Новости за 17.02.2016

Dell is bringing the advantages of its enterprise-level hyperscale rack servers to a wider range of customers.

Researchers from University College London claim to have reached a data rate of 1.125 terabits per second, the fastest data rate ever recorded between a single optical transmitter and a receiver, according to an article on the university's website.

Millions of economists parse the Federal Reserve Bank's public statements on the U.S. economy. Meanwhile, only a few thousand observers concern themselves with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) exploits. This is a missed opportunity: the FCC is every bit as fascinating and confusing as the Fed is enigmatic. But while many economists owe their employment to the opportunity to interpret the Fed's tealeaves, wireless engineers prefer and deserve a level of clarity that the FCC sometimes fails to provide. Читать дальше...

Apple may have taken on the fight of its life in standing up to the FBI, which is demanding that it help break into an iPhone used by one of the perpetrators in December's San Bernardino mass shooting.

A Google security engineer studying an SSH connection to a host unexpectedly discovered a deeper, darker secret in the GNU C Library (glibc). Google later proved that a bug in this library could be used to remotely execute code and cause a stack-buffer overflow condition. Though most Linux operating systems are protected from such an attack by address space layout randomization (ASLR), Google security engineers were able to circumvent this mitigation method.

I’ve spent the last week reviewing the President’s Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) first released on February 9. 

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Dell is finding it tougher than it imagined to raise the funding for its $67 billion acquisition of EMC, thanks to the credit markets and the stock market tanking in recent months.

Microsoft has been aggressive in embracing open source technology on its Azure cloud platform, and that continued Wednesday with the launch of several new features powered by open source projects.

There's no shortage of warnings about robots taking over our jobs, but often overlooked is the potential for how robots and humans can work together.

Many CIOs have implemented software that dupes employees into clicking on links and attachments that simulate phishing scams, an increasingly common educational tool to warn workers about the dangers of suspicious email messages. Security software maker Bitglass has reversed the shenanigans by leaking faked Google Apps credentials on the Dark Web, a hacker's playground for trafficking in stolen data. Then it tracked the activity, watching the many ways in which hackers wreaked havoc with supposed stolen online identities. Читать дальше...

Hadoop, Spark and Kafka have already had a defining influence on the world of big data, and now there's yet another Apache project with the potential to shape the landscape even further: Apache Arrow.

The latest move in the topsy-turvy world of Yahoo is to ditch its Labs organization and squeeze its researchers into its product teams to help bring new ideas to market more quickly.

Indian startup Ringing Bells has aroused curiosity by promising to launch a 251 rupees (US$4) smartphone, in the latest bid to take communications to the country's masses.

IBM has been encouraging developers to build apps using its Watson artificial intelligence system, which it hopes will be a big moneymaker for the company in the future.

It’s easy to take the power of the smartphone in your pocket—and the networks that support it—for granted. Heck, carriers are pretty much giving them away these days.

Google has announced the general availability of Custom Machine Types for its Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service offering, giving developers a chance to design their own compute instances to meet particular performance requirements. 

Up to 46,000 Internet-accessible digital video recorders (DVRs) that are used to monitor and record video streams from surveillance cameras in homes and businesses can easily be taken over by hackers.

Last week I wrote a little article about something that I felt was a truly terrible idea – the KDE project's announcement of their own Linux Distro… dubbed "KDE Neon."

LG isn’t waiting for the start of Mobile World Congress to show off the company’s newest stylus-friendly phone.

Mobile World Congress is one of the biggest events of the year for Android, and it's coming up fast. In recent years, major manufacturers have chosen to host their own events at other times to announce flagship devices, but we already know of a few that are coming back to MWC this year. It's going to be a big show, so let's look at what you can expect to see—and not see—at Mobile World Congress 2016.

Days before its official unveiling at Mobile World Congress on Feb. 21, an online Samsung video shows water-resistant and wireless charging features of the next-generation flagship Galaxy S7 Edge, the sister of the Galaxy S7 smartphone running Android.

There is Software-as-a-Service, Disaster Recover-as-a-Service, SECurity-as-a-Service. What's currently missing, and the crux of much cloud-profiting malaise, is PRiVacy-as-a-Service.

Imagine a map of your business. On this map, plot an 'x' for each user, representing a smartphone, tablet, or laptop where the user interface resides. Then plot an 'o' at the data center location for each service people use from their device, whether it's corporate email or Netflix. It won't take long before realizing a third element, a line connecting each 'x' to it's corresponding 'o' is required to keep track of the relationship binding the two. What you end up with is an ordered mess, a highly... Читать дальше...

The U.S. Department of Defense is going to standardize 4 million computers on Windows 10, a significant endorsement for Microsoft's latest operating system.