Новости за 13.04.2016

The burden of Microsoft's efforts to secure Windows 10 is now falling on PC, tablet and smartphone makers.

When a 42-year-man arrived in a Camden, N.J. emergency room with an irregular heartbeat recently, physicians were unsure whether they could use a defibrillator to shock his heart back into a normal rhythm.

Facebook’s quest to improve Internet access has come down to Earth with experimental wireless gear for cities and rural areas.

The arrival of the Zika virus in the U.S. is raising questions. Will it affect business travel? Will it hurt recruiting in affected regions? Does it pose supply chain problems? The answer may be yes to all those questions.

Mozilla is trying to come up with a next-generation browser, but according to company executives, seems uncertain whether to retain the current Firefox technology or switch to something else, perhaps the same that powers Google's Chrome.

Imagine a day when you're catching up with your college roommate in London as you sit in your office in Boston -- just like you would if you were in the same room together.

Ever since North Korea directly connected to the Internet in 2010, there's been a lot of interest in how the world's most closed country maintains and uses the link.

If you haven’t embraced backups yet because you think you are so tech savvy that you wouldn’t open spam email or fall for social engineering tricks, then brace yourself for cryptoworms. Security researchers warned that self-propagating ransomware, the semi-autonomous kind that doesn’t need any help from humans to spread, is coming in the future.

Identity management, as Gartner defines it, is the "security discipline that enables the right individuals to access the right resources at the right times for the right reasons." It sounds like a lofty ideal, but it is at once elemental and essential and, according to Gartner, is "a crucial undertaking for any enterprise."

The FBI reportedly paid professional hackers a one-time fee for a previously unknown vulnerability that allowed the agency to unlock the iPhone of San Bernardino shooter.

Everspin today announced it's shipping samples of the industry's most dense magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM), which can replace standard DRAM for write caching operations as it's 10,000 times faster than NAND flash.

SAN FRANCISCO --  According to one Facebook executive, if you think you're drowning in a flood of information now, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

With rivals Nvidia and AMD both offering graphics processors, Intel is now deploying screaming co-processors of its own -- in the form of FPGAs.

PC shipments plummeted in the first quarter, dropping 11.5% compared to the year before, researcher IDC said Monday.

A U.S. House of Representatives committee has advanced a bill to give email and cloud-stored data new privacy protections from law enforcement searches.

The Privacy Shield trans-Atlantic data transfer arrangement is better than its predecessor, Safe Harbor, but still not good enough, European Union data protection authorities said Wednesday.

The Defensive Security Podcast talked last week about comments made by the California attorney general in releasing a study of data breaches in that state. While the report itself did not include any earth-shattering insights, a related comment has caused quite a stir in the information security community. The AG indicated that those organizations not implementing the 20 controls discussed in the Center for Internet Security's Critical Security Controls document would not be considered to have... Читать дальше...

This April, Microsoft has released another large batch of Windows updates with six rated as critical and the remaining seven rated as important.

Microsoft and the Samba project fixed a vulnerability in their implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol after the flaw was initially announced three weeks ago under the name Badlock.

Is an intelligent robot capable of taking over your job? New research implies the answer is probably yes — if not now, then very soon. Fortune magazine recently stated that “technological unemployment” is a significant factor in the rising number of working-age men who are without jobs.

There are some things you just don't need -- until the price plummets to $25 and then you can't grab your wallet fast enough. The Etekcity Lasergrip 630 Digital Infrared Thermometer Temperature Gun uses dual lasers to instantly measure the temperature of almost anything you can shoot it at. List price is $70, but with the current 63% off deal you can snag it for just $25.99. The gun gets 4.5 out of 5 stars from over 200 reviewers (read reviews). Check electrical components, oven & fridge temps... Читать дальше...

When IDC and Gartner tell us PC sales are slumping while Apple’s remain steady you know something’s changed. They’ve changed dramatically, according to the latest data from JAMF Software’s latest survey, which shows that 75 percent of employees will choose a Mac if they get the opportunity to choose.

At 7 a.m. this morning, a robot told me the weather.

It wasn’t audible, although my phone chimed. It was The Weather Channel bot on the messaging app Kik. A message popped up, and then I asked for the forecast. I asked about the weather in Cupertino, and the robot balked. (You can only ask about local weather conditions.) So much for The Terminator taking over.

As we all learned recently when the Tay chatbot on Twitter became racist and offensive, chatbots are not that intelligent yet. Читать дальше...

Intel's keynotes can be fun, with robots parading on stage and drones zigzagging around the room. Now Intel's making new hardware to help enthusiasts join the fun by building robots and drones at home.

IT departments are playing second fiddle to operations people as enterprises tune up for the Internet of Things.