The company confirmed on Tuesday that it had permanently shut down production of the Galaxy Note 7, bringing to an end the saga of the troubled, fire-prone handset. On Monday night, it had issued a warning to users to power down and turn in their phones.

These troubles mean it's even more important for Samsung to wow when it comes to its next new phone. Based on its track record, that will be the Galaxy S8, which will launch sometime early next year.

In the latest issue of Nature Communications, the researchers describe a prototype of the system, which they tested on a stack of papers, each with one letter printed on it. The system was able to correctly identify the letters on the top nine sheets.

Terahertz imaging is still a relatively young technology, however, and researchers are constantly working to improve both the accuracy of detectors and the power of the radiation sources, so deeper penetration should be possible.

A failed hard disk in its Storage Access Network caused a “panic event” on 26 August, the business confirmed to customers early this week, taking down email services and certain instances hosted on the same platform.

VESK had previously gloated about the gilt-edged services provided. It told visitors to its website that customers had enjoyed 100 per cent uptime for the past 1,583 days.

A startup called BigPanda says it talked to more than 1,700 IT professionals in such industries as telecom, finance and health care and discovered that many are being driven demented.

It says its service detects real issues faster by "automatically correlating noisy alerts from fragmented monitoring tools into high level incidents."

Well, OpsGenie says it provides "the tools you need to design meaningful, actionable alerts and ensure the right people are notified." Pagerduty says it allows IT managers to "automatically centralize, group, and enrich all events in a single hub. Suppress irrelevant alerts and reduce alert noise."

In a 2015 letter to the United States Copyright Office, John Deere, the world’s largest tractor maker, said that the folks who buy tractors don’t own them, not in the way the general public believes “ownership” works. Instead, John Deere said that those who buy tractors are actually purchasing an “implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”

Not everyone is on the farmers’ side here; some, according to the Associated Press, are concerned that the move would reduce revenue to tractor manufacturers, potentially landing them in trouble.

A team of researchers led by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have managed to devise a new method in atomic memory which could potentially outperform state-of-the-art hard disk drives by “three orders of magnitude”.

The imperfections are vital for the hard disk, as a scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) interprets a vacancy to the left and right of a chlorine atom as a 0 and 1 respectively.

At although the atomic hard disk has a storage density 500 times greater than the best commercial hard disks used today, there is a high price to pay for its stability. The hard disk has to be stored at -196˚C to control the vacancy positions in the lattice.

It’s clear that, at one point, glass mirrors will be a thing of the past, as companies will drop them in favor of video screens, but until then, they’ll have to wait for the legislation to change.

Named the Smart Rear View Monitor, it entered production June 28 for a customer that will use it in a vehicle that goes on sale in Japan in August, although Ichikoh identified the customer only as a Japanese carmaker with plans to use the video monitor in a mid-range, low-volume nameplate.

Security firm Arbor Networks is reporting that it has discovered a botnet made up of IoT devices attacking institutions in Brazil with up to 400G bps of attack traffic.

For the 400G-bps IoT botnet that is attacking Brazil, Arbor Networks' analysis revealed that attackers were able to abuse Telnet ports on vulnerable devices. Telnet use has long been deprecated as a best practice by IT security professionals as it is an unencrypted approach for remote access.

Soluk said that in this case it was the fact that Telnet was left open along with a default username and password that allowed the devices to be so trivially co-opted into the botnet.

Security researchers have discovered a variant of the FLocker Android ransomware that not only infects mobile devices, but also can infect smart TVs running certain versions of the operating system.

“While the screen is locked, the C&C server collects data such as device information, phone number, contacts, real time location, and other information.”

Connected devices have small, but often powerful, embedded computers and most of them have no security defenses and are rarely, if ever, updated. That can make them prime targets for this kind of ransomware.

After discovering the SSID and the pre-shared key, they connected to a static IP address within a network’s subnet, and this allowed them to sniff the Wi-Fi connection and send messages to the car.

Through these messages they were able to turn the car’s lights, air conditioning and heating on and off, change the charging programme and, most importantly, to disable the car’s anti-theft alarm.

Mitsubishi is currently working on new firmware for the Wi-Fi module that should fix these flaws. Until they push it out, they advised owners to deactivate the Wi-Fi using the “Cancel VIN Registration” option on the app, or by using the remote app cancellation procedure.