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Dear Mom,

I enjoy writing these letters to you, clarifying the abstract concepts and trends that dominate my work-life. I appreciate your interest in understaning my work. Many of my colleagues have children, spouses, parents, and other people in their lives who are unfamiliar with the mysterious world of data management, but who would love to understand our career choice. So far, I’ve discussed data management, metadata, big data, the Internet of Things and the Cloud, but I’ve avoided the topic I’m most passionate about... Читать дальше...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group wants to raise Bluetooth's profile in the Internet of Things with a toolkit for building gateways between the short-range wireless network and the Internet.

Opera Software's board today recommended that shareholders approve the $1.2 million offer by a group of Chinese companies for the company, the result of a sales exploration since August.

Amazon's Fire tablet comes in a kid's edition, and it's surprisingly well thought out. If you're in the market for a kid-proof tablet that won't break the bank, this is one to consider at just $99. What's more, it's discounted through February 13 so if you buy it now, you only pay $79.99. That's a great deal if you consider the specs.

LG teases the G5, its new soopah-doopah Android smartphone. It looks like it’ll have an always-on display, but unlike previous efforts, it won’t destroy the battery life—we’ll see about that on February 21.

LG's next flagship Android smartphone, the G5, will come with an "always on" display, according to a teaser posted today on the LG Facebook page.

This year's RightScale "State of the Cloud" report is, as in previous years, interesting reading. In particular, it is interesting to see subtle changes in the cloud industry makeup with vendors starting to make inroads on dominant players. The report also tends to be something of a bellwether for new technology adoption, hence, the statistics around both DevOps and Docker were interesting to see. Enough with the commentary -- on to the findings.

The Node.js Foundation, which has jurisdiction over the popular server-side JavaScript platform, is adding the Express MVC Web framework for Node.js as an incubation project, to ensure its continued viability.

SAP's February round of critical software updates includes one for SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII) that may be of interest to hackers and spies.

Microsoft released its second batch of security updates for this year, addressing a total of 36 flaws in Internet Explorer, Edge, Office, Windows and .NET Framework.

A Harvard report no sooner debunked the FBI’s “Going Dark” argument than the U.S. intelligence chief admitted the government might use your “smart” internet-connected devices to spy on you.

The future of television is apps – or something like them, and software developers are exploring possibilities with Apple TV.

Kaspersky Lab has linked a single group to a long-known campaign of cyberattacks that appears to be aimed at extorting corporate victims.

/proc

It's not just a file system full of odd looking files that only the kernel understands. Instead, it's really something of a peep hole into your system. And there a quite a number of useful things that you can learn from the files that it contains.

So, what do you see when you cd over to /proc? Well, run ls and the first thing you're likely to notice is the very large group of directories with just numbers for names. These numbers correspond to the process IDs (PID) of processes... Читать дальше...

The U.S. federal transport safety regulator is coming around to the view that rules could be updated so that computers in autonomous cars can be considered as drivers, but added that the rule-making could take some time.

Docker has long relied on Ubuntu Linux as the default host environment for Docker apps, but recent comments from the company's CTO suggest that might not be the case much longer.

Google has just hammered another nail in the coffin for Flash, Adobe Systems' multimedia software widely criticized for its frequent security vulnerabilities.

The Internal Revenue Service was the target of an attack that used stolen Social Security numbers and other taxpayer data to obtain PINs that can be used to file tax returns electronically.

Microsoft yesterday issued Office 2016 to Office 365 commercial subscribers who had adopted the slower release cadence, which the company called "Current Branch for Business."

This month Microsoft returns to form with 13 patches, with six rated as critical and the remaining seven rated as important. You’ll notice that MS16-010 is missing -- that’s because it was released last month on January 12th, with the standard January update cycle.

Gmail has two new security features. Users get to see whether their email was or will be encrypted in transit, and also whether other senders have been authenticated.

After a long winter frozen in the technological permafrost, it's springtime again in the field of artificial intelligence.

Engineer pilot fish working for a state agency gets a notification one September morning from IT by way of his boss: Something is using up all the space on his local hard disk.

Service-level agreements for cloud services are, at their core, more challenging than other SLAs because many cloud providers are unwilling to modify or adjust them. They want a relationship of “one to many,” with the same SLAs applicable to all of their customers.

President Barack Obama's administration has proposed a 1.3% increase in IT spending next fiscal year, raising the government's total IT budget to $89.9 billion. The overall proposed federal budget is $4.1 trillion.