XMPP hangs on despite knifing official Windows client
As Google prepares to kill off its Windows Google Talk client, it was feared the web giant will soon drop Google Talk support completely – in hope of forcing everyone over to Hangouts.…
Critical 0-days in open source? The problem isn’t code, it’s CASH
Linux Foundation honcho talks turkey on funding war on vulns
Linux Foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin thinks the information security world needs fewer surgeons and more personal trainers, and he’s putting his organization’s money where his mouth is.…
Redmond updates Outlook app security, but haters still gunna hate
Amazon moving to Azure
Redmond has upgraded the security controls of its mobile Outlook app to allow credentials to be kept on its servers rather than Amazon’s.…
Wanna cheerlead open internet standards, help out the peeps at IETF? Enter the ISoc Maze
And you’ve got 10 days to win
The political arm of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Society, has posted its approved slate of candidates for two board positions – and invited everyone else in the world to parachute into the process.…
Torvalds turns to Sir Mix-A-Lot for Linux versioning debate
Do you like ’em big and round, or would a slimmer version 4.0 excite you?
Linus Torvalds is “running out of fingers and toes” and therefore wonders if it might be a good time to tip the Linux Kernel over into version 4.0.…
Inspired by Linux, Pivotal to open-source bulk of big data suite
The lesson of Unix: make it unified and they will come
Pivotal will make the majority of its big data suite open source, drawing inspiration from the Linux concept.…
Infosys tires of boring ERP maintenance business
US$200m cheque written to slurp automated software-fixing outfit Panaya
Infosys appears to have tired of maintaining ERP systems by hand and would prefer to offer more interesting consulting services instead.…
Yahoo! Boffins! Improve! Face! Search!
Training neural networks to recognise people
A research collaboration between Yahoo! Labs and Stanford University has yielded a fast and simple approach to facial recognition.…
Cisco puts elastic in the fabric
APIC links arms at 30 km
Cisco has announced the next piece of its software-defined networking strategy: a long-distance interconnect designed to simplify workload mobility between data centres.…
Mozilla’s Flash-killer ‘Shumay’ appears in Firefox nightlies
Open source SWF player promises alternative to Adobe’s endless security horror
In November 2012 the Mozilla Foundation announced “Project Shumway”, an effort to create a “web-native runtime implementation of the SWF file format.”…