New Worm Morto Using RDP to Infect Windows PCs

Threatpost from Kaspersky Lab informs about a new Windows worm based on RDP services. At first site it looks like it is using brute force password attacking but there are not much details yet. Until further notice you should disable remote access if you do not need it and else using a very strong password.

IBM builds 120 petabyte cluster out of 200,000 hard drives

ExtremeTech has the news IBM building a 120 Petabyte cluster of 200.000 hard drives. The unknown customer has probably a very large HPC with a lot data to be generated to need such large storage system. With IBM’s General Parallel File System it is by its parallel nature extremely fast too. I certainly hope it is not a climate change model running all this stuff because the necessary power undoubtly produces a small climate change on it's own!

Mixed decision for Apple: Dutch judge bans Samsung smartphones, not tablets

Ars Technica has the story about the Dutch court decision in the case between Apple and Samsung. At first sight this decision is win for Apple but on second sight it is Samsung who gain the most. To comply to the court order they only have to change the OS functionality of swiping on the picture gallery software. Only this part of the patent case is awarded at the moment the other two patents about the look and design of Apple gear is not. Of course this is a prelimary junction so this case will go on for years to come but hopefully it slows down those stupid patent wars a bit.

Oracle's Sparc T4 chip: Will you pay Larry's premium?

The Register has a item about the new Sparc T4 processor from now Oracle. You almost forget that Oracle bought the hardware section of Sun too. The new chip is a nice piece of shiny hardware with a lot performance measures added. And it pays off: with half the threads and cores it is five times faster then it 's predecessor the Sparc T3 on Specint 2000. There are also some features added which are supposed to speed up Oracle's database transactions. But to succeed the more decisive point will be it's price/performance ratio. Sun has never been cheap and Oracle is not likely to change that either so it will come from the added value, if any.

Canonical ARMs Ubuntu for microserver wars

Canonical has announced an ARM version of it's Ubuntu server edition 11.10 and further on. It is a clear attempt to win a new market based on large scale ARM-servers in big datacenters all over the wordl. So far this ARM-servers do not exists but they will come very soon now, they say. It reminds me of the announcement of smartbooks: ARM mini notebooks at the size of netbook. The ones that do exist are running on Win CE or Android and not on a well known Linux distro. From a environmental viewpoint I surely hope these ARM-servers do come because their power usage will be a lot lower then current Intel based servers.

Apple changed shape of Galaxy Tab in court filing

The Register is one of the many newssites with the news that Apple changed the shape of the Samsung Galaxy Tab to make it look more of the Ipad 2 in a courtfiling in Germany. Of course malice will not be proven, calling it a error of some kind but it shows ones again that patent and modelling/design court fillings get more dirty then ever. There is simply put too much many on stake here.

Intel launching upgradeable i3 Core processors

Intel has ones again made some processors software upgradeable. This time in the i3 core range of processors. Some time ago you just would buy a processor for its features for a certain price but since marketingdroids took over at Intel you see a plethora of processortypes, processorslots and features. You can easily wonder who has some oversight left besides those marketingtypes and probably even they does not have any. For those who want to known which processor is capable of what should put http://ark.intel.com in their favorite bookmarks.