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”.…
Red Hat rolls elastic Linux under SAP’s HANA
Server friend finds love in big, bouncy AWS cloud
Having put SAP’s HANA in-memory database on its Linux, Red Hat has gone off-premise with Amazon.…
Microsoft: Stop using Microsoft Silverlight. (Everyone else has)
Says websites should switch to HTML5-based playback as netizens snub plugins
Microsoft is encouraging companies that use its Silverlight media format on their web pages to dump the tech in favor of newer, HTML5-based media playback systems.…
Looking forward to getting Windows 10 the day it ships? Yeah, about that…
Not everyone will get it all at once
Microsoft has shared more details about how it plans to roll out Windows 10 beginning later this month.…
Ford recalls 433,000 cars: Software bug breaks engine off-switch
Turning it off and on again not possible until a dealer fixes it
Ford is recalling 433,000 of its cars as they suffer from a software bug that could prevent drivers from turning off their engines.…
Wanna go all Gandalf – YOU SHALL NOT PASS – on Windows 10?
You can stop the auto-installs, save your LAN, stay out of court and get home in time for dinner
From July 29th, as we’ve reported, Windows 10 downloads will start to become available.…
PureVPN calls pure BS on VPN insecurity study
‘We fixed that stuff last year’, company says, ‘but have a new client anyway’
Hong Kong virtual private network provider PureVPN has rejected claims in a study published this week that its service among many other popular providers are open to DNS hijacking and has pushed fixes to shore up security.…