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AlbanX writes:
The rollout of Australia's national broadband network will blow out from a promised $29 billion to $41 billion and will be delayed by three years under the new government.
Speeds will also be slower, and there may be job cuts at the organisation running the project.
52698489
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Bismillah writes:
Tape as a storage medium may seem like a last-millennium solution, but Amazon begs to differ with its Glacier service. For one cent per gigabyte, Amazon offers an abstracted tape library and takes care of the operational complexities of using it.
The downside to Glacier is expensive retrieval that takes three to five hours...
52526205
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AlbanX writes:
Dell has offered to replace parts of its Latitude laptops because users complained it stunk of cat pee.
Apparently it's an issue with the manufacturing process of the palm rest.
And to think, poor pet cats were being blamed.
51800441
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Bismillah writes:
For all of its potential benefits, Hadoop can be an uncomfortable fit within many IT environments. It challenges traditional approaches to data warehousing architecture, to the way in which IT projects are funded, and in some cases — can even threaten jobs.
On that basis, selling a Hadoop-based analytics project into a business is not as straightforward as a back-of-the-envelope cost calculation might suggest. Here are a few hints and tips on how to do it.
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aesoteric writes:
Yahoo is set to launch its first formal bug bounty system after Swiss pen testers complained about the $12.50 vouchers offered for locating XSS vulnerabilities. The web giant also said the voucher rewards were informal and actually funded out of the pockets of the company's own IT security staff.
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littlekorea writes:
The world's largest web-scale users of MySQL have committed to one further upgrade to the Oracle-controlled database — but Facebook and Twitter are also eyeing off more open options from MariaDB and cheaper options from the NoSQL community. Who will pay for MySQL enterprise licenses into the future?
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Bismillah writes:
Biometrics is hot stuff, not just for Apple but cleaning companies like the UK division of Denmark's IIS which tidies the London Underground railway network. However, the cleaners aren't happy about having to clock in and out with biometric fingerprint sensors, and are taking industrial action to stop the practice.
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Bismillah writes:
The opposition Coalition parties which look set to win the next election in Australia, want to install content filters that are turned on by default on smartphones and Internet connections in the country.
This is part of the Coalition's official policy, and phone vendors will be expected to comply. It is possible to opt out of it though, if you prove you're over 18.
50063909
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AlbanX writes:
PayPal has responded to claims it is ripping out its VMware hypervisors for OpenStack, describing its use of components of OpenStack as a means for ending its reliance on vendor release cycles.
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AlbanX writes:
A gang of suspected Romanian criminals is using 3D printers and computer-aided design (CAD) to manufacture “sophisticated” ATM skimming devices to fleece Sydney residents.
One Romanian national has been charged by NSW Police.
The state police found one gang that had allegedly targeted 15 ATMs across metropolitan Sydney, affecting tens of thousands of people and nabbing around $100,000.
49316223
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AlbanX writes:
Chrome and Firefox are storing users' saved passwords in plain text within the browser, allowing anyone with access to that user's computer the ability to clearly see any passwords that user has saved.
When told about the deliberate feature offered by Google and Mozilla, one security expert could only say — "shit a brick".
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AlbanX writes:
Rice husks could end up as high-capacity lithium-ion batteries in smartphones, according to Korean researchers.
The waste has the potential to significantly extend the battery life of a smartphone as well as cut down on battery failures seen with metallic lithium.
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AlbanX writes:
Symantec said in January it would embark on an "organisational simplification initiative" which meant middle managers and executives would be in the firing line.
But just under six months later, on one day in June it made 35 mostly Sydney-based tech support workers redundant, with no explanation. The workers later found out their jobs had been sent to India.
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Bismillah writes:
Another retail broadband standard and acronym to remember... G.fast, which in Alcatel-Lucent testing has achieved 1.1 to 1.3 gigabit/s. Only over 70 metres, but that's still pretty good. The standard is expected to be ratified next year, and could provide a solution for deploying very fast broadband in multi-dwelling units where it can be tricky to get fibre all the way to customers.
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littlekorea writes:
Law enforcement authorities within the US Government have at least seven avenues open to collecting user data from web-based service providers, according to a 90-page report published by the University of New South Wales, law firm Baker & McKenzie and industry partners. Most of these legal instruments do not require a warrant, as they might in other countries.
