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• LinkedIn blames Russian hacking suspect for 2012 breach

  19-10-2016 23:52
  
  A suspected Russian hacker arrested recently in the Czech Republic was involved in a massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, the professional social networking company says. LinkedIn said Wednesday that it has been working with the FBI to track down the culprits behind the data breach, which exposed hashed passwords from 117 million accounts."We are thankful for the hard work and dedication of the FBI in its efforts to locate and capture the parties believed to be responsible for this cr
  
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• Apple to announce new Macs at a special event October 27

  19-10-2016 23:05
  It’s official—the wait for new Macs shouldn’t be much longer. Apple just sent out invites to journalists to a product unveiling at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino. The event will take place next Thursday, October 27, at 10 a.m. Pacific.
  Naturally, the invitation doesn’t specify what Apple will announce—the tagline is simply “Hello again.” Smart money is on updated Macs, since nothing but the 12-inch MacBook has been updated this year. Rumors hav
  
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• BrandPost: Software Changes the Face of Inventory Management

  19-10-2016 22:43
  Inventory is the lifeblood of a retail business. Managing it well is critical. Poor inventory management is one of the top 10 reasons small businesses fail, according to the SBA.What goes wrong? Usually, a cascade of errors leads to bad decisions. In an environment of fierce competition and low margins, small businesses simply can’t afford such miscalculations.If you overestimate demand, inventory builds up, costing money to store and eventually hitting the sell-by date or going out of st
  
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• Windows users face update bloat, and tough choices

  19-10-2016 22:29
  
  Windows 10's cumulative updates have ballooned in size, and a similar bloat will also affect the Windows 7 updates that Microsoft revamped this month.
  According to data published last month by LANDesk and refreshed by Computerworld with October's numbers, Windows 10 cumulative updates for the three versions of the new OS have surged in size.
  Updates for Windows 10 version 1507 -- the debut that launched in July 2015 -- have grown 153% (for the 32-bit edition) and 181% (64-bit), from 184MB and 3
  
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• This disinfection robot can light the way to cleaner hospitals

  19-10-2016 22:27
  
  A robot being developed by Blue Ocean Robotics uses ultraviolet light to disinfect rooms. The Danish company is targeting the product first at hospitals, where there's a high danger of patients contracting infections. In a 2011 study, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control said patients acquired 722,000 infections during treatment at health-care facilities in the U.S. that year and 75,000 of those patients died in the hospital.
  It's a problem that Blue Ocean hopes to resolve with its UV disinfecti
  
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• Yahoo asks US for clarity on email scanning controversy

  19-10-2016 22:21
  
  Yahoo is asking that the U.S. government set the record straight on requests for user data, following reports saying the internet company has secretly scanned customer emails for terrorism-related information.  On Wednesday, Yahoo sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, saying the company has been "unable to respond" to news articles earlier this month detailing the alleged government-mandated email scanning."Your office, however, is well positioned to cla
  
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• Russian hacker group used phony Google login page to hack Clinton campaign

  19-10-2016 20:57
  
  A Russian hacking group used spearphishing to steal the Gmail login credentials of Hillary Clinton campaign staff, and that may be how campaign emails now being released were stolen, according to Secure Works.
  The attack targeted 108 hillaryclinton.com email addresses, and was carried out by a Russian group called Threat Group-4127 (TG-4127), according to Secure Works’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) blog.
  CTU can’t directly link the spearphishing operation against the Clinton campaign wi
  
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• Flaw in Intel CPUs could help attackers defeat ASLR exploit defense

  19-10-2016 20:16
  A feature in Intel's Haswell CPUs can be abused to reliably defeat an anti-exploitation technology that exists in all major operating systems, researchers have found.The technique, developed by three researchers from State University of New York at Binghamton and the University of California in Riverside, can be used to bypass address space layout randomization (ASLR) and was presented this week at the 49th annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture in Taipei.ASLR is
  
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• Apple's MacBook Pro 15 is basically a fossil at this point and here's the proof

