Samsung has been disabling Microsoft’s Windows Update on its desktops and notebooks, leaving customers vulnerable to malware that targets already-patched vulnerabilities, a researcher reported yesterday. Microsoft confirmed the report, and said it is talking with Samsung about the Korean company crippling the default update service for all Windows PCs. The …
Музыкальный сервис Apple Music может вытеснить с рынка и довести до банкротства конкурирующий Spotify, предупреждают аналитики, опрошенные The Financial Times. Шведская компания не в состоянии конкурировать с американской по ставке лицензионных выплат за трансляцию музыкальных треков. …
Microsoft announced a private beta for a pair of new services Wednesday aimed at making its Office 365 service work better in schools. The new Classroom Hub is a website that brings together content from different Office applications into a single, central location that teachers and students can use to …
Одним из главных анонсов выставки E3 2015 стало объявление компании Microsoft об обратной совместимости консолей Xbox One и Xbox 360, которая позволяет бесплатно запускать ваши старые игры на новой приставке. …
DuckDuckGo moves past 10 million daily searches DuckDuckGo has been on a real tear lately in terms of attracting new users. The site has announced that it has moved past ten million daily queries. DuckDuckGo’s commitment to user privacy is clearly winning over many people. Barry Schwartz reports for Search …
Facebook wants to squeeze as much growth as it can out of its popular Messenger app, even if that means foregoing Facebook. While previously users had to sign up for Messenger with their Facebook accounts, now, in a few countries, it can be done with just a mobile telephone number. …
Китайский производитель смартфонов Xiaomi, который с недавних пор официально присутствует на российском рынке, продолжает стремительно наращивать продажи трубок, хотя география присутствия бренда ограничена несколькими странами. …
Slack is one of those rare startups that seem to defy the odds at just about every turn. Not long after the company joined the storied “unicorn club” last year, its valuation rose to $2.8 billion. This week, numerous new milestones attest to its continuing growth. Now well-known among enterprises …
Компании Apple присоединились к организации Bluetooth SIG в качестве Promoter Member, в то время, когда растет конкуренция среди беспроводных технологий с малым потреблением. Эксперты называют это высшим уровнем сотрудничества с консорциумом, который дает Apple право принимать участие в разработке новых стандартов. …
Google has partnered with Broad Institute to offer the biomedical research organization’s DNA analysis software as a service on the tech company’s Cloud Platform. The institute’s Genome Analysis Toolkit will run in Google Genomics, the company’s cloud service for life sciences research. Google positions the service as a platform for …
Microsoft today removed the preview label from its Office apps for Android, publishing the final versions of Excel, PowerPoint and Word to Google Play. Microsoft Word on Android lets consumers view, edit and save documents as long as they sign in using a Microsoft Account. To read this article in …
Новая версия операционной системы для компьютеров Mac – OS X El Capitan – по заявлению Apple, предоставляет пользователям множество различных усовершенствования в области функциональности, удобстве использования и производительности. Одним из завоеваний новой программной платформы стала графическая технология Metal, дебютировавшую в прошлом году в iOS. …
Snowflake Computing announced Tuesday that its cloud-based data warehouse service is available to all users. Called the Snowflake Elastic Data Warehouse, the service allows companies to pool all their data and workloads in a single warehouse that can be accessed by all their users. The warehouse is designed to handle …
ИБ-исследователи из компании «Доктор Веб» сообщают о росте числа различных рекламных приложений и установщиков для компьютеров Apple. Очередная подобная программа была замечена за распространением трояна семейства Trojan.Crossrider (по классификации Dr.Web). …
SUSE, one of the three major Open Source companies, has announced full support for Docker in production environments. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) already comes with Xen and KVM hypervisors which makes it a great fit in virtual and cloud environments. With the arrival of full support for Docker, SUSE …
I often hear that we can’t create natural language understanding (NLU), because we wouldn’t know how to represent meaning. But 30 years ago Professor George A. Miller, the famous psychologist and cognitive scientist, began WordNet. WordNet is a networked dictionary/thesaurus. You enter a word to find definitions and related meanings, …
Бывший федеральный агент США Карл Форс согласился пойти на сделку и признать себя виновным в краже биткоинов в ходе правительственного расследования деятельности подпольного интернет-магазина Silk Road, передает Reuters. …
When Red Hat announced a shift from server-client to cloud-mobile, it meant business and not just buzzwords. The company acquired FeedHenry, a cloud based mobile platform, and gradually started building its mobile stack along with cloud. At the Red Hat Summit in Boston this week, the company announced its Mobile …
We all use Wi-Fi hotspots — they make shopping, working, checking emails and just about everything else easier. But how much more of a risk is it to escape the kids and open up the laptop at the local coffee shop? Probability says it is safe but mobile users should arm themselves …
Команда исследователей HP Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) опубликовала код эксплоита, который может быть использован для эксплуатирования бреши в браузере Internet Explorer после того, как компания Microsoft отказалась выпускать исправление уязвимости. …
When 80 percent of employees say mobile technology is critical for getting their job done, but the same number say they haven’t asked their IT department for the apps they need because they don’t think they’d get what they need, that’s a sure sign of trouble. To read this article …
The good news about cyber criminals who go in for extortion is that they also tend to be liars. The bad news — they’re extremely difficult to catch. Wade Woolwine, manager of strategic services at Rapid7, has dealt with his share of blackmailers who steal sensitive data from enterprises and …
Getty Images присоединился к целому ряду компаний, пожаловавшихся в Еврокомиссию на Google. По мнению представителей фотоархива, ссылка в поиске Google на исходный файл фотографии специально расположена так, чтобы пользователю было трудно ее найти. …
Pressure is mounting in the European Union to subject companies including Google, Twitter, eBay and Facebook to the same critical IT infrastructure security requirements as banks or energy networks. EU lawmakers want providers of essential services in industries including banking, health care, transport and energy to protect their networks from …
Смартфон Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition, который в мае поступил в продажу в Китае, с завтрашнего дня станет доступным для заказа в Европе. …
Thanks to a continuous barrage of high-profile computer security scares and reports of cloud-scale government snooping, more of us Internet users are wising up about the security of our information. One of the smarter moves we can make to protect ourselves is to use a password manager. It’s one of …