E.Coli outbreak: Blue cheese source of food poisoning which led to child's death

GETTY/FOODSTANDARDSCOTLAND E.Coli outbreak: A report has named the cheese which experts believe caused the outbreak The cheese was branded Dunsyre Blue cheese, a report by Health Protection Scotland has revealed. According to the report, the producers of the product are Errington Cheese. Seventeen people required treatment following outbreak. Experts investigated 26 cases of the same […]

Azure Service Fabric takes first tentative steps toward open source

(credit: Microsoft) Microsoft’s embrace of open source software continues, with Azure Service Fabric making the first tentative foray into the open world. Today, the SDK was (mostly) published to GitHub under the MIT license. The team behind the move described it as the “beginning stages” of a wider use of open source. Service Fabric, first revealed in […]

GBBO's Prue Leith turned to unlikely source over ‘anxiety’ of working with Paul Hollywood

The 77-year-old was confirmed to be joining Paul, 51, as judges of the culinary contest when it launches on Channel 4, with Noel Fielding, 43, and Sandi Toksvig, 58, replacing Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins as hosts. Prue has now spoken about her coveted new role and revealed that she turned to former GBBO heroine […]

To keep Tor hack source code secret, DOJ dismisses child porn case

Enlarge (credit: scyther5 / Getty Images News) Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect, federal prosecutors in Washington state have dropped all charges against a man accused of accessing Playpen, a notorious and now-shuttered website. The case, United States v. Jay Michaud, is one of nearly 200 cases […]

Zlatan Ibrahimovic set for huge Man United reward: Club source discusses details

After joining on a free last summer from Paris Saint-Germain, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been instrumental for Manchester United this season. The 35-year-old, who earns £250,000 a week, is widely expected to stay at Old Trafford for another year although nothing has been formally agreed. His hat-trick against Saint-Etienne last week in the first leg of […]

Trump’s vast power to reshape the Fed will be the next major source of uncertainty for markets

Kevin Dietsch/Getty President Donald Trump already had ample leeway to reshape the Federal Reserve, with Janet Yellen’s term as chair expiring early next year and two key slots on the central bank’s board left open after Republicans failed to bring President Barack Obama’s longstanding nominees to a vote. Now, with the sudden resignation of Daniel […]

Microsoft hosts the Windows source in a monstrous 300GB Git repository

Enlarge (credit: Git) Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux’s decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows. Traditionally, Microsoft’s software has used a version control system called Source Depot. This is proprietary and internal to Microsoft; it’s believed to be a customized […]