The Pwn2Own contest is under way, and the first day saw Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 8 all used to penetrate host systems.
Bletchley Park - home of the Codebreaking Museum and the National Museum of Computing - has received a government grant for £250,000.
Ubiquitous Corp. has unveiled a technology which offers ARM-based devices the ability to boot from a completely powered off state in under one second.
Mobile networking specialist Huawei has carried out trials of an LTE mobile broadband technology which the company claims reached speeds of 1.2Gb/s
Intel has released the latest version of its Rapid Storage Driver, which brings TRIM support to SSDs in a RAID array - although not, for some reason, RAID 5.
Victorinox - makers of Swiss Army knives - has launched a challenge to hackers and crackers: break the security on its latest pendrive and win £100,000.
The Mozilla Foundation has confirmed the presence of a zero-day vulnerability in its Firefox browser, but says a patch has already been made for release later this month.
BitDefender has become the latest anti-virus vendor to issue an update which wipes important Windows system files, leaving customers' PCs unbootable.
A joint venture between Intel and Micron Technology has announced the first NAND flash chips based around a 25nm process - allowing for twice the capacity over existing 34nm chips.
Microsoft has been found guilty of willful infringement of two VirnetX patents on VPN technology - and ordered to pay at least $105 million in damages to the company.
Scientists have developed a 'super vision chip' from which they have developed a non-destructive book scanner.
Nvidia has released updated drivers for its graphics cards which fix an issue with fan speed control that caused some users to report graphical corruption and system instability.
Wearable Inc.'s AirStash turns any SD card into a WiFi media server, allowing up to five hours use via the internal battery - could it be the perfect iPad companion?
Microsoft has released a platform preview of Internet Explorer 9, which brings a multi-core JavaScript engine and GPGPU graphics rendering to boost performance.
Google has taken the wraps off its experimental new RSS interface, Reader Play - a highly visual system which is clearly aimed at touchscreen devices.
Qi Hardware has launched a $99, ultra-portable Linux-based handheld with an almost-full keyboard and the ability to boot custom operating systems - clearly a challenge to hackers.
The Khronos Group has announced the latest version of its OpenGL cross-platform 3D standard, aimed at matching Direct3D 11's feature set.
Industry sources have made the claim that recent labour shortages are resulting in a lack of crucial motherboard components.
As part of the compay's Fusion range, AMD has announced a low-power netbook chipset with integrated ATI graphics.
The US Federal Trade Commission is asking for declarations following complaints that Google's purchase of mobile advertising company AdMob would stifle competition.
OCZ Technology has launched its first SSD to retail under $100 - the 32GB Onyx. The question remains - is it cheap enough for the storage space on offer?
With Apple's iPad device grabbing headlines, ARM's Roy Chen predicts "more than 50" slate-style devices hitting the market by the end of the year.
Un-named industry sources claim that Microsoft is accelerating its schedule for the release of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 - with a release before the end of the year likely.
October 14 2021 | 15:04