Grumpy old botnets survive and thrive
You can teach an old botnet new tricks, and that is helping the older families of malware stick around and proliferate, according to two reports that peer into the world of successful botnets.
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Fedora and OpenSuse Linux drop Unity interface efforts
Canonical made quite a splash last fall when it announced that the Unity interface used in its Ubuntu Netbook Edition would become the default interface in the Linux distribution's desktop version as well beginning with version 11.04, or Natty Narwhal.
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New anti-laser tech paves way for optical computing
Yale University scientists have built what they call the first anti-laser, a device that can cancel out beams of light generated by a laser. Such a device could be an integral element in optical computers, a long promised successor to today's computers that would use light instead of electrons to process information.
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As cloud grows, IT hiring flatlines
Corporate IT departments are increasing their spending on hardware and cloud services, but not on new hiring in this weak economy. These trends are all revealed in government data, surveys and in earnings reports. Cloud-based services, in particular, are expected to see a spectacular market growth this year.
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Lenovo to launch LePad tablet worldwide in June
Chinese PC maker Lenovo plans on selling its LePad tablet worldwide in June, but will first launch the device in China at the end of March, a company spokesman said on Friday.
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Report: U.S. regulators interested in Apple subscriptions
U.S. regulators are looking at the conditions Apple has set for media companies that want to distribute subscription content through its iPad and other devices, according to The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper said the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission are interested in Apple's terms and conditions, but that the interest is at a preliminary stage and might not develop any further.
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Intel to ship 10-core Xeon processor in first half
An Intel spokesman on Thursday said its upcoming 10-core Xeon processor, code-named Westmere-EX, will reach servers in the first half of this year. The chip will succeed Intel's fastest server chip, code-named Nehalem-EX, which was released last year and includes up to eight processor cores. The company declined to comment on clock speed, but with more cores and improved latency, the Westmere-EX processor will be faster than Nehalem-EX.
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House passes defunding of Net neutrality rules
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed an amendment to its annual government funding bill that would prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from using any funds to implement the Net neutrality rules it approved last year.
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Novell shareholders approve sale to Attachmate
Novell's shareholders have approved the sale of the company to Attachmate for about $2.2 billion, although the deal depends on Novell getting approval to sell hundreds of patents to a consortium led by Microsoft. About 99 percent of the shares voted at Thursday's special shareholder meeting were voted in favor of the acquisition, Novell said. That represented 66 percent of Novell's total outstanding shares, enough for the merger to go ahead.
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Oracle rolls out more critical patches for troublesome Java
Oracle has unloaded a hefty package of patches aimed at fixing critical vulnerabilities in Java SE and Java for Business, and Oracle as well as third-party security experts are urging IT admins to deploy the security update immediately. The majority of the vulnerabilities fixed by the update pertain to the JRE (Java Runtime Environment); these vulnerabilities can be exploited sans authentication, meaning attackers would not have to bother with coming up with a username and password.
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Terracotta adds search to cached databases
The latest company to merge analytics and transactions into a single operation, Terracotta has added search functionality into the latest version of its Ehcache Java cache software. The search feature, available in the newly released version 2.4 of the software, will allow organizations to perform analysis directly against their online data stores, which could simplify their architecture and cut the time it takes for analyzing data, when compared to performing analysis against disk-based databases or data warehouses, the company claims.
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Feds wrongly links 84,000 seized sites to child porn
Imagine you're a respectable, law-abiding owner of a small business.
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