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• Intel's PC chief talks about 5G, changes in chip design

  09-03-2017 23:12
  
  Intel surprised many observers when the company hired outsider Venkata Renduchintala to lead the company's PC, Internet of Things, and Systems Architecture groups.With more than a year under his belt, he's spearheading a cultural change inside the company, getting employees to think beyond PCs and talk about technologies like 5G and IoT.There's been a lot of chatter about changes in the company's chip development strategy, with the recent announcement of the 8th Generation Core processors, an un
  
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• After CIA leak, Intel Security releases detection tool for EFI rootkits

  09-03-2017 22:32
  
  Intel Security has released a tool that allows users to check if their computer's low-level system firmware has been modified and contains unauthorized code.The release comes after CIA documents leaked Tuesday revealed that the agency has developed EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) rootkits for Apple's Macbooks. A rootkit is a malicious program that runs with high privileges -- typically in the kernel -- and hides the existence of other malicious components and activities.The documents from CI
  
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• Target names new CISO to replace Brad Maiorino

  09-03-2017 22:20
  
  Target has promoted Rich Agostino to CISO, following the departure of Brad Maiorino, who moves to Booz Allen Hamilton's U.S. commercial business. Maiorino, whom Target hired from General Motors to mitigate a major cybersecurity breach in June 2014, hired Agostino from General Electric as his vice president of information security in September 2014.Target Rich Agostino, new CISO at Target.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• IMF moving IT jobs to offshore firm

  09-03-2017 21:38
  
  The International Monetary Fund in Washington is shifting some of its IT work overseas, and somewhere between 100 and 200 IT workers are impacted by this change.
  The work is being taken over by India-based IT managed services provider L&T Infotech, and the change was announced to the staff last year. The transition, which involves training L&T employees, is continuing through the end of this year. IMF IT workers are being to encourage to stay by means of an incentive package.
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• Microsoft's .NET Core slowly marches onto Raspberry Pi 3

  09-03-2017 21:34
  
  Microsoft's .NET Core is now making its way to Raspberry Pi developer boards, and an official .NET 2.0 Core is coming from the software company later this year.The .NET Core for Raspberry Pi and instructions to install it are available on the Github site.The .NET platform can be used to develop mobile, PC, and server applications and services. The Raspberry Pi 3 board can serve as an entry-level PC or be used to develop smart gadgets, robots, or internet-of-things devices.Microsoft recently
  
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• Private search firm migrates to OpenStack as it adopts automation

  09-03-2017 21:33
  
  Nate Baechtold, Enterprise Architect at EBSCO Information Services, says it was going to be too hard to automate the company’s VMware environment so the firm shifted to OpenStack, which natively abstracts underlying components much like AWS.  But the next sticking point was how to enable developers to build in load balancing?  A self-service model using the existing hardware-based system was too complex, Baechtold tells Network World Editor in Chief John Dix, but a new software-
  
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• Intel's Core i3 NUC has dropped to $220 today

  09-03-2017 21:30
  For anyone wanting to take their first baby steps into the world of PC building, it doesn’t get much easier than today’s deal. You can create an HTPC with a small footprint for pretty cheap and little work thanks to Newegg, which is selling an Intel NUC with a Skylake Core i3 processor at $220. That’s $80 off the sticker price, and about $40 to $50 off the latest street prices.
  To be clear, this is a bare-bones system. The PC comes with a processor and some basic components li
  
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• Facebook’s Messenger Day is yet another Snapchat clone—but with a twist

  09-03-2017 21:19
  
  Following the success of Instagram Stories, Facebook is bringing slideshows to its Messenger app, as well. 
  On Thursday, Facebook launched Messenger Day, a new feature that lets people share live video and photo slideshows. Messenger Day has a lot of similarities to Instagram Stories that debuted in November 2016. Facebook Messenger users can add fun filters to their images, send them to one friend, or share them with the world, and they’ll disappear after 24 hours. Messenger Day upd
  
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• Google launches official Gmail Add-on program

