Hewlett-Packard slams ex-Autonomy exec, says it will sue
Hewlett-Packard has fired back at a former Autonomy executive who is attempting to block the settlement of a number of shareholder lawsuits filed over HP's disastrous acquisition of the infrastructure software vendor. HP bought Autonomy in 2011 for more than $10 billion, but later wrote off $8.8 billion of the purchase price after discovering what it called serious accounting irregularities on the part of Autonomy prior to the deal.
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Microsoft continues global CRM expansion in battle against Salesforce.com
Microsoft has expanded the availability of its cloud CRM software into 17 additional countries in a move sure to step up its rivalry with Salesforce.com. The move brings Dynamics CRM Online to new places in South America, the Caribbean, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
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Danish university transfers data at record-breaking 43Tbps over a single fiber
Using souped-up fiber, the Technical University of Denmark has set a new record for transmitting data over one channel: 43 terabits per second. The High-Speed Optical Communications group at the university's photonics engineering department made the transmission. It beat the old record, which belonged to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, by a margin of 11Tbps, the university said.
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Cisco patches traffic snooping flaw in its networking gear
Cisco Systems said attackers could disrupt or intercept traffic in many of its networking products unless a new security update is applied to the software they run. The issue affects the implementation of the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol and its Link State Advertisement (LSA) database in particular. This protocol is used for determining the shortest routing paths inside an Autonomous System (AS) -- a collection of routing policies for IP (Internet Protocol) addresses controlled by ISPs and large organizations.
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Is your Dropcam live feed being watched by someone else?
Dropcam, the popular video monitoring camera, bills itself as "super simple security." But a pair of researchers plan to show at the Defcon hacking conference later this week how a Dropcam could be a weak point. Patrick Wardle and Colby Moore, both of whom work for security firm Synack, tore apart a $200 Dropcam and figured out how its software works.
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Mozilla warns of leaky developer network database
Mozilla's website for developers leaked email addresses and encrypted passwords of registered users for about a month due to a database error, the organization said Friday. Email addresses for 76,000 Mozilla Development Network (MDN) users were exposed, along with around 4,000 encrypted passwords, wrote Stormy Peters, director of development relations, and Joe Stevensen, operations security manager in a blog post. Mozilla is notifying those affected.
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Mercifully toothless Windows 8.1 Update 2 due next week
Everything is on course for an August Black Tuesday release of the Windows 8.1 patch formerly known as Windows 8.1 Update 2, and now apparently code named "August Update," according to unnamed sources cited by
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New JavaScript library adds facial detection, 3D projection to Web apps
The open source Tracking.js JavaScript library is bringing computer vision and augmented reality to Web development.
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5 ways to add machine learning to Java, JavaScript, and more
After spending decades in the shadows as a specialty discipline, machine learning is suddenly front and center as a busi
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