Новости за 09.03.2016

What: Cloud-based accounting software vendor Xero is launching a U.S.-specific product aimed squarely at workers in the freelance economy. Xero TaxTouch is, according to the release:  

Slow-loading Web pages are surely one of the top frustrations on the Internet today, but new technology from MIT and Harvard promises to change all that. Announced on Wednesday, Polaris is a framework that determines how to sequence the downloading of a page's objects for faster load times overall.

The KeRanger file-encrypting ransomware program for Mac OS X contains crypto flaws that could allow users to recover their files without paying cybercriminals.

After previously cancelling this month's planned launch of NASA's Mars probe, the space agency announced today that the InSight mission now is set to lift off in May 2018.

Qualcomm has been established in mobile devices for some time now, but it's still trying to jumpstart the market for its chips in servers. So in an effort to exploit advanced features on its server chips and appeal to as many developers as possible, Qualcomm is working with Red Hat to port a version of the Enterprise Linux Server for ARM Development Preview.

Japan's Mizuho Bank is considering using blockchain technology to speed the cross-border transfer of financial instruments.

The enterprise file sharing and synchronization (EFSS) space is a cutthroat world. With a huge number of vendors (too many if you ask me) and some serious funding having been poured into the space, people are gunning to build defensible momentum. And sometimes that comes out in unfortunate ways. Case in point: a pitch I received a while ago from Alfresco.

You’ve been following all the rules – from how to best lure new readers to your site to which stories to share with them once they’re there. But have you taken user friendliness into account for those searching for something specific on your news/media site?

Following Microsoft’s recent practice of issuing large updates covering multiple versions of Microsoft IE, Office as well as both desktop and server OS platforms, the 13 updates for March probably represents the new “average” Patch Tuesday payload. Five of the updates are rated as critical, while the remaining eight are rated as important, together covering 44 newly reported security vulnerabilities. In addition to these Microsoft patches, I expect that we will see an update to Adobe’s Flash player. Читать дальше...

Could that plane flying overhead actually be a Pentagon drone on a spying mission over U.S. soil? Yes, apparently, although the Pentagon said when it has deployed spy drones on non-military missions over the U.S. that it was done lawfully.

Intuit yesterday said it had sold its QuickBase unit, the third group it's unloaded since January, to a New York private equity firm.

I stood in line for about 30 minutes. I didn’t really know what else to do. I read online that it was the only way to make any progress in the early stages of my deployment. It wasn’t a bug. It turned into a massive social experiment, and it’s still underway.

Microsoft has fixed 39 vulnerabilities in multiple Windows components, Internet Explorer, Edge, Office and .NET Framework, many of which allow for remote code execution.

Over the past decade Bank of America has grown by leaps and bounds internally and through an array of mergers and acquisitions. From a technical standpoint, that growth has created a complex and disparate set of data centers, computing architectures and vendor relationships.

Machine learning is an obvious complement to a cloud service that also handles big data. Often the major reason to collect massive amounts of observables is to predict other values of interest to the business. For example, one of the reasons to collect massive numbers of anonymized credit card transactions is to predict whether a new transaction is valid or fraudulent with some likelihood.

Google DeepMind's AlphaGo artificial-intelligence system has won the first game in a cliffhanger Go match with top player Lee Se-dol, raising expectations afresh about whether machines can be programmed to overtake humans in intellectual capabilities.

Let's Encrypt, an organization set up to encourage broader use of encryption on the Web, has distributed 1 million free digital certificates in just three months.

Microsoft has released the next version of its Dynamics AX enterprise resource planning software, giving companies a path to running more of their businesses in the cloud.

The Indian government has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization alleging that the U.S. is breaking trade rules with special fees and changes to the 65,000 H-1B cap.

Hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD) makers are about to wow the storage market again.

This pilot fish is doing phone screening for a Linux sysadmin position, but the resume for one of the candidates HR has sent him seems, well, a little off.

Ever left your iPhone behind in a restaurant or bar and only realized your mistake much later on? If you own an Apple Watch this never needs to happen, thanks to a useful new app that will warn you when you leave your phone behind.

Not so long ago, the world of storage was pretty straightforward. All conversations were about external storage, and external storage was all about storage area networks (SANs) or network attached storage (NAS). It was all very predictable and manageable but, truth to tell, not too exciting.

Home Depot has agreed to pay as much as $19.5 million to remedy the giant data breach it suffered in 2014, the company confirmed on Tuesday.

Qualcomm's elusive server chips have been available only to top-tier cloud players, but now any developer will be able to work with them using a new cloud service.