End of the road for seminal open source firewall
The open-source m0n0wall firewall project has been discontinued.…
Interstellar sci-fi worms its way into spinning black hole science FACT
Einstein? Pah! Computer code maps light beams
Vid Boffins who worked alongside Hollywood film-makers on the Oscar-nominated sci-fi flick Interstellar reckon they’ve come up with new discoveries that reveal the “powerful effects” of black holes – all thanks to the computer code that was used for the movie.…
W3C turns BROWSERS into VIBRATORS
New API should shake things up and generate some buzz
Web wonks at the W3C have issued a new Recommendation that gives browsers control of vibrators.…
Datameer rolls out Hadoop-as-a-service for impatient IT bods
Five nodes should tide you over
Big-data analytics startup Datameer is rolling out analytics-as-a-service running on Hadoop.…
Microsoft slurps Apple-happy, Google-tastic Sunrise calendar firm
What about Outlook and Exchange?
Microsoft’s personal productivity apps acquisition spree continues, the latest slurp being that of Sunrise, a provider of calendar apps for Mac, iOS and Android.…
Ex-Microsoft open source plan man lands top Cloud Foundry job
If he can handle MS user ‘relations’, he can do anything
Sam Ramji has been named chief executive of Cloud Foundry Foundation, to shepherd the open-source platform cloud effort.…
Microsoft launches wobbly Windows 10 phone preview for Lumia daredevils only
‘You will encounter bugs’
Some four months after it unveiled the first build of the Windows 10 Technical Preview, Microsoft has now kicked off the early access program for its smartphone OS, known as … Windows 10 Technical Preview.…
Linux kernel set to get live patching in release 3.20
Come and get this Git pull, Linus!
A collaboration between SUSE and Red Hat is going to bring relief to Linux users the world over: they’ll be able to patch their systems without reboots.…
Still using the Google Talk app? You’ve got ONE WEEK to move on
It’s time to move on to Hangouts, like it or not
Google is warning holdout users of its standalone Windows GTalk application that they have one week left before the service will be shut down permanently.…
Coding Cupid publishes Tinder-ised automatic love machine
Love Daemon arrives just in time for St. Valentine’s Day
Canadian engineer and amateur cupid Justin Long has created a Tinder love machine that can automatically find a face you like and send it alluring love letters.…