Новости за 18.03.2016

In a world of PCs dominated by Windows and Macs, Dell's line of "Project Sputnik" laptops with Ubuntu Linux have secured a cult following.

Microsoft today retreated from an earlier retirement date for Windows 7 and 8.1 support on newer hardware, saying that it would now support those OSes on PCs running Intel's Skylake silicon until July 2018.

As vehicles become more wirelessly connected, communicating with each other and the infrastructure around them, traffic lights may become an unecessary impediment in getting from A to B.

If you're looking for a ton of portable storage at a rock bottom price, you may want to consider this deal currently available on Amazon. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars (2,600 reviews), this Western Digital external hard drive features USB 3.0 connectivity, compatibility with both PC and Mac, Optional 256-bit AES hardware encryption, automatic cloud backup, and comes with a 3-year warranty. List price is $99.99 but with the current 41% discount you can buy it now for $59 (See it on Amazon). 

In a morning news television interview today, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey said the company doesn't censor users' tweets, and the company's not doing away with the 140-character message limit.

Cryptography researchers at MIT and Harvard have developed software called Sieve that is designed to help users keep track of encrypted personal data and better manage it in the cloud.

An angry letter from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) protesting Abbott Labs' IT employee layoff may be having an impact, but not the way the senator wanted.

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, has this to say, earlier. The things he said came on the tenth anniversary of his first tweet -- in fact, of the first tweet by anyone.

Lenovo has restructured its operations as part of a management shakeup, and some interesting names have been promoted.

Hackers demonstrated 21 new vulnerabilities in attacks against browsers and operating systems during this year's Pwn2Own hacking contest. The complexity of the exploits, though, shows that hackers have to jump through many hoops to gain full system control.

A last-minute request by the FBI to call witnesses to next week's court hearing in the San Bernardino iPhone case indicates the agency might feel some weakness in its legal arguments, Apple said.

Enterprises are trying to learn as much as they can about the threats their organizations face and how well (or not) they may be defended against them. This is one of the reasons why the threat intelligence security services spending market is set, according to market research firm IDC, to reach $1.4 billion in 2018, up from $905 million in 2014.

According to a recent IDC study, 2-in-1 devices -- tablets that convert to laptops by adding detachable keyboards -- are a growing trend, especially among Windows detachables, which make up 53% of the market.

If you are anything like me, your primary criterion for a useful robot is one that dances. To 1960s pop songs, preferably.

“PCs are going to be trucks,” Apple’s legendary co-founder, Steve Jobs once famously said. What the world didn’t hear was what he might as well have muttered under his breath, “and Apple will make them”.

Microsoft yesterday updated its Windows 10 preview, adding support for extensions to the default Edge browser, finally fulfilling a promise it made last year that was itself a delay on a pledge to boost the browser's functionality.

E-commerce directors and their IT security and loss prevention counterparts play an endless cat-and-mouse game with cyberthieves. The trick to getting ahead of fraud is anticipating which customers are the most likely thieves, typically through some form of pattern or attribute recognition. The problem is that smart bad guys can change their patterns and attributes as quickly as the good guys learn to recognize them.

Quick: What are the most important apps on your phone when it comes to getting stuff done?

One of the most common methods to configure an office full of Microsoft Windows computers is with group policy. For the most part, group policies are settings pushed into a computer's registry to configure security settings and other operational behaviors. Group policies can be pushed down from Active Directory (actually, pulled down by the client) or configured locally.

Flashback about a decade, to when this retail chain's data center needs a sprinkler head changed for its fire-suppression system -- which turns out to be a little more complicated than expected, according to a pilot fish there.

The FBI and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration warned on Thursday that the rising use of computers in vehicles poses increasing risks of cyberattacks.

Millions of Android devices are at risk yet again after researchers found a new way to exploit an older vulnerability that was previously patched by Google.

As promised a few weeks ago, EMC re-architected its VMAX enterprise and VNX mid-range legacy storage product lines with all flash. EMC says the new VMAX and VNX mid-range and high end lines now feature “all flash, all the time” to keep up with the times. My only reaction, “What took them so long?”