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Snapchat vulnerability can be exploited to crash iPhones, researcher says

Snapchat request tokens can be resused to launch denial-of-service attacks against the app's users

VMTurbo drives the software-defined data center

Company expands Operations Manager across storage with support for NetApp and FlexPod, across compute fabric with support for Cisco's UCS platform

The sorry state of Windows 8.1 Update 1

If you're hoping for some relief with Windows 8.1 Update 1, you're in for a not-very-pleasant surprise

Hadoop made easier, courtesy of Red Hat and Hortonworks

Enterprise Apache Hadoop could be a boon to startups and smaller enterprises

Java 8 will likely strip out Stripped Implementations

'Stripped down Java' could be especially relevant to embedded application developers

HP expands OneView into VMware environs

HP's server management software can now work with VMware vCenter workloads

Gigabit Wi-Fi case study: Erickson Living upgrades to 802.11ac

A retirement community plans on retiring wired networks in individual residential units

BITCOIN flaw flagged — Top Windows analyst curses MICROSOFT — SNOWDEN jacked NSA with basic crawler — AWS mystery bandwidth THROTTLE

Microsoft asks for volunteers to join its kill-XP army

Redmond implores customers with technical know-how to help friends and family ditch Windows XP -- but isn't that Microsoft's job?

US seeks information on industry ability to hold bulk phone data

The government is exploring third-party alternatives for holding the phone metadata