  19-10-2016 19:48
  
  If comedian Henny Youngman were alive today, I’m sure he’d have a routine on the MacBook Pro 15: “How old is the MacBook Pro 15?” It's just begging for a one-liner.
  Unfortunately, the punchline is no joke. The MacBook Pro 15 design is old. I mean, old.
  Don’t believe me? I collected a stack of MacBook Pro 15’s from around our office as well as a brand-spanking-new MacBook Pro 15 purchased by our company just this week to assess the laptop's evolution. The lack
  
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• 44% off First Alert Dual Photoelectric and Ionization Sensor Smoke Alarm - Deal Alert

  19-10-2016 19:33
  
  The BRK 3120B smoke detector from First Alert contains technology that many experts are now recommending -- dual sensors. A photoelectric sensor detects slow and smoldering fires, while an ionization sensor can detect often fast moving open flames. Your current detectors may have only one or the other, so if you're due (or overdue) for new ones, it might be something to consider. This model is hardwired with a battery backup (see below for non-hardwired model), so all units interc
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to choose the right social media for your ecommerce business

  19-10-2016 19:24
  
  Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are the most popular social networks, and each has a unique audience. It’s important to first get to know these differences so that you can take a specific approach with each one. Here are a few things to know as you plan your marketing efforts.Facebook
  Facebook is less open than other social media platforms, but its continuing popularity makes it impossible to ignore. The platform is very community based, making it ideal for local B2C businesses. However, w
  
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• Which is cheaper: Public or private clouds?

  19-10-2016 19:06
  
  It’s a debate that’s raged on for years: Which is cheaper, public or private clouds?
  A new report from 451 Research finds that two of the most critical factors that influence the cost of a public versus a private cloud deployment are an organization’s ability to efficiently manage infrastructure and utilization of hardware resources. Generally speaking, if any organization has the expertise to manage a large number of servers at a high level of utilization then on-premises, cu
  
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• Politics keeps the U.S. from securing private-sector networks, says former CIA chief Robert Gates

  19-10-2016 19:04
  
  ORLANDO, Fla.-- A person who had access to the nation's deepest secrets, Robert Gates, the former CIA chief and U.S. Secretary of Defense from 2006 to 2011, is lot more open in retirement.
  Gates had the crowd at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo laughing over his observations about IT and applauding at some of the things he believes in.
  On stage here, for instance, Gartner analyst Richard Hunter fired off questions, asking at one point whether Edward Snowden, the former security contract employee who
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: CIOs must stand at the forefront of innovation

  19-10-2016 19:00
  
  We are fortunate to be able to collaborate with Dell, one of the industry partners for our Innovation Lab, a healthcare product incubator that takes medical devices and health information technology (HIT) to market.Recently, while strategizing with Frank Negro, the Dell Services Global Practice Leader for Healthcare & Life Sciences Strategy and Consulting, he told the story of Percy Spencer, a self-taught engineer who always envisioned what might be possible, looking at technology as a way t
  
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• Google is turning spreadsheets, documents and presentations into to-do lists

  19-10-2016 19:00
  
  Google is trying to do away with the tiring process of figuring out who's supposed to do what after a meeting wraps up.
  A new Action Items feature in G Suite for its Docs, Sheets and Slides apps lets users add a comment asking one of their coworkers to take care of something. Users can then see at a glance what documents, spreadsheets and presentations have action items attached that they need to take care of.Action Items is one of a handful of G Suite updates the company unveiled on Wednesday,
  
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• Apple is fed up with counterfeit cables and chargers on Amazon

  19-10-2016 19:00
  
  Amazon is full of knockoff products, but if you’re buying genuine Apple-branded cables and chargers sold directly by Amazon and not a third party, you should be OK, right? Well, maybe not.
  Patently Apple dug up a lawsuit filed by Apple against Mobile Star LLC, which Amazon identified as the manufacturer of counterfeit cables and power adapters that had been sold as being made by Apple. The complaint says that Apple had purchased the items from Amazon, and tested them interally to determin
  
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• Czech police arrest Russian hacker suspected of targeting the US

