Russian and Chinese intelligence agencies have reportedly decrypted files of former U.S. National Security Agency contractor and leaker Edward Snowden, and have identified British and U.S. secret agents. MI6, the U.K.’s secret intelligence service, has withdrawn agents from overseas operations in hostile countries, according to a report in the Sunday …
The sudden shutdown of a computer tech support call center has left some of its employees wondering if they will be paid. EZ Tech Support, based in Portland, Oregon, took calls from people who had advertising software installed on their computers that warned of possible security and performance problems. The …
Аналитики предсказывали выпуск устройств с 4К-дисплеями во второй половине 2015 года, а первым производителем, может стать ZTE. Как пишут источники, ZTE уже работает над смартфоном, у которого 5.5-дюймовый дисплей TFT имеет разрешение 4K, а при такой диагонали и разрешающей способности 3840 на 2160 точек плотность составляет 801 ppi. Экран аппарата в любом случае на рынке …
Microsoft has confirmed that it will use security updates — or more accurately, the refusal to serve them to customers — as the stick to keep businesses in line with Windows 10’s accelerated tempo of feature and functionality upgrades. Experts had assumed that the Redmond, Wash. company would threaten Windows …
Watson transforms industries Since IBM opened IBM Watson to the world last year, it has been building a developer and entrepreneur community around the development platform. The community now consists of more than 280 commercial partners, as well as tens of thousands of developers, students, entrepreneurs and other enthusiasts that …
An unidentified glitch has hit the computer system used for issuing visas and passports at U.S. embassies worldwide, the State Department said Friday. The same system, the Consular Consolidated Database, was hit by a weeklong outage in July last year, but the current problems are not the same, said Julia …
Microsoft gave users a new glimpse at how their feedback is being used to shape Windows 10 as the company closes in on its first consumer release of the new operating system. Samer Sawaya, a senior program manager lead for Windows Feedback, said in a blog post Friday that feedback …
A second major cyber breach that might reveal far more personal and damaging information appears to have hit the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The breach was apparently carried out by hackers with connections to China and targeted a database containing copies of the government’s Standard Form 86, …
A second major cyber breach that might reveal far more personal and damaging information appears to have hit the U.S. government’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The breach was apparently carried out by hackers with connections to China and targeted a database containing copies of the government’s Standard Form 86, …
Жертвою шахраїв стали двоє вінничан. Чоловіки надали персональні дані своїх карткових рахунків псевдопрацівнику банку та залишилися без заощаджень. …
Поддерживаемый бизнесом в городе Кливленде штата Огайо Foundry Project позволит использовать выделяемое дата-центрами тепло для обогрева рыбных хозяйств. …
Группа народных депутатов из партий «БПП», «Народный Фронт» и «Самопоміч» внесли на рассмотрение украинского парламента законопроект №2050а «Про внесення змін до деяких законодавчих актів України щодо удосконалення інформаційного режиму проведення антитерористичної операції». …
One of the staples of desktop web browsing may be coming to iOS with a new feature Apple is adding to Safari with a forthcoming update to its mobile operating system. Safari on iOS 9 will include support for “Content Blocking” extensions that, when installed, will remove content from a …
One of the staples of desktop web browsing may be coming to iOS with a new feature Apple is adding to Safari with a forthcoming update to its mobile operating system. Safari on iOS 9 will include support for “Content Blocking” extensions that, when installed, will remove content from a …
To bid for a massive U.S. government contract, Sungard has teamed up with Google to build a prototype cloud system that could store six years’ worth of U.S. stock and financial trading data and let regulators and stock traders scrutinize this mountain of information. The work is being done to …
Під прицілом аферистів опинилися Інтернет-магазини. Здавалося б, ризик стати жертвою аферистів у власників мережевих платформ взагалі відсутній. Гроші вони нікому не надсилають, на сайті налаштована потужна система безпеки. Проте злодії вигадали цілу виставу, щоб заволодіти чужим майном. …
Сегодня, когда хорошие смартфоны могут продавать молодые китайские или индийские компании за очень невысокую сумму, гигантам рынка надо идти на смелые шаги, и южнокорейские компании готовятся к этому. Сначала они начали гнуть экраны, а теперь, кажется, уже готовы сгибать их. Новый патент, поданный компанией Samsung еще в 2013 году, проливает …
Одним из центральных событий этой недели, пожалуй, станет сообщение об отставке главы сервиса микроблогов Twitter Дика Костоло (Dick Costolo). …
Microsoft took what appeared to be a shot at Oracle’s wallet this month when it switched on search-and-destroy in its security software for older versions of the Ask browser toolbar, which has long been bundled with Java even in the face of users’ complaints. But Oracle has sidestepped Microsoft’s new …
Oculus VR revealed the final version of its Rift virtual reality headset on Thursday, but the partnership between the Facebook-owned company and Microsoft may have raised some eyebrows. Under terms of the deal, an Xbox One controller will come with the Rift, people will be able to stream Xbox games …
TSMC в июне запустит производство новых однокристальных платформ Apple A9, которые станут основой смартфонов iPhone и планшетов iPad следующего поколения. Об этом сообщает в четверг ChinaTimes. …
Google may be working on adding native support for Chromecast to their Linux-based operating system Chrome OS. The company has added an option for ‘casting’ to the system settings area (hat tip to Brandon Giesing who spotted it and posted a screenshot on his Google+ page). The casting option has …
Dick Costolo is out as CEO of Twitter not so much for what he did wrong, but because he didn’t do nearly enough right. “He hasn’t been able to come up with a cohesive and successful business strategy that sends Twitter results to the stratosphere,” said Dan Olds, an analyst …
The U.S. Department of Labor plans to investigate whether H-1B workers can be used to replace U.S. IT workers, according to U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala). Both lawmakers have been leading a call for a probe of the controversial program. Their comments Thursday about the Labor …
Компания Cyanogen заключила договор о сотрудничестве с разработчиками сервиса Playphone, который предоставляет доступ ко множеству бесплатных и условно-бесплатных игр. …
Despite robots that passed by, or even ran over, the objects they were searching for and others that never got off the starting platform, scientists said this week’s NASA robotics event is pushing the technology forward. NASA’s 2015 Sample Return Robot Challenge is intended to encourage researchers to develop robotics …