Новости за 14.09.2015

With the visit of Chinese premier Xi Jinping just a week away, the White House won't say whether one of its goals is to reach an agreement with China over cybersecurity.

To the hard-working journalist, there’s something seductive in the promise of devices like the Samsung Galaxy Note 5, just as there has been since the Apple Newton – a notebook that isn’t a notebook, one that can do other things and unite the free peoples of Middle-Earth, and so on. No one has really been able to crack the code, however.

Smart wrist devices such as the Apple Watch are still a relatively small piece of the wearables market today, but that's set to change in a big way over the next few years.

Ultra-rich executives of multinational companies are people too, and people can be petty creatures. Case in point: Googl… er, Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt.

Apple today said that iPhone sales, bolstered by the new 6S and 6S Plus models, are "on pace" to break last year's record of 10 million between pre-sales opening and the close of the first weekend of retail.

A study released by a forensic consultancy has singled out the top five vehicles most susceptible to hacking.

If you’re considering using OpenStack, then our in-depth feature published today “Is OpenStack ready for prime time?” is a must-read.

Twitter the Web portal has been down for more than 40 minutes now, according to the monitoring site DownRightNow.com.

Subtle benefits vs. obvious annoyances

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I’ve been wearing a borrowed Apple watch for most of the last month, but now I’m giving up and giving it back. While it was useful to see text notifications, send voice responses, and get haptic alerts for upcoming turn ability to send voice responses, many benefits were subtle (my favorite was the ability to set the main watchface five minutes ahead the actual time, which was still shown in tiny type). But they couldn’t make up for a... Читать дальше...

The dramatic hack of a Jeep Cherokee, which resulted in Fiat Chrysler Automobile recalling over one million vehicles, has also prompted Intel to take action.

Most laptops are boring.

One laptop gets slightly better battery life. The one next to it has a slightly faster GPU. That one over there is .00075 nanometers thinner. Minor differences. It's rare that a laptop actually stands out as being really and truly different. Unique. Ballsy.

And the Serval Workstation "laptop," without any doubt, qualifies as unabashedly ballsy. And, as luck would have it, the folks over at System76 sent me one to play with for a few weeks. You know. To properly evaluate its ballsiness. Читать дальше...

In case you weren't already making your websites mobile-friendly, you (along with the rest of Corporate America) have gotten several wake-up calls over the past months.

To avoid detection, some hackers are ditching malware and living "off the land" -- using whatever tools are already available in the compromised systems, according to a new report from Dell SecureWorks.

Windows 10 customers have petitioned Microsoft to provide more information about the new OS's updates using the company's own online feature request forum.

8 websites that help you build your freelance career

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Most people think that IT security professionals spend most of their time thwarting external threats from hackers, cybercriminals and bad actors from the Dark Web. In fact, infosec pros find the biggest time suck coming from addressing security vulnerabilities introduced by applications developed in-house or even from off-the-shelf purchases. In fact, as a survey of attendees at this summer’s Black Hat conference indicates, “Most enterprises are not spending their time, budget and staffing resources... Читать дальше...

Analytics software has helped Sunny Delight Beverages boost profits by roughly $2 million a year and trim $195,000 in staffing costs annually, says CIO Shawn Rogers. The cloud application, which Rogers settled on with the help of several business managers, allows the company's business departments to determine the investment for promotions as well as make adjustments to curb wasteful spending on overtime and pricey transportation options.

It’s official: Firefox is serving you targeted ads on the browser’s New Tab page now. But before you grab your torch and pitchfork, it’s not that bad.

Some people with schizophrenia might be inclined to believe “they” are watching them, that “they” are tracking them, and ironically now “they” really might be via a “digital” pill that contains an ingestible sensor which gives doctors and caregivers the ability to track if and when a patient takes his medicine.

I don’t know how I missed this story last week, but I did, and through that inattentiveness I may have inadvertently subjected some innocent alien being’s computer to a virus.

Mobile device data use has tripled in the last two years, a new report says, but not that much data is on mobile data networks, in comparison to Wi-Fi.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Makers of Internet of things devices need to incorporate security into them during the design phase to make them less of a threat when connected to networks, according to speakers at an IoT security forum.

In this day of smartphones, cell towers and wearables, the American Museum of Telephony in the Mountain Ranch community of northern California preserved artifacts of a much different world of communications. But the museum, along with surrounding residences, burnt to the ground late last week during the raging Butte Fire and it's assumed that the collection is largely lost.

Many industries are coping with the challenge of working with a growing amount of digital content across multiple domains and languages. The "Open Framework for e-services for multilingual and semantic enrichment" project (FREME) is designed to help by providing a commercial-grade framework of e-services that will improve existing digital content management techniques.

Earlier this week, amid the typical hoopla and mania that seems to be associated with every Apple announcement, the company launched a number of new products, including the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus. Among the features that Apple is touting is the claim that the wireless experience on both Wi-Fi and LTE are twice as fast as previous generations. The exact wording (emphasis mine) on Apple's product page is: