Microsoft begins denying updates to some Windows 7 users

Microsoft this week began blocking Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs equipped with the very newest processors from receiving security updates, making good on a policy it announced but did not implement last year.But the company also refused to provide security fixes to Windows 7 systems that were powered by AMD's "Carrizo" CPUs, an architecture that was supposed to continue receiving patches.The decree that led to the update bans, whether allowable or not under Microsoft's new policy, was revealed in January 2016, when the company said making Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 run on the latest processors was "challenging." Microsoft then ruled that Windows 10 would be the only supported edition on seventh-generation and later CPUs and simultaneously dictated a substantial shortening of support of both editions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft rumor: New Surface device that runs Windows Cloud

Microsoft has an event planned for May 2 believed to be focused on the education market, which has long been an Apple stronghold. It’s likely new hardware will be introduced, and some Microsoft watchers believe it will be the launch for a Windows Cloud device.Windows Cloud is rumored to be Microsoft’s answer to Google Chromebooks. It’s essentially the old Windows RT OS that failed spectacularly a few years back, except now it’s built on Windows 10 and runs apps only from the Windows Store, both Win32 apps and Universal Windows Platform Apps. RT flopped mostly because there were no apps for it and developers didn’t rush out to make any apps for it.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: SGXIO

Intel’s SGX provides hardware-secured enclaves for trusted execution of applications in an untrusted environment. Previously we’ve looked at Haven, which uses SGX in the context of cloud infrastructure, SCONE which shows how to run docker containers under SGX, and Panoply which looks at what happens when multiple applications services, each in their own enclave, need to communicate with each other (think kubernetes pod or a collection of local microservices). SGXIO provides support for generic, trusted I/O paths to protect user input and output between enclaves and I/O devices. (The generic qualifier is important here – currently SGX only works with proprietary trusted paths such as Intel’s Protected Audio Video Path). —the morning paper

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Worth Reading: SGXIO

Intel’s SGX provides hardware-secured enclaves for trusted execution of applications in an untrusted environment. Previously we’ve looked at Haven, which uses SGX in the context of cloud infrastructure, SCONE which shows how to run docker containers under SGX, and Panoply which looks at what happens when multiple applications services, each in their own enclave, need to communicate with each other (think kubernetes pod or a collection of local microservices). SGXIO provides support for generic, trusted I/O paths to protect user input and output between enclaves and I/O devices. (The generic qualifier is important here – currently SGX only works with proprietary trusted paths such as Intel’s Protected Audio Video Path). —the morning paper

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New NSA leak may expose its bank spying, Windows exploits

A hacking group has released suspected U.S. government files that show the National Security Agency may have spied on banks across the Middle East.Numerous Windows hacking tools are also among the new batch of files the Shadow Brokers dumped Friday. In recent months, the mysterious group has been releasing hacking tools allegedly taken from the NSA, and security researchers say they actually work.Friday’s leak includes an archive describing the internal architecture at EastNets, a Dubai-based anti-money laundering company that also offers services related to SWIFT, the financial banking network.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

New NSA leak may expose its bank spying, Windows exploits

A hacking group has released suspected U.S. government files that show the National Security Agency may have spied on banks across the Middle East.Numerous Windows hacking tools are also among the new batch of files the Shadow Brokers dumped Friday. In recent months, the mysterious group has been releasing hacking tools allegedly taken from the NSA, and security researchers say they actually work.Friday’s leak includes an archive describing the internal architecture at EastNets, a Dubai-based anti-money laundering company that also offers services related to SWIFT, the financial banking network.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Hyperscaling With Consumer Flash And NVM-Express

There is no question that plenty of companies are shifting their storage infrastructure from giant NAS and SAN appliances to more generic file, block, and object storage running on plain vanilla X86 servers equipped with flash and disk. And similarly, companies are looking to the widespread availability of dual-ported NVM-Express drives on servers to give them screaming flash performance on those storage servers.

But the fact remains that very few companies want to build and support their own storage servers, and moreover, there is still room for an appliance approach to these commodity components for enterprises that want to buy …

Hyperscaling With Consumer Flash And NVM-Express was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Samsung taps DOD tech veteran to head enterprise push

Samsung Electronics has appointed the former CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense to help a global push to expand its mobile enterprise business.Terry Halvorsen served as chief information officer at the Pentagon from 2015 until this year. Before that, he served as deputy commander of the Navy Cyber Forces and deputy commander of the Naval Network Warfare Command.At Samsung, he will be an executive vice president and global enterprise advisor to J.K. Shin, president of Samsung's Mobile Communications division.Samsung said it wants Halvorsen to help expand its business in the corporate, government, and regulated industries space, where there are higher demands on security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Samsung taps DOD tech veteran to head enterprise push

