Recent articles by Iain Thomson

LHC shut down by transformer

LHC shut down by transformer

Researchers at Cern have confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) managed only a few hours of operations before being shut down.
Iain Thomson Sep 20 2008 12:20PM Hardware
EFF sues Bush, Cheney et al for AT&T spying

EFF sues Bush, Cheney et al for AT&T spying

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of AT&T’s business and personal customers over the US government’s wiretapping of private telephone and internet records.
Iain Thomson Sep 19 2008 4:05PM Telco/ISP
AMD worker charged with Intel theft

AMD worker charged with Intel theft

Employee caught with documents and CAD files.
Iain Thomson Sep 19 2008 9:54AM Security
Intel study shows data centres need not be cool

Intel study shows data centres need not be cool

A pilot study by Intel on data centre cooling has shown that systems architects may be overspecifying data centre operations.
Iain Thomson Sep 19 2008 9:08AM Storage
Mozilla plans for mobile browser

Mozilla plans for mobile browser

The head of Mozilla is planning to develop a browser for mobile phones by 2010.
Iain Thomson Sep 17 2008 9:07AM Software
Microsoft and Cray to build affordable supercomputer

Microsoft and Cray to build affordable supercomputer

Microsoft and high end computer manufacturer Cray are working on a project that could see a supercomputer being sold for just US$25,000.
Iain Thomson Sep 17 2008 9:07AM Hardware
High-end developers choose commercial Linux

High-end developers choose commercial Linux

Developers are choosing commercial Linux distributions for building high-performance or mission-critical systems, new research shows.
Iain Thomson Sep 17 2008 9:07AM Software
Google applies for floating data centres patent

Google applies for floating data centres patent

Google has submitted a patent application for floating data centres that are powered in part by wave power.
Iain Thomson Sep 16 2008 8:55AM Storage
TJX hacker pleads guilty as charged

TJX hacker pleads guilty as charged

Damon Patrick Toey has become the first person to be brought to justice in the hacking of TJX, which is one of the biggest cases of its kind.
Iain Thomson Sep 15 2008 11:37AM Security
Hackers attack Cern

Hackers attack Cern

A Greek hacking crew have come close to getting into the controls of Cern’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which went live last week.
Iain Thomson Sep 15 2008 9:00AM Security
Telnic to take .tel domains live in December

Telnic to take .tel domains live in December

British firm Telnic have announced their .tel top level domains (TLD) name directory will go live in December..
Iain Thomson Sep 12 2008 4:19PM Telco/ISP
San Francisco network repairs may cost $1 million

San Francisco network repairs may cost $1 million

San Francisco’s FiberWAN network, which the city lost control of after an administrator changed user passwords, is now back under government control.
Iain Thomson Sep 12 2008 4:19PM Hardware
Hacker gets two years for stock manipulation

Hacker gets two years for stock manipulation

A Malaysian hacker has been sentenced to prison by US authorities for breaking into stock trading accounts and using them to boost share prices.
Iain Thomson Sep 11 2008 4:15PM Security
Warning over Obama sex scandal spam

Warning over Obama sex scandal spam

Web monitoring firms are warning IT administrators to update their spam filters after a massive new spamming campaign was detected.
Iain Thomson Sep 11 2008 9:47AM Security
Hacker gets two years of stock manipulation

Hacker gets two years of stock manipulation

A Malaysian hacker has been sentenced to two years in prison by US authorities for breaking into stock trading accounts
Iain Thomson Sep 11 2008 9:47AM Security
New satellite system to get developing world online

New satellite system to get developing world online

Plans are afoot to build a new system of satellites that could bring the internet to people in Africa, Asia and South America online.
Iain Thomson Sep 11 2008 9:08AM Hardware
Company claims to have made unclonable RFID chips

Company claims to have made unclonable RFID chips

Silicon Valley start-up Verayo is claiming to have produced a system that provides unclonable RFID chips..
Iain Thomson Sep 9 2008 3:15PM Hardware
Chinese scammers launch new offensive

Chinese scammers launch new offensive

Chinese scammers are using search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques to subvert company details.
Iain Thomson Sep 8 2008 9:32AM Security
IBM plans first scientific petabyte computer

IBM plans first scientific petabyte computer

IBM has signed a deal to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system dedicated to open scientific research.
Iain Thomson Sep 6 2008 12:41PM Hardware
Google signs exclusive satellite deal

Google signs exclusive satellite deal

Google has signed an exclusive deal with satellite company GeoEye for sole rights to images from its GeoEye-1 orbiter..
Iain Thomson Sep 4 2008 1:50PM Networking

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