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• Amazon Detective to investigate security issues within workloads

  03-12-2019 23:24 via zdnet.com
  
  Also announced under the security banner is AWS IAM Access Analyze and AWS Nitro Enclaves.
  
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• Page and Brin step back as Pichai becomes dual Google and Alphabet CEO

  03-12-2019 23:06 via zdnet.com
  
  As Larry Page and Sergey Brin depart from their roles as CEO and president, respectively.
  
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• Russia to invest $31 million in a local Wikipedia clone

  03-12-2019 22:49 via zdnet.com
  
  Project to be ready by the spring of 2022. Will be managed by a Russian publishing house, and not user-edited.
  
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• Workday delivers strong Q3, tops 3,000 customers

  03-12-2019 22:40 via zdnet.com
  
  The company projected fiscal 2020 subscription revenue of $3.085 billion to $3.087 billion.
  
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• Salesforce tops Q3 estimates but issues weak earnings guidance

  03-12-2019 22:31 via zdnet.com
  
  The CRM software giant delivered non-GAAP earnings of 75 cents per share on revenue of $4.5 billion.
  
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• At 10 years old, Angry Birds is keeping players hooked with machine learning

  03-12-2019 22:00 via zdnet.com
  
  At AWS re:Invent, Rovio Entertainment lays out how it's leveraging AI to optimize games, with plans to integrate AI across the whole value chain.
  
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• Google updates Sites with new features like search integration, version history

  03-12-2019 21:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Google said the updates are designed to make the website creation platform a more robust tool for companies.
  
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• FBI warns about snoopy smart TVs spying on you

  03-12-2019 20:37 via zdnet.com
  
  An FBI branch office warns smart TV users that they can be gateways for hackers to come into your home. Meanwhile, the smart TV OEMs are already spying on you.
  
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• Dutch politician faces three years in prison for hacking iCloud accounts and leaking nudes

  03-12-2019 20:17 via zdnet.com
  
  City council member who doubled as a hacker set to be sentenced on Christmas Eve.
  
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• AWS aims to bring machine learning, natural language processing to call center

  03-12-2019 20:14 via zdnet.com
  
  The service can be activated through a single click in Connect; it automatically transcribes and analyses customer calls, and also has the capability to transcribe previously recorded calls.
  
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• AWS, Verizon aim to collaborate on 5G, cloud, edge computing use cases

  03-12-2019 20:02 via zdnet.com
  
  For Verizon, the win with the AWS partnership is more enterprise 5G clients. AWS gets a network partner for edge computing services.
  
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• Qualcomm teases Snapdragon 865, Snapdragon 765/765G as it eyes 5G expansion, 'Qualcomm Everywhere'

  03-12-2019 20:00 via zdnet.com
  
  For Qualcomm, the launch of the Snapdragon 865 Mobile Platform and Snapdragon 765/765G will be welcome news for device manufacturers.
  
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• Wyze expands smart home lineup with introduction of $89 Wyze Lock

  03-12-2019 19:49 via zdnet.com
  
  The new lock will work with your existing deadbolt, with limited availability until a full launch early next year.
  
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• Fraud protection with new personalised AWS service

  03-12-2019 19:45 via zdnet.com
  
  AWS CEO Andy Jassy says machine learning is unbelievably helpful in detecting fraud.
  
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• AWS launches SageMaker Studio, a web-based IDE for machine learning

  03-12-2019 19:08 via zdnet.com
  
  While SageMaker already makes machine learning more accessible, AWS Chief Andy Jassy said SageMaker Studio is a "giant leap forward."
  
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• 80% of all Android apps are encrypting traffic by default

  03-12-2019 19:00 via zdnet.com
  
  90% of all Android 9 apps are encrypting network traffic via HTTPS.
  
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• Amazon S3 Access Points, Redshift updates as AWS aims to change the data lake game

  03-12-2019 18:59 via zdnet.com
  
  Amazon S3 Access Points, Redshift enhancements, UltraWarm preview for Amazon Elastic Service, and Managed Apache Cassandra Service.
  
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• Serverless Kubernetes containers: Amazon EKS on AWS Fargate

  03-12-2019 17:53 via zdnet.com
  
  AWS Kubernetes users can now run serverless containers.
  
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• AWS launches EC2 instance based on custom-built Inferentia chip

  03-12-2019 17:41 via zdnet.com
  
  At AWS re:Invent, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced new cloud instances based on a custom-built machine learning inference chip
  
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• AWS announces EC2 instance based on custom-built Inferentia chip

  03-12-2019 17:41 via zdnet.com
  
  At AWS re:Invent, AWS CEO Andy Jassy announced new cloud instances based on a custom-built machine learning inference chip
  
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• AWS Graviton2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS

  03-12-2019 17:39 via zdnet.com
  
  With Graviton2, AWS is making it clear that it is serious about Arm processors in the data center as well as moving cloud infrastructure innovation at its pace.
  
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• AWS Graviton 2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS

  03-12-2019 17:39 via zdnet.com
  
  With Graviton2, AWS is making it clear that it is serious about Arm processors in the data center as well as moving cloud infrastructure innovation at its pace.
  
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• Skydio 2 first impressions: An improved experience all the way around

  03-12-2019 17:33 via zdnet.com
  
  Skydio's latest drone is still smart, and easier to fly with new manual flying via a phone app, controller or beacon.
  
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• Five things we learned from Cyber Monday 2019

  03-12-2019 17:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Based on Adobe Analytics data, $9.4 billion was spent online on the final day of the extended Thanksgiving holiday shopping weekend.
  
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• Mozilla removes Avast and AVG extensions from add-on portal over snooping claims

  03-12-2019 16:22 via zdnet.com
  
  The four extensions, two from Avast and two from AVG, are still available on the Chrome Web Store.
  
