IT admins across the globe are letting out a collective groan after servers and PCs running McAfee VirusScan attacked core system files, in some cases causing the machines to display the dreaded blue screen of death. Details are still coming in, but forums here and here show that it’s affecting McAfee customers in Germany, Italy, [...]

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When completed, the facility will require at least 65 megawatts of power and cost $1.93bn, according to news reports. The 120-acre data center will be located in Utah’s Camp Williams, which borders Salt Lake and Tooele counties. Two major power corridors already run through the spot, a major reason the NSA chose it. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/03/new_nsa_data_center/

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“Vision-impaired people feel that hybrid vehicles are dangerous”, a transport ministry official told AFP. The top-selling hybrid vehicles run almost without any sound when they change from fuel to battery mode. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8132548.stm

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Cloanto has released the latest version of Amiga Forever, its bundle combining the one-time Commodore operating system, “classic” hardware emulators, games and other assorted “items of historical interest”. Amiga Forever 2009 essentially provides full Windows 7 compatibility. http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/07/03/amiga_forever_updates/

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Hackers are running a mass compromise against sites running vulnerable ColdFusion application server installations. Security watchers at the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Centre are warning that a “high number” of sites have been hit over the last 36 hours or so. Miscreants are exploiting sites running older installations of some ColdFusion applications, such as FCKEditor [...]

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The Department of Homeland Security has announced preliminary tests of a radio designed to use all the frequencies where first responders hang out, which might prove easier than getting them all to use one network. In an attempt to unify the radio systems used by American emergency teams, the Department of Homeland Security has announced [...]

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The campaign was started by Devon mother Cheryl Higgs, whose children attended Little Ted’s, the nursery which is now the focus of a police investigation into whether a nursery worker used her mobile phone to take indecent pictures of young children for supply to members of a paedophile ring.   Mrs Higgs has set up [...]

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Whatever your opinion on H-1B visas and foreign workers–and for many, this issue gets under people’s skin–please understand this: The law around these temporary worker visas is complex and not without its issues in understanding and enforcement. A recent CIO Insight article written by an immigration lawyer gives a pretty full picture of what an [...]

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In an attempt to make it easier for businesses to bring VMware virtualization into their data centers, IBM is offering a special financing package for its System x and BladeCenter servers bundled with VMware’s vSphere 4 virtualization platform. Key to the financing package is the trading of up-front costs for monthly payments on systems as [...]

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Mozilla will rush out a patch to its Firefox 3.5 browser to correct a number of bugs that users have cited as causing them issues. The patch, if it proceeds on schedule, will be released later in July. http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Enterprise-Applications/Mozilla-Rushing-to-Fix-Firefox-35-Bugs-747510/?kc=EWKNLNAV07032009STR2

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