A new version of Mirai—a malware that’s been enslaving poorly secured IoT devices—has found a new victim: vulnerable internet routers from Germany’s Deutsche Telekom. The spread of the new strain of Mirai has caused internet connection problems for close to a million...

Windows 10 is now running on over 350 million PCs, tablets and smartphones, making it one of the most popular operating systems in the world. The successor to Windows 8.1 has been available for a little over a year now, which has given users plenty of time to get to...

Japan's £139m computer will be fastest in world, making 130 quadrillion calculations a second The country will spend 19.5 billion yen (£139m) on the computer, which should make 130 quadrillion calculations per second. That is 130 petaflops in scientific parlance. It...

A few days back, I wrote about how the market for AI-driven computing is exploding, especially in the kitchen. Devices like the Amazon Echo and soon to be released Google Home, are delivering a new spin on what ‘computing’ can be like and now we are seeing evidence of...

The Open Source Hardware Association certification could help buyers hack into and copy products   Four years ago, Alicia Gibb was trying to unite a fragmented open-source hardware community to join together to create innovative products. So was born the Open...

Highly skilled posts required for offices in Fitzrovia will help to increase company’s British workforce by 50%   Facebook will hire an extra 500 workers in the UK when it opens a new headquarters in London, increasing its British workforce by half. The US social...

Skype for Web update arrives as WhatsApp rolls out video calling to all   Microsoft has announced that its Skype service can now be used without creating an account or downloading the desktop app. Skype, which has been owned by Microsoft for five years, said in a...

An exhibit that demonstrates what it was like to programme one of the first computers has won an award for the best computer conservation project.   The award-winning interactive project recreates part of Eniac - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer....

Fifteen years ago, Steve Ballmer memorably declared Linux was a cancer. Now, Microsoft announced it was joining the Linux Foundation. That’s not a completely unprecedented move, given that Microsoft has been getting steadily chummier with open source software over the...

Children are leading "increasingly digital lives" with smartphone and tablet ownership on the rise, new research suggests.   On average, schoolkids aged between five and 15 years old are online for about 15 hours each week - an hour and 18 minutes more than last...

  Traditionally, workstation PCs are hulking great towers, but that’s becoming increasingly not the case these days, and indeed HP’s latest effort in this arena is a very compact box – the smallest workstation ever, in fact. Looking more like a home theatre PC...