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Deadly terrorist attacks on Friday in Paris, apparently planned by ISIS, have ignited a new round of concerns over encryption on smartphones.

Jaleh Daie is managing partner at Aurora Equity. A life scientist and Women in Technology International hall of famer, she is a strategic leader with extensive operational and board experience. She has served the administrations of three presidents, Rutgers University and University of Wisconsin-Madison, as head of science at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and as the “first woman” in numerous leadership positions.

It would be difficult to overstate the impact container technology is having on the software development world, so it's no wonder vendors large and small are jumping on board with tailored offerings. The latest example: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which just rolled out an entire portfolio of Docker-focused products.

In times of grief and fear, people from around the world turned to social networks to search for loved ones and to share feelings of support, anger and sadness.

Google today announced it will offer various rewards to users who post reviews, upload photos or simply fix outdated information on its Local Guides feature on Google Maps.

In the wake of the horrific attacks in Paris, military operations against ISIS terrorist strongholds have increased. When someone hits you, it’s natural to hit back. But can you win by killing an enemy that seeks death — and when those who are killed inspire desperate others to replace them?

Less than a day after the horrific attacks in Paris, Daesh (al-dowla al-islaamiyya fii-il-i'raaq wa-ash-shaam, a.k.a. ISIS/ISIL) took the Al-Hayat propaganda machine to the Darknet and published a new video celebrating the Paris attacks.

Thousands of mobile applications, including popular ones, implement cloud-based, back-end services in a way that lets anyone access millions of sensitive records created by users, according to a recent study.

Apple CEO Tim Cook has again rejected the idea of following in the footsteps of rival Microsoft to build a notebook that runs his company's mobile operating system, iOS.

Intel wants to change the game in desktop computing with a workstation that packs its upcoming, 72-core supercomputing chip.

There's been a slight delay, but the latest version of Intel's fastest processor ever will finally reach supercomputers early next year.

It might seem like a lifetime ago, but it was only last December when Silicon Valley startup CoreOS dropped a bit of a bombshell with a full-frontal assault on Linux container kingpin Docker's hegemony. For those who didn't follow, CoreOS announced a breakaway container specification and, in a preemptive strike, timed it perfectly to correspond with Docker's European conference. CoreOS also came out with a serious statement critiquing its perceived Docker failings.

Jonathan Petit, Security Innovation’s principal scientist, presented “Self-driving and connected cars: Fooling sensors and tracking drivers” (pdf) at Black Hat Europe in Amsterdam. One of the key takeaways was that “fooling camera-based systems is easy and cheap.” For instance, it takes less than $60 worth of off-the-shelf hardware to successfully defeat a LiDAR ibeo LUX 3 system that costs thousands of dollars and is responsible for sensing obstacles.

The end of Daylight Saving Time in the Northern Hemisphere signals the lateness of another year, and that means it’s budget time again at my company. I’m looking to fund some new ideas about how to keep us safe in an increasingly dangerous online world.

Listen up, retailers: Your merged channel strategies should be about leveraging all channels in a way that makes the most sense for the shopper. They should not be an attempt to feed all shoppers into whatever channel you find the most profitable.

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A useful hint to get this started: If you use the iPad Pro with a keyboard then you can access a huge number of shortcuts you might already use with your Mac. Not every app has these shortcuts and you can expect developers to introduce them to their apps in future. To list what shortcuts are available inside any app just hold down the ‘Command’ key. Most Apple apps have shortcuts, though Apple Music has none, which is weird.

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Supercomputer spending is increasingly focusing on energy efficiency rather than raw performance, the latest edition of the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers suggests.

Web analytics and tracking cookies play a vital role in online advertising, but they can also help attackers discover potential targets and their weaknesses, a new report shows.

The shortage of skilled IT workers may be troublesome to hiring managers, but according to a study by TEKsystems, it has resulted in at least one positive side effect for the current IT workforce: lower stress.

Microsoft last week gave businesses a way to delay potentially disruptive or even damaging Windows 10 security patches and bug fixes for up to four weeks.

Two ex-Apple design “legends” are ripping into Tim Cook’s magical gang. Apparently, Cupertino has lost its way, focusing on prettiness over usability.

Facebook's Safety Check tool to help users alert friends about their safety was activated for the first time after the terror attack in Paris on Friday, with a large number of users reporting they had benefited from it.

My first Dragon for Mac 5 installation experience wasn't pretty. I've been using Nuance's Dragon for the Mac for several years and experience has taught me that with any major new version of the product, it's prudent to wait two to three weeks for the inevitable minor revisions in hopes that the program will become a bit more refined. Unfortunately that wasn't the case.

A lot has been written about servers based on ARM processors, but there's little data about how many are actually being used in production. That’s still the case, but we now have another large customer that’s at least admitted to trying them out -- and its reasons for doing so are not good for Intel.

Facebook last week launched a news app called Notify. I know. Boring, right? Another news app. But there is a reason behind Facebook’s seemingly innocuous decision.