  19-10-2016 18:49
  
  Police in the Czech Republic have arrested a Russian hacker suspected of targeting the U.S. for cyber crime.Czech police, working in collaboration with the FBI, arrested the Russian man at a hotel in central Prague. He is currently in custody and now faces possible extradition to the U.S., depending on what the local courts decide, according to a statement from the Czech police.The arrest comes as the U.S. has blamed Russian government for hacking U.S. officials and political groups in
  
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• Financiële sector moet inspelen op miljarden mobiele betalers

  19-10-2016 18:45
  Betaalverkeer verandert ingrijpend en financiële instellingen staan daar nog te weinig bij stil. Dat stelt Michiel Eielts, algemeen directeur van datacenterbedrijf Equinix. Hij roept financiële instellingen op om in te spelen op de nieuwe betaaltrend, mobiel betalen, willen ze concurrentieslag niet... lees meer
  
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• BBC eyes worldwide expansion for tiny educational computer

  19-10-2016 18:44
  
  A new educational foundation hopes to introduce children worldwide to coding, using a tiny single-board computer that has changed the way coding is taught in schools across the U.K.You may have already heard of the Raspberry Pi, a US $35 computer the size of a credit card that, with the addition of a monitor, keyboard, and mouse, can stand in for a desktop machine.But this isn't about that. It's about the U.K.'s other single-board educational computer, the micro:bit.The micro:bit is smaller and
  
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• SDN groups shack-up to promote standards, open software development

  19-10-2016 18:43
  
  Software Defined Networking standard bearer the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and ON.Lab have merged with designs on further pushing SDN benchmarks and open source software development of the technology.
  +More on Network World: Gartner Top 10 technology trends you should know for 2017+
  According to the groups, the merger will create a single organization under the ONF name. Joint operations will begin immediately, and will be led by ON.Lab founder and executive director, Guru Parulkar. Dan P
  
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• Can blockchain make food safer in China?

  19-10-2016 18:15
  
  IBM, in conjunction with global retailer Walmart and Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, is harnessing blockchain technology to bring safer food to the table in China.The partnership was announced this morning as part of the opening of the new Walmart Food Safety Collaboration Center in Beijing. The collaboration will pilot blockchain for food authentication and record-keeping in the supply chain, providing a permanent record of every transaction."China's rapid economic growth has led to mass
  
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• T-Mobile to pay $48 million in settlement over throttling customers with heavy data usage

  19-10-2016 18:08
  
  Call it the “Un-fine.” 
  Perhaps that’s how T-Mobile, the self-described uncarrier, will spin Wednesday’s settlement with the FCC. The nation’s third-largest wireless network will pay $48 million total including customer benefits, education donations, and a fine as part of an agreement reached with the FCC.
  Good settlement with FCC today. @TMobile believes more info is best for customers. #themoreyouknow https://t.co/XFY6dHPfN6To read this article in full or to
  
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• Facebook wants to replace Yelp with your friends' recommendations

  19-10-2016 17:55
  Facebook just announced helpful new features that are rolling out in the U.S. starting today, and at top of the list is a new way to get dining, event, and business recommendations from your friends.
  The new feature goes deeper than reading comments on a post when you’re looking for great local coffee—although that's a big part of it. Facebook will intelligently organize all your friends' recommendations into one spot, and put each recommendation on a map for you to peruse. There&rs
  
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• Is your service center too dependent on technology?

