A U.S. surveillance court has extended a controversial telephone records dragnet while the National Security Agency works to wind down the program on orders from Congress. Congress voted in June to rein in the NSA’s mass collection of U.S. telephone records, but the USA Freedom Act allowed for a six-month …
The head of Hewlett-Packard’s enterprise division will leave the company ahead of HP’s planned split later this year. Bill Veghte, a former Microsoft executive who joined HP five years ago, will leave the company later this summer to “pursue a new opportunity,” HP said in a statement on Tuesday. It’s …
А вы внимательно следите за анонсами китайской компании OnePlus — главного интригана этого лета? Как по расписанию, они сделали очередной анонс, посвященный их будущему флагманскому смартфону OnePlus 2. На сей раз фанаты компании и их устройств узнали, что в смартфоне появится сканер отпечатков пальцев. Мы видели что-то похожее на утекших …
An appeals court ruled against Apple’s challenge of a lower court’s decision which found the company liable for illegally conspiring with ebook publishers to jack up prices. A 3-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit voted 2 to 1 against Apple. Writing for the majority, …
Компания Intel открыла лабораторию Интернета вещей (IoT – Internet of things) Ignition Lab в Москве. В лаборатории представлены решения компаний на базе процессоров Intel для транспорта и энергетики, «умной» безопасности с возможностью управления через Интернет. Лаборатория Интернета вещей Intel даст возможность новым и существующим партнерам, разработчикам и интеграторам не только новые технологические …
Government agencies seeking the lowest bidders typically overlook cybersecurity when awarding contracts, and data breaches are the result, says a security rating expert. According to a review of 25 defense contractors by BitSight Technologies, the median security rating of these vendors is lower than that of the median score in …
As foreshadowed on Twitter yesterday, a new R Consortium of major vendors launched today aimed at “strengthen[ing] both the technical and user communities,” according to a Linux Foundation announcement. Founding members include Microsoft, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Oracle, along with well-known R players such as RStudio, Tibco Software and Mango Solutions …
Microsoft on Monday released another build of Windows 10, the first with the Edge browser branding. With build 10158, Microsoft marked the one-month countdown to the final code launch on July 29. Prominent in 10158 — which was issued only to testers on the “Fast” ring of Windows Insider — …
Microsoft could announce a write-off of a big part of its 2013 Nokia acquisition as early as Wednesday. The write-off was first signaled in late April, when Microsoft warned investors that the smartphone division was at an “elevated risk of impairment.” “Impairment” is a term used to describe the situation …
Вместе с обновлением iOS 8.4 компания Apple выпустила финальную версию OS X 10.10.4, которая направлена на устранение ошибок и улучшение быстродействия Mac. Загрузить апдейт можно на компьютерах с операционной системой OS X Yosemite. …
The Linux Foundation today announced the formation of the R Consortium, intended to strengthen the technical and user communities around the R language, a specialized programming language for statistical data analysis. Representatives from the R Foundation and industry representatives are behind the new consortium. Microsoft and RStudio have joined the …
Expect vendors soon to introduce devices with three forms of wireless support to Fast Identity Online (FIDO) two-factor authentication. The FIDO Alliance today is issuing a new specification for FIDO to support Bluetooth, low-energy Bluetooth (BLE) and near field communications (NFC) wireless technologies in two-factor authentication tokens, according to FIDO …
Cisco is acting quickly on its new Security Everywhere initiative with the announcement that it plans to buy Internet security service provider OpenDNS for $635 million in cash plus other considerations. In announcing Security Everywhere at the Cisco Live conference earlier this month the company said one element of the …
What if your laptop died on your next trip? Image by Shutterstock I’ve long had a backup Plan Bfor when I’m traveling, but only recently did I have to execute it. I’m happy to say it worked, but I had occasion to seriously consider the best way to protect my …
Социальная сеть Facebook в следующем месяце откроет африканский офис для расширения присутствия на континенте, пишет газета The Telegraph. …
Recent concerns from tech luminaries about a robot apocalypse may be overblown, but artificial intelligence researchers need to start thinking about security measures as they build ever more intelligent machines, according to a group of AI experts. The fields of AI and robotics can bring huge potential benefits to the …
Cisco Systems plans to pay $635 million in cash to buy OpenDNS, a company that leverages the Domain Name System (DNS) to provide security services including Web filtering, threat intelligence and malware and phishing protection. The DNS is a core Internet protocol. It’s used to translate Web addresses that are …
Intel has used a model it called “tick/tock” for about a decade now and that model has gone off without a hitch, but new challenges would indicate that model is changing. It used to be that Intel would introduce a new microarchitecture and die shrink at the same time. As …
Как и было обещано, компания Apple выпустила обновление своей мобильной операционной системы до версии iOS 8.4 и главным изменением стал новый музыкальный стриминговый сервис Music, который был представлен ранее в этом месяце на конференции WWDC 2015. Вместе с этим в iOS 8.4 было обновлено стандартное приложение “Музыка”, которое получило новый …
Не успела закончится презентация смартфона Huawei Honor 7 в Китае, как сразу началось мероприятие Meizu, где официально анонсировали долгожданный аппарат – MX5! Новинка, облаченная в металлический корпус, довольно тонкая – 7.6 мм, а если положить его на весы, то они покажут всего 149 граммов. Размер дисплея Super AMOLED по диагонали составляет …
Potentially saving the world from another online security disaster like last year’s Heartbleed, Amazon Web Services has released as open source a cryptographic module for securing sensitive data passing over the Internet. The software, s2n, is a new implementation of Transport Layer Security (TLS), a protocol for encrypting data. TLS …
В сеть утекла информация о 7 многопользовательских режимах Star Wars: Battlefront. На официальной испанской странице EA Star Wars в Facebook появилось перечисление всех режимов, которые появятся на момент релиза игры. …
В документации Intel появилось официальное упоминание процессоров следующего поколения Skylake, предназначенных для настольных компьютеров. …
European Union citizens will have to wait another couple of years before they are able to use their mobile phones anywhere within the EU without surcharge, after a compromise reached by lawmakers Monday night. The European Commission and Parliament had agreed on a target of the end of this year …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Goldman, Sachs & Co. with violating the market access rule in connection with a trading incident that resulted in erroneous executions of options contracts. Goldman Sachs agreed to pay a $7 million penalty to settle the charges. An SEC investigation found that Goldman …
Huawei isn’t a name that’s easy to pronounce. Nor has it been free of controversy. In 2012, U.S. politicians called the Chinese company a potential security threat. So it helps that Huawei is building up a separate consumer brand, one that’s been growing fast in China and hopes to take …