Google Stadia’s salvaged future as a back-end cloud service is here
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This is not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack
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Before it sued Google for copying from Java, Oracle got rich copying IBM’s SQL
More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright infringement in 2010. Later this month, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in this epic copyright case that will have huge implications for the entire software industry—and that could cost Google billions o
Police chief said Uber victim “came from the shadows”—don’t believe it
Enlarge / A frame from Brian Kaufman's video shows the spot where Elaine Herzberg was killed. On Sunday night, an Uber self-driving car killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona. A key argument in Uber's defense has been that the road was so dark that even an attentive driver would not have spotted Herzberg in the seconds before the crash. Herzberg "came from the shadows right into the
AMD Epyc processors coming to Azure virtual machines | Ars Technica
Enlarge / AMD's Ryzen die. Threadripper has two of these in a multi-chip module. Epyc has four of them. Microsoft will soon be offering virtual machines in its Azure cloud service based on AMD's Epyc processors. The growth of the cloud computing market has, until now, been a success story for Intel's Xeon server processors, as the rise of cloud computing came at the same time as Intel was particul
Serious privilege escalation bug in Unix OSes imperils servers everywhere
Serious privilege escalation bug in Unix OSes imperils servers everywhere “Stack Clash” poses threat to Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and other OSes. A raft of Unix-based operating systems—including Linux, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD—contain flaws that let attackers elevate low-level access on a vulnerable computer to unfettered root. Security experts are advising administrators to install patches or take oth
Online databases dropping like flies, with >10k falling to ransomware groups
Online databases dropping like flies, with >10k falling to ransomware groups Poorly secured MongoDB installations deleted and held for ransom. More than 10,000 website databases have been taken hostage in recent days by attackers who are demanding hefty ransoms for the data to be restored, a security researcher said Friday. The affected data is created and stored by the open source MongoDB databas
Record-breaking DDoS reportedly delivered by >145k hacked cameras
Last week, security news site KrebsOnSecurity went dark for more than 24 hours following what was believed to be a record 620 gigabit-per-second denial of service attack brought on by an ensemble of routers, security cameras, or other so-called Internet of Things devices. Now, there's word of a similar attack on a French Web host that peaked at a staggering 1.1 terabits per second, more than 60 pe
The final Windows 10 free upgrade nag will be full-screen
The final Windows 10 free upgrade nag will be full-screen The free Windows 10 upgrade, and its nag screens, finally draw to an end on July 29. The free Windows 10 upgrade period is finally almost over—but Microsoft isn't going to let Windows 7 and 8 holdouts escape without one last giant full-screen nag. The full-screen nag will appear over the next few days for some users. The Metro-style prompt
Warner Bros: we issued takedowns for files we never saw, didn’t own copyright to
Warner Bros: we issued takedowns for files we never saw, didn’t own copyright to The DMCA says copyright holders need to have a "good faith belief" that … In a Monday court filing, Warner Brothers admitted that it has issued takedown notices for files without looking at them first. The studio also acknowledged that it issued takedown notices for a number of URLs that its adversary, the locker site
Walmart pulling the plug on its MP3 store, but not its DRM servers
Walmart pulling the plug on its MP3 store, but not its DRM servers Walmart's MP3 store—yes, that exists—is shutting down, the company has … Walmart is pulling the plug on its MP3 downloads store, but it will continue to support DRMed tracks that it sold before the store went DRM-free. The news comes via a leaked memo to Digital Music News—later confirmed by a Walmart representative—which told musi
Unlicensed: Are Google Music and Amazon Cloud Player illegal?
Amazon.com made waves in March when it announced Cloud Player, a new "cloud music" service that allows users to upload their music collections for personal use. It did so without a license agreement, and the major music labels were not amused. Sony Music said it was keeping its "legal options open" as it pressured Amazon to pay up. In the following weeks, two more companies announced music service
Apple to move ARM SoC production away from Samsung in 2012
Apple to move ARM SoC production away from Samsung in 2012 Increasing chatter indicates that Apple will drop Samsung as its fabrication … Apple's increasingly tenuous relationship with Samsung as a component supplier for its mobile devices could end next year, according to numerous sources inside the semiconductor industry. The company will likely tap contract fab Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturin
Big data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon’s scale-out storage solution
Big data meets big storage: an in-depth look at Isilon’s scale-out storage solution Ars takes an in-depth look at Isilon, an enterprise grade, multi-petabyte … As a baby nerd, sitting in the back room of my parents' house and dialing into BBSs in the late '80s and early '90s, I dreamed of "big iron." Like Kevin Flynn, I tried to imagine what happened to my data on the other end of the phone line—w
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