  19-10-2016 17:23
  
  Service centers have a wide spectrum of goals. At one end are those that emphasize the lowest possible cost per call. They rely on IVR or newer chatbots while making it virtually impossible to talk to a real person. At the other end are those that emphasize customer service. They hire knowledgeable and enthusiastic product evangelists, who then try to persuade internal users to use recently deployed IT services or external customers to purchase additional products.
  Given user-provided data, cha
  
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• Dell EMC aims for a converged, custom fit in an off-the-rack world

  19-10-2016 17:14
  
  It may be a cloud world, but Dell EMC is still invested in on-premises systems, in particular converged systems. At VMworld 2016 in late August, the company took the wraps off a new product line called Validated System for Virtualization, which reflects a significant shift in the company’s converged systems portfolio.The new solution, according to Dell EMC, represents what it calls “service-defined infrastructure” by incorporating a wide range of form-factors, technology choice
  
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• 56% off Executive Office Solutions Portable Adjustable Laptop Desk/Stand/Table - Deal Alert

  19-10-2016 17:13
  
  The Executive Office Solutions Portable Adjustable Laptop Desk/Stand/Table is designed to allow you to set up an office anywhere! It is easy to carry, with a light weight aluminum frame. This device makes a perfect desk for your laptop.  The adjustable legs allow you to rotate 360 degrees and lock it in place at various angles. This desk is also vented and connects to your computer via the  included USB cord to power two quiet CPU cooling fans.To read this article in full or to le
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Will Apple release a 4-inch iPhone 8?

  19-10-2016 16:57
  Many people scoffed when Apple released the 4-inch iPhone SE a while back. The idea that anyone would want a smaller iPhone with a significantly smaller screen seemed outlandish to folks that had been using larger iPhones.But the iPhone SE quickly proved to be a big hit with many of Apple’s customers. Pre-orders sold out for some models and many people had to wait weeks to get their iPhone SE. Demand for the iPhone SE was much higher than Apple had foreseen when it launched the phone.To re
  
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• Gartner sees 2.9 percent growth in IT spending in 2017

  19-10-2016 16:43
  
  Worldwide IT spending should rebound in 2017 with a 2.9 percent increase over 2016, after a slight decrease this year, according to Gartner projections.
  Spending on software and IT services should drive the 2017 growth in global IT spending to US$3.49 trillion, the market research group said Wednesday. Gartner projects IT spending will drop by 0.3 percent between 2015 and 2016, with the U.K.'s Brexit vote to leave the European Union swinging IT spending from a modest increase to negative n
  
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• Oracle fixes 100s of vulnerabilities that put enterprise data at risk

  19-10-2016 16:19
  
  Oracle has released another large batch of patches, fixing many critical vulnerabilities in enterprise products that are used to store and work with critical business data.
  About 40 percent of the patched flaws are located in Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle Retail Applications, Oracle JD Edwards, Oracle Supply Chain Products and Oracle Database Server. Many of these flaws can be exploited remotely without authentication to compromise the affected com
  
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• How to tell if Amazon's $50 Echo Dot is right for you

  19-10-2016 15:53
  
  Amazon's second-generation Echo Dot voice-controlled home assistant is now available. At $50, it's an inexpensive way to get acquainted with Alexa, the company's virtual assistant that surprised and delighted many people upon its debut in late 2014. The updated device also lets you easily add voice controls to a stereo system.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Tech companies pitching in to battle the talent shortage

  19-10-2016 15:49
  
  Tech companies are increasingly struggling to find the right talent even as the industry's need for more qualified tech workers explodes. They are finding that offering great salaries and perks does not work if there is not enough supply to meet demand.And it's going to get much worse. In the the U.S. alone, according to federal CTO Megan Smith, there will be a shortfall of 1 million engineers trained with the necessary tech skills in the next decade.Companies no longer believe that government w
  
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• 25% off ARRIS SURFboard SB6190 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem - Deal Alert

  19-10-2016 15:44
  
  The SURFboard SB6190 is the first Gigabit+ cable modem available in retail, and is compatible with major US Cable Internet Providers like Xfinity by Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Brighthouse and many others, so you can ditch their cable modem (along with their rental fee) and regain control. It harnesses the power of DOCSIS 3.0 technology to bond up to thirty two downstream channels and eight upstream channels--providing you advanced multimedia services with data rates up to 1.4 Gbps download
  
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• BT Cloud Summit 2016: Making digital possible!