Samsung Electronics has appointed the former CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense to help a global push to expand its mobile enterprise business.Terry Halvorsen served as chief information officer at the Pentagon from 2015 until this year. Before that, he served as deputy commander of the Navy Cyber Forces and deputy commander of the Naval Network Warfare Command.At Samsung, he will be an executive vice president and global enterprise advisor to J.K. Shin, president of Samsung's Mobile Communications division.Samsung said it wants Halvorsen to help expand its business in the corporate, government, and regulated industries space, where there are higher demands on security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Prices of SSDs and DRAM will crash in 2019, Gartner predicts

The prices of PCs, smartphones, and tablets are going up, with higher component prices to blame. Shortages in DRAM, flash, batteries and displays are hitting buyers in the wallet.Minor relief is in sight next year when prices of memory and NAND flash -- which is used in SSDs -- will start to gradually decline. But prices will plummet big time in 2019, predicted Jon Erensen, research director for semiconductors at Gartner.The impact could be felt on the prices of PCs and mobile devices. But it's too early to predict the exact impact of the projected NAND and DRAM price crashes on PCs and mobile devices, Erensen said.If the prices drop, it may be affordable for computer users to acquire components off the shelf and build PCs at home. But the prices of pre-made devices, in the end, depend on what PC makers do with the savings resulting from cheaper component pricing.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

China Pushes Breadth-First Search Across Ten Million Cores

There is increasing interplay between the worlds of machine learning and high performance computing (HPC). This began with a shared hardware and software story since many supercomputing tricks of the trade play well into deep learning, but as we look to next generation machines, the bond keeps tightening.

Many supercomputing sites are figuring out how to work deep learning into their existing workflows, either as a pre- or post-processing step, while some research areas might do away with traditional supercomputing simulations altogether eventually. While these massive machines were designed with simulations in mind, the strongest supers have architectures that parallel …

China Pushes Breadth-First Search Across Ten Million Cores was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

FCC’s deregulation of business data lines could mean a price hike

If you operate a small or medium-size U.S. business, you can expect to pay more for broadband services in the near future because the U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to deregulate providers of business data lines, critics of the proposal say.Users of ATMs, shoppers in stores that use credit card scanners, and mobile phone customers could also see prices go up after the FCC deregulates the so-called business data services (BDS) market. Schools and hospitals also depend on BDS for their broadband service, and prices could rise as much as 25 percent in areas where the FCC removes price caps, critics warn.The FCC is scheduled to vote Thursday on a proposal from Republican Chairman Ajit Pai that would deregulate large parts of the BDS market, which generates an estimated US$45 billion a year for AT&T, Verizon, and other telecom carriers. Incumbent telecom carriers welcome the plan, saying there's plenty of competition in the BDS market, sometimes called special access.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

FCC’s deregulation of business data lines could mean a price hike

If you operate a small or medium-size U.S. business, you can expect to pay more for broadband services in the near future because the U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to deregulate providers of business data lines, critics of the proposal say.Users of ATMs, shoppers in stores that use credit card scanners, and mobile phone customers could also see prices go up after the FCC deregulates the so-called business data services (BDS) market. Schools and hospitals also depend on BDS for their broadband service, and prices could rise as much as 25 percent in areas where the FCC removes price caps, critics warn.The FCC is scheduled to vote Thursday on a proposal from Republican Chairman Ajit Pai that would deregulate large parts of the BDS market, which generates an estimated US$45 billion a year for AT&T, Verizon, and other telecom carriers. Incumbent telecom carriers welcome the plan, saying there's plenty of competition in the BDS market, sometimes called special access.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For April 14th, 2017

Hey, it's HighScalability time:

 

After 20 years, Cassini will not go gently into that good night, it will burn and rave at close of day. (nasa)

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  • 10^15: synapses activated per second in human brain (2/3rds fail); $4.5B: Amazon spend on video (Netflix $6 billion); 22,000: AWS database migrations served; ~15%: Dropbox reduced CPU usage using Brotli; $3.5 trillion: IT spending in 2017; 10%: reduction in QoQ hard drive shipments; 33.3%: Nginx share of webserver market; 37.2 trillion: human cells in a Cell Atlas; 6.2 miles: journey to the center of the earth; 200: lines of code for blockchain; 95%: Wikipedia pages end up at philosophy; 1.2 billion: Messenger monthly users; 

  • Quotable Quotes:
    • Jeff Bezos: Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1.
    • Bob Schmidt: If debugging is the process of removing errors from a design, then designing must be the process of putting errors into a design!
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