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Submission + - RIAA wants 21 sites shut down in piracy axe fall (theinquirer.net) 1

Submitted by souperfly
souperfly writes: The Inquirer.net has a list of 21 sites that the RIAA is looking to get shutdown by ISPs this week. The list includes sites filestube, Bomb-Mp3, Mp3skull, Bitsnoop, Extratorrent, Torrenthound, Torrentreactor and Monova, and at least one ISP — Virgin Media in the UK — has confirmed the number of targetted sites.

Before it was thought that only six sites were lined up for a chop.

Submission + - Microsoft warns Windows XP is six times less secure than Windows 8 (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by TinTops
TinTops writes: Businesses still running XP should switch to Windows 8 as soon as possible, as Microsoft details its own findings into the relative security of its operating systems:

"If you look at the infection rate on Windows systems you can see older versions are infected more than newer machines. Windows XP is six-times more likely to be infected than Windows 8, even though it has the same malware encounter rate," said Mike Reavey, GM of Microsoft Trustworthy Computing, at the RSA Conference in Amsterdam.

He added: "The downward rate is a sign of secure development practices," he said. "In pretty much every service in Microsoft we have people devoted purely on security, focused on what's going on in the marketplace and what's needed to secure it."

Submission + - Building a 3D printer with a 3D printer (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by llebeel
llebeel writes: 3D printing's ubiquity is being aided by the open source nature of the technology alongside a community of designers, developers and enthusiasts that are taking advantage of 3D printer design blueprints available online, and constructing homemade machines.

We visited New York last week, and met with one of the city's 3D printing community's members; full-time architect Gordon Laplante, who has not only built his own machine, but used it to print out parts to build a much bigger version, all in the comfort of his living room.

Submission + - Raspberry Pi-powered beer keg pours you a hands-free pint (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by llebeel
llebeel writes: The INQUIRER: A New York City start-up named Robokeg has showed off a Raspberry Pi and NFC-powered beer keg prototype.

Made up of "three lazy hackers", Robokeg demoed the gadget at the New York Tech Meetup (NYTM) event on Tuesday, offering up some hands-free beer service via a Raspberry Pi PC, which acts as the brain of the machine with 3D-printed parts covering the brawn.

Robokeg said it could one day act as a vending machine at festivals when you don't have your wallet, or in clubs to reduce queue times at the bar. Watch for it at your local pub.

Submission + - Apple vs Samsung lawyer speaks out against patent trolls (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Judge Birss, who gained renown as the man who forced Apple to run adverts saying Samsung didn't copy the iPad, is back under the spotlight, claiming that we need to take the fight to patent trolls. But he's also warning that the courts might run out of capacity soon to handle the growing number of patent cases.

Submission + - Selling Linux to Microsoft Exchange users is easy says Icewarp (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by illiteratehack
illiteratehack writes: Icewarp, a company that has sold messaging software to the US Navy and the British Army, claims that getting existing Microsoft Exchange customers over to Linux is easy once it demonstrates the same features can be had without the need to licensing both the operating system and the messaging server. Given feature parity on Linux, just how long can firms justify paying Microsoft's licensing fees?

Submission + - The Enemy Within: Employees Pose Bigger Security Threat Than Hackers (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by DavidGilbert99
DavidGilbert99 writes: The job of a chief security officer has never been tougher. As well as an exponential increase in threats from cyber-criminals, hacktivists and nation-state cyber-espionage, the higher media profile cyber-security is getting these days means everyone knows about it and this puts even greater pressure on CSOs.
The problem is, the biggest threat is right under their noses. According to a survey of UK organisations across the government, banking, finance and defence sectors, the majority of security breaches come from employees, ex-employees and trusted partners — and yet 69% of those surveyed said protecting sensitive data from outside threats their main focus.

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 + - 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.

Submission + - Rackspace goes on rampage against patent trolls (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by girlmad
girlmad writes: Rackspace has come out fighting against one of the US's most notorious patent trolls, Parallel Iron. The cloud services firm said it's totally fed up with trolls of all kinds, which have caused a 500 percent rise in its legal bills.

Rackspace was last week named among 12 firms accused of infringing Parallel Iron's Hadoop Distributed File System patents. Rackspace is now counter-suing the troll, as the firm said it has a deal in place with Parallel Iron after signing a previous patent settlement with them.

Submission + - British Library to Archive One Billion UK Websites (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The British Library is to begin archiving the entire UK web, including one billion pages from 4.8 million websites, blogs, forums and social media sites.

The process will take five months, with the aim of presenting a more complete picture of news events for future generations to read and learn from.
Intel

Submission + - Intel, 40 years of the 4004 (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by souperfly
souperfly writes: The INQUIRER has gone big on its coverage of the anniversary of Intel's 4004 chips, and in two articles has discussed the history of the microprocessor and some of its landmark events.

“To call Intel's 4004 just a microprocessor is to do the microelectronics world a great disservice,” says the first. “Not only was the Intel 4004 the first commercial microprocessor, shattering what people thought of computers, it signaled Intel's shift away from manufacturing memory and into what was going to become the industry that changed the world forever.”

From its humble beginnings, when no one would really call it powerful, but in the chip Faggin, Hoff and Shima created the ability to commoditise computing by adding the micro in microprocessors.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2124781/microprocessor-development
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/feature/2124944/intel-marks-4004-microprocessor
Linux

Submission + - Linux turns 20 today (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by illiteratehack
illiteratehack writes: The kernel that is found running smartphones, desktops, laptops, servers and high performance clusters turns 20 years old today. The Inquirer looks back at the growing pains of what has undoubtedly become one of the most important contributions to the IT industry in the past 50 years. In just 20 years it has become hard not to find a system running Linux and that is something that the FOSS community should all be proud of.
Open Source

Submission + - Linux @ 20: The Swiss Army knife of OSes (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by
jrepin
jrepin writes: "Linux, the poster child for open source software, was officially disclosed by Linus Torvalds in a Usenet newsgroup posting on 25 August 1991. The two decades since have seen it expand from a personal pet project to a platform capable of running on everything from mobile phones to web servers and even mainframes, with no sign of it running out of steam just yet. Thanks to its close similarity to Unix, Linux has developed into an excellent platform for users requiring Unix-like levels of reliability. Consequently, Linux distributions have gradually displaced many of the ageing proprietary Unix flavours for high-end workstation and server applications. At the same time, Linux now powers many of the world's supercomputers, and underpins a number of embedded and mobile platforms."
Windows

Submission + - Windows XP is ten - first review (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by souperfly
souperfly writes: With Windows XP turning ten, and still being used on many machines its nice/interesting to see an early review of it to remind us of what we are missing, what we loathed, or what we are still making do with.

This review, from IT Week — dug up by V3.co.uk, makes it seem like only yesterday that XP was announced by Bill Gates in a post 9/11 New York with a splash and a fanfare and a mixed bag of pros and cons.

XP was the first Windows update to turn to a subscription service, which was novel, and it wasn’t particularly cheap either, so perhaps its good that it had some legs.

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