Follow Slashdot blog updates by subscribing to our blog RSS feed

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×

Submission + - London cops fired for abusive social media posts (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by illiteratehack
illiteratehack writes: Six London police have been fired for writing abusive messages on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook in the last three years. A further 30-odd have been disciplined too new data has revealed.

Submission + - Open Source Radeon Gallium3D OpenCL Stack Now Supports Bitcoin Mining (paritynews.com)

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes: The open-source Radeon Gallium3D OpenCL stack has been modified such that it now supports Bitcoin mining through the use of mining application 'bfgminer'. To mine Bitcoins using the open source GPU driver, one would be required to use Tom Stellard’s non-stock branches of Mesa, LLVM and libclc OpenCL library. Further bfgminer would require patching as well. Once the patches are applied and modified code of the stack is used, users will be able to mine Bitcoins using the Radeon HD 5000 and Radeon HD 6000 graphics cards; however the cards have to be pre-HD6900 Cayman in case of the HD 6000 series.

Submission + - Google reported to EC for giving 'Trojan Horse' Android away for free (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by DW100
DW100 writes: Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle have taken it upon themselves to moan to the European Commission about Google’s Android dominance, which they say is an underhand bid to control the entire mobile market. The firms are part of the FairSearch group, which has just filed a complaint that Google is using Android as a ‘Trojan Horse’ to take control of the mobile market and all the related advertising revenue. Microsoft would of course know all about this, being at the end of several similar anti-competitive complaints in the past.
AMD

Submission + - AMD to sell cut down version of Sony PlayStation 4 chip (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by illiteratehack
illiteratehack writes: Although Sony's PlayStation 4 launch didn't include a physical console, the company revealed some technical details of the chip that will power its console. Now AMD revealed the 'Jaguar' processor, which has CPU and GPU on the same die, includes both AMD and Sony IP so it isn't merely commoditized x86 silicon in the PlayStation 4 and that it plans to launch a cut down version of the same chip later this year, albeit with fewer cores.
Power

Submission + - Scientists Invent Stretchable, Wirelessly Chargeable Battery (ibtimes.com)

Submitted by
redletterdave
redletterdave writes: "Scientists have created a lithium-ion battery that can stretch up to 300% of its original size and still function. After years in development, Yonggang Huang of Northwestern University and John A. Rogers of University of Illinois demonstrated how their battery invention can consistently power a commercial LED, even when twisted, folded and contorted around a human elbow. The stretching process is reversible so manufacturers won't need to worry about bending the battery out of shape, and the battery itself — with its 8-9 hour life — can be charged wirelessly, meaning it can be used anywhere, including inside the human body."
Google

Submission + - Google rules out Gmail and Drive apps for Windows 8 (v3.co.uk) 4

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Google has revealed it won't be developing any apps for Windows 8 or Windows Phone 8, so those wanting a dedicated app for Gmail or Drive on their Microsoft device will miss out.

Google Apps product management director Clay Bavor said that due to a lack of interest for the Microsoft systems, it is holding back on any work.

Bavor said Google is very careful about where it invests and will go where its users are — and they are not on Windows Phone or Windows 8. Ouch.
Transportation

Submission + - Solar Impulse announces flight across America for next year (gizmag.com)

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: Flush with success from their 6,000-km (3,728-mile) Europe-to-Africa round-trip flight earlier this year, the duo behind the Solar Impulse solar-powered aircraft are now planning on flying it across America next spring. It will mark the first time that a solar-powered plane has traversed the country. Solar Impulse partners Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg made the official announcement this Tuesday, although the logistics of the flight have yet to be finalized. They have stated that the trip will be broken into 20-hour legs, starting at San Francisco and proceeding to New York City. As with their previous multi-leg flights, the two pilots will take turns flying the aircraft.
Linux

Submission + - New Fedora Magazine for Users and Developers (ostatic.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The idea of the new magazine sprang from marketing brainstorming and a desire to revive Fedora Weekly News. It has been set up on Wordpress blogging software on top of an OpenShift server.
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft Windows 8 devices not exactly flying off the shelves (theinquirer.net) 1

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Doesn't sound like Microsoft’s Windows 8 has got off to a great start in the UK, with computer retailer Currys and PC World struggling to shift devices running the new software. The store on Oxford Street in London was yet to sell one device running Windows 8 by midday today. It seems that the hype created in the build-up to Microsoft's launch has already blown over.
Red Hat Software

Submission + - ARM, AMCC Team on Server (slashdot.org)

Submitted by
Nerval's Lobster
Nerval's Lobster writes: "Red Hat announced Oct. 25 that it had teamed up with both ARM and ARM licensee Applied Micro Circuits Corp. to develop a 64-bit server design based on the ARM architecture, a day after another ARM server partnership was struck.

ARM and AMCC said that they planned to develop a server that would be based on the AppliedMicro X-Gene “server on a chip” design. It wasn’t immediately clear if the two companies would be developing the server design themselves, or if they would need to partner with a third company.

For its part, Red Hat said that it was interested in the work, and planned to have a “Fedora 19 [Linux] remix” out in time for the 64-bit designs, expected later in 2014."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft reverses adult game ban on Windows 8 (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by another random user
another random user writes: Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, Skyrim and other mature games will no longer be banned from the European Windows 8 Store.

The store is the official outlet for programs Microsoft has tested to ensure they work with Windows 8.

A mismatch in the US and Europe over game ratings led to the games' exclusion outside North America.

Microsoft has relaxed its restrictions so the titles will be tested to work on PCs and tablets running Windows 8.
Security

Submission + - HSBC taken down by Anonymous hacking group (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Looks like HSBC is the latest victim of the Anonymous group of hackers. The bank's servers were hit by a denial of service attack Thursday night that took down a number of their websites. A Twitter account called Anonymous @Fawkessecurity has taken credit for the attack and has posted a statement to Pastebin saying the proof is all in their Tweets although doesn't give a reason for the attack.
Power

Submission + - Society of Automotive Engineers announces electric car charging plug standard (gizmag.com) 1

Submitted by cylonlover
cylonlover writes: The electric and plug-in hybrid car industry is learning the lesson of the mobile phone makers. Instead of allowing a plethora of incompatible charging plugs to sprout up, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International hopes to forestall confusion by settling on one charging plug design for North America. SAE has selected the J1772 combo plug as the standard, which uses paired couplers to allow for both AC and DC charging using the same plug. Published this week, the SAE International decision marks the first official charging standard for North American cars. According to SAE, it was the result of consultation with 190 “global experts” from the automotive, charging equipment, utilities industries and national laboratories.

Slashdot Top Deals

Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, In kernel as it is in user!

Close