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• BrandPost: 5 Things Modern Manufacturers Do Differently to Run Their Business

  27-09-2016 23:26
  
  Manufacturing is evolving right before our eyes. This evolution is being spurred by the need for better automation, visibility, and collaboration. Modern manufacturers have connected their machines, processes, and people. They know what is really happening on the plant floor (even at multiple locations). They also have more insights into operational and business performance.What is it that these manufacturers have done to arrive at this level of connectivity? Read on to find out.1.  &n
  
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• Discounts on New Amazon Echo Dot (2nd Gen) Bundles - Deal Alert

  27-09-2016 23:22
  
  Echo Dot is a hands-free, voice-controlled device that uses Alexa to play & control music (either on its own, or through a connected speaker/receiver), control smart home devices, provide information, read the news, set alarms, and more. Right now Amazon is discounting 3 bundles featuring an all new Echo Dot:
  17% off Echo Dot + Philips Hue Starter KitTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Mozilla-backed selfie stunt challenges Europe’s copyright laws

  27-09-2016 23:11
  
  Stiff EU copyright proposals that theoretically ban memes, gifs and even pictures of some landmarks are the target of a campaign backed by Firefox browser maker Mozilla, which has encouraged a campaign of digital civil disobedience it’s calling Post Crimes.
  Post Crimes is centered on a web app that lets users mock up selfies of themselves in front of several European landmarks, then send them as postcards to EU lawmakers to ridicule the proposed copyright laws.
  +ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: 802
  
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• 10% off SAP Crystal Reports 2016, Through Friday Only - Deal Alert

  27-09-2016 23:05
  
  SAP Crystal Reports software is the de facto in reporting, and it's currently discounted 10%, through Friday, if you use the code CRYSTAL10 at checkout. With SAP Crystal Reports you can create powerful, richly formatted, dynamic reports from virtually any data source – delivered in dozens of formats, in up to 24 languages. A robust production reporting tool, SAP Crystal Reports turns almost any data source into interactive, actionable information that can be accessed offline or online, fro
  
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• Wyoming's open source enterprise code library a secret no more

  27-09-2016 22:48
  
  Wyoming’s 250-person Enterprise Technology Services (ETS) group knew it had a good thing in its Enterprise Extensible Code Library, but it chose to keep things under wraps outside of the state until last week when members of that team attended an annual confab for state government CIOs.
  It was at the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) convention in Orlando that the ETS code library project was honored with a Recognition Award for Enterprise IT Management Ini
  
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• Make a Wi-Fi gadget with a $9.99 Orange Pi development board

  27-09-2016 22:20
  
  If you want to fashion a smart gadget, robot, or drone with wireless capabilities on the cheap, a US$9.99 development board from Orange Pi will help you reach that goal.The Orange Pi i96 shouldn't be confused with the $35 Raspberry Pi 3, which is much more powerful and can be a full-fledged Linux PC. The smaller Orange Pi has limited horsepower and is targeted at smart gadgets, drones, and internet of things devices.If you want to create a gadget to show off at a Maker Faire event, the Orange Pi
  
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• Analysts laud and lance new Microsoft browser armor

  27-09-2016 22:10
  
  Analysts today gave mixed reviews to Microsoft's new security model for its Edge browser, labeling it as both a landmark move and an attempt to mask the underlying problems of Windows that the company has refused to address.
  "This is one of those ideas where you say, 'Why didn't someone do this before?'" said Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst of Moor Insights & Strategy.
  Moorhead was talking about Windows Defender Application Guard, a new security feature that will roll out to some enterp
  
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• Mediatek's developer board features a 10-core chip and Android 6.0

  27-09-2016 20:57
  
  Like PCs, developer boards like Raspberry Pi are getting more horsepower to run faster applications and 4K graphics.Take the Mediatek X20 Development Board, which started shipping for US$199 this week. It is crammed with the latest mobile chips that give the developer board PC-like computing power.It has a 10-core Mediatek X20 chip, which is being used in new mobile devices from companies like Meizu and LeEco. The board comes with Android 6.0, and it's not yet known if it will be upgraded to And
  
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• Winner of the presidential debate? Twitter by a mile