  09-03-2017 21:16
  
  Google is making it possible for developers to bring their services into Gmail using new integrations called Add-ons.
  It’s built so that developers can write one set of code in Google’s Apps Script language and have their integration run in Gmail on the web, as well as inside Google’s Android and iOS apps for the service. For example, a QuickBooks add-on would let users easily send invoices to people who they’re emailing.  
  Google already offers Add-ons for its
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Data science is a contact sport

  09-03-2017 21:09
  
  Key to success in an A.I. or IoT or data strategy is data scientist productivity. Data scientist productivity is defined as the volume of business-critical results driven through data science. The difference between successful data-driven companies and not so successful ones is the productivity and throughput of the data science team. Increasing data scientist productivity and throughput leads to positive side effects, including standardization of data science processes, tooling and data science
  
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• WikiLeaks will share CIA hacking tools with Apple, other tech companies

  09-03-2017 20:50
  After WikiLeaks dumped more than 8,000 documents leaked from inside the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, Apple said it had already fixed most of the exploits the agency had found to hack into iPhones. But without seeing the code the CIA has, Apple can’t be sure it’s fixed all of those bugs. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Thursday he will share the code, which was withheld from the published documents, with tech companies like Apple.
  “We have decided to work wi
  
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• 25% off Withings Thermo Wireless Smart Thermometer - Deal Alert

  09-03-2017 20:35
  
  With an exceedingly simple scan across the forehead, 16 infrared sensors take over 4,000 measurements to find the hottest point. It requires no contact with the skin, unlike traditional methods, making Thermo is the most sanitary way to take anyone’s temperature. Readings appear illuminated on the device, and if desired, will sync to your smartphone for tracking and much more. Its typical list price of $100 will be reduced 25% when you click the green "clip 25% off coupon" button on its Am
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Deciding when to scale: 3 big questions every tech startup needs to ask

  09-03-2017 20:30
  
  Every tech company CEO has a vision at the outset. “By year three, we want to have this many users. By year five, we will have reached our target profit margin.”
  And with the resources available today, startups have never been better positioned to reach these goals. According to CB Insights, the cost to launch a tech startup was $5 million in 2000. But now, with the help of cloud-based tools and open-source software, it can cost as little as $5,000. And thanks to the wide adoption o
  
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• Google's Jamboard will cost $5,000 and ship to the US in May

  09-03-2017 19:45
  
  Google is getting ready to put its smart whiteboard on sale. The company announced Thursday that the Jamboard, its big touchscreen that’s designed to serve as a digital collaboration space for business users, will be available in May.The board, which was first revealed last year, gives business users a large workspace to make notes, share content from the web, and more. It’s backed by a cloud service that can be accessed by users’ other devices so that people can collaborate on
  
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• Google updates Allo with another feature that isn't SMS integration: Android Auto

  09-03-2017 19:37
  
  Allo was supposed to be the app the finally unified messaging in Android, but it hasn’t actually worked out that way. However, Google keeps plugging away at it. Along with recent improvements like an Assistant shortcut and new animated emoji, Google has also added a new feature in its latest Allo update: Android Auto support.
   It’s hard to believe Google waited this long to build hands-free support for its newest messaging apps, but Allo messages never actually appeared on
  
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• Google App Engine adds C#, Node.js, and Ruby options

  09-03-2017 19:37
  
  Google is enhancing developer options on two fronts, adding language options to its App Engine PaaS cloud and moving its event-driven computing platform, Cloud Functions, to public beta. It announced the moves at the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco.
  App Engine will now provide development environments for C#, Node.js, and Ruby, having already supported Go, Java 8, PHP 5-7, and Python 2 and 3 in a similar out-of-the-box manner. Node.js support had been on App Engine in a beta stage
  
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• After WikiLeaks' CIA dump, China tells U.S. to stop spying

