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Ancient windowing system can be yours in all its pixellated glory A Google chap named Christian Stefansen has created an Amiga 500 emulator that runs inside the Alphabet subsidiary's Chrome browser.…

PaaS portability promise is signed, sealed, delivered The Cloud Foundry Foundation has created what amounts to a good cloudkeeping seal of approval.…

Credentials copied to new storage, but software looked for the old storage Google's 'fessed up to another bungle that browned-out its cloud.…

Never mind the app, it's integrating with data that counts IDC and Appcelerator have published a survey of 5,778 mobile developers which highlights integrating with back-end data as the biggest challenge in app development.…

Stop using danger dongles now, then claim £20 voucher to spend on other EE accessories British carrier EE has issued a recall for all “Power Bars”, the company's name for external USB batteries.…

Integer underflow fault means you can get into rescue mode and rummage around A pair of researchers from the University of Valencia's Cybersecurity research group have found that if you press backspace 28 times, it's possible to bypass authentication during boot-up on some Linux machines.…

Australian court tires of Dallas Buyers Club's litigation over payment demands Australia's Federal Court has told Big Content to stop pfaffing around and make reasonable demands of those accused of illegally downloading The Dallas Buyers Club (DBC).…

Alpha gov.au design adapts to users' circumstances EXCLUSIVE PIC Australia's Digital Transformation Office (DTO) says it has hit its self-imposed nine-week deadline for the creation of a prototype new gov.au website.…

On this of all days, the Universe just gave the storage industry a Star Wars angle Cloud backup outfit Carbonite has acquired Seagate's EVault cloud backup service.…

Let a thousand third-party bulbs glow Dutch electronics giant Philips has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn over its plans to lock out third-party suppliers of light bulbs for its Hue smart lighting system.…

Hurd n' Catz blame the dollar... again. Talk up cloud numbers… again Oracle is pointing to continued growth for its cloud business as the bright side in a quarter that saw the enterprise giant drop revenues slightly, but still top Wall Street expectations.…

You knew routing was odd, but did you know how odd? Researchers at the University of Toronto have created a mapping tool that shows how internet data moves around and how the NSA can use just a few surveillance sites to scoop up online traffic.…

James Reinders explains why Intel's Xeon Phi is now a processor Interview The Intel Software Development Conference was on in London last week, and we took the opportunity to catch up with James Reinders, director and evangelist for parallel programming and HPC tools.…

Local broadband carriers let off regulation The FCC has extended a rule that will exempt small broadband carriers from portions of its 2015 Open Internet rules.…

Butchered law almost certain to pass on Friday The little-loved Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) will likely become law this week, and in a form far worse than first thought.…

Online ad giant seeks new blood Google has launched its own start-up accelerator program, adding to the well-established Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Techstars.…

The presidential debate did not score highly on accuracy or sense. Ever since Senator Ted Stevens famously referred to the internet as a "series of tubes" in 2006, we have became sadly accustomed to the fact that legislators have little or no understanding of how the internet actually works.…

LTE data-only option opens doors for iOS and Galaxy Tab S Google has extended its Fi wireless service to support LTE-equipped tablets.…

Compressing the space-time continuum. No flux capacitors here, though Experiments to examine the possibility of making a real-life warp drive may fail, but they teach us a lot more about the limits of the universe and the physics that describes it.…

And 90 per cent of all industries have lost people's sensitive med info Stolen medical information is a prevalent problem across multiple industries, according to a new study by Verizon.…

Laying the foundations to build your own Visual Studio Code is a lightweight, cross-platform and open source code editor that you can download for free at http://visualstudio.com.…

Our Australian team went out at midnight so you don't have to Spoilers The core problem with Star Wars Episodes I through III was that everybody knew how the trilogy ended and that bad things awaited the characters you were supposed to care about. The result was three films that were all back-filler to explain the genesis of a killer. Numerous satellite problems – Jar-Jar, dialog no actor could rescue, poor casting – made the films largely tedious.…

Is this a sign of object(ive) maturity? IBM Cleversafe has announced a software-only offering with certified hardware platforms and central management to take away some of the pain of commodity hardware sourcing and management.…

On-premises storage management added to cloud option Exablox is adding variable-length deduplication to its fixed-length, inline data reduction functions to make its object-based NAS arrays more efficient. An on-premises management facility is also available.…

All because of that damn Google ditching Gmail support for ISPs Virgin Media has admitted its new spam filters are continuing to block the legitimate emails of various people and companies, and says it is working with individual businesses to unblock their comms.…

Elected MPs were deliberately misled by Brit spy agencies The "Big Brother" comprehensive national database system feared by many MPs has been built behind their backs over the last decade, and even has a name for its most intrusive component: a central London national phone and internet tapping centre called PRESTON.…