  27-09-2016 20:44
  
  This presidential election season seems to be made for social media.
  While Facebook and Twitterusers have been posting memes, praising and griping about the candidates, and arguing with friends and family about the issues for months, last night they took to social media in droves to comment on the first presidential debate.
  Republican candidate Donald Trump faced off against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the debate held at Hofstra University.
  While Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republi
  
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• Splunk puts machine learning at center of operational intelligence portfolio

  27-09-2016 20:40
  
  Splunk, a specialist in collecting and indexing massive volumes of machine-generated data, is integrating machine learning as a core capability of its portfolio of operational intelligence platforms."Digital transformation has changed the way that organizations work," Doug Merritt, president and CEO of Splunk, said in a statement Tuesday. The big secret is that all of the change is underpinned by machine data. Machine learning enables organizations to get deeper insights from their machine data
  
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• 63% off Anker Compact Car Jump Starter and Power Bank - Deal Alert

  27-09-2016 20:40
  
  This device from Anker is small enough to fit in your glove box, but packs enough power to jump start your 3L gas or 2.5L diesel engine a whopping 15 times on a single charge. Advanced safety features ensure total protection against reverse polarity, surges and short circuits. So there's no risk in hooking it up wrong or backwards like with traditional jump starters. It also has two built-in USB charging ports for your mobile devices, and comes with an 18-month warranty. It averages 4.
  
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• Bringing IoT data into public clouds is getting easier

  27-09-2016 20:37
  
  The formidable processing power and analytical tools available in public clouds could make industrial IoT more effective and less expensive. But bringing IoT data into the cloud takes more than a network connection.On Tuesday, two companies moved to help enterprises adapt their IoT data for popular cloud services. OSIsoft introduced its PI Integrator for Microsoft Azure, and Particle announced a custom integration with Google Cloud Platform.While some large enterprises with sensitive IoT data do
  
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• Audi, BMW and Daimler partner with tech firms to drive 5G into cars

  27-09-2016 19:57
  
  Audi, BMW and Daimler have unveiled a partnership with some of the world's largest tech firms to develop the next generation of mobile networks for vehicle communications.
  Along with Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm, the German automakers announced the formation of the "5G Automotive Association," which will develop, test and standardize the fifth generation of high-speed wireless communication.AudiAudi's traffic light information system is the first step in vehicle-to-infrastructure
  
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• Why didn't Apple release iPhone 7 sales numbers?

  27-09-2016 19:40
  
  For the first time since 2008, the year Apple released the second version of its now iconic iPhone smartphone, the company chose not to release initial sales numbers for the phone within a few of days — or even weeks — of a new iPhone launch. 
  In July, 2008, for example, Apple said it had sold a million iPhone 3G phones, three days after the device went on sale. Again, in 2009, the company announced iPhone 3GS sales numbers three days after its launch. And in 2010. And 2011. An
  
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• Video: What’s it like to be a cloud startup

  27-09-2016 19:38
  
  In a market dominated by vendors like Amazon, Microsoft and Google is there room for startups?Thinkstock
  Many entrepreneurs and investors believe so. I’ve been interested in what it takes to start up a business in the uber-competitive cloud computing market. To help explore the issue, Cloud Chronicles visited ClearSky Data in downtown Boston to chat with co-founder Ellen Rubin – a cloud industry veteran and three-time entrepreneur – to talk about what Clear Sky is and how it c
  
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• Six senators demand more details about the Yahoo data breach

  27-09-2016 19:38
  
  Six U.S. senators have called Yahoo's massive data breach "unacceptable," and they're demanding that the company provide more details about the incident.In a letter addressed to Yahoo's CEO, the lawmakers said they were particularly "disturbed" that the breach occurred in 2014, but that Yahoo only publicized it last week."That means millions of Americans' data may have been compromised for two years," the letter said. "This is unacceptable."The hacking incident, which Yahoo said it only lea
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Qualcomm sets up competition to stimulate IoT innovation

  27-09-2016 19:30
  
  Large, profitable companies, once they’re firmly established in their markets, invest a lot of money in R&D to try to find next big things, new areas that will fuel the revenue growth of tomorrow. Qualcomm has done remarkably well in the mobile chip business and has spent more than $42 billion on R&D over the past three decades. More recently, the company has been focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), hoping to stimulate development that uses Qualcomm technology in this nascent,
  
