Red Hat Security Advisory 2013-1455-01 – This update corrects several security vulnerabilities in the IBM Java Runtime Environment shipped as part of Red Hat Network Satellite Server 5.4. In a typical operating environment, these are of low security risk as the runtime is not used on untrusted applets. Several flaws were fixed in the IBM…

Nerval’s Lobster writes “Google is still the tech company that spends most lavishly to make its influence known in Washington, D.C., according to a report analyzing the lobbying activity of technology firms. Using data from disclosure forms filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the oversight group Consumer Watchdog added up the efforts…

The Cello 2.0 from Bayer MaterialScience has a cutaway resin body that can display graphics or videos…….

Firmware update slipped out to kill code-injection vuln……

The pin-board company has collected $225 million in new financing and has grown its value by $1.3 billion in the past eight months…….

JoshMST writes “Why are we in the middle of GPU-renaming hell? AMD may be releasing a new 28-nm Hawaii chip in the next few days, but it is still based on the same 28-nm process that the original HD 7970 debuted on nearly two years ago. Quick and easy (relative terms) process node transitions are…

The company’s CFO acknowledged that it felt pressure among subscribers that were sensitive to price…….

Astronomers have found a galaxy so distant that its observation shows conditions when the universe was in its relative infancy…….

New law drafted to tackle court battles sucking millions of dollars from US bizes……

The TIO fielded 25 percent fewer complaints about Vodafone in the 2012-13 financial year, but the troubled telco still got more complaints than Telstra and Optus put together…….