The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, July 30
Obama wants to boost U.S. supercomputing power...OPM, Anthem hackers also hit United Airlines...Oracle preps 'Sonoma' chip for low-priced Sparc servers...and more tech news.
Obama wants to boost U.S. supercomputing power...OPM, Anthem hackers also hit United Airlines...Oracle preps 'Sonoma' chip for low-priced Sparc servers...and more tech news.
The cyberespionage group that stole the personal records of millions of Americans from U.S. health insurer Anthem and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has also reportedly breached United Airlines.
United Airlines grounded its planes for about an hour on Wednesday, reportedly because of a router failure. That's a wide path of destruction for one piece of equipment, but it's the kind of hazard that comes with networking, where each piece is always linked to everything else.
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-united-flights-grounded-20150708-story.html">United Airlines blamed a router problem</a> for disrupting service and halting flights for over an hour today.
United Airlines passengers were facing major travel delays on Wednesday after the carrier suspended all U.S. flights due to computer problems.
United Airlines passengers were facing major travel delays on Wednesday after the carrier suspended all U.S. flights due to computer problems.
The FBI contends a cybersecurity researcher said he caused an airplane's engine to climb after hacking its software, according to a court document.
United Airlines is offering rewards to researchers for finding flaws in its websites but the company is excluding bugs related to in-flight systems, which the U.S. government says may be increasingly targeted by hackers.
Three dozen loyalty accounts belonging to United Airlines customers saw fraudulent transactions after hackers used login credentials collected from an unknown source.
The new Apple iPhone 6 Plus phablet was nowhere to be found among all the blockbuster Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals last month, but <a href="http://www.walmart.com/cp/iPhone-6/1228448?wmlspartner=TnL5HPStwNw&sourceid=30182817552573327969&oid=183959.1&u1=skim14610X714040X4231bc0f46c307c3f85af48283353e23&affillinktype=10&veh=aff">Walmart</a> has surprised this week by announcing a deep discount on the smartphones through February.
United Airlines this week announced that its flight attendants will soon be equipped with <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2605020/smartphones/163647-First-Look-iPhone-6-and-iPhone-6-Plus.html">Apple's iPhone 6 Plus phablets</a> to take care of your safety, food and entertainment needs.
A senior U.S. senator is asking airlines about their data privacy practices, saying he's concerned about what information the companies are collecting and sharing with third parties.
Visa announced a new simplified digital payment service called Visa Checkout, which is designed to allow customers to pay quickly for goods online on any connected device.
When Tracy Lee talks about the weather he's not just making idle conversation.
While watching a blooper reel at a recent baseball game, I got to thinking about whether we could pull off a regular bloopers collection of technology-related incidents.