  09-03-2017 19:37
  
  China today asked the U.S. government to stop spying on it, China's first reaction to WikiLeaks' disclosure of a trove of CIA documents that alleged the agency was able to hack smartphones, personal computers, routers and other digital devices worldwide.
  "We urge the U.S. to stop listening in, monitoring, stealing secrets and [conducting] cyber-attacks against China and other countries," said Geng Shuang, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said today in a Beijing press briefing.
  Geng also said that C
  
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• BrandPost: Beware the Dangerous Databerg Lurking Beneath Your Business’ Surface

  09-03-2017 19:35
  
  IT leaders have never been under more pressure. Despite shrinking (or stagnant) IT budgets, big businesses are asking IT teams to blaze a new trail towards digital transformation to improve management decisions, and speed the development of new products and services.
  Digital Transformation is a hot topic for businesses across the globe – and many businesses are struggling to keep up. In the majority of cases, the CIO and the IT department have limited resources to innovate and are left si
  
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• BrandPost: Are You Adopting the Right Tools and Tactics for IG?

  09-03-2017 19:35
  
  You might be wondering how an organization decides what to do with their data. What tools are they using? And what tactics are they implementing?
  The massive amount of information organizations are storing is outstanding, and as we already know, not everything stored is valuable at all.
  This is exactly what organizations are dealing with - what to keep and what to delete. That’s why, as we discussed in the previous blog, organizations are choosing to implement IG programs. With an Informa
  
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• BrandPost: Are You a Data Hoarder?

  09-03-2017 19:34
  
  The Data Genomics Index was the first time the industry got a peek behind the data storage curtain and finally received an answer to the question –what is my environment made of? It has been interesting to watch data managers react as we take this research on the road. Some in disbelief that data goes so unused, some surprised it wasn’t staler. Many of them planning immediate action to try and remediate their situation, while a few just accepting that data will accumulate regardless
  
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• BrandPost: GDPR and 3 Steps to Achieve Better Compliance

  09-03-2017 19:33
  
  On 25th May 2018 the new regulation GDPR will be enforced in all European Union Member States; the clock is ticking.
  But where to start? What to do first within an organisation?
  Here are three best practices tips for organisations to consider as they work to become compliant with the GDPR.
  First of all, it is very likely that any organisation with customers and partners in the European Union will be affected by the GDPR.
  A global chain of compliance will be mandated as any organisations located
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Are artificial intelligence systems intrinsically racist?

  09-03-2017 19:30
  
  At the heart of AI systems are statistical models that have no concept of social inequality, fairness, or hardships. In Cathy O’Neil’s book, Weapons of Math Destruction (WMD), she points out that big data is discriminating nearly at every juncture of our society and pummeling the poor at each opportunity. How is this happening? Her book points to many avenues of misuse of data, but most offensive is through the use of proxies. Proxies are statistical correlations. Data statistics tha
  
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• Google's new cloud service eases data preparation for machine learning

  09-03-2017 19:30
  
  One of the challenges that data scientists face when running machine learning workloads is processing information before it’s ready for use. Google unveiled a new cloud service Thursday aimed at easing that pain.
  Google Cloud Dataprep will automatically detect data schemas, joins, and anomalies such as missing or duplicate values, without requiring coding. After that, it will help users build a set of rules for processing the information. Those rules are then built in Apache Streams forma
  
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• Google goes after Slack with Hangouts overhaul

  09-03-2017 19:30
  
  Google’s Hangouts work chat and videoconferencing service is undergoing some major changes to better serve businesses. The company announced Thursday that it’s going after the work group chat market as well as the group videoconferencing market even harder than before by splitting Hangouts’s functions in two.The company is diving deeper into workplace text conversations with Hangouts Chat, a service designed to provide teams a shared space to discuss work. It’s Google&rsq
  
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• Google Drive will let users stream files from the cloud

  09-03-2017 19:30
  
  Google Drive users will be able to see all the files they have stored in the company’s cloud service on their desktop without downloading them, thanks to a new feature the company announced Thursday.
  The Drive File Stream offering will — as the name implies — show placeholder files on a user’s desktop, then download them only when a user needs to look at them. It’s similar to Dropbox’s Smart Sync feature, which recently entered beta .To read this article in f
  
