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• 36% off Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Motherboard - Deal Alert

  29-03-2017 23:05
  
  Currently discounted 33% on Amazon the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Motherboardfeatures a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 clocked at 1.2 GHz. The Pi 3 features on-board 802.11N WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Congress to US citizens: Want online privacy? Pay up!

  29-03-2017 23:01
  
  Tuesday’s congressional vote to repeal U.S. restrictions on broadband providers doesn’t mean that online privacy is dead. Consumers will just have to pay for it.The coming repeal, which President Trump is expected to sign into law, paves a clearer path for broadband providers to sell customers’ internet browsing history and other online data, without their consent.Privacy advocates are worried. Imagine corporate giants snooping on your internet activities, and then bombarding y
  
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• 5 things Samsung's Bixby artificial intelligence service will do

  29-03-2017 22:49
  
  Could artificial intelligence make devices easier to use? According to Samsung, it sure can, and that's what it the company out to prove with its Bixby AI service.Bixby is being loaded on the Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones, which were announced on Tuesday. Bixby is an agent that can help the smartphones talk, recommend, and remind, said Mok Oh, vice president of service strategy at Samsung.The AI service is being positioned as a more intuitive way to use and interact with smartphones. For example
  
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• Microsoft HoloLens helps medical equipment maker hone sales pitch

  29-03-2017 22:44
  
  Microsoft's HoloLens has found a home in healthcare, potentially breathing new life into what has been spotty deployment of immersive digital solutions in enterprises.Medical equipment maker Stryker is using the headset to help show customers how its surgical tables, light fixtures and displays will look in their operating rooms (ORs). HoloLens serves as a planning and design tool for sales pitches, saving Stryker the time, money and effort it typically spends to demonstrate its wares."We have a
  
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• Copying Snapchat shows Facebook’s lack of innovation

  29-03-2017 22:15
  
  Facebook's latest moves take yet another page from Snapchat, and the company may need to figure out how to become innovative again.Playing catch-up with competitors is a good thing but it doesn't replace Facebook building new features that users can't get anywhere else."Facebook needs to understand what their second act is going to be," said Zeus Kerravala, an analyst with ZK Research, who added that copying Snapchat shows Facebook's own lack of innovation. Otherwise, he said, "they'll eventuall
  
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• Oracle recommends axing Java object finalizer

  29-03-2017 21:55
  
  Java’s Object.finalize capability is on the chopping block, deemed more trouble than it’s worth. But expect it to stick around for a while.Deprecation has been proposed for Java Development Kit (JDK) 9, Oracle said. Oracle recommends that the capability no longer be used and a warning will be issued. Initially, Object.finalize won't be deprecated for removal, so at the earliest, it could be dropped in Java SE 11. With JDK 9 due this July and JDK 10 presumably in the mix, the cap
  
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• Trump again uses iPhone to tweet, backtracking from 2016 pledge

  29-03-2017 21:50
  
  President Donald Trump now uses an iPhone to broadcast his famous early-morning tweets, according to the White House.Trump's turn to the iPhone was contrary to a pledge he made more than a year ago, when he blasted Apple for refusing to help federal authorities crack the passcode on a device belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters."@POTUS @realDonaldTrump has been using his new iPhone for the past couple of weeks here on Twitter," tweeted Dan Scavino Jr. today. Scavino is director of soc
  
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• Google Calendar finally comes to the iPad

  29-03-2017 21:50
  
  Google’s Calendar app is making a long-awaited move to a new device: Apple’s iPad. You read that right: Until Wednesday, the tech titan hadn’t optimized its marquee calendar application to run on Apple’s tablets.The app provides users with a view of the calendars that they have and that are shared with them through Google’s service. In addition, they get a handful of features Apple’s native calendar app doesn’t have, like the ability to more easily find
  
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• Sleek new Galaxy S8 phones feature facial recognition, Bixby intelligent agent