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• Chrome for Android is getting some extra tools to battle poor connections

  27-09-2016 19:19
  
  The struggle for a solid internet connection is real. Google certainly doesn’t want you to lose any content when you’re offline, so it’s beefing up Chrome’s ability to help you surf faster on a slow connection and save content for later.
  According to the Google Chrome Blog, the data compression mode can now save up to 67 percent when viewing MP4 format videos. The promised savings to regular browsing is up to 60 percent, though I usually see around 20 percent or so in my
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: A $280 billion healthcare problem ripe for technology innovation and predictive analytics

  27-09-2016 19:17
  
  Mental health and substance abuse treatment are on track to be a $280 billion problem by 2020. This is the tip of the iceberg. If you include untreated individuals and people with developmental disabilities, age-related conditions and so on, the magnitude of the problem is much higher.Behavioral health (BH) issues — which include substance abuse in addition to mental health conditions — correlate with increased mortality, unemployment and homelessness, among other things. In response
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to get Night Shift functionality in macOS Sierra

  27-09-2016 19:07
  
  When Apple finally added Night Shift to iOS there was a collective cheer from iPhone and iPad users. Night Shift changes the color temperature during the evening to lower the blue spectrum. This can be a help to some users in terms of making it easier to sleep.Unfortunately, Apple did not include Night Shift in macOS Sierra, and that has caused some irritation to Mac owners who expected the new feature to be available for the Mac as well as for iOS devices. It has also caused some to think that,
  
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• IEEE sets new Ethernet standard that brings 5X the speed without disruptive cable changes

  27-09-2016 18:12
  
  As expected the IEEE has ratified a new Ethernet specification -- IEEE P802.3bz – that defines 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T, boosting the current top speed of traditional Ethernet five-times without requiring the tearing out of current cabling.
  The Ethernet Alliance wrote that the IEEE 802.3bz Standard for Ethernet Amendment sets Media Access Control Parameters, Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 2.5G and 5Gbps Operation lets access layer bandwidth evolve incrementally beyond 1Gbps,
  
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• Power BI gets robust mapping with ArcGIS

  27-09-2016 18:09
  
  Microsoft Power BI is slated to get some serious mapping capabilities, as Microsoft yesterday announced ArcGIS for Power BI by Esri is on the way -- "most likely this calendar year hopefully a lot sooner than that," Esri product manager Scott Ball said this morning. In fact, he added, it might be as early as within a week.
  Users can create maps within Power BI now, but the existing functionality is rudimentary. Esri will be adding some, but certainly not all, of its enterprise ArcGIS capabiliti
  
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• 63% off Etekcity 3 Pack Portable Outdoor LED Camping Lantern with 9 AA Batteries - Deal Alert

  27-09-2016 17:29
  
  Whether used for camping, trick or treating, or power outages, this lantern will provide up to 12 hours of bright omnidirectional LED lighting to see your surroundings. When the battery power of the lantern runs low, the brightness will dim to an energy saving mode to provide longer lasting illumination (up to 4 hours of low power usage). It's lighter, brighter and more portable than most flashlights while still featuring the rugged durability to withstand the outdoors. The military grade exteri
  
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• Google Pixel image leaked, revealing new home screen and rounded icons

  27-09-2016 17:24
  
  Here’s your best look so far at the Google Pixel.
  At Venturebeat, Evan Blass of @evleaks fame procured what is says is an official render of Google’s next smartphone, which is widely expected to be unveiled at an Oct. 4 event in San Francisco. 
  The Pixel will be the smaller of a pair of phones, with the larger dubbed the Pixel XL. Google is leaving behind the Nexus line and marketing the phones as designed and built entirely by the company, according to this report and num
  
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• Swift CEO reveals three more failed attacks on banking network

  27-09-2016 17:23
  
  Banks stopped three new attempts to abuse the Swift financial transfer network this summer, its CEO Gottfried Leibbrandt said Monday, as he announced Swift's plan to impose tighter security controls on its customers.Swift provides the network that banks use to exchange funds internationally, and hit the headlines in February when attackers almost got away with a billion-dollar heist at Bangladesh Bank. In the end, they only succeeded in stealing US$81 million after hacking bank systems connected
  