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• Google announces three new cloud regions, contract discounts

  09-03-2017 19:30
  
  Google’s cloud regions are going places. The company announced Thursday that it’s launching three new data centers in California, Canada, and the Netherlands, in addition to the company’s existing footprint of 14 announced and live regions around the world.Adding more regions will help Google compete with other public cloud platforms like Microsoft and Amazon. The Canada region is important for serving customers who need to comply with data sovereignty requirements inside that
  
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• 4 ways Google Cloud will bring AI, machine learning to the enterprise

  09-03-2017 18:17
  
  Last November, when Google announced that machine learning research luminary Fei-Fei Li, Ph.D. would join Google’s Cloud Group Platform group, a lot was known about her academic work. But Google revealed little about why she was joining the company except she would lead machine learning for the Google Cloud business.
  After five months of suspense, yesterday Li revealed the focus of her new role during her keynote address at Google’s cloud developer conference, Cloud Next 2017. She w
  
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• Cisco’s Jasper deal – one year, 18 million new IoT devices later, challenges remain

  09-03-2017 18:10
  
  You’d be hard-pressed to write a better opening script than the one playing out for Cisco and its now year-old acquisition of Jasper. The $1.4 billion deal was to make Jasper technology the centerpiece of Cisco’s Internet of Things strategy and it has largely done that. Of course, challenges remain – improving security and product family integration among them but the companies are off to a good start.
  Cisco closed the deal on Jasper last March and since then Cisco says the nu
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 keys to financial success in the Industrial Internet of Things

  09-03-2017 18:00
  
  The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is moving into high gear. You can tell, and this might sound counter-intuitive to some, because we are seeing meaningful value created with simple solutions. Caterpillar Marine “focused on small improvements” to turn small savings to big money across the many vehicles in its customers’ fleets.  Amey maintenance service teams in Hampshire, UK are using low cost sensors to monitor road surface temperatures to better predict and manag
  
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• Will Amazon Go be a game-changer for retail?

  09-03-2017 17:52
  
  “No lines. No checkout. Just grab and go.” That’s how Amazon describes the new checkout-free grocery store pilot it launched in Seattle last fall, which has retail industry tongues wagging. Currently, the store, which the company says allows customers to use an app to enter the store, take the products they want and go (the purchase is then charged to the customer’s Amazon account) is currently available only to Amazon employees, with a full pilot rollout to come this yea
  
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• Google gobbles up more big-name cloud customers

  09-03-2017 17:44
  
  SAN FRANCISCO -- Google came late to the enterprise party in the cloud, but the company is making up for lost time. Developers and the enterprises, which Google will need to attract more business away from Amazon and Microsoft, are taking notice -- as was evidenced here by big crowds and a standing-room only audience at the company’s Google Cloud Next conference.At the kickoff keynote Diane Greene, senior vice president of Google Cloud, announced several new customers, including eBay, HSBC
  
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• Assange: CIA had lost control of its cyberweapon documents

  09-03-2017 17:03
  
  Information about purported CIA cyberattacks was "passed around" among members of the U.S. intelligence community and contractors before it was published by WikiLeaks this week, Julian Assange says.The CIA "lost control of its entire cyberweapons arsenal," the WikiLeaks editor in chief said during a press conference Thursday. "This is a historic act of devastating incompetence, to have created such an arsenal and stored all in one place and not secured it."Assange declined to name the sourc
  
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• Now you can dive into Facebook 360 videos with your Gear VR

  09-03-2017 16:44
  
  Facebook has been making serious inroads in the 360-degree content game for months, taking on YouTube with rich, immersive photos and videos that put viewers right in the center of the action. To date, users have posted more than 25 million photos and a million Facebook 360 videos to their feeds, showcasing a wide array of people, places, and events. But there has never really been a great way to view them until now.
  Facebook has finally released an app for viewing its 360-degree movies and pho
  
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• Texas hospital struggles to make IBM's Watson cure cancer

