Archive du mois : janvier 2018

REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft doesn’t generally let its customers and fans show up and see where the Windows and Xbox sausage gets made. Should you wish to visit most of Microsoft’s campus buildings a few miles east of Seattle, you’ll need to arrange an official tour in advance, which typically requires being invited in a professional capacity.…

tl;dr: there is presently an embargoed security bug impacting apparently all contemporary CPU architectures that implement virtual memory, requiring hardware changes to fully resolve. Urgent development of a software mitigation is being done in the open and recently landed in the Linux kernel, and a similar mitigation began appearing in NT kernels in November. In…

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Students are having to wait up to nine months for counselling and mental health support in some universities, as suicide rates on campuses hit record levels, new figures show. Campaigners condemned “deeply concerning” variations in provision of care for undergraduates across the country, with waits of more than four weeks for treatment at 21 universities. Delays to…

Two of the men are fighting for their lives (Picture: Dean Atkins)Five men were stabbed in a fight at a Great Gatsby-themed New Year’s Eve party. Police were called to Crystal Bar, on Carver Street in Sheffield, at around 2.20am on Monday following the altercation. Horse collapses in street during London’s New Year’s Day Parade…

A car bursts into flames, sparking the New Year’s Eve inferno that destroyed 1,400 vehicles worth more than £10million. The blaze rapidly spread through all seven floors of a multi-storey car park and reached temperatures of 1,000C but, incredibly, nobody was injured. Experts said a sprinkler system could have helped to contain the fire, which…