Новости за 03.02.2017

The U.K.’s defense secretary is accusing Russia of using cyberattacks to “disable” democratic processes across the West, and he's demanding that NATO fight back.

Mozilla confirmed that it is shuttering a group tasked with creating an operating system for connected devices, the category pegged as the "Internet of things," or IoT.

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Microsoft will likely wait until February 14 to fix a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the SMB network file sharing protocol that can be exploited to crash Windows computers.

Micron is rushing to release the latest GDDR6 graphics memory by the end of the year, and e-sports is a major driver behind the plans.

The implementation of the SMB network file sharing protocol in Windows has a serious vulnerability that could allow hackers to, at the very least, remotely crash systems.

Enterprise apps, from CRM to ERP to marketing automation, have long had a common structure.

2.5A is now a requirement for the Raspberry Pi 3. The CanaKit 2.5A Raspberry Pi power supply / adapter has been specially designed and tested for the new Raspberry Pi 3 and incorporates an inline noise filter for highest stability and reliable operation. This power supply differs from typical standard 5V USB power supplies in the market in that it can deliver a full 2.5A and still output a voltage well within the USB minimum voltage specifications. Standard 5V USB power supplies in the market... Читать дальше...

Apple Pay is much more than a frictionless and secure payments service, Apple also thinks it will help accelerate the digital transformation of the banking industry.

Microsoft has detailed some of the changes coming to its Edge browser in the Windows 10 Creators Update, which is expected to arrive in April. People with access to the Windows Insider Preview builds have detailed these changes in reports, but this puts everything together in one neat package. There's even a video showing off the new features.

Over the past year I've reviewed half a dozen open source machine learning and/or deep learning frameworks: Caffe, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit (aka CNTK 2), MXNet, Scikit-learn, Spark MLlib, and TensorFlow. If I had cast my net even wider, I might well have covered a few other popular frameworks, including Theano (a 10-year-old Python deep learning and machine learning framework), Keras (a deep learning front end for Theano and TensorFlow), and DeepLearning4j (deep learning software for Java and Scala on Hadoop and Spark). Читать дальше...

Facebook knows a lot about you.

Depending on what you tell it, Facebook knows who your friends are, where you work, who you are in a relationship with, even your phone number. And now it knows not just what objects are in the photos your post, but what is happening in them, also. But how does it know all that?

In IT Blogwatch, Facebook tells all. 

So what exactly is going on? Thorin Klosowski has the background:

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Time was, you could slap a couple of sensors and a battery into a plastic wristband, layer some software around it, tell the world you were in the wearables business, and watch the money roll in. Those days are long gone (although there are still the inevitable bottom feeders fighting for scraps). Now, wearables are actually doing useful and interesting things, with lots of innovation on display.

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It's the early 1990s, and time for the sales guys in a remote office to enter the world of PCs, says an IT pilot fish who's supposed to make it happen.

Apple plans to start assembling the iPhone in Bangalore by the end of April under a contract manufacturing arrangement with Taiwan's Wistron.

Over the next five years, the company behind Snapchat will pay Google at least $2 billion in cloud bills.

The internet is what made IoT happen, providing a common protocol to take the place of separate, specialized networks. But the public internet itself may not always be the best path between a connected device and the cloud.

The rocketship of cloud growth continued at the end of 2016 for Amazon Web Services. The public cloud provider announced Thursday that it brought in a little more than $3.5 billion during the fourth quarter of the year, up 47 percent from the same period in 2015. Quarterly operating income rose 60 percent to $926 million, compared to $580 million during the prior year quarter. 

Sanctions imposed by former President Obama on Russia for hacking during the U.S. election had an unintended side effect: they essentially barred U.S. tech firms from selling new IT products in the country.