More HPC goodness from Chipzilla
Intel is eyeing off the world of Big Data with the latest round of updates to its Parallel Studio Suite.…
Devs are SHEEP. Which is good when the leader writes secure code
Boffins study developers and find good examples will be followed by the herd
Programmers with security chops are seen as more productive and influential workers whom other coders strive to emulate, according to security researchers from North Carolina State University and Microsoft Research.…
Windows 10 now on 75 million devices, says Microsoft
A popular giveaway, but no word on the number of failed installs
Microsoft’s corporate veep Yusuf Mehdi reports that Windows 10 is now on 75 million devices, following its general availability four weeks ago.…
The Raspberry Pi is succeeding in ways its makers almost imagined
Kids don’t want to code. They want to solve problems us oldies can’t perceive
“Grandpa is getting pretty old. Out there all alone on that farm, he has no one to look in on him, just to see if he’s ok. He’ll use the landline, but he’s beyond of the range of mobile, and he’s never been really great with computers. No Skype or emails. Grandpa does have internet. So I built this for him.”…
Why is the smart home insecure? Because almost nobody cares
The miserable life of the security veep
It’s easy to laugh-and-point at Samsung over its latest smart-thing disaster: after all, it should have already learned its lesson from the Smart TV debacle, right?…
Scrapheap challenge: How Amazon and Google are dumbing down the gogglebox
It’s time to get some guarantees for smart TV
Breaking Fad Online video content is becoming increasingly popular, thanks to the likes of iPlayer, Netflix and Amazon. For many of us, those services make it possible to find something to watch whenever we want. With Netflix and Amazon throwing huge amounts of money at their own original productions, it’s likely that more and more people will be considering a subscription a worthwhile addition to their monthly expenses.…
The Register IBM Bluemix programming challenge: The winner!
High standard of entrants impresses our judges
A month ago we announced our first coding competition, The Register’s IBM Bluemix Programming Challenge 2015.…
Obi: These ARE the ‘droids you’re looking for
Former Apple CEO John Sculley presents us with a new hope
Former Apple CEO John Sculley is to launch a pair of Android phones. The SF1 and SJ1.5 are mid-range and low-end devices respectively from the company Obi Worldphone.…
Google tells iOS 9 app devs: Switch off HTTPS if you want that sweet sweet ad money from us
Apple’s encrypt-everything rule gets in the way of plain HTTP
Google has told iOS 9 app developers to disable Apple’s enforcement of HTTPS-only connections – or their in-app Google ads won’t show up on up-to-date iPhones and iPads.…
Google makes it official: Chrome will freeze Flash ads on sight from Sept 1
If your ads aren’t on web giant’s network, they better be HTML5 – or they’re dead to Chrome
Google is making good on its promise to strangle Adobe Flash’s ability to auto-play in Chrome.…