Articles by Richard Adhikari

Samsung has stopped production of its problematic Galaxy Note7 smartphones, according to multiple press reports Monday. The company had been offering replacements of the phone after issuing a recall due to defective batteries, but all four major carriers have stopped doing so, presumably because several of the replacements exhibited similar proble...

Linux creator Linus Torvalds this week apologized for including in the just-released Linux 4.8 kernel a bug fix that crashed it "I'm really sorry I applied that last series from Andrew just before doing the 4.8 release because they cause problems, and now it is in 4.8 (and that buggy crap is marked for stable too)," he wrote in a message to the Lin...

Southwest Airlines on Wednesday evacuated a plane in Louisville, Kentucky, after a Samsung Galaxy Note7 began popping and issuing thick smoke Samsung last month began replacing Galaxy Note7s globally, following reports of several of the devices catching fire or exploding. It blamed the problem on an "isolated" faulty battery cell issue....

The source code for Mirai, the malware behind the botnet that launched a massive attack on the Krebs on Security website -- the largest DDoS attack on record -- has been released in the wild, according to Brian Krebs, author of the blog A hacker who goes by the handle "Anna-senpai," apparently because of increased scrutiny from the cybersec industr...

Salesforce last week unveiled the Salesforce Commerce Cloud, billing it as the fastest path to unified commerce It's built on technology from Demandware; Salesforce completed its acquisition of the company this summer....

Salesforce has agreed to acquire its Marketing Cloud partner Krux, which offers a data management platform Salesforce will pay US$340 million in cash and issue between 3.4 million and six million shares of common stock to consummate the deal, according to documentation filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. That's worth a...

Leaks about Google's expected family of Pixel smartphones, reportedly manufactured by HTC, on Monday reached a crescendo ahead of the company's Tuesday press event Google is poised to announce two smartphones, the Pixel and Pixel XL, according to specs published by UK retailer Carphone Warehouse....

Google last week unveiled new capabilities across its G Suite, formerly known as "Apps for Work." The company added some new apps infused with artificial intelligence to the mix....

The hackers who stole the data of hundreds of millions of Yahoo users two years ago were two cybercriminal gangs, InfoArmor reported Wednesday That finding contradicts the notion that state-sponsored actors were behind the attack, which Yahoo suggested earlier this month when it disclosed the breach.

Research at Google on Tuesday launched Google Neural Machine Translation system, now in production with Chinese to English -- "a notoriously difficult language pair," according to Quoc V. Le and Mike Schuster, research scientists on the Google Brain Team GNMT already is powering the Google Translate mobile and Web apps for 18 million or so Chinese ...

Cisco has swung into action to combat a hacker group's exploitation of vulnerabilities in its firmware. The group, known as the "Shadow Brokers," released online malware and other exploits it claimed to have stolen from the Equation Group, which is believed to have ties to the United States National Security Agency Cisco earlier this month disclose...

Snap, the company formerly known as "Snapchat," on Saturday announced sunglasses that take videos through a built-in camera in the frame -- bringing to mind Google's controversial Glass product Snap's Spectacles let users take 10-second videos by tapping a button on the top left-hand corner of the eyeframe.Users can tap on the record button to reco...

Lenovo, which owns Motorola, last week released the kernel source code for the Moto Z Droid smartphone on Github The move follows the company's posting of the Moto Z Droid Moto Mods Development Kit and Moto Mods on Github this summer....

The Commission on Presidential Debates, which has run them since 1988, last week announced initiatives with social media, academics, and media organizations to engage the American public in substantive conversations before, during and after this year's debates The first debate between presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is sche...

Opera released a new version of its browser, Opera 40, which includes a free built-in virtual private network service. The official rollout follows five months of user experimentation with a beta version The company evaluated beta users' feedback and subsequently added more servers, introduced options for global or private browsing, and created ver...

CEO Brian Roberts on Tuesday announced that Comcast will enter the wireless phone market by mid-2017 as a mobile virtual network operator. A 150-strong Comcast Wireless team, headed by Greg Butz, is "getting ready next year ... to launch a WiFi and MVNO-integrated product," Roberts said at the Goldman Sachs Annual Communacopia Conference in New Yo...

Oracle has agreed to acquire cloud access security broker Palerra, whose LORIC software manages security and compliance for applications, workloads, and sensitive data stored across cloud services, the companies announced Sunday Palerra "offers a unique combination of visibility into cloud usage, data security, user behavior analytics and security ...

Pandora on Thursday launched Pandora Plus, a replacement for its US$5-a-month Pandora One streaming music service The 4 million Pandora One subscribers will be switched over to Plus, which will continue to offer ad-free listening at the same price. However, Pandora Plus also offers an opt-in video advertising feature that lets users skip or replay...

Adblock Plus, together with partner ComboTag, on Tuesday launched the beta version of the Acceptable Ads Platform AA is an interactive platform that pre-whitelists ads publishers and bloggers then can place on their sites. It will only contain only ads that abide by AA's criteria for size and labeling, and their placement will be governed by the AA...

Unknown attackers have been testing the defenses of companies that run critical parts of the Internet, possibly to figure out how to take them down, cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier warned Tuesday Large nation states -- perhaps China or Russia -- are the likely culprits, he suggested....