Новости за 16.08.2016

Not even the National Security Agency is immune to carelessness, according to noted leaker Edward Snowden. The agency’s operatives can get lazy, and sometimes they leave behind files inside the servers they’ve hacked.

Today’s financial technology startups (“fintech” for short) are taking on some of today’s greatest security challenges. Armed with drive and a need for innovation, these companies have created new services and security approaches that are changing the financial industry. Here’s how three such companies are competing based on security.

Donald Trump’s call for "extreme vetting" of visa applications, as well as the temporary suspension of immigration from certain countries, would raise fees and add delays for anyone seeking a visa, including H-1B visas, immigration experts said.

There are a lot of knobs to tweak when making a home router as secure as possible. I keep a pretty comprehensive checklist of router security features on my RouterSecurity.org website. 

Ford Motor Co. today announced its plans to begin mass producing a fully autonomous vehicle by 2021 that it will sell for ride hailing markets such as Uber.

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Microsoft yesterday announced that beginning in October it will offer only cumulative security updates for Windows 7 and 8.1, ending the decades-old practice of letting customers choose which patches they apply.

A compact computer called Euclid from Intel should make the development of robots much easier.

Microsoft is bringing Windows Holographic to the masses with a forthcoming update to Windows 10, in a move to make it easier to blend physical and digital reality on any PC. 

Intel isn't yet shipping its Optane SSDs, but they soon will be available for testing in the cloud.

I was first exposed to Salesforce a decade ago, while working for a nonprofit organization that helped at-risk youth. We provided a variety of programs to eradicate school drop-outs, excessive alcohol consumption, and criminal behavior.

Intel isn't known for its graphics processors, but the company is promising a big improvement with its 7th generation Core processors, code-named Kaby Lake.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: A company called Google just released a new chat app...

Ford and China's leading search engine company, Baidu, announced today that they've each invested $75 million in Velodyne LiDAR Inc., a Silicon Valley maker of laser technology that allows cars to autonomously navigate.

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Google is continuing its campaign to entice enterprises to its public cloud platform by rolling out database services stable enough to serve businesses' production workloads.  

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, a controversial trade deal supported by many U.S. tech companies, is on death row, with both major party presidential candidates opposed. 

The U.S. presidential campaign has shined a spotlight on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade deal that's simmered on the back burner for years.

Three civil rights groups have filed a formal complaint against Baltimore City police for using cell site simulator technology to investigate potential crimes, calling the process racially biased and unauthorized.

If you've been watching the Olympics in the U.S., you have certainly seen the inescapable ads for Samsung's Galaxy Note7 phone. But these crushingly ubiquitous ads emphasize the phone's stylus without mentioning two of its prime attractions: its terrific screen and its enhanced security features.

Apple allegedly plans to get rid of the headphone jack in the next iPhone. In order to listen to audio you’ll need to use Lightning or Bluetooth compatible earphones, or the iPhone’s internal speaker. Here’s the good, bad and (potentially) ugly of Apple’s decision.

A ransomware strain has been making a pretty penny by opening its doors to unskilled hackers. 

Other than having to switch between "/" and "\" when I'm moving from Unix systems to Windows systems, one of the most annoying (and seemingly pointless) differences is the way that these two competing operating systems insist on terminating lines in text files.

Many IT leaders complain constantly that they can’t satisfy their users because their budget doesn’t provide enough money for new services. Meanwhile, many unsatisfied users complain that IT should not be given more money until new services are delivered. It’s a vicious circle.

If there is one thing we don't have enough of, it is video chatting apps.