Oracle

Forget abortion and gun control; if you want to get programmers arguing at your next party, bring up tabs versus spaces when indenting code

Joking about the week’s top tech stories, this week featuring Burger King, Chinese cyberspies and a new Chromebook that will revolutionize the way we watch porn

Find out if your computer is vulnerable to Java exploits, and how to remove Java to protect yourself from these security risks

A review of some of the top tech stories for the past week, with tongue planted firmly somewhere near cheek.

It only happens about once every 256 times, and doesn't affect all the millions of MySQL and MariaDB databases that are among the most common apps on the web. 879,000 servers will let anyone log in who has a legitimate username and any password at all. 'Root' works great!

That apple ain’t green.

It was a year of growth and consolidation in the cloud industry, security concerns be damned.

Why was the Salesforce leader bounced from his keynote speech? Only Larry Ellison knows.

Oracle is pushing itself into a corner, a fantastic money-making corner, but a corner nonetheless.

Leo Apotheker is out as HP chief executive. Is new CEO Meg Whitman the right choice?

Java creator James Gosling, whose resignation from Oracle was the key event in the Java community's rebellion against Oracle's plans for it, has now quit Oracle to work on a company that builds self-directed robotic underwater explorers and the data clouds to connect them.