Adobe confirms millions of stolen passwords were not secured properly
Researchers have revealed, and Adobe has confirmed, that the millions passwords stolen during the breach in October were not originally stored according to industry best practices. Instead of being hashed, the passwords were encrypted, which could make things a little easier for those looking to crack them.
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New supercomputer uses SSDs as alternative to DRAM, hard drives
A new supercomputer being deployed this month in the U.S. is using solid-state drive storage as an alternative to DRAM and hard drives, which could help speed up internal data transfers. The supercomputer, called Catalyst, will be deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. Built by the U.S. Department of Energy, Cray and Intel, the supercomputer delivers a peak performance of 150 teraflops and will be available for use starting later this month.
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Cisco puts its unified computing servers into OpenStack clouds
The top executives leading Cisco's OpenStack efforts today said customers can run the open source cloud computing platform with its UCS (Unified Computing System) and Nexus hardware devices and that the company will provide advanced support to help customers deploy OpenStack clouds.
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HP porting venerable Nonstop server platform to x86
Hewlett-Packard has announced a multi-year effort to port its Nonstop server systems, used by banks, telcos, and other businesses that need maximum reliability, from Intel's Itanium architecture to x86.
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Helium-filled hard drives take flight, bump capacity to 6TB
It took Western Digital's HGST subsidiary more than a decade to develop a way to reliably seal helium gas inside of a hard drive. It was worth the wait. HGST Monday announced that it's now shipping a helium-filled, 3.5-inch hard disk drive with 50 percent more capacity than the current industry leading 4TB drives. The new drive uses 23 percent less power and is 38 percent lighter than the 4TB drives.
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Linux 4.0 may have only bug fixes, no new features
Linux operating system creator Linus Torvalds has proposed that Linux 4.0, an upcoming release of the open-source software, should be dedicated to stability and bug fixing. Although his initial reaction to a suggestion for a separate bug-fixing release from Dirk Hohndel, chief Linux and open source technologist at Intel, was to criticize it, as "I didn't see most of us having the attention span required for that," Torvalds is now asking for comments on a proposal to have Linux 4.0 as the bug-fix release in about a year's time.
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BlackBerry ditches CEO and accepts $1 billion loan from Fairfax, others
BlackBerry has fired its CEO and accepted a $1 billion loan from a consortium led by shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings as it struggles with inventory and strategy problems. The company has abandoned plans to sell itself, after several months of trying to find a buyer. CEO Thorsten Heins will resign when the deal is complete, with former Sybase CEO John S. Chen joining the company as chairman and interim CEO, BlackBerry announced today.
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Bye-bye, Big Red? Escaping Oracle's not that easy
Talk to certain folks and you'd believe Oracle is doomed -- doomed! Its proprietary database solutions are a prime target for being displaced by the likes of open source contenders MariaDB and PostgreSQL. It's only a matter of time.
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Microsoft kills Skype third-party tools for the desktop
Mocking the battle cry of "Developers, developers, developers," Microsoft is shutting down the desktop programming interface for Skype, effective the end of this year.
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Secunia PSI freezes with 'Stop running this script?' errors in Windows 8.1
Many Windows boffins, present company most certainly included, recommend Secunia PSI for keeping track of the latest updates to Windows
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IDC: Hadoop commonly used with other big data analytics systems
A study by analyst IDC shows how companies are using the open source Hadoop big data analytics systems alongside other systems to get value out of their data.IDC's "Trends in Enterprise Hadoop Deployments" report, commissioned by Red Hat, found that 32 percent of companies questioned had deployed Hadoop. An additional 31 percent said they had plans to deploy Hadoop within 12 months, and 36 percent said their Hadoop deployment schedule could go beyond 12 months.
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OS X Mavericks upgrade destroys data, reports Western Digital
Wetern Digital sent an email to its registered customers over the weekend, warning them not to use their external hard drives on machines that run OS X Mavericks.
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Mobile browsers lag, so mobile HTML5 apps suffer
While HTML5 has made advances in areas like animation and video, support of HTML5 on mobile browsers remains inadequate, argues an official at Mozilla, which has been a major proponent of HTML5.
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