Новости за 14.09.2016

The ride-hailing service Uber today announced that a small fleet of self-driving cars is  now serving customers in Pittsburgh along with its more typical fleet of privately-owned vehicles and their drivers.

Have you ever put your hand into a fish tank filled with guppies? They nibble on your fingers, but they are so small that their bites don’t hurt. Leave your hand in the tank long enough for your skin to get soft, though, and the guppies can begin to inflict damage.

In just five years, intelligent systems and robots may have taken up to 6% of U.S. jobs, according to Forrester Research in a report released this week.

Memory management can be challenge enough on traditional data sets, but when big data enters the picture, things can slow way, way down. A new programming language announced by MIT this week aims to remedy that problem, and so far it's been found to deliver fourfold speed boosts on common algorithms.

Although Apple stumbled yesterday as it issued iOS 10, the new mobile operating system has gained traction to outpace last year's upgrade by the end of its first full day.

Automakers and legislators appear to be coming together on the need for greater cybersecurity for vehicles that are increasingly connected to the internet and controlled by ever-more sophisticated computer systems and software.

Developers can now distribute their Windows desktop apps to people shopping through Windows 10's app store, with an update from Microsoft Wednesday.

Microsoft never sleeps. Even before the Windows 10 Anniversary Update was rolled out, the company began work on the next two major updates to Windows 10, code-named Redstone 2 and Redstone 3. (Redstone 1 was the code name for the Windows 10 Anniversary Update.) Redstone 2 will likely be fully ready in the spring of 2017. It's not yet clear when Redstone 3 will be finished.

AWS, or Amazon Web Services, is the premier cloud computing platform that services companies worldwide. Master this in-demand platform, and you’re certain to command a hefty paycheck.

As cars become more computerized, they're also facing a greater risk of being hacked. That’s why Volkswagen is founding a new cyber security company devoted to protecting next-generation vehicles.

With little fanfare, JPMorgan Chase on Monday (Sept. 12) reversed its security position on its mobile app, removing the need to type in a password once a customer has already been authenticated by either Apple's Touch ID or an Android biometric scan. Before Monday, Chase customers could log in using a biometric scan and see things such as balances but needed to authenticate themselves again with a password for transferring funds or making a payment. Now the biometric scan is sufficient for all bank functions. Читать дальше...

Adobe Systems has fixed more than 30 vulnerabilities in its Flash Player and Digital Editions products, most of which could be exploited to remotely install malware on computers.

A proposed reform of European Union copyright law grants online news publishers additional rights that could lead to the closure of services such as Google News if strictly enforced.

The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has backpedalled on its plan to take up an increasingly controversial H-1B bill.

In flash storage these days, it takes more than speed to win over many enterprises.

WikiLeaks released a 678.4 MB zipped file of new DNC documents provided by Guccifer 2.0. The hacker had been scheduled to live-stream at the Future of Cyber Security Europe conference in London. However, Guccifer 2.0 opted to use a proxy to read pre-written remarks and announce the newest DNC data dump.

Consider this scenario: Someone logs on to amazon.com using password xyz123. Then, they logon to gmail, where their password is also xyz123. Then, they logon to Facebook, where, yet again, their password is xyz123.

Microsoft released one of its biggest security updates this year, fixing 50 vulnerabilities in its products and 26 more in Flash Player, which is bundled with its Edge browser.

Microsoft traditionally has a large patch release for September. This September's Patch Tuesday is no exception with 14 updates, seven rated as critical, seven rated as important, altogether resolving a total of 50 reported vulnerabilities.

This power bank from Poweradd delivers huge power. Its 20000mAh capacity means you can charge an iPhone 6 eight times, Samsung S6 over five times, or a a large capacity iPad Air 2 almost twice.  It will auto-detect the status of your device, to intelligently deliver power at the fastest possible speed with 2.1A max output. 900+ people rate this item 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon (read reviews), and its typical list price of $49.99 has been reduced a generous 56% to just $21.88.

Numerous Slack contenders have already thrown their hats into the enterprise-messaging ring, but Flock is hoping to win with hard numbers. According to Flock, not only does its software load 2.5 times faster than Slack on both desktop and mobile devices, but it also helps teams achieve productivity gains of at least 30 percent.

If enterprise agility and innovation is the key to survival and success, then much of those outcomes will be driven by enterprise developers building solutions -- be they internally facing ones or eternal customer-facing ones. In the quest to enable developers to build more quickly and efficiently, we have seen a huge growth in modular developer tools that offload a specific functional area thus allowing developers to focus on what really counts -- coming up with creative solutions.

If you've never used the lsof command or used it only for one specific purpose, you might be delighted to learn how many ways the lsof (list open files) command can help you manage your servers. lsof is the Unix/Linux command that allows you to list open files or identify the processes that particular files have open. Handy for evaluating system security as well as troubleshooting, lsof features a large range of options that allow it to be used in numerous ways – sometimes even surpassing the... Читать дальше...

Cisco Systems and Apple have been working together to implement enterprise-focused business communications features beginning with Wi-Fi connectivity, VoIP, collaboration and app prioritization improvements. One year on and the first results have appeared within iOS 10. I spoke with Rowan Trollope, Cisco’s SVP GM of IoT and Applications Group to find out more.

Free Wi-Fi for all: That was one of the proposals to come out of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's annual State of the European Union address on Wednesday.