OpenStack: Beyond the cloud

OpenStack has made it clear it will be doing more than IaaS cloud. Let's look at what the foundation is doing in containers, edge-computing, and CI/CD. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet

Mark Shuttleworth might consider selling Canonical and its Ubuntu Linux operating system, if he were still in charge of it afterwards. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Google traffic hijacked via tiny Nigerian ISP

A large chunk of the hijacked traffic passed through the network of a controversial Chinese state-owned telecom provider that was previously accused of intentionally misdirecting internet traffic. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft patches Windows zero-day used by multiple cyber-espionage groups

Kaspersky: Windows zero-day exploited by multiple cyber-espionage groups. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Red Hat Blends Kubernetes into Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14

OpenStack Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud meets Kubernetes cloud container orchestration. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft resumes rollout of Windows 10 version 1809, promises quality changes

After a delay of more than five weeks, Microsoft has resumed the rollout of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update. The company also promised sweeping changes in the way it approaches quality issues, including better communication with customers. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

​OpenStack expands focus beyond the IaaS cloud

Almost from day one OpenStack has been more than an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud. Moving forward it wants to address the whole gamut of open infrastructure. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Nvidia researchers make it easier to train robots to pick up stuff

With a unique combination of synthetic images, the researchers found a way to more easily and more effectively train a computer vision algorithm for robots. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Intel announces 5G modem for 2019

Intel said it has pushed the launch of a 5G modem forward by six months, with the product to become available to device manufacturers in the second half of next year. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

HTTP-over-QUIC to be renamed HTTP/3

IETF agrees to base the next major iteration of HTTP on Google's QUIC protocol | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

The real reason Palmer Luckey was fired from Facebook

Opinion: It had nothing to with politics and a lot to do with losing a $500 million lawsuit for stealing intellectual property. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Ceph open-source storage takes an organizational step forward

Under the guidance of The Linux Foundation, the Ceph open-source project will now be directed by the Ceph Foundation. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

DevOps may finally help deliver the software automation we've been waiting for

It takes a push from the outside: "Once a maverick comes into your space, and leverages software to beat you, that's a wake-up call for DevOps." | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Cloudflare launches Android and iOS apps for its 1.1.1.1 service

Company makes it easy for mobile users to hide their DNS traffic from nosy ISPs. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

US Cyber Command starts uploading foreign APT malware to VirusTotal

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@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Zero-day in popular WordPress plugin exploited in the wild to take over sites

Attacks started around three weeks ago and are still going on. Users should update the WP GDPR Compliance plugin to version 1.4.3 to protect their sites. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Cambodia's ISPs hit by some of the biggest DDoS attacks in the country's history

EZECOM, SINET, Telcotech, and Digi confirmed to have been affected. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

US Cyber Command starts uploading foreign APT malware to VirusTotal

USCYBERCOM said it plans to regularly upload "unclassified malware samples" to VirusTotal. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

What France plans to do with its nuclear waste

France's long-term storage plan for nuclear power waste moves along. American radioactive waste sits in wait for a permanent home. As a U.S. government panel continues digging for a solution, scientists advise an attitude adjustment. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Google Cloud rolls out new tools to make AI more accessible

The new AI Hub and Kubeflow Pipelines are designed to take a data scientist's work and maximize its impact across a business | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

South Australia Police to compel passwords and biometrics from suspects

Suspects who fail to hand over passwords, fingerprints, or other biometrics to access devices will face five years in the slammer. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

US Cyber Command starts uploading foreign APT malware to VirusTotal

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@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Data of nearly 700,000 Amex India customers exposed via unsecured MongoDB server

Over 2.3 million user records were encrypted, but data for 700,000 customers was not. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

How artificial intelligence will become weaponized in future cyberattacks

Real-time, autonomous decisions are only some of the techniques AI can bring to the table. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft: We're halting Office 365 email tips plan after user flak

Microsoft reconsiders plan to turn on email tips to Office 365 business users by default. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Russia: Now everyone who uses a messaging app must be identifiable

New decree means messaging services will have to check users' registration data with their mobile operator. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft's Cortana boss Javier Soltero is leaving the company

Microsoft's head of Cortana is going to depart the company before the year is over, as Microsoft brings more of its research projects into its Experiences and Devices group. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

A kinder, gentler Linus Torvalds and Linux 4.20

The next release of Linux is on the way, and it comes without fireworks from Linus Torvalds. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

MemSQL brings free tier: Transactions for nothing, and faster queries for free

MemSQL is not the first database to offer a free tier. But this one comes with full functionality to support real-world use cases, while also improving performance for typical data warehousing queries by a factor of 100. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Oracle confirms China Telecom internet traffic 'misdirections'

Oracle's Internet Intelligence division partially confirms controversial US Naval War College research paper. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Walmart is bringing 'thousands' of internal business apps to Microsoft's Azure

Not all Microsoft 'partners' are created equal. These days, as in the case of Microsoft's latest 'partnership' announcement with Walmart, they are actually customers. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

AI agent pilot launched to expose liars at EU borders

AI is being employed to act as a lie detector to reduce the pressure on country borders and human agents. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Hackers are increasingly destroying logs to hide attacks

According to a new report, 72 percent of incident response specialists have came across hacks where attackers have destroyed logs to hide their tracks. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

National biometric database could be on the way (and in private hands)

AI-based facial recognition and fingerprinting are allowing new levels of authentication, but privacy advocates should be concerned. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft working on porting Sysinternals to Linux

Microsoft engineers have already ported the ProcDump utility and are currently working on porting ProcMon as well. More tools to follow. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

More mic security in the latest macs

Feature only available for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models released in 2018. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

The day computer security turned real: The Morris Worm turns 30

Three decades ago, the internet was hit by its first major security attack. The world has never been the same since. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

CIA Vault7 leaker to be charged for leaking more classified data while in prison

Joshua Schulte accused of leaking classified data from his case to family members and the press while in a New York detention center. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

US senator working on bill that would jail CEOs for user privacy violations

Company execs could face up to 20 years in prison if they lie in privacy reports submitted to the FTC. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability

Vulnerability confirmed on Skylake and Kaby Lake CPU series. Researchers suspect AMD processors are also impacted. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Google says 'exponential' growth of AI is changing nature of compute

Google software engineer Cliff Young explains how the explosion in deep learning algorithms is coinciding with a breakdown in Moore's Law, the decades-old rule of thumb of progress in computer chips, forcing radical new computer designs. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Cisco zero-day exploited in the wild to crash and reload devices

No patch available,yet. Vulnerability affects devices running ASA 9.4+ and FTD 6.0+ software. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

iPhone X has speed throttling, after Apple said it probably doesn't need it

iPhone X, released November 3, 2017, now has Apple's CPU-throttling feature. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Can a robot learn a language the way a child does?

MIT researchers have devised a way to train semantic parsers by mimicking the way a child learns language. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Microsoft to tackle AI skills shortage with two new training programs

The tech giant reveals two new training programs to boost AI-related skills in business and in universities. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Why IBM bought Red Hat: It's all open source cloud, all the time

By buying Red Hat, IBM doubles-down on both the cloud and the open-source software, which powers it. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Google launches reCAPTCHA v3 that detects bad traffic without user interaction

reCAPTCHA v3 assigns incoming site visitors a risk score and lets webmasters takes custom actions based on this score. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago

Many CMS plugins are disabling TLS certificate validation

Hundreds of thousands of CMS plugins and PHP libraries are disabling cURL certificate validation and putting millions of users at risk. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 5 years ago