CyberInt: This is a 'significant' and growing problem The reward schemes of at least 10 leading retailers have been compromised by hackers, with numerous fraudulent loyalty point accounts available on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin, according to security experts.…

Come in public cloud storage service testers, you know you want to Everybody’s darling cloud backup service startup, Backblaze, has opened up a public beta test for its coming B2 Cloud Storage.…

At least on paper - and that's assuming it gets here Apple and Samsung can start worrying now. Huawei has unveiled its IoT strategy and the extent of its ambitions. Amongst the highlights are a TV kit that provides latest-generation Apple TV functionality, with Siri-like voice navigation through content.…

The gritty reality of ops, according to sandbox vendor IT operations remain completely out of touch with the needs of developers, with CIOs duped into believing a dusting of VMware magic will allow them to construct the sort of whitebox data factories that power the likes of Google, sandbox vendor QualiSystems has declared.…

We wanted to tell customers sooner, but cops wouldn't let us The chief executive of TalkTalk, Dido Harding, has told MPs that she alone is responsible for cyber security at the company, but that the operator does not yet know if the major hack it experienced in October was avoidable.…

Yuri Malenchenko's serious demeanour expained European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake, NASA 'naut Tim Kopra and cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko safely boarded the International Space Station yesterday following a tense manual docking of their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft with the orbiting outpost.…

No authentication was needed, says security researcher A database of 13 million MacKeeper users has been easily accessed online, potentially exposing personal details but not payment information.…

Have X-wings, lightsabers, stormtrooper kits moved on? Star Wars special Despite the quasi-disaster of The Phantom Menace run of films, expectations are high for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.…

Costliness shouldn't become 'barrier to entry' Rules designed to enable consumers to move their data from one platform to another should not be so costly to comply with that they serve as a "barrier to entry" into markets, the UK's parliamentary under-secretary of state for the Department for Business, Innovation has said.…

Sales bundles suit you, not us, CCL finds Microsoft must simplify its licensing by putting sales targets second.…

Investors toss in more cash to encourage third-party apps “Team messaging” company Slack has decided it's time to play nice with others by encouraging developers to pipe their applications into the company's chat app.…

Bugs bashed, trackers torpedoed, fragging made more fantastic Mozilla has released version 43 of its Firefox web browser, introducing a 64-bit version for Windows and crushing four critical and seven serious vulnerabilities.…

Upgraded Large Hadron Collider produced tantalising excess' photons last June The Higgs Boson will remain a big deal for plugging gaps in the unified theory, but may not be the biggest Boson in the universe.…

Adds trendy predictive monitoring stuff Analysis Networked storage system workload tester Load DynamiX has added analytics to its product in a v5.0 release, and aims to transform itself from a one-off array test facility to more of a dynamic, real-time array monitor.…

Disney omitted an API for The Force Awakens' star droid. The Force of the internet decided that wasn't good enough When I was fourteen, the Personal Computer didn’t exist. Even the famed ‘microcomputer’ only existed in the hands of a few hobbyists who laboriously soldered chips onto boards communicating over an S-100 bus. But a friend’s father ran a data centre and when he went in on Saturdays to run the backups he brought us along. We spent hours playing the interactive ‘Startrek’ game, pecking our commands into DECWriter II line printers. That’s where I fell in love with computers, and knew I’d spent the rest of my life playing with them.…

Struggling to do containers at scale? Struggling company thinks it has the answer Citrix has decided the time is right to containerise its NetScaler application delivery controllers.…

Google's Project Zero finds flaw, patch arrives to plug gaping information maw Researchers at the Google's Project Zero security research team have found a brutal hole in FireEye kit that allows attackers to lay waste to corporate networks with a single email.…

Streamer now assessing individual files and changing resolution to fit networks and devices Netflix has revealed a new plan for ensuring its videos arrive in your device looking their best, which can sometimes mean streaming them in lower resolution.…

Santa game gets on Play Store, stuffs SMS, contacts into sleigh and doesn't leave pressies CloudSek security bod Rahul Sasi says an Asian software development company is stealing sensitive defence software source code from air-gapped computers while also using a malicious Christmas app to hose thousands of Android handsets.…

No faster that WiFi but looks easier to use Panasonic company AeroMobile Communications Limited claims to have launched the first in-flight 3G service.…

Sure, it ripped off the iPhone but let's be realistic here Samsung has appealed to the Supreme Court to hear its patent case against Apple.…

And it only took six months Facebook has announced a revised, and some would say commonsense, version of its "real names" policy that introduces a little grey into its previous black-and-white efforts.…