes open-sauce app container system today – though it should be borne in mind that much of this is from those who’ve put substantial investments in time and/or money towards developing it.…

No longer need a DVD drive to install latest Microsoft OS

Microsoft has confirmed scuttlebutt that had been flying around for a number of weeks now: Windows 10 will be sold on USB Flash drives.…