  29-03-2017 21:45
  
  Samsung launched sleek new Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones Wednesday with features including facial recognition, an intelligent agent called Bixby and Samsung Pass for secure e-commerce mobile payments.[ Related: Samung's Galaxy S8 will make you forget about the Note 7 fiasco ]Thephones have significantly larger displays than the previous S7 models as well as rounded edges and corners. They both have an edge-to-edge, near-bezel-less screen enclosure called an Infinity display, picking up that styl
  
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• How to fend off cyberattacks and data breaches

  29-03-2017 20:47
  
  According to research conducted by Symantec, the number of cyberattacks against small businesses (companies with fewer than 250 employees) has been steadily growing over the last six years, with hackers specifically targeting employees (phishing). And while distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks are still a leading form of cyber warfare, ransomware and malware attacks, targeting users of smartphones and internet of things (IoT) devices, as well as PCs and systems running on Macs and Lin
  
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• 38% off Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim 2TB Portable External Hard Drive - Deal Post

  29-03-2017 20:15
  
  The Backup Plus Ultra Slim Portable Drive is one of Seagate's thinnest and most eye-catching portable hard drives. Available in stunning gold and platinum colors- style meets storage- and easily slips into your backpack along with your other essentials. At 9.6mm thin, capacity is not sacrificed with 1TB and 2TB options-bring your most important files and head out the door. Back up and manage your favorite files from your computer, tablet and mobile devices using the Seagate Dashboard. Run a
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How Procore brought the cloud to the $10 trillion construction industry

  29-03-2017 20:01
  
  When the history of cloud software is written its beginnings will be traced to 1998 and the founding of NetLedger (Now Oracle-owned NetSuite) an accounting app. Over the course of two decades companies like Salesforce.com, Workday and Concur would follow, upending old assumptions about business applications, and creating a marketplace where the public companies alone are worth a combined $175 billion.Today pretty much any new business app runs in the cloud because it’s what the marketplace
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: President Trump dumps Android for Apple's iPhone

  29-03-2017 19:41
  
  President Trump has long been known for having a formidable presence on Twitter, via his Android phone. He has his personal Twitter account, as well as the official POTUS account. The president also has a personal account on Facebook, as well as the official POTUS Facebook account.But now President Trump has finally dumped his old Android device and moved to Apple’s iPhone instead for his social media needs, according to Dan Scavino (the official White House Director of Social Media).To re
  
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• FIRST LOOK: The Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone

  29-03-2017 19:37
  
  Halt and (don’t) catch fireImage by SamsungThis April 21, you can lay your hands – safely this time – on Samsung’s latest flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus. They’re both unsurprisingly impressive devices, and Samsung’s going to be hoping that they can restore the company’s fortunes in the wake of the Note 7 debacle and legal troubles at home, and in advance of Apple’s anticipated iPhone 8 or iPhone X release later this year. Check it
  
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• Trojan source code leak poised to spur new online banking attacks

  29-03-2017 19:26
  
  The source code for a new Trojan program that targets banking services has been published online, offering an easy way for unskilled cybercriminals to launch potent malware attacks against users.The Trojan is called Nuclear Bot and first appeared for sale on underground cybercrime forums in early December for $2,500. It can steal and inject information from and into websites opened in Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer and Google Chrome and can also open a local proxy or hidden remote desktop se
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Potential Oracle acquisition of Accenture brings new digital twist

  29-03-2017 19:00
  
  This morning’s news in the UK’s leading IT publication, The Register, announced that Oracle has hired specialists to conduct due diligence on synergies and impacts of Oracle acquiring Accenture. Obviously, the feasibility study is at an early stage, and neither of the giant companies is commenting on the news... and it might not happen. But what if it does?Here’s my take on what this potential acquisition signals in the digital world for software and services competitors and fo
  
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• G Suite vs. Office 365 cloud collaboration battle heats up