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• Microsoft Azure networking is speeding up, thanks to custom hardware

  27-09-2016 17:18
  
  Networking among virtual machines in Microsoft Azure is going to get a whole lot faster thanks to some new hardware that Microsoft has rolled out across its fleet of data centers.The company announced Monday that it has deployed hundreds of thousands of FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Arrays) across servers in 15 countries and five different continents. The chips have been put to use in a variety of first-party Microsoft services, and they're now starting to accelerate networking on the company's
  
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• MapR helps developers leverage analytics with microservices

  27-09-2016 16:57
  
  With an eye toward helping developers operationalize analytics through converged data applications, MapR Technologies today announced support for event-driven microservices on its Converged Data Platform at Strata + Hadoop World in New York City. For administrators, the company is also rolling out comprehensive monitoring with a cluster-wide view of microservices."Microservices is basically a way to drive agility and a way for developers to address the integration of operations and analytics &md
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 9 reasons why I will be buying Apple AirPods

  27-09-2016 16:51
  I love new technology; especially technology that holds the potential to disrupt the market and AirPods seems to fall into that category. Though the fact remains Apple didn't invent smart earphones, many companies already have smart earphones in the market. What Apple is capable of doing is making them mainstream.
  When Apple announced AirPods, it met with mixed reactions. None of the negative reactions came after actual use; those were mostly knee-jerk reactions to a new product. There are only
  
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• FAQ: What is 802.11ad wireless technology?

  27-09-2016 16:49
  
  Here are the broad strokes about 802.11ad, the wireless technology that’s just starting to hit the market.
  802.11ac, 802.11ac wave 2, 802.11omg! Could we maybe get some different names for this stuff?
  No! Next question! May the power of the IEEE smite you down for heresy!
  Fine, fine. So 802.11ad – what’s the deal here?
  Well, now that you’re being civil, I’ll tell you – 802.11ad is, yes, a new wireless standard that uses the 60GHz spectrum instead of the 5GHz
  
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• Google rolls out more low-bandwidth versions of its products

  27-09-2016 16:09
  
  Google is rolling versions of popular products like YouTube and Chrome that are specially designed for people who do not have access to high-bandwidth internet. The products are first being introduced in India but are expected to be available in other parts of the world where low-bandwidth connections are prevalent.The company also introduced on Tuesday a set of tools, called Google Station, which aim to help partners set up public Wi-Fi hotspots. Google joined last year with Indian Railways and
  
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• 8 things small businesses look for when considering SaaS

  27-09-2016 16:04
  
  More and more, small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are turning to cloud-based software to help run their business. Yet many are hesitant to make the move, worrying about safety and cost. So what can Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers do to woo SMBs and allay their concerns? Here are eight suggestions on how to make your cloud offering attractive to a smaller business.1. Make sure your software is easy to use – and easy to understand. “Business owners and their employees expect [
  
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• 8 things small business look for when considering SaaS

  27-09-2016 16:04
  
  More and more, small and midsized businesses (SMBs) are turning to cloud-based software to help run their business. Yet many are hesitant to make the move, worrying about safety and cost. So what can Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers do to woo SMBs and allay their concerns? Here are eight suggestions on how to make your cloud offering attractive to a smaller business.1. Make sure your software is easy to use – and easy to understand. “Business owners and their employees expect [
  
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• 5 reasons CEOs should be involved in hiring decisions

  27-09-2016 15:51
  
  Hiring is as much an art as a science. Bring the wrong talent on board, and it'll tank morale and impede performance; hire the right people, and growth will accelerate.However, finding just the right mix of skills, knowledge, experience and personality can feel like a herculean task, says Aytekin Tank, founder and CEO of online form builder JotForm, but for him, it's the most important part of his job.Tank says he involves himself in every hiring decision at JotForm. Google's CEO and cofounder L
  
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• 6 awesome apps that integrate with iOS 10 Messages

