Roses are red, Windows error screens are blue. It’s 2018, and an email can...
Here's a bumper crop of security fixes you do not want to miss Patch Tuesday Serious security flaws in Outlook and Edge are headlining a busy Microsoft Patch Tuesday.…
View ArticleMeltdown-and-Spectre-detector comes to Windows Analytics
After flubbing its early responses, Microsoft's thrown sysadmins a bone Microsoft's added a Meltdown-and-Spectre detector to Windows Analytics, the company's telemetry analysis tool for sysadmins.…
View ArticleOpenSSL alpha adds TLS 1.3 support
Shambling corpse of ancient, shoddy, buggy, crypto shoved towards the grave Developers working with OpenSSL can finally start to work with TLS 1.3, thanks to the alpha version of OpenSSL 1.1.1 that...
View ArticleMicrosoft working to scale Blockchain for grand distributed ID scheme
Someone's got to get it scaling! Microsoft's wanted a really good federated identity scheme ever since the early 2000s, when it gave the world Project Hailstorm, aka ".Net My Services", to let a web of...
View ArticleRezatec announces completion of £2m financing to expand delivery of...
Rezatec closes £2m financing round and focuses on accelerated sales of Rezatec satellite-driven data analytics to customers in Europe, USA and Asia-Pacific.Harwell, Oxfordshire, 14th February 2018 –...
View Article3 common pitfalls of microservices integration—and how to avoid them
Bernd Ruecker is the co-founder and developer advocate of Camunda. Microservices are all the rage.They have an interesting value proposition, which is getting software to market fast while developing...
View ArticleCython tutorial: How to speed up Python
Python is a powerful programming language that is easy to learn and easy to work with, but it is not always the fastest to run—especially when you’re dealing with math or statistics.Third-party...
View ArticleSouth China waters are red, Brit warships are blue, HMS Sutherland’s sailing...
And Queen Lizzie will too A British warship has set sail for the South China Sea, paving the way for aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to do the same thing in three years’ time.…
View ArticleFrom tomorrow, Google Chrome will block crud ads. Here’s how it’ll work
Consider it a wakeup call for websites – it's time to end the scourge of awful banners Starting tomorrow, Google, which makes most of its money from online advertising, will begin blocking egregious...
View ArticleItaltel and Exprivia to present solutions for next-generation networks and...
New group will harness mutual competencies to support digital transformation in all economic sectors Milan, Italy, February 14, 2018 - Solutions for vertical 5G services - Industry 4.0, telemedicine,...
View ArticleThe Falcon Heavy is an absurdly low-cost heavy lift rocket
The new SpaceX rocket seriously undercuts its competitors.
View ArticleUS govt staffers use personal gear on work networks, handle biz docs on the...
As in on the regular, not... oh never mind Employees of US government agencies are largely ignoring basic security measures.…
View ArticleAudit reveals Office of Fossil Energy approved millions for lobbying, spas
Unexplained consultant fees paid out to now-bankrupt company.
View ArticleHate to ruin your day, but… Boffins cook up fresh Meltdown, Spectre CPU...
And upcoming hardware changes may not be enough to kill off these security bugs When details of the Meltdown and Spectre CPU security vulnerabilities emerged last month, the researchers involved hinted...
View ArticlePCI Council and X9 Committee to combine PIN security standards
One PIN to rule them all, one PIN to find them, one PIN to rule them all and in the darkness bind them The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) and financial services standards outfit the...
View ArticleUK names and shames Russia as source of NotPetya
'Almost certain' assessment enough for official blast from Foreign Office The United Kingdon's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has formally "attributed the NotPetya cyber-attack to the Russian...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Blazor project runs .Net in the browser
In what could be a turning point for web development, Microsoft’s ASP.Net team has launched an experimental web UI framework, called Blazor, that runs .Net in the browser via the WebAssembly portable...
View ArticleBrandPost: Simplifying Hybrid IT for a Successful Digital Transformation
By Gary Thome, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Software-Defined and Cloud Group at Hewlett Packard Enterprise One size fits all was never a good idea for consumers buying clothing,...
View ArticleGoogle Cloud Platform services guide: The right tools for the job
Launched in 2011, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has had to do some catching up to market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS), its most direct competitor as a purer cloud play.But Google had no experience...
View ArticleTEOCO launches Helix 10.0 Service Assurance suite
Delivers sophisticated analytics for proactive assurance and increased visibility FAIRFAX, VA., USA – 15 February 2018: TEOCO, the leading provider of analytics, assurance and optimization solutions to...
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