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Finally, a big tech announcement that's not about Apple.

In case you missed it, Google on Tuesday rolled out a variety of new devices, everything from smartphones -- the Pixel -- to Google Home and Google Wifi. Oh and it unveiled Google Assistant, which ties everything together with a witch's brew of artificial intelligence and voice recognition.

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AT&T and IBM said Wednesday they have teamed up to offer more cloud networking services to businesses.

The FBI has arrested a U.S. government contractor for allegedly stealing classified documents, possibly including hacking tools.

Aug. 25 may be Linux's official birthday, but Oct. 5 is in many ways the day it began to make a real mark on the world. That's when Linux creator Linus Torvalds officially released the first Linux kernel into the wild.

A federal judge has ruled it is plausible that four national credit-card companies improperly conspired “in lockstep” to set a deadline of Oct. 1, 2015 for requiring retailers to upgrade their technology to accept embedded chip cards for credit and debit card purchases.

Celebrating cyberscariness month

October is not only Cybersecurity Awareness Month; it ends with Halloween. So I worked with some folks at Globalscape to come up with a set of Cybersecurity Awareness Month tips.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella received a compensation package for the year ending June 30 worth approximately $17.7 million, a 3% reduction from 2015, according to security filings.

By now, I suspect that most everyone is familiar with the Wells Fargo scandal. For those that have been living under a rock for a few days, approximately 5,300 Wells Fargo employees have lost their jobs because they were opening fraudulent accounts in the names of unsuspecting customers in an effort to hit their incentive bonus targets.

Whew -- what a week for Google.

In case you were in the midst of deep-sea scuba diving and missed it, the company unveiled a tidal wave of new devices at a splashy event on Tuesday. There's an Eero-like Wi-Fi system, an Echo-like voice assistant gadget, and yet another new and improved Chromecast.

Perhaps most noteworthy, however, are Google's new flagship Android phones -- the Pixel and Pixel XL, which carry the honor of being the first Android phones ever to be designed, engineered, and distributed solely by Google. Читать дальше...

I like Windows 10. But I don’t like getting stuck in eternal reboot hell.

Amazon has quietly released a good deal on its popular Kindle series of e-readers, but it's available only to Prime Members, or anyone who has an active 30-day free trial. For a limited time, Kindle's price sinks from $80 to $50, Kindle Paperwhite from $120 down to $90, the Kindle Voyage drops from $200 to just $150, and the worry-free Kindle for Kids Bundle is reduced from $125 to $100. Which dovetails with the new "Prime Reading" benefit they just announced (See: "Prime Members Now Get Unlimited Reading On Any Device... Читать дальше...

Hacker Guccifer 2.0 now claims to have hacked the Clinton Foundation, but the documents posted show Democratic campaign data from organizations already compromised.

Yahoo has called a Reuters article about a secret email scanning program "misleading," and said no such system exists. 

Researchers at Northwestern University have created a 3D printable ink that creates a synthetic material implantable in human patients and that quickly induces bone regeneration and growth.

UPS operates in more than 220 countries and territories with more than 1,800 facilities, with a delivery fleet of over 100,000 ground vehicles and over 500 aircraft (both owned and charter). So when the company’s vice president of IT Kim Felix talks about the challenge of building a business intelligence system to manage UPS’s transportation network, you can imagine the size and scale of data she’s dealing with — 8,700 events per second, every second of the day, Felix says.

Amazon has just announced one more compelling reason to consider a Prime membership -- "Prime Reading". As a Prime member, you now have unlimited access to over a thousand books, current issue magazines, comics, Kindle Singles, and more. With access from any device – including your phone, tablet, or Kindle – so you can read as much as you want, however you want, and whenever you want. Learn more about the new benefit and/or the other benefits of a Prime membership (free 2-day shipping, streaming movies & TV... Читать дальше...

In order to encrypt some of the most important data stored on computers and servers, the Cerber ransomware now tries to kill processes associated with database servers.

After fighting a gag order, Moxie Marlinspike, the founder of Open Whisper Systems, went public with details of a federal subpoena (pdf) demanding Signal subscribers’ information and communication records.

Google may have killed the Android industry yesterday, introducing “Pixel-first” features and taking on its biggest partner, Samsung, at the high end of the fragmented market.

How do you disrupt the U.S. election? Hacking a voter registration database could very well do just that.

What makes Google Google? Arguably it is machine intelligence, along with a vast sea of data to apply it to. While you may never have as much data to process as Google does, you can use the very same machine learning and neural network library as Google. That library, TensorFlow, was developed by the Google Brain team over the past several years and released to open source in November 2015.

Panasonic has developed a data transmission system that can exchange information through human touch.

Every time there's an election, the topic of hacking one comes to the surface. During a presidential election, that conversation gets louder. Yet, even the elections held every two years see some sort of vote hacking coverage. But can you really hack an election? Maybe, but that depends on your goals.

Voting machines are privately manufactured and developed and, as with other many other IT systems, the code is typically proprietary.

The upcoming U.S. presidential election can be rigged and sabotaged, and we might never even know it happened.