Новости за 10.05.2016

With allegations escalating that Facebook actively suppresses politically conservative news stories, the company has denied it's taking a political bend.

Opera Software yesterday released a free VPN (virtual private networking) app for Apple's iOS, the mobile operating system best known for powering the iPhone.

The database landscape is much more diverse than it once was, thanks in large part to big data, and on Tuesday, one of today's newer contenders unveiled an upcoming release featuring a major boost in security.

The G230 from Logitech is designed to enhance gameplay with clear, rich sound. Its soft earcup covers are adjustable, remain comfortable even after hours of use, and can be removed for easy cleaning. The mic is noise-cancelling, and folds away when not in use. Volume and mic controls are conveniently located, and reviewers indicate that the long 10-foot cord length is convenient as well. The unit averages 4 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 1,800 reviewers (read reviews). Its regular list price of $59.99 has been reduced by 35%... Читать дальше...

Congress should limit the ability of the FBI and other agencies to search for information about U.S. residents in a database of foreign terrorism communications collected by the National Security Agency, privacy advocates say.

Microsoft today declined to confirm that it will end the on-screen campaign that pesters Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users into upgrading to Windows 10.

Dropbox launched a new service on Tuesday to help graduate students, college faculty and staff collaborate on files while they’re at school. 

I am a frequent visitor to the busy outlet of Jason's Deli (in my mind, one of the best-managed chains in the food business). A few months ago, I came in at lunch and tried to use the automated kiosk to order the salad bar. The kiosk software was not running, and I was able to see the underlying Windows logo -- XP. The idea of processing credit cards on an unsupported XP machine is not one that promotes sound sleep. Fortunately, management resolved the issue in a few days, once the company realized the problem. Читать дальше...

Life is pretty stressful at Dropbox HQ. The company, once very much the darling of the so-called unicorn club, was comfortable in its billion dollar-plus valuation. After all, the hundreds of millions of people who use its product justify its valuation, right? Unfortunately, in today's funding and valuation crunch, users are less important than customers. That's a distinction which was surprisingly ignored only a few years ago, but today it's all about revenue.

A user group for enterprise IT managers is taking on software-defined networking, calling for new technologies they say would better serve enterprise needs.

Clinical trials of medications are a fairly arcane world with huge complexity, compliance requirement and cost. So it is interesting to see a platform launch that aims to change that -- as much as is possible within the constraints.

Apple subsidiary, FileMaker, has introduced version15 of its eponymous business-focused cross-platform relational database application for business users, swathed with a series of improvements with a focus on mobility, Web and iOS.

Artificial intelligence, machine intelligence, cognitive computing — whatever you want to call machines that are capable of understanding and acting upon their environment — is no longer solely the purview of highly credentialed lab directors and deep-thinking computer scientists. It has entered mainstream consciousness, and the public expects IT to play a leadership role as machine learning enters our workplaces, our living spaces and our lives. Will you be ready?

A hefty funding round in difficult times for Dyn, the company that is focused on ensuring that the Internet works as fast as possible. Well, not quite the entire Internet, but they're focused on making sure that their customers get the best internet performance.

Whenever creating a budget, there is always the rainy day fund or the contingency account in case of unexpected circumstances. But what if those circumstances are a data breach that is bigger than you could have ever imagined? And you don’t have cyberinsurance?

Over the past week security researchers have seen increasing attempts by hackers to find servers vulnerable to remote code execution vulnerabilities recently found in the ImageMagick Web server library.

Feds probing slow security by smartphone makers and carriers. The FCC and FTC are looking into complaints of long delays to OTA updates -- even when it's critical security vulnerabilities that need patching.

A proposed settlement between Uber and drivers in California and Massachusetts may have saved the company over $600 million in payouts to drivers on work-related expenses.

A lawyer, an accountant and a retired CFO are among the eight women and two men who were selected Monday to decide Oracle’s huge copyright infringement case against Google.

Vendor management once meant squeezing service providers for the lowest costs. That approach won't fly today.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has found evidence that at least one employee of Bangladesh’s central bank was involved in the theft of $81 million from the bank through a complex hack, according to a newspaper report.

It's no secret that much of the wisdom of the world lies in unstructured data, or the kind that's not necessarily quantifiable and tidy. So it is in cybersecurity, and now IBM is putting Watson to work to make that knowledge more accessible.

Microsoft is shutting down its MSN portal in China on June 7, as pressure appears to be building on content services from foreign companies in a country that already bans access to Facebook and Twitter.

In the early days of computing, developers were often jacks of all trades, handling virtually any task needed for software to get made. As the field matured, jobs grew more specialized. Now we're seeing a similar pattern in a brand-new domain: Big data.

This pilot fish is driving to a job interview in an unfamiliar area -- and he's not taking any chances with the local traffic cops.