Judge says evidence isn’t there
Sergey Aleynikov, the former Goldman Sachs programmer who was charged with stealing code from the firm’s high-frequency trading software, has had his conviction overturned a second time.…
Monthly Archives: July 2015
‘Facebook without sin’ attracts 0.00006 times as many users as Facebook
Plus: Reddit grovel, Xbox groove, Mega man and more
News bytes A social networking website built in Brazil is touting itself as a sin-free version of Facebook.…
Microsoft dangles $500k cash wad over boffins: Please, pleeease write some HoloLens apps
Redmond ponies up the cash for devs working on headset
Microsoft is promising $500,000 to researchers and developers who will build apps for its Hololens headset.…
Google’s new view of the world takes two pics to make ‘DeepStereo’ 3D
Machine learning imagines the missing pixels in glorious Googl-o-rama
Video StreetView means Google owns one of the world’s larger photo albums, so it’s natural for Google to want to create a realistic 3D rendering of the world. That’s the aim of a new bit of boffinry from the Chocolate Factory called DeepStereo.…
Bing Maps seen wearing creepy mask that makes it look a bit like …
If you can’t beat ’em, then wear their face on yours. Which isn’t creepy AT ALL
Microsoft’s Bing, still lagging Google by a country mile even with Yahoo!, has unveiled some suspiciously Google-like updates.…
Will NOBODY take a stand against BLOATWARE? Wait – WHO did?
If this case is won, let’s all move to the PRC
Phone makers Samsung and Oppo face legal action in China, after a consumer watchdog filed lawsuits over bloatware pre-loaded on the vendors’ handsets.…
Yank my blockchain: Bitcoin upgrade SNAFU borks hungry miners’ currency
Virtual money system update spaffs $50k up wall
Bitcoin users have been urged to switch to pool mines that fully validate data blocks, after the virtual currency system hit a major snag during a planned upgrade.…
ONE MILLION new lines of code hit Linux Kernel
4.2 rc1 is biggest … release … candidate … EVER
Linus Torvalds has loosed Linux 4.2-rc1 upon a waiting world, and rates it the biggest release candidate ever in terms of the volume of new code it contains.…
Firefox 39 bites four critical bugs
Set phasers to Frag, says Mozilla, in gaming roadmap for future browsers
The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox the 39th.…
Apple’s Swift creeps up dev language survey – but it’s bad news for VB
Fruity programming language makes headway
A new programming language survey shows Apple’s Swift breaking into the top 20 for the first time, while the future of Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VB) in the top rankings is now “unclear”.…