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Ubuntu makes its way to Google Cloud with Docker support

Google has adopted for use in its cloud a streamlined version of the Canonical Ubuntu Linux distribution tweaked to run Docker and other containers. Ubuntu Core was designed to provide...

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IBM and Nvidia are teaming up to take on Intel

The OpenPOWER Foundation is IBM’s unique solution to their need to advance their Power architecture and compete with Intel more effectively. The first real test of concept was showcased this...

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NASA's Opportunity rover is getting a memory wipe and reboot

NASA's Opportunity rover is still trundling across the surface of Mars, more than 11 years after its 90 day mission began. But its software is getting bogged down, so NASA's...

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A shoddy WordPress plugin enabled 50,000 websites to be backdoored

Online security can be quite a challenge to maintain these days actually, and it does not help when users are less than knowledgeable. In fact, approximately 50,000 sites have been...

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Apple has agreed to pay a$450 million settlement over an ebook lawsuit

Apple has provisionally agreed to a $450 million settlement over an ebook price-fixing lawsuit, saying it will make the payment if its appeal doesn't go through. The company was sued...

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The ‪invisible.im project wants to provide spy-proof chat for whistleblowers

A group of security experts have joined forces to create a secure, spy-proof instant messaging platform that the team hopes “will become the de facto standard for instant message conversations...

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This new Bitcoin mining system would reward people for storing data

Other than generating lucre, Bitcoin mining does nothing but waste time and energy. That's why researchers from Microsoft and the University of Maryland have developed "Permacoins" which reward you for actually doing something...

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Using Linux and lasers, researchers can now control the minds of fruit flies

Imagine you're a fruit fly, sniffing your way to your next feast of overripe produce. Suddenly, out of the blue you become engulfed in indigo light. Immediately you forget about the...

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American gamers blow up 1:1 replica of Denmark in Minecraft

The Danish Geodata Agency recently recreated the entire country of Denmark in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale. It’s one of the biggest Minecraft creations ever, made up of about 4000...

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Voicemails on two U.K. mobile providers are wide open to being hacked

With the phone-hacking scandal still playing out in the courts, it should be safe to assume that UK mobile operators have put measures in place protect customers' own voicemail inboxes....

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