  29-03-2017 18:50
  
  CIOs and IT managers are increasingly adopting Microsoft’s Office 365 and Google’s G Suite for collaboration, productivity and messaging. These cloud-based productivity suites are expanding, gaining new feature sets and new apps for enterprise users. Earlier this month, both Google and Microsoft introduced chat-based collaboration apps to reposition for competition in this fast evolving and hotly contested space.Microsoft's Teams, which has been in beta since November, was released f
  
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• Microsoft's Surface Book and Surface Studio will ship in more markets

  29-03-2017 18:27
  
  Microsoft has been cautious about making its Surface product line available worldwide. It tests devices in specific markets, sees how they do, and if the response is good, ships them to those areas.The company appears to have have received a strong response, in particular, to its Surface Studio, Surface Book devices and Surface Dial, which will soon be available in many Asian and European countries.The expanded availability of these devices was announced on the same day Microsoft said it would r
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Cloud Foundry certification program looks to train cloud developers

  29-03-2017 18:24
  
  There is a huge gap between supply and demand of skilled developers, especially when it comes to cloud-based technologies. There is an explosion in the cloud space, from Uber to Apple — everyone is using the cloud. There are currently not enough skilled people to meet this growing demand.In 2016 Cloud Foundry published a survey that found “an escalating gap in cloud skills which threatens enterprises’ ability to embrace digital transformation.” One of the key finding
  
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• 5 Samsung Galaxy S8 features Apple should steal for iPhone 8

  29-03-2017 18:10
  
  Samsung just took the wraps off its new Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones in a bid to make people forget about last year’s exploding Note 7 disaster. While the Galaxy S8 has a few things working against it—namely that it runs Android—Samsung gave its new flagship an impressively slick redesign. We wouldn’t mind if Apple lifted a few of the S8’s features for its 10th anniversary iPhone.[ Related: Samung's Galaxy S8 will make you forget about the Note 7 fiasco ]To read th
  
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• 25% off HotLogic Mini Personal Portable Oven - Deal Alert

  29-03-2017 17:21
  
  Hot Logic Mini averages 4.8 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 1,800 people (87% rate a full 5 stars: read recent reviews).  A cross between a lunch bag and an oven, this personal, portable cooker is great for the office, job site, the campsite, the car, or anywhere you have an outlet. The Hot Logic Mini will prepare fresh-cooked hot meals, reheated meals or perfectly cooked prepackaged meals without overcooked edges or frozen centers. Whether you're cooking uncooked, frozen chick
  
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• Samsung's Galaxy S8 will make you forget about the Note 7 fiasco

  29-03-2017 17:01
  
  Say goodbye to flat smartphones -- at least, if you're a Samsung user. The most surprising part of today's Galaxy S8 and S8+ announcement is that Samsung included the Infinity Display on both its flagship devices. The slightly tapered edges aren't as extreme as those found on the original S6 Edge, but they create a unique viewing experience and incorporate unobtrusive, quick-access menus.It was hard to miss the leaked images leading up to Samsung's announcement, but seeing the devices in person
  
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• What's in Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones?

  29-03-2017 17:00
  
  Samsung's new Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones look beautiful, and are loaded with new features that could make an upgrade worthwhile.The handsets are superfast and 4K capable, and also herald the arrival of new technologies like Bluetooth 5 and LTE gigabit modems.We take a look inside the handsets and see how they have improved from the Samsung Galaxy S7.Screen size is biggerThe Galaxy S8 has a 5.8-inch screen, while the S8+ has a 6.2-inch screen, which are larger than the 5.5-inch S7 and the 5.7-
  
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• Samsung Introduces Galaxy S8 and S8+, featuring Infinity displays

  29-03-2017 17:00
  
  Samsung today unveiled the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ at an event in New York City. Both models feature the curved Infinity Display found on the Galaxy Note, marking the first time since the Galaxy S6 Edge was released that there won't be a flat version of Samsung's flagship smartphone.The Infinity Display isn't as dramatically curved as the display on the original Galaxy S6 Edge, which included more interactive features directly on the edges. Instead, the Infinity Display features slightly tapere
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: The next generation of EHRs will be fundamentally different

  29-03-2017 16:57
  
  Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have come a long way. Over 80 percent of physicians use them in their offices, and nearly all hospitals have implemented EHRs as well. Spurred by the HITECH portion of the 2009 Recovery act, Meaningful Use has put money on the table for physicians and hospitals to adopt and use EHRs.It also defined what kinds of features an EHR must have in order to be Certified. Legacy systems took on these new requirements by adding to their offerings (sometimes referred to as
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Swearing Trojan malware in China heralds things to come in the U.S.

