18th June 2011 Archive

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New malware ferrets out and steals Bitcoins

Hopelessly devoted to you

You know your virtual currency has hit the big leagues when criminals develop trojans that infect computers for the sole purpose of stealing it. Bitcoin, the open-source project launched two years ago, reached that turning point Thursday. That's when researchers from Symantec discovered Infostealer.Coinbit, a piece of Windows …

Malware 18 Jun 05:00
Infamous 2

Review Mutant ninja circles

When it comes to superhero videogame sequels, it pays to be honest about your expectations. With the most compelling elements exhausted in the original – namely the collection and mastering of superpowers – all you can realistically hope from a sequel is one of two clichés. Will it go for the cheap shot and rob you of your …

reghardware 18 Jun 07:00
Custard pie activist slams IPCC 'grey literature' habit

Greenpeace glovepuppets the UN. Again

Mark Lynas, the climate activist who once threw a custard pie into the face of Bjorn "Skeptical Environmentalist" Lomborg, has found himself under fire from other climate activists. Earlier this week it emerged that a report on renewable energy for the IPCC had drawn heavily on an earlier paper authored by Greenpeace activist …

Government 18 Jun 09:00
Pizza Express preps app for iPhone payment

Margherita minus the dough

Customers can settle bills at Pizza Express using their iPhone, after the tech-savvy fast food joint launched an app with Paypal functionality. As well as paying for the bill in under a minute, pizza lovers can use the app for booking tables, viewing menus and storing special offers. Instead of being handed a receipt, both …

reghardware 18 Jun 11:00
Help! My Exchange server just rebooted

When recovery is the only option

I’ve seen a spate of issues from companies running their own MS Exchange servers. A few patterns emerged. In all cases, servers running Exchange (usually as part of Small Business Server) either lost power or rebooted unexpectedly. This will not always cause problems. But if Exchange is busy writing things to the data store, …

Sysadmin blog 18 Jun 14:00
ARM exec counsels massively parallel patience

Fusion Summit His chips may drive your car. Eventually

Don't expect parallel-processing power to invigorate consumer devices for a few more years. But when it does, it may save your child's life – or at least protect you from a nasty lawsuit. OpenCL, which enables a GPU to share processing chores with a CPU, will be slow to affect the consumer market, seeing as how OpenCL-capable …

PCs & Chips 18 Jun 20:40