  09-03-2017 16:28
  
  If IBM is looking for a new application for its Watson machine learning tools, it might consider putting health care providers' procurement and systems integration woes ahead of curing cancer.After spending more than four years and US$62 million on its Oncology Expert Advisor project, the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas still looking for answers in all those areas.The fall-out from that project has now prompted the resignation of the cancer center's president, Ronald
  
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• How to make money from open source software

  09-03-2017 16:28
  
  Talk about starting a business based on open source software and the conversation will inevitably shift to Red Hat. That's because the Linux vendor is a shining example of a company that's making money from an open source product. But how easy is it really to establish an open source startup that makes money? For every success story like Red Hat there are companies like Cyanogen that fail to thrive  and projects that are abandoned.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please c
  
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• Microsoft ads invade Windows 10's File Explorer

  09-03-2017 16:12
  
  Microsoft keeps trying to prove that Windows 10 may be the best thing that ever happened to desktop Linux. The company is yet again adding ads to Windows 10, but this time it’s in possibly the most egregious spot yet: File Explorer.
  Users have been complaining on Twitter and other online watering holes for a few days now. We haven’t seen the ads on our PCs yet, but Joel Hruska and Ryan Whitwam over at ExtremeTech apparently did. Knox North
  A OneDrive ad in Windows 10's File Explorer
  
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• 22% off 4 Person Premium 72 Hour Survival Kit Backpack - Deal Alert

  09-03-2017 15:38
  
  If you like to be prepared for the unexpected, consider this 4-person premium survival kit for disasters and emergency preparedness, which contains enough food, water and emergency supplies to last a family of 4 for 72 hours. Over 245 pieces that meet or exceed Red Cross guidelines for preparedness are packaged neatly in packs. The included food and water are U.S. Coast Guard certified, and the kit contains a hard-shell Lifeline First Aid kit and LifeGear LED Flashlight. Its typical list price o
  
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• Want to improve risk management? Do the basics

  09-03-2017 15:32
  
  Most organizations could eliminate more than 75 percent of their risk of cyber intrusions if they just did the online version of locking their doors and windows.
  That was one of the main takeaways from a panel discussion on cyber risks at Wednesday’s 2017 Boston Conference on Cyber Security, cosponsored by the FBI and Boston College’s Woods College of Advancing Studies.
  The session, titled “Are You Managing Your Cyber Risks? Challenges from the Legal and CISO Perspectives,&rdq
  
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• FBI chief calls for private sector to help battle cybercrime

  09-03-2017 15:21
  
  CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- FBI Director James Comey has tough words for private sector firms that won't engage with federal law enforcement authorities on cybersecurity, an area where the bureau has been dramatically expanding its investigation and prosecution efforts.In a keynote address at a cybersecurity conference at Boston College, Comey lamented that most incidents of intrusion and attacks against U.S. businesses go unreported. But when a victim does report a breach to the FBI, such as the da
  
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• Astro is an AI-powered email client with big dreams

  09-03-2017 15:21
  
  If there’s one source of technological frustration at work, it’s email. Getting a job done often still relies on sending chains of messages back and forth to the extent that it would be nice to have an assistant to help deal with it all.
  That’s the idea behind Astro, a new app that applies artificial intelligence to email in an attempt to make life easier for its users. Its marquee feature is Astrobot, a chatbot powered by machine learning that’s designed to keep users a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How 18F aims to take the pain out of the government procurement process

  09-03-2017 14:56
  
  Recently, I interviewed V. David Zvenyach, 18F’s director of acquisition management, who is serving as interim executive director of 18F. Dave studied engineering undergrad, but then went to law school to become a “bureaucracy hacker.” Previously, he was the General Counsel to the Council of the District of Columbia. In 2014, he was honored to receive the D.C. Bar’s Exceptional Service Award for the establishment of the Council’s Pro Bono Program. Dave is an active
  
