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Oracle will pay HP $3 billion over Itanium server software

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 8:41pm CEST par Anthony Spadafora

Oracle has been ordered to pay HP $3 billion after losing a lawsuit with the company regarding the software development for its Itanium servers. During the lawsuit, HP claimed that Oracle had violated a contract by continuing to develop support software for its Itanium chip. The trial ran for one month in a California state court in San Jose ending with HP being granted the original amount it claimed at the beginning of the case. In 2001, HP developed the Itanium chip in partnership with Intel. Oracle and HP then signed a contract that would see it writing software for… [Continue Reading]
UK government websites will default to HTTPS

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 6:47pm CEST par Anthony Spadafora

Starting October 1, all government digital services (GDS) websites will be required to use HTTPS encryption, according to new security guidelines. All services will additionally have to publish a domain-based message authentication, reporting & conformance (DMARC) policy that will be applicable to their email systems. Dafydd Vaughan, a technical architect at the GDS, explained the government’s reasoning behind adopting HTTP encryption in a blog post, saying: "The service.gov.uk standards require all government services to run on secure connections, known as 'HTTPS'. This type of connection makes sure user data is encrypted and stays secure while users interact with your service.… [Continue Reading]
Office workers find printers more important than PCs

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 4:57pm CEST par Sead Fadilpašić

If you’d asked me what the most used item in the office is, I’d probably tell you the watercooler. But, according to new research, the most important one is the printer. Yes, the printer is more important than the computer. Or the pen. Or the stapler. The research was conducted by Danwood on 1,000 office workers. Out of that thousand, 81 percent cited the printer as the most important, followed by pens (73 percent), staplers (71 percent) and computers (70 percent). Almost half of the workers polled (46 percent) said print something every day, with 80 percent saying they need… [Continue Reading]
Icaros 3.0 extends and speeds up Windows Explorer thumbnailing

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 4:56pm CEST par Mike Williams

Icaros is a free FFmpeg-powered tool which extends Windows Explorer’s thumbnail support to just about any video format. The package can produce cover art thumbnails for Mkv, Flac, Ape, and Mpc files, and provides extended Windows Explorer properties for Mkv, Flv, Ogm, Ogv, Ogg, Flac, Ape, and Mpc. Icaros was updated last month with the addition of its own cache, speeding up thumbnail display and ensuring you won’t be affected if Explorer deletes its own cache. Thumbnailing is now smarter and more reliable. The program can auto-rotate MP4 and MOV thumbnails to match file metadata, and it’s better at thumbnailing… [Continue Reading]
China bans the use of social media as a news source

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 4:49pm CEST par Mark Wilson

Continuing its control of the internet, China has announced that news outlets may not use social media as a source of news -- at least not without official approval. The Cyberspace Administration of China says that the move is part of a campaign to prevent the spread of rumors and fake stories, but most people will see it as the government continuing to flex its online muscles. To add weight to its reasoning, the regulator referred to a number of fake news stories that had originated and spread online. In a statement, the Cyberspace Administration of China said: It is… [Continue Reading]
Katy Perry is the queen of Twitter -- first person to hit 90 million followers

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 4:46pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

Katy Perry is one of my favorite pop artists. Why? Longevity. Many such singers have very short shelf lives. Having just one hit song is rarified air, but Perry keeps them coming. Her long string of hits is quite remarkable, actually. Not only is she wildly popular with music sales and YouTube views, but social media too. You see, Katy Perry is the first ever person to achieve 90 million Twitter followers. In other words, her Tweets can reach more people than the entire population of the UK! Here is a list of celebrities that Katy Petty is beating on Twitter. President Obama:… [Continue Reading]
More than half of Android phones are vulnerable to encryption bypass

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 1:03pm CEST par Ian Barker

A newly revealed vulnerability on Android phones is able to bypass the full disk encryption on over half of devices. The attack, demonstrated by Israeli security researcher Gal Beniamini, can allow an attacker to break through the levels of trust and privileges that are intended to ensure only legitimate code can access secret material, such as DRM keys or disk encryption keys. Although the attack was patched in the May security update, two-factor authentication specialist Duo Security says that only 43 percent of Android devices are patched and safe from this type of attack, leaving 57 percent still at risk.… [Continue Reading]
Straighten text in scanned documents with Deskew

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 12:33pm CEST par Mike Williams

Deskew is an open source package which can detect skewed text in scanned text documents, and output a straightened version. It’s a command line tool, which is, well, inconvenient, but don’t let that put you off entirely -- it’s still probably easier than you’d expect. The program doesn’t force you to install Tesseract or any other bulky components, for instance. The single 4MB includes Windows, OS X and Linux binaries and you can run any of them right away. You don’t have to find or generate any sample scans, either, because there are several provided. Deskew also has a RunTests.bat… [Continue Reading]
Apple iOS 10 playing catch-up with Android

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 10:27am CEST par Paul Swaddle

Apple held its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 13 in San Francisco, where Tim Cook and his team announced a wide array of new features and functionality across Apple platforms, including a major update to iOS, the renaming of mac OS X to macOS (the new version will be named Sierra) and updates to watchOS, and tvOS were also announced. After reading about it though, I can’t help but think that we already have a lot of the features talked about in a number of Android devices and personally feel that Apple is merely playing catch-up to Android.… [Continue Reading]
Syncplify Notepad! is a polished plain text editor

Publié: juillet 4, 2016, 7:43am CEST par Mike Williams

Notepad! is a nicely balanced Notepad replacement, accessible to just about everyone but with plenty of bonus extra features when you need them. The interface is an immediate plus, its Office-like ribbon organising the program’s main features across three tabs. If your editing needs are simple, there’s not much to learn. Open a document, type as normal, use the standard editing keys, save the file and you’re done. You'll still notice immediate benefits over regular Notepad. Files open more quickly, especially when they're large, and the tabbed interface enables opening several documents at once. Other features begin to appear as… [Continue Reading]