  27-09-2016 15:00
  
  In iOS 10, you can now do a lot more with Apple's Messages app than irritate friends with endless "bitmojis." In fact, Messages in the latest version of iOS is much more useful than in the past, thanks to new integration with third-party apps.Here I review six iOS apps that work within Messages and let you do at least one cool thing. But first, a little background.How to access and add apps to iOS Messages
  To access iOS apps that are compatible with Messages, go into the Messages app and tap the
  
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• Security blogger Krebs says IoT DDoS attack was payback for a blog

  27-09-2016 14:52
  
  Security blogger Brian Krebs says a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that took down his Web site last week was likely the consequences for his outing of two Israelis who ran a DDoS-for-hire business.
  +More on Network World: The IoT is uranium+
  The pair, whom he identifies as Itay Huri and Yarden Bidani, both 18, were arrested in Israel at the request of the FBI six days after Krebs posted his blog and are now under house arrest.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, ple
  
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• Tips for creating an introvert-friendly workplace

  27-09-2016 13:59
  
  Talk about the differences between introverts and extraverts has increased in recent years, dispelling the stereotype that introverts are shy and extraverts are outgoing. Instead, introversion and extraversion are determined by how you get your energy. Extraverts typically thrive in social environments and with a busy active schedule, while introverts need quieter environments and enjoy regular alone time.
  And, of course, an introvert can be outgoing and social, while an extravert can also be sh
  
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• Microsoft pursues .Net development unity with .Net Standard

  27-09-2016 13:39
  
  Microsoft is looking to provide "one library to rule them all." With .Net Standard, developers only have to master a single base library to reach multiple .Net platforms.
  The company on Monday shed further light on its plans for .Net Standard, which is intended to enable code-sharing between applications. .Net Standard features a set of APIs for .Net platforms to implement. It is intended as a replacement for Microsoft's Portable Class Libraries going forward, and will serve as t
  
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• Halt WhatsApp data transfers, German privacy watchdog tells Facebook

  27-09-2016 13:28
  
  Facebook must stop collecting information about WhatsApp users in Germany, a local privacy watchdog has ordered.Last month, Facebook began combining user data from WhatsApp, the messaging company it acquired in 2014, with the mountain of information it holds about members of its social network in order to better target advertising.The move prompted concern among WhatsApp users, as the company had long promoted itself as a strong protector of user privacy.Privacy regulators were also concerned, a
  
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• Your users have porous passwords? Blame yourself, IT.

  27-09-2016 13:00
  
  Maybe IT needs to tone down its security awareness efforts. New research by psychologists into password strength delivered the non-intuitive conclusion that users who are well briefed on the severity of security threats will not, as IT had hoped, create stronger passwords to better protect themselves.
  They actually tend to create much weaker passwords because the briefings make them feel helpless, as if any efforts to defend against these threats are pointless.
  The research, from a Montclair St
  
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• 10 surprising and useful ways to use Google Assistant in Allo

  27-09-2016 13:00
  
  I'm your Google Assistant, how may I help you?Image by Ryan WhitwamGoogle announced its Allo chat app back at Google I/O in the spring. It promised the app would be available later in the summer, and it just barely made it. Now that Allo is available, it's plain to see this app exists almost entirely as an excuse to show off Google's Assistant chatbot. You can invite Google's AI into your conversations, or talk to it directly, on-on-one. What does that get you, though? Here are 10 cool things yo
  
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• How to mitigate hackers who farm their victims

  27-09-2016 12:45
  
  Nation-states and savvy criminal hackers don’t pull uninformed, spur-of-the-moment smash-and-grab jobs on data networks. They reconnoiter and position themselves to slowly implement precise surgical maneuvers to exfiltrate your information treasures. Most of these attackers are capable of ensuring you remain unaware of their movements until it is to their benefit for you to know.
  High-profile attacks that leveraged extended dwell time inside the networks of large retail chains such as Tar
  
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• 10 ways to secure a mobile workforce

  27-09-2016 12:37
  
  Super mobile workerImage by ThinkstockWe are entering the age of “supermobility,” in which mobile devices will provide all of the tools and technology that employees need to be productive on the go. And while workplace flexibility and convenience are at an all-time high, super-mobile employees are actually putting enormous amounts of company data at risk.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• GitHub open-sources internal load-balancing software