  19-10-2016 15:25
  Business- en IT-leiders staan voor de zware taak hun organisaties te transformeren naar het digitale tijdperk. Doel: nieuwe modellen, strategieën en ecosystemen ontwikkelen die leiden tot groei. Benutten van de digitale competenties van ketenpartners en marktpartijen is hierbij funda-menteel. Ontginning van dit... lees meer
  
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• Trump is beating Clinton in the Twitterbot war

  19-10-2016 14:47
  
  Donald Trump may not be ahead on the 2016 presidential campaign trail, but he appears to be winning the Twitterbot war. Three times as many tweets that favored the Republican nominee hit Twitter the night of the first debate than pro-Hillary-Clinton content, but roughly a third of the messages boosting Trump were apparently sent by bots, according to Oxford University's Internet Institute. 
  Those "Trumpbots" were not only more numerous, they were apparently more efficient, u
  
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• CIOs discuss whether Note7 recall hurts Samsung's enterprise appeal

  19-10-2016 14:01
  
  Samsung's flagship Galaxy Note7 smartphone could have been a game-changer, with its cutting edge tech and top of the line specs. Many early reviews suggested it was the best phone Samsung ever released. Then came the reports of battery fires, explosions and related injuries, recalls, exchanges, lawsuits and the eventually discontinuation of the latest entry in one of Samsung's most popular smartphone lines.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• LA CIO marries minimalist IT and government tech

  19-10-2016 14:00
  
  LOS ANGELES — Ted Ross is one of the busiest CIOs in the country. Serving a city that spans 469 square miles and houses at least 4 million people and 100,000 businesses carries serious challenges and responsibilities. As CIO of Los Angeles, Ross's IT shop supports 41 city departments, with a combined 40,000 employees, but he turns his attention to the areas that can benefit most from effective government technology. "Ultimately we're in the business of helping people," Ross said
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The secret to success in implementing large, global, complex IT initiatives

  19-10-2016 14:00
  
  In the more than two decades that I’ve been in the advisory business, I’ve been involved with and observed many large-scale, complex technology implementations. One of the most interesting cases was the massive, global Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation that NCH Corporation undertook. It’s interesting because they not only hit a home run but also hit the ball out of the park. How did they achieve that when many companies fail to achieve the full anticipate
  
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• Cybersecurity 'ninjas' value challenges, training and flexible schedules over pay

  19-10-2016 14:00
  
  Challenging work, skills training and flexible work hours are important for all cybersecurity employees, but especially so for the highest skilled workers, according to a report released today by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
  In addition, these employees were nearly twice as likely to want promotions that did not require them to move into management.
  "We figured out who the cybersecurity ninjas were by asking people what their day-to-day tasks were," said report author Kat
  
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• Cisco revs up storage connections for data centers and WANs

  19-10-2016 14:00
  
  Data is piling up, and storage keeps getting faster thanks to flash, so the networks that link it all together need to keep up, too.Both traditional Fibre Channel and more general-use protocols used in storage keep steadily ratcheting up performance. On Wednesday, Cisco Systems is boosting the speed of long-distance storage links for disaster recovery and business continuity. It’s also introducing higher speeds for IP (Internet Protocol) storage networks in data centers and enhancing its s
  
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• IoT botnets powered by Mirai continue to grow

  19-10-2016 13:57
  
  Level 3 Threat Research has noted an uptick in activity by new IoT botnets that are backed by the Mirai malware, with some attacks enlisting 100,000 individual hijacked devices.
  A significant number of these zombie devices are enslaved by more than one botnet, according to the research described in the Level 3 Beyond Bandwidth blog, and some of these botnets use overlapping infrastructure.
  Source code for Mirai was released Sept. 30, “which has inspired a significant number of new bad act
  
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• Researcher unveils second Samsung Pay vulnerability

  19-10-2016 13:30
  
  Samsung just can't catch a break these days. Its phones are exploding, and so are its washing machines, and now a security researcher has found a second vulnerability in Samsung Pay.
  Salvatore Mendoza demonstrated the first vulnerability at Black Hat in August, where he was able to eavesdrop on a payment transaction, generate a token, and use that new token to make an unauthorized purchase in a different location.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• New Outlook.com Premium offers the 'youknowIrock.com' email you've been pining for