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• Racism in tech runs deep

  09-03-2017 14:54
  
  I got an email this morning from a person asking me for help with his job search. This person has a PhD and an MBA, and spent 20-some years in the IT industry working his way up through various leadership roles. This person had been trying to make the next career move into a leadership role, like CIO or CTO, but wasn't having any luck. "…it's been a complete fiasco," he said. And then, this last sentence brought me almost to tears.
  "I'm beginning to think it's because I'm black. Can you p
  
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• Nieuwe versie Burgernet opnieuw naar CGI

  09-03-2017 14:27
  ICT-dienstverlener CGI heeft de aanbesteding gewonnen voor het ontwikkelen en beheren van Burgernet 2.0, de opvolger van het huidige systeem dat alweer dateert van 2009. Het contract, dat het bouwen en het beheer van de nieuwe oplossing omvat, heeft een looptijd van zeven tot tien jaar.Burgernet, dat burgers,... lees meer
  
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• Darktrace finds more attacks, cuts response time, saves money for Blackhawk Network

  09-03-2017 14:20
  
  Blackhawk Network, a $1.9 billion multinational in the prepaid-card industry, was undergoing a consolidation of its security architecture in an effort to give better visibility into threats as they unfolded and that would also adapt to the threat environment as attackers changed their strategies.
  That included hiring a new head of cyber defense, Vari Bindra, in December of 2015, who wanted to create a central security operations center and consolidate the company’s varied data centers dow
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Will litigation pop the self-driving car bubble in Silicon Valley?

  09-03-2017 14:16
  
  Everyone knows that when self-driving cars finally become mainstream, it is going to radically change how we work, live, and everything else. Tech companies and automobile manufacturers have been stuck in a race to develop self-driving technology, knowing that a step ahead can give any of them a dominant advantage.But now, Google (or rather, Waymo, which is the self-driving division of Alphabet that is Google’s parent company) launched a suit against Uber on Thursday for stealing its techn
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Putting strategy into action by scheduling urgency

  09-03-2017 14:04
  
  Executives tell me all the time: “I want to see more urgency.” When I ask them, “What would that look like?” I don’t usually get a very clear answer.Sometimes it’s that they want to see more accountability from their team, or they want to see more energy. Or they say they are not seeing enough momentum.Sometimes I think leaders would be more satisfied to just see everyone running around in a panic because that would look more like urgency and make them fe
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Can transformation ruin relationships?

  09-03-2017 14:00
  
  "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." – PlatoMy past bosses and mentors have always reminded me that work relationships are always very important, particularly those with your stakeholders. It puts you inside an ecosystem that builds partnerships and that each member of that pool has everyone else’s back. Recently I have been reflecting a little bit and then certain events flashed in my mind, which started to question my belief on t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How location data can transform your business

  09-03-2017 13:42
  
  Not far from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, The California Institute of Technology, and scores of startups like UberMedia, you can find a typewriter repair shop. The firm has been located in Pasadena, California for more than 100 years. While it might seem out of place in the age of laptops and cloud computing, it has at least one important thing in common with its tech-savvy neighbors -- the right location. The difference, however, is that you probably wouldn’t expect a typewriter repair
  
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• No, tiny keypads aren't becoming cool again

  09-03-2017 13:00
  
  So when did Mobile World Congress turn into Mobile World Classic? While the LG G6 and Moto G5s created a healthy amount of buzz in Barcelona this year, the hottest gadgets weren’t the usual cutting-edge marvels. They were retro-flavored releases that brought back a feature long relegated to the technology graveyard: tiny keys.
  Now, a certain amount of nostalgia-driven excitement is understandable. I’ll admit that the new Nokia 3310 stirred something in me that none of the glass-and-
  
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• Hackers exploit Apache Struts vulnerability to compromise corporate web servers

  09-03-2017 12:53
  
  Attackers are widely exploiting a recently patched vulnerability in Apache Struts that allows them to remotely execute malicious code on web servers.
  Apache Struts is an open-source web development framework for Java web applications. It's widely used to build corporate websites in sectors including education, government, financial services, retail and media.
  On Monday, the Apache Struts developers fixed a high-impact vulnerability in the framework's Jakarta Multipart parser. Hours later, an ex
  
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