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• Logz.io moves towards application observability in the cloud, raises questions on open source

  03-12-2019 16:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Logz.io unveils its cloud offering for infrastructure monitoring based on open source platforms Elastic and Grafana. Its strategy may give it an edge, but also raises open source sustainability questions
  
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• Logz.io moves toward application observability in the cloud, raises questions on open source

  03-12-2019 16:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Logz.io unveils its cloud offering for infrastructure monitoring based on open source platforms Elastic and Grafana. Its strategy may give it an edge, but also raises open source sustainability questions
  
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• EFF warns of ‘one-way mirror’ in the world of corporate online spying

  03-12-2019 15:09 via zdnet.com
  
  The report exposes privacy issues and tracking techniques in online services we use on a daily basis.
  
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• MacBook keyboard problems: Now Apple fails to halt class action over flawed design

  03-12-2019 14:02 via zdnet.com
  
  Apple's MacBook keyboard replacement program is not enough to prevent it facing a class action lawsuit.
  
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• HPE launches Greenlake Central, hub of its as-a-service efforts

  03-12-2019 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  HPE Greenlake Central will be generally available in the second half of 2020 and is in beta with customers now.
  
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• This new Android malware comes disguised as a chat app

  03-12-2019 13:56 via zdnet.com
  
  CallerSpy can monitor calls, messages, take screenshots and records its surroundings, say researchers - who warn that it could be the early stages of a targeted cyber-espionage campaign.
  
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• Microsoft: Malware, ransomware, and cryptominer detections are down in 2019

  03-12-2019 13:40 via zdnet.com
  
  Phishing and DDoS attacks are up, Microsoft security stats reveal.
  
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• Remember the viral app that aged you? FBI slams FaceApp as counterintelligence threat

  03-12-2019 13:39 via zdnet.com
  
  Novelty may have a hidden, nefarious purpose, the FBI has cautioned.
  
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• Microsoft: Spear-phishing email has doubled in a year, so here's how to beat it

  03-12-2019 13:32 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft warns of 'laser' phishing attacks that are so well-crafted even techies can't spot them.
  
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• An affordable e-bike for the gig economy

  03-12-2019 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  This bike aims to turn your side hustle into an effortless side pedal.
  
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• T-Mobile: 'First US nationwide 5G network' is about to reach 200 million of you

  03-12-2019 12:48 via zdnet.com
  
  T-Mobile says its 600MHz 5G service, launching on December 6, will cover more than one million square miles.
  
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• Trump threatens cheese and wine tariff spike over French digital tax plan

  03-12-2019 12:12 via zdnet.com
  
  French goods may be subject to increased export tariffs in retaliation to proposed tax changes impacting US tech giants.
  
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• This giant data centre tells you a lot about the outlook for the UK's tech industry

  03-12-2019 12:06 via zdnet.com
  
  NTT says its new data center is the biggest single UK infrastructure investment by an international company since the Brexit referendum.
  
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• AWS wants to reinvent the supercomputer, starting with the network

  03-12-2019 12:00 via zdnet.com
  
  VP of AWS global infrastructure Peter DeSantis talked up the possibilities of running high performance computing workloads in the cloud, instead of on a 'costly' supercomputer with a pretty paint job.
  
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• Apple MacBook Pro (16-inch), Panasonic Toughbook 55, Huawei Nova 5T, Amazon Echo Buds, and more: Reviews round-up

  03-12-2019 11:52 via zdnet.com
  
  From Apple's latest version of its pro-level laptop to Amazon's entrance into the wireless earbuds market, here's the kit we got out hands on in November.
  
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• Don't buy these Apple products -- Holiday 2019 edition

  03-12-2019 08:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Don't waste your money!
  
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• Your obsession with sleep trackers is way less healthy than you think

  03-12-2019 07:00
  
  Agonising over sleep data from fitness trackers might be costing you a good night's sleep
  
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• Gin! Tea! Dildos! The oddball rise of alternative advent calendars

  03-12-2019 07:00
  
  Advent calendars have swapped chocolate for luxury goods as retailers fight for consumer cash. But where and when will it end?
  
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• AWS targets Australia with new renewable energy project down under

  03-12-2019 07:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The cloud giant has added a total of six new renewable energy projects, with the Aussie one bring its first outside of the US or Europe.
  
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• DXC partners with UTS to open digital transformation centre in Sydney

  03-12-2019 06:50 via zdnet.com
  
  The centre will be used to help facilitate collaboration between industry and academia.
  
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• A decade of malware: Top botnets of the 2010s

  03-12-2019 06:45 via zdnet.com
  
  ZDNet goes over the list of biggest malware botnets of the past decade, from Necurs to Mirai.
  
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• Amazon's application to withhold energy data from Australian public refused

  03-12-2019 06:27 via zdnet.com
  
  According to Australia's greenhouse emissions watchdog in its annual corporate emissions and energy data report.
  
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• Why I may dump Apple in 2020… and why you should consider it too

  03-12-2019 06:00 via zdnet.com
  
  My love affair with Apple began with an iPod nano. I now own an iPhone, an Apple Watch, an iPad Pro, and a MacBook Pro. And I'm no longer happy.
  
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• Australian Space Agency signs agreement with Thales and EOS Space System

  03-12-2019 05:56 via zdnet.com
  
  As part of an ongoing effort to grow the local space sector over the next 10 years.
  
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• ACCC calls for Privacy Act changes to protect loyalty scheme customers

  03-12-2019 04:37 via zdnet.com
  
  Updating the definition of "personal information" and erasing personal information "without undue delays" are some of the recommendations the consumer watchdog has put forward.
  
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