Новости за 16.11.2015

In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris, military operations against ISIS terrorist strongholds have increased. When someone hits you, it’s natural to hit back. But can you win by killing an enemy that seeks death — and when those who are killed inspire desperate others to replace them?

As world powers compete to build the fastest supercomputers, more attention is being paid to alternative processing technologies as a way to add more horsepower to such systems.

Apple started making its 12.9-inch iPad Pros available last week, but with the complementary Apple Pencil in short supply at the outset, some tablet buyers must be wondering: What's the point?

For years Netflix has been a poster-child customer of Amazon Web Services. The company is unabashed in its use of, and admiration for, Amazon’s massive IaaS cloud.

Facebook already has enough trouble with its reputation for intrusion into people's private lives, but it's not letting up. BuzzFeed reports that a new feature will examine your photos without asking and encourage you to share them.

It would be difficult to overstate the impact container technology is having on the software-development world, so it's no wonder vendors large and small are jumping on board with tailored offerings. The latest example: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which just rolled out an entire portfolio of Docker-focused products.

Although Conficker is old, it’s still around as cleaning up botnets takes years to complete. In a new twist, iPower Technologies reported receiving multiple police body cams that came preloaded with the Conficker worm.

Thousands of mobile applications, including popular ones, implement cloud-based, back-end services in a way that lets anyone access millions of sensitive records created by users, according to a recent study.

A new report sheds some light on how terrorists, particularly those with the Islamic State (ISIS) involved in last week's deadly attacks in Paris, manage to communicate in an age when most communications tools are susceptible to government surveillance.

Intel’s calling November 15, 1995, the 20th birthday of USB. But it’s not enough to have a birthday anymore; you need an origin story, too. And for USB, one of most popular technology standards of the PC era, that story is a humble one: printer problems at home. That’s what drove Intel Fellow Ajay Bhatt’s multi-year obsession to make the Universal Serial Bus a reality. 

If you take a look at the list of trending repositories on GitHub, you’ll see amazing code from programmers who live around the world and efforts for firms big and small. But one thing you don’t often see is work that comes from the university labs. It’s rare for the next big thing to escape from an academic computer science department and capture the attention of the world.

Microsoft last week gave businesses a way to delay potentially disruptive or even damaging Windows 10 security patches and bug fixes for up to four weeks.

Certifications paying the most in 2015

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The pace of technology is ever-increasing. With security issues, cloud adoption, legacy tech, big data and more, disruption abounds. So it's no wonder when it comes to skills and certifications there is so much volatility, making it difficult for employers and employees alike to know what skills are most valuable. "If you look at volatility [in pay premiums], right now it's about 19 percent. In fact, it's averaging about 17 percent over the last two years,"says David Foote... Читать дальше...

As companies become increasingly comfortable adopting cloud-based options, multi-vendor cloud environments could become the norm in many enterprises. In fact, 2016 may be the year of the blended cloud environment, according to Lynn LeBlanc, CEO and founder of HotLink. The blended environment—which could include both cloud and on-premises technology—presents challenges for those organizations who take the traditional siloed approach to IT service management, however.

There's been a slight delay, but the latest version of Intel's fastest processor ever will finally reach supercomputers early next year.

As of today, Microsoft never has to mention Zune again. 

On November 15, the company shut down all Zune-related services. That includes the Zune Music Pass subscription program, and the Zune marketplace for buying MP3s. Microsoft announced the termination date a couple months ago. 

Anyone still subscribing to Zune Music Pass should be automatically switched to Microsoft’s new Groove Music service by now. Annual and three-month subscribers also had the option to cancel the service and get pro-rated refunds. Читать дальше...

Ted Koppel, anchor of ABC TV’s “Nightline” for 25 years, from 1980-2005, is the author of “Lights Out,” which argues that not only is the nation’s critical infrastructure at grave risk of a catastrophic cyber attack that could leave as much as a third of the nation without electricity for months or even a year, but that there is no government plan to respond to such an attack.

Turkey time

Just in time for Thanksgiving, here’s our annual rundown of the tech industry’s “turkeys” for the year.

All this year I’ve been researching the burgeoning cyber insurance market. Admittedly, this is a bit of a detour from covering endpoint security, network security, and security analytics, but cyber insurance is becoming an increasingly important puzzle piece in any organization’s risk mitigation strategy, so it’s worth paying attention to. 

Microsoft’s audacious plan to bring apps from competing platforms to Windows 10 Mobile has hit a snag—at least for Android conversions. Microsoft's tool to port Android apps to Windows 10 Mobile, dubbed Project Astoria, is delayed. Some reports say the tool may be canceled altogether.

If we’re getting near Thanksgiving that means one thing for long-time Network World readers - it’s time for the annual Cool Yule Tools holiday gift guide!

Biggest, fastest, occupying the most racks

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The latest Top500 supercomputer rankings are out today, to coincide with the annual SC15 conference, which is being held this year in Austin, Texas. While there are plenty of names familiar to Top500 watchers in the new top 10, there are also some new faces. Or, there would be if supercomputers had faces. Have a look.

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Intel wants to change the game in desktop computing with a workstation that packs its upcoming, 72-core supercomputing chip.