Red Hat prepares for 64-bit ARM servers
Enterprise open-source software vendor Red Hat is keeping an eye on the development of 64-bit ARM processors for servers, building up expertise in case the nascent platform takes hold in the data center.
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Researchers find way to increase range of wireless frequencies in smartphones
Researchers have found a new way to tune the radio frequency in smartphones and other wireless devices that promises to reduce costs and improve performance of semiconductors used in defense, satellite and commercial communications. Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) and Northeastern University in Boston presented the research findings at the 58th Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference in Denver this week.
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How secure was Lavabit's 'secure' email? Not very, says researcher
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Alcatel-Lucent enterprise unit could be up for sale again
Alcatel-Lucent is reportedly looking again to sell its enterprise business as it attempt to cut expenses through an asset sale. Citing unnamed sources, Reuters is reporting that Alcatel-Lucent has enlisted Lazard to help it find a buyer for its enterprise business, which makes IP telephony and Ethernet switching equipment. It would be the second time in three years that the French company attempted to unload the unit.
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Flame graph shows system performance in a new light
The person who became known on the Internet for yelling at servers is now becoming famous for another, somewhat related, feat, creating a new type of data visualization for characterizing system performance. Brendan Gregg, lead performance engineer at cloud provider Joyent, has developed a visualization technique called a flame graph that can be effective for charting how system resources such as CPUs and memory are used. It has subsequently been picked up by a number of engineers who have used it to enhance popular diagnostic tools such as DTrace and Windows XPerf.
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Apple fixes trackpad and graphics issues on new Retina MacBook Pros
Owners of the newly release 13- and 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro models may want to fire up Software Update for something even more important than a fix for Mail in Mavericks. Firmware updates for both models also released on Thursday take care of some potentially big problems with these latest laptops.
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Senate looks to push government data center consolidations
Federal agencies aren't moving fast enough to consolidate government data centers, according to U.S. lawmakers. To remedy that, a bipartisan bill that sets "hard deadlines" is on track to be adopted by the U.S. Senate. The three main sponsors of the data center legislation are lawmakers Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), who believe their legislation will add oversight and regular reporting to the process, and help to ensure the deadlines are met. But just how effective will legislation be?
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Researchers dare AI experts to crack new GOTCHA password scheme
If you can't tell the difference between an inkblot that looks more like "body builder lady with mustache and goofy in the center" than "large steroid insect with big eyes," then you can't crack passwords protected via a new scheme created by computer scientists that they've dubbed GOTCHA.
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PaaS market to reach $14 billion by 2017, IDC says
The global market for PaaS (platform as a service) is set to leap from US$3.8 billion last year to more than $14 billion in 2017 as companies look to cut infrastructure costs and speed up application development, according to newly released research from analyst firm IDC. Overall, the compound annual growth rate for PaaS during this period will be roughly 30 percent, compared to the 4 percent growth rate this year for IT spending overall, according to IDC.
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Microsoft ships IE11 for Windows 7
Microsoft today released Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) for Windows 7, and announced it would soon start pushing it to customers as an automatic update. Three weeks ago, Microsoft signaled that the debut of the final of IE11 was imminent when it shipped a blocking toolkit for enterprise IT departments who wanted to ban the browser from their desktops.
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Twitter won't pay tax on the first $107 million of income it reports
The federal deficit -- the amount by which the government's total budget outlays exceeds its total receipts for a fiscal year -- is estimated at $680 billion for fiscal year 2013. The federal debt -- the sum total of our deficits over the years -- is sitting at about $17 trillion. Meanwhile, some of Silicon Valley's richest and best-known companies are avoiding income taxes by taking deductions related to stock options used to compensate executives. Twitter, which went public on Thursday, is one of them.
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Google bans Windows Chrome extensions found outside the Chrome Web Store
The sad march towards tribal fiefdoms continued Thursday, as Google announced that it will only allow Chrome for Windows users to download extensions hosted by Google's own Chrome Web Store starting in January.Google says the decision to transform Chrome into a gated community stems from security concerns, in an echo of the official reason that Microsoft moved to the Windows Store model to distribute modern UI apps. Google engineering director Erik Kay points the finger at the damage caused by rogue extensions in a blog post detailing the lock-down.
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Google's dangerous bots put the whole Web on edge
It's bad enough that Google's Web crawler bots have been hijacked by malware and used to spread a SQL injection attack.
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