Friday, January 2, 2015

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Apple sued over goldfish sized memory

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:17 AM PST

AJ21D2 Goldfish swimming in bowl. Image shot 2004. Exact date unknown.The fruity cargo cult, Apple has been sued by some of its customers for tinkering with the memory on the iPhone.

The  lawsuit claims that that upgrades to the iOS 8 operating system are causing the phone's memory to fill up, and that the company has misled customers about it. more»

Sony sues for hacker leak

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:16 AM PST

leakSony has been sending out  legal notices to those publishing its leaked e-mails.

Over the holidays Sony threatened Twitter with legal action if they allow users to publish the leaked e-mails Sony calls "stolen".

A DMCA notice was sent to Twitter demanding that the tweets be taken down because the e-mails were copyrighted. more»

NSA spys on Wikileaks

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:15 AM PST

spyGoogle has told WikiLeaks that on Christmas Eve the Gmail mailboxes and account metadata of a WikiLeaks employee were turned over to law enforcement under a US federal warrant.

WikiLeaks journalist and Courage Foundation acting director Sarah Harrison displayed a redacted copy of the warrant during her presentation on source protection at the Chaos Communications Congress yesterday in Hamburg, Germany. more»

Samsung confirms Tizen TV move

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:14 AM PST

tv58Samsung has confirmed that it is moving all its new smart television products launched in 2015 to its operating system which is named after a particularly loud sneeze.

Tizen will give smart tellies additional software and connectivity functions, such as video streaming and web browsing capabilities. more»

Linus rubbishes parallel computing

Posted: 02 Jan 2015 02:13 AM PST

torvaldsThe creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds has discretely muttered that he does not think that the world of parallel computing is much chop.

In his typically understated way, he hinted that parallelism was "snake oil" and that a huge body of ideas related to that flavour of computing was "garbage",

"The whole “let’s parallelise” thing is a huge waste of everybody’s time. more»

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