The group responsible for maintaining the internet's most popular domain name software BIND has admitted it caused problems by fast-tracking a security patch designed to fix the widescale DNS flaw discovered by researcher Dan Kaminsky this month.
A Unix developer has discovered and fixed a filesystem bug in Berkeley Software Distribution, a widely used, open-source, Unix-like operating system, discovering in the process that the bug was at least 25 years old.
An update to the popular Unix-like distribution includes new security features, drivers, software packages and bug fixes.
Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, theorised that symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental circuit element, the "memristor" or memory resistor. Now HP thinks its memristor will improve memory and circuit design.
When asked how RFID worked, a group of novices responded to a recent academic survey with "witchcraft" and "magic".
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IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.
IBM and Google on Monday released details of their academic cluster computing initiative that will provide datacentres for remote computer programming.
Scott McNealy sees glory days ahead for new CEO Jonathan Schwartz. Are they cut from the same cloth?
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CNET's Kara Tsuboi visits the University of California, Berkeley, to find out what gadgets students are craving at the start of their school year. CNET Reviews editors Bonnie Cha and Donald Bell also weigh in on their top cell phone, MP3, and laptop picks.
Researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley have come up with a way to grow carbon nanotubes on silicon wafers and to test the nanotubes, which could help pave the way for carbon chips.
Ubiquitous PC mice once existed only on the scientific fringe, with their inventor waiting two decades before commercial models were produced.
Commentary: SCO's lawsuit against IBM has sparked controversy in the open-source world - here are some things for Linux users to consider.
Researchers build full Itanium support into software that can be used to assemble supercomputers out of clusters of Linux computers.
MySQL may be free, but what if money isn't the only factor? Find out how these database heavyweights stack up and how to decide which one to use.
Microsoft Office 2010 beta
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