Несмотря на многочисленные предупреждения, наши соотечественники продолжают попадаться на удочки аферистов. Одной из последних уловок выманить у доверчивых граждан деньги стало представление себя работниками банков. Так, в минувшие выходные по такой схеме мошенники нажились на 11 тысяч гривен. …
Почему пользователи Android и iOS настолько отличаются? Одни ратуют за большие диагонали дисплеев, в то время, как другие еще не так давно убеждали, что 4-дюймов хватает за глаза. Вряд ли на мнение людей влияют лишь фанбойские предпочтения. Сравнение интерфейсов iOS 9 и Android M наглядно аргументирует тягу любителей Зеленого робота …
Sometimes the best tool for the job is the oldest one in the toolshed. For its new Moments photo-sharing application, Facebook eschewed the crop of currently fashionable mobile development platforms in favor of coding in the venerable C++ programming language. As a result, the company is able to maintain a …
LastPass users will be prompted to change their master passwords after the online password locker company reported that its network was breached on Friday. The company revealed the breach in a blog post Monday after investigating “suspicious activity” discovered by its security team. According to LastPass, the investigation did not …
Microsoft used the E3 conference to show off the gaming capabilities of HoloLens, demonstrating how the augmented reality headset can be used to play a version of Minecraft designed for the device. The HoloLens version of Minecraft will allow a person to play the game on nearly any surface, Microsoft …
Разработчики Cisco опубликовали 16 патчей, устраняющих различные уязвимости в программных продуктах компании. Большинство этих брешей позволяют потенциальным злоумышленникам вызвать отказ в обслуживании, либо скомпрометировать атакуемую систему. …
As if the all the controversy over LTE networks crowding out Wi-Fi isn’t enough, a new technology in the works at Qualcomm Research might allow a lot more people to set them up. LTE was designed to run on frequencies licensed by mobile operators for their exclusive use. But an …
The White House has ordered federal agencies to take immediate steps to make some basic cybersecurity fixes. The move follows a massive breach of government employee records. Agencies were told to scan systems and check logs for indicators of threats, patch critical vulnerabilities “without delay,” as well as tighten policies …
Facebook has taken a step away from its main site to develop what it thinks is a better way to share photos privately. Moments, released Monday for iOS and Android, is a standalone app that will organize the photos on people’s smartphones, and let users share them privately with a …
Twitter представила возможность импортировать и экспортировать списки заблокированных пользователей. Это позволит клиентам социальной сети делится информацией о людях, занимаются онлайн-преследованием, рекламой или другой неблагонадёжной деятельностью. …
Apple not only needs the Mac, but to propose otherwise is simply foolish, analysts contended today when reacting to a Wall Street Journal story that said the Cupertino, Calif. company couldn’t afford to spend time and money on personal computers. “That piece couldn’t be more off base,” said Patrick Moorhead, …
Microsoft will sharpen Bing’s security when it starts encrypting all of its search traffic by default this summer. Bing has offered HTTPS encryption for the past year and a half as an opt-in feature, but now Microsoft will default to locking down everybody’s search queries. Providing encryption gives a new …
Dell has added Pluribus Networks to its lineup of disaggregation partners. Dell will now offer Pluribus’ Open Netvisor Linux operating system on its S6000-ON and S-4048-ON 10G/40G switches. This is an addition to the Cumulus Networks, Big Switch Networks, Midokura and VMware packages Dell already supports on those switches. Dell’s …
Не так давно компания Oppo представила прошивку ColorOS 2.1.0i, основанную на Android 5.0 Lollipop. …
Microsoft will sharpen Bing’s security when it starts encrypting all of its search traffic by default this summer. Bing has offered HTTPS encryption for the past year and a half as an opt in feature, but now Microsoft will default to locking down everybody’s search queries. Providing encryption gives a …
Egle Sigler started at Rackspace as a junior programmer and later moved to a DevOps architect position before advancing to her current role: principal architect of private cloud solutions at Rackspace. Along the way, Sigler was asked about leading a team of developers, but it didn’t seem like the right …
The EU Council has issued a long-awaited, hotly debated plan for online privacy, moving the EU’s reform of data-protection laws closer to reality. The Council says that the plan will give people more control over their personal data, but privacy groups say the proposal actually weakens privacy safeguards. Data protection …
Недавно мы писали о том, что спустя год после анонса платформы Apple HomeKit для неё наконец-то представили первые устройства. Компании, сделавшие это, для многих совершено не знакомы. …
After seven months of silence, a robot riding a comet hurtling through space has woken up and phoned home. The European Space Agency announced Sunday that Rosetta’s lander Philae, which landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko last November, is operating and sending data back to Earth. ESA The European Space Agency’s Philae …
After 15 months of heavy development work, the MATE community recently announced the release of MATE 1.10. I run MATE on my Arch Linux box along with Plasma 5 and Gnome (why use one DE when you can use all, especially when you are running Arch?). Arch and Mate make …
Smiling sun, flames, guitar, penguin… that is just one combination of emojis that a person might use to log into their bank account instead of using a PIN number. UK technology firm Intelligent Environments announced the launch of “the world’s first emoji-only passcode,” because emojis are “mathematically more secure” than …
Несмотря на то, что iOS 9 была анонсирована неделю назад, новые подробности о ней продолжают появляться в сети. …
The EU Council has issued a long-awaited, hotly debated plan for online privacy, moving the EU’s reform of data-protection laws closer to reality. The Council says that the plan will give people more control over their personal data, but privacy groups say the proposal actually weakens privacy safeguards. Data protection …
Everyone talks about the importance of big data. But many organizations, although they collect and store customer data, do not put that data to good use – or they don’t know how to. “For example, by correlating data between digital and non-digital advertisements (e.g., purchasing history, profile information, behavior of …
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a Washington D.C.-based investment advisory firm’s former president accused of stealing client funds. The firm and its chief compliance officer separately agreed to settle charges that they were responsible for compliance failures and other violations. SFX Financial Advisory Management Enterprises …
When retail research house IHL published its report in June on retail inventory losses — which is simply a combination of overstocks and out-of-stocks — it estimated an industrywide loss of $1.1 trillion. The problem is that IHL is not limiting itself to traditional metrics. For example, IHL President Greg …