  29-03-2017 16:55
  
  National politics being what they are, the news in our part of the world is rather narrow and self-absorbed these days. Thus, the media here wasn’t too impressed by a story out of China a few days ago about a piece of malware called Swearing Trojan. Named for some Chinese profanity embedded in comments in the code, Swearing Trojan is big news in China, where it continues to unleash havoc, even after the original perpetrators were arrested.To read this article in full or to leave a comment,
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 companies worth watching from Dev Week San Francisco

  29-03-2017 16:30
  
  Pink is for perfection. It’s also the signature color of Developer Week San Francisco. The 2017 edition of Geoff Domoracki’s amazing Dev Network event brought no fewer than 8,000 developers into Northern California’s City by the Bay for one week of incredible demonstrations, displays and conversations. Hats off to him and his team for doing such an amazing job.Dev Network events allow developers to get their fingers on the pulse of what’s hot while learning impo
  
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• How Microsoft plans to address AI and machine learning challenges

  29-03-2017 16:24
  
  Microsoft, Google and IBM face difficult challenges in winning early enterprise adopters of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Microsoft AI Research Vice President Peter Lee shed some like on how Microsoft will meet those challenges when we met at this week’s MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital conference.Lee began with the same explanation that he gave to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Nadella, a former research engineer, does not need to have technology spoon fed to h
  
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• 3 paths to analytics leadership roles

  29-03-2017 16:11
  
  In the past couple of years, organizations in all kinds of industries have created hundreds of new executive roles in analytics. Employers are on the hunt for leaders who not only understand the massive amounts of data at their disposal, but also are able to identify the threats and opportunities that arise as the analytics landscape evolves.According to research firm Gartner, the role of chief data officer (CDO) is new to most organizations — more than 80 percent added the role in the las
  
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• Privacy advocates plan to fight Congress' repeal of ISP privacy rules

  29-03-2017 16:05
  
  Privacy advocates haven't given up the fight after the U.S. Congress voted to allow ISPs to sell customers' browsing histories and other personal information without their permission.On Tuesday, the House of Representatives voted 215 to 205 to strike down ISP privacy regulations approved by the Federal Communications Commission only months ago. House's passage of a resolution of disapproval followed a Senate vote to pass the same resolution days earlier. President Donald
  
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• Experts: Online trolls are here to stay, unless we do something

  29-03-2017 16:00
  
  A report issued this morning by the Pew Research Center and Elon University said that online interactions will continue to be shaped by trolling and mistrust, according to a survey of digital scholars and futurists.More than four in five of the 1,537 respondents surveyed said that the tone of communication via online media like social networks and discussion sites would either become more unhinged over the next decade or stay roughly the same.ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD: Microsoft's Docs.com is sharin
  
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• What it takes to become an information assurance analyst

  29-03-2017 15:57
  
  After spending 13 years working in systems administration and network and desktop support, Simeon Holloway had reached a crossroads in his career.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Android Wear 2.0 update finally rolls out to first three devices

  29-03-2017 15:50
  
  Android Wear 2.0 launched in early February, but Android Wear 1.0 watch users are still waiting for their wrist wear to get the update. That just changed for some. Wear 2.0 started rolling out Wednesday morning as an over-the-air update to the Fossil Q Founder, Casio Smart Outdoor Watch, and Tag Heuer Connected, a Google employee announced on the company’s forums as first spotted by Android Police. The rollout should be finished by Tuesday, April 4.To read this article in full or to l
  