  19-10-2016 13:00
  
  Obtaining a free email account from Google or Microsoft is as easy as pie—but they all have that pesky “outlook.com” or “gmail.com” identifier. What if you want something a bit more personal, like “Ilovemuskrats.com”?
  That normally means registering a domain, then hosting your own email server. Now, there’s another way: a paid version of Outlook.com, which offers custom domains that you can “own” and use for email addresses.
  The p
  
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• CISOs, it’s time to bury the hatchet with your CIO

  19-10-2016 12:38
  
  Historically, the head of security (CISO) reporting into the head of IT (CIO) has made a lot of sense.
  Both departments are – at their core – technical disciplines, and as such there is a need for the two to be in regular contact. They need to overlap on network infrastructure, information security, and IT compliance, not to mention overseeing the release of safe, bug-free code and the delivery of secure products.
  Yet this relationship is often lambasted by those working in the Info
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Indy Car driver Sam Schmidt uses his head to win. Literally.

  19-10-2016 12:30
  
  Sam Schmidt didn’t need a steering wheel to manage a 152 mph pace at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in May. He just tilted his head, and technology did the rest.The winning Indy Car driver and team owner is a quadriplegic, the result of a 2000 Orlando Speedway crash. Working with automotive engineers and medical professionals, Schmidt transformed a 2016 Chevrolet Corvette into a semi-autonomous motorcar (called SAM for short). SAM responds to Schmidt’s head and eye movements through
  
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• German arms maker Armatix to release second smart gun in U.S.

  19-10-2016 12:02
  
  German firearms manufacturer Armatix LLC is planning to release its second smart gun in the U.S. next year after sales of its first model -- the .22 caliber iP1 -- were quashed by pressure from some gun owners and gun rights advocates who saw it as a threat to Second Amendment freedoms.
  Unlike the iP1, which used RFID technology, the new iP9 9mm semi-automatic pistol will have a fingerprint reader. The iP9 will be available in mid-2017, according to Wolfgang Tweraser, CEO and president of
  
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• The march toward exascale computers

  19-10-2016 12:00
  
  It's good to be near the top of the list.
  As for the embargo's likely effectiveness, #1 on the Top500 list happens to be China's Sunway TaihuLight at the National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi. It sustains a performance of 93 petaflops using 10,649,600 cores, all of them 1.45GHz Sunway (also rendered ShenWay) SW26010 devices, which fit Dongarra's description of "lightweight" processors. And all were made in China.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Stor
  
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• Review: 6 Python IDEs go to the mat

  19-10-2016 12:00
  
  See how IDLE, Komodo, LiClipse, PyCharm, Spyder, and Python Tools for Visual Studio stack up in capabilities and ease of use(Insider Story)
  
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• Buyer's guide explores data analytics software

  19-10-2016 12:00
  
  Big data analytics has gone mainstream in corporate America, with top-down support from the C-suite, according to Randy Bean, CEO of consultancy NewVantage Partners. But down in the trenches someone has to select the right software package to make it happen.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• 6 tips to handle a sick day at the office

  19-10-2016 12:00
  
  With the start of cold and flu season, it's inevitable that you'll need to take some sick time. But some days, no matter how bad you feel, you just can't stay home -- deadlines, client meetings, software releases just won't wait. Of course, some folks actually want to work through minor illnesses because of their commitment to their job, or a lack of sick time, or because they feel guilty having co-workers pick up their slack.
  "There are a surprising number of people who don't want to stay home
  
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• 6 industries that will be affected by virtual reality

  19-10-2016 11:27
  
  VR going mainstream2016 has been a defining moment for virtual and augmented reality. From Pokemon GO to Facebook’s newly announced standalone VR headset, the virtual reality market has taken off and we’ve just scratched the surface in terms of innovation. Previously, virtual reality seemed to be a technology that was reserved only for tech enthusiasts and extreme gamers. However, we are now starting to see its mainstream application. As virtual reality becomes more common in busines
  
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