Vocus Telecommunications has announced that both the bids it received for an acquisition have been called off as the bidders were unable to commit to terms that were acceptable by its board.

ANALYSIS Samsung has two important dates this week which will bring either joy or sorrow to the company. The Galaxy Note 8 is slated for launch in New York on Wednesday, a device that the company hopes will erase the memories of the Note7 which turned into a fiasco last year.

British spy agency GCHQ was fully aware that US authorities were investigating security researcher Marcus Hutchins at the time when he went to the US to attend a security conference.

The Gentoo Linux distribution has announced that it will be no longer incorporating kernel hardening patches from the Grsecurity project and hence will stop providing its own hardened kernel source.

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