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• Waze lets you order coffee and a donut from Dunkin' before you get there

  29-03-2017 15:38
  
  The next time you drive near a Dunkin' Donuts on the way to work, Waze won't just offer to reroute your there—it'll let you place an order, too. The navigation app recently announced a partnership with Dunkin' Donuts that lets users order items while they're en route.The new feature is rolling out now. If you don't see an option to order ahead you may need to update Waze. You'll also need to install the Dunkin' Donuts app.To start, the new Waze feature only works with Dunkin', but the comp
  
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• F5 to buy Brocade’s virtual ADC business?

  29-03-2017 15:32
  
  F5 Networks is said to be lining up to acquire Brocade’s virtual Application Delivery Controller (ADC) business, the latest hunk of Brocade’s IP suite to be sold off to meet the terms of Brocade’s $5.5 billion acquisition by Broadcom, a deal announced last November. Brocade sold its Ruckus Wireless and ICX Switch business to Arris International in February for $800 million.The latest divestiture -- reported by companies contacted by the private equity firm shopping the ADC asse
  
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• How to create a repair/recovery partition in Windows 10

  29-03-2017 15:02
  
  From time to time, Windows 10 will go off the rails. A failed update, a problematic program install, a driver problem or what-have-you can cause Windows to crash and then refuse to boot normally thereafter.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Windows 10 Creators Update FAQ: Everything you need to know

  29-03-2017 15:01
  
  More than five months after its grand unveiling last October, the Windows 10 Creators Update is finally here—and the wait was worth it.Following in the footsteps of last August’s sweeping Windows 10 Anniversary Update, the Creators Update tweaks and tunes the core Windows 10 experience while heaping on a pile of handy all-new features. While PCWorld’s comprehensive Windows 10 Creators Update review contains detailed impressions of Microsoft’s refreshed operating system, h
  
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• Tested: Microsoft Edge is the only browser to run Netflix in 4K

  29-03-2017 15:01
  
  In 2016, Microsoft made headlines by boasting that Microsoft Edge was the only major browser to run Netflix in 1080p. As part of the Windows 10 Creators Update, Edge has now made the jump to 4K, and it’s the first major PC browser to do so.To test the feature, we fired up Netflix within Chrome, Opera, Firefox, and Edge. Edge—as well as the Windows 10 Netflix app that you can download from the Microsoft Store—appears to be the only way to run 4K Netflix content on your PC.Still,
  
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• How Delivery Optimization in Windows 10 Creators Update helps avoid data overage fees

  29-03-2017 15:01
  
  Major Windows 10 updates always mean hours of downloading dozens of gigabytes for every PC you own. That could all change after the Windows 10 Creators Update launches in April—if you take advantage of a new feature. (See our full review of the Creators Update here.)We all live in fear of going over our ISP’s data cap, which can result in additional monthly charges depending upon the provider. (Metered connections are even worse.) But a new feature within the Windows 10 Creators Upda
  
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• Windows 10's next major update arrives April 11

  29-03-2017 15:00
  
  After months of waiting, beta tests, and trickles of information about new features, the next major update for Windows 10 will arrive on April 11. Microsoft announced Wednesday that the Creators Update, as it’s known, will start rolling out to users of the company’s latest operating system in roughly two weeks.The update includes a slew of new features, including changes to the Microsoft Edge browser, improvements to gaming on Windows 10 and more features for devices with touch scree
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How digital transformation created the economy of complexity

  29-03-2017 14:50
  
  The Digital Age, brought by the rise of cyber physical systems (CPS) and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, have completely changed the way companies supply their products to the market and the way consumers behave while buying them. The combination of hyperscale on the supply side and the need of hyper customization on the demand side have created an amount of opportunities like never seen before.A good example of that is how Amazon.com operates. Let’s consider that a few years ago it woul
  
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• Productiviteitsverlies door inefficiënte communicatie heeft hoge prijs