  27-09-2016 12:00
  
  GitHub will release as open source the GitHub Load Balancer (GLB), its internally developed load balancer.
  GLB was originally built to accommodate GitHub’s need to serve billions of HTTP, Git, and SSH connections daily. Now the company will release components of GLB via open source, and it will share design details.[ InfoWorld unveils the Bossies -- the best open source products of the year. | Track the latest trends in open source with InfoWorld's Linux report newsletter. ]
  “Histor
  
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• Nutanix CEO skewers box-based hyperconvergence rivals

  27-09-2016 11:43
  
  Nutanix founder and CEO Dheeraj Pandey doesn’t want you to get too excited by today’s hyperconverged infrastructure offerings because they’re just ‘a pit stop’ on the way to making all infrastructure invisible. Pandey, whose company is preparing for an initial public offering, talked with IDG Chief Content Officer John Gallant about the competitive landscape in hyperconvergence today and he pulled no punches in assessing rivals like Simplivity and VCE. In Pandey&rs
  
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• Alleged YouTube music ripper sued by industry for copyright infringement

  27-09-2016 08:54
  
  Stream-ripping, or the conversion of streamed content into downloadable files, has become a major problem for the recorded music industry, which reports a 50 percent increase in such unauthorized ripping in the U.S. from 2013 to 2015.The industry in the U.S. sent a message Monday that it aims to stop the practice with organizations representing key record companies filing a copyright infringement and technology circumvention suit against a website called YouTube-mp3 (YTMP3) and its German operat
  
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• IBM promises a one-stop analytics shop with AI-powered big data platform

  27-09-2016 06:05
  
  Big data is in many ways still a wild frontier, requiring wily smarts and road-tested persistence on the part of those hoping to find insight in all the petabytes. On Tuesday, IBM announced a new platform it hopes will make things easier.Dubbed Project DataWorks, the new cloud-based platform is the first to integrate all types of data and bring AI to the table for analytics, IBM said.Project DataWorks is available on IBM's Bluemix cloud platform and aims to foster collaboration among the many ty
  
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• Yahoo's claim of 'state-sponsored' hackers meets with skepticism

  27-09-2016 03:07
  
  Yahoo has blamed its massive data breach on a "state-sponsored actor." But the company isn't saying why it arrived at that conclusion. Nor has it provided any evidence.The lingering questions are causing some security experts to wonder why Yahoo isn't offering more details on a hack that stole account information from 500 million users."I think there's a lot of fishiness going on here," said Michael Lipinski, the chief security strategist at Securonix.Yahoo didn't respond to a request for c
  
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• GE, Bosch and open source could bring more IoT tools

  27-09-2016 02:55
  
  Partnerships that could shape the internet of things for years are being forged just as enterprises fit IoT into their long-term plans.A majority of organizations have included IoT as part of their strategic plans for the next two to three years, IDC said last week. No one vendor can meet the diverse IoT needs of all those users, so they're joining forces and also trying to foster broader ecosystems. General Electric and Germany's Bosch did both on Monday.The two companies, both big players in i
  
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• Drexel and CIO.com announce Analytics 50 winners

  27-09-2016 01:15
  
  Drexel University and CIO.com are pleased to announce the winners of the first Analytic 50 Awards. The Analytics 50 represents the first of what we hope are many years of collaboration between CIO.com and Drexel University's LeBow College of Business. The goal of the awards program is to honor 50 executives who are using analytics at their orgranizations to solve business challenges. By identifying these 50 leaders we hope to share best practices while also recognizing innovation in analyti
  
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• Microsoft's FPGA-powered supercomputers can translate Wikipedia faster than you can blink

  27-09-2016 01:10
  
  Microsoft’s servers are now powered by optimized custom chips that joined together to translate the entirety of Wikipedia in literally less than a blink of an eye.
  In a demonstration at Microsoft’s Ignite conference on Orlando, Microsoft tapped what it called its “global hyperscale” cloud to translate 3 billion words across 5 million articles in less than a tenth of a second.
  Microsoft helped custom-design the programmable logic components, or Field Programmable Gate Arr
  
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