Issue highlights 1. HP, NEC to develop next-generation x86 servers 2. Geek-themed Meme of the Week: No. 5 3. US court renews permission to NSA to collect phone metadata 4. SIM cards vulnerable to hacking, says researcher 5. Ubuntu forum defaced, breached by hackers 6. Diagnosis – bloatware: 9 empty-calorie pieces of code 7. About those iPhones that apparently didn't electrocute anyone 8. INSIDER Seven things you need to know about hardware disposal 9. How to Screw up an IT Project 10. Software employment grows 45% in 10 years, as angst in engineering grows 11. SAP's Snabe to step down in 2014, McDermott to become sole CEO 12. True tales of (mostly) white-hat hacking |
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| Hewlett Packard and Japan's NEC will expand their existing partnership to develop high-end x86-based servers for cloud and Web applications. READ MORE |
| They are like fast-food joints: everywhere. Most are lame. A few are funny, so I have started publishing a weekly selection of memes that amuse me. Here is No. 5. If you'd like more: Geek-themed Meme of the Week: No. 1 Geek-themed Meme of the Week: No. 2 READ MORE |
| The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has renewed permission to the U.S. government for a controversial program to collect telephone metadata in bulk. READ MORE |
| Millions of mobile phones may be vulnerable to spying due to the use of outdated, 1970s-era cryptography, according to new research due to be presented at the Black Hat security conference. READ MORE |
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| A website dedicated to discussion of the Ubuntu Linux distribution was breached on Saturday, with hackers gaining access to encrypted passwords and email addresses. READ MORE |
| A look at the slowing, fattening, system-gunkifying software that gives us all indigestion. READ MORE |
| Question: If, as multiple press reports suggest, it appears to be unauthorized iPhone chargers built by third parties that have been responsible for an electrocution and a near-fatal shock in China, why do headlines about these tragedies almost all call them "iPhone electrocutions?" That's a rhetorical question. Of course I know why. READ MORE |
| From the first day that you plug in a new piece of IT hardware, the clock starts ticking toward the day when it will be pulled out of service. READ MORE |
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| Project management experts discuss sure-fire ways to delay or derail a project and--more importantly--how you can avoid these common project management pitfalls. READ MORE |
| Software development employment has increased over the past 10 years, but not all IT areas have done as well. The number of jobs for engineers fell over the same period. READ MORE |
| SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe will leave his post in May 2014 to become a member of the enterprise software vendor's supervisory board, leaving Bill McDermott as sole CEO. READ MORE |
| Stings, penetration pwns, spy games -- it's all in a day's work along the thin gray line of IT security READ MORE |
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