  29-03-2017 14:40
  Communicatieoplossingen die niet zijn toegesneden op de taak waarvoor ze worden gebruikt, kunnen organisaties wel 10.000 euro aan productiviteitsverlies kosten per medewerker. Daarop duidt onderzoek in opdracht van Mitel, leverancier van professionele communicatieoplossingen.De mix van applicaties en... lees meer
  
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• Expert: NY breach report highlights third-party risk

  29-03-2017 14:37
  
  New York reported a record high number of breaches last year, just after a new set of cybersecurity regulations went into effect in the state."In 2016, New Yorkers were the victims of one of the highest data exposure rates in our state’s history," said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman in a statement released last week. "The total annual number of reported security breaches increased by 60% and the number of exposed personal records tripled."According to the report, the stolen data consis
  
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• Insecure security cameras sound like a joke, but aren’t

  29-03-2017 13:00
  
  Reports recently surfaced that Google was alerted to security holes in its IoT security camera products and declined to patch them. This was quite frightening for two reasons. First, the fix was apparently straightforward, and second, the hole was readily and easily available to burglars with even a modicum of tech savviness.Meanwhile, eBay seems to be encouraging users to downgrade their security defenses by giving up the hardware tokens they use for two-factor authentication and rely
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Best tech tools to help marketers on a budget

  29-03-2017 13:00
  
  If a business wants to make money, it needs to first spend money. As often as entrepreneurs hear those words, though, it’s impossible to spend money they don’t have. Whether a business is just getting started or trying to scale to the next level, at least a small expense is necessary to get the word out and generate revenue.In today’s software-supported business world, the good news is that entrepreneurs can accomplish quite a bit with a limited amount of money. This is especia
  
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• Feds to battle cybersecurity with analytics

  29-03-2017 13:00
  
  For the federal government to better secure its information systems and support cybersecurity in the private sector, departments and agencies will need to dramatically improve the way they collect, analyze and share information about emerging threats, current and former government officials are cautioning.At a government IT conference convened by Akamai, a content delivery and cloud service provider, officials stressed the importance of casting a wide net for gathering information about cyberthr
  
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• Nederland in top 3 Europese landen met beveiligingsincidenten

  29-03-2017 12:56
  In 2016 zijn er 1.792 datalekken wereldwijd geregistreerd, resulterend in diefstal van bijna 1,4 miljard records. In hoeverre toegenomen registratiebereidheid een rol speelt is onduidelijk, maar dit is een toename van 86% ten opzichte van het jaar ervoor. Het VK voert de lijst landen aan met de meeste incidenten,... lees meer
  
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• AI will transform information security, but it won’t happen overnight

  29-03-2017 12:25
  
  Although it dates as far back as the 1950s, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hottest thing in technology today.An overarching term used to describe a set of technologies such as text-to-speech, natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision, AI essentially enables computers to do things normally done by people.Machine learning, the most prominent subset of AI, is about recognizing patterns in data and computer learning from them like a human. These algorithms draw inferences without be
  
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• Kubernetes 1.6 scales to 5,000 nodes

  29-03-2017 12:00
  
  Kubernetes 1.6, the latest version of Google's open source container orchestration platform, was released on Tuesday, featuring support for 5,000-node clusters. The 5,000-node cluster capability also will be added shortly to Google Container Engine, the company's Kubernetes-based automated container management system."For users who want to scale beyond 5,000 nodes or spread across multiple regions or clouds, federation lets you combine multiple Kubernetes clusters and address them through a sing
  
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• Shattering remote worker stereotypes

  29-03-2017 11:13
  
  A recent satirical piece in the New Yorker played the stereotypical remote worker for laughs -- disheveled, disoriented, starved for human contact, still in his pajamas after who-knows-how-many-days. Unproductive, he calls 911 for help. While it's hilarious -- and for those who work from home, there's certainly a few grains of truth buried within -- new research from Future Workplace and Polycom might finally put to rest the perception that remote workers are lazy, anti-social and unproductive.T
  
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