Security apps you need on your new Pixel

Google's new Pixel phoneImage by GoogleAll the brand new features of the Pixel will not protect it from increasingly frequent security threats: each user should take necessary precautions in order to protect their data, passwords or any sensitive online transactions. A new smartphone is also an attractive one-stop location for hackers who'd like to access personal bank account data, credit card passwords, name, address, social media accounts and so on.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Security apps you need on your new Pixel

Google's new Pixel phoneImage by GoogleAll the brand new features of the Pixel will not protect it from increasingly frequent security threats: each user should take necessary precautions in order to protect their data, passwords or any sensitive online transactions. A new smartphone is also an attractive one-stop location for hackers who'd like to access personal bank account data, credit card passwords, name, address, social media accounts and so on.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

The 15 scariest games to play on Mac today

Frightening and funItching for some interactive thrills? We’ve got a nice stack of Halloween-ready options that you can download on your Mac today. If you’re looking for gruesome, violent adventures filled with aggressive enemies, we’ve got those. Prefer something atmospheric and eerie, albeit with the occasional well-timed jump-scare? Well, we definitely have those covered, too.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Learning From Google’s Cloud Storage Evolution

Making storage cheaper on the cloud does not necessarily mean using tape or Blu-Ray discs to hold data. In a datacenter that has enormous bandwidth and consistent latency over a Clos network interconnecting hundreds of thousands of compute and storage servers, and by changing the durability and availability of data on the network and trading off storage costs and data access and movement costs, a hyperscaler can offer a mix of price and performance and cut costs.

That, in a nutshell, is what search engine giant and public cloud provider Google is doing with the latest variant of persistent storage

Learning From Google’s Cloud Storage Evolution was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Learning From Google’s Cloud Storage Evolution

Making storage cheaper on the cloud does not necessarily mean using tape or Blu-Ray discs to hold data. In a datacenter that has enormous bandwidth and consistent latency over a Clos network interconnecting hundreds of thousands of compute and storage servers, and by changing the durability and availability of data on the network and trading off storage costs and data access and movement costs, a hyperscaler can offer a mix of price and performance and cut costs.

That, in a nutshell, is what search engine giant and public cloud provider Google is doing with the latest variant of persistent storage

Learning From Google’s Cloud Storage Evolution was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

7 technologies killed in Apple’s new MacBook Pro

Apple’s never been shy about shaving off features in its quest for slimmer, faster computing. The new MacBook Pro lineup is no exception.Following in the footsteps of the radical 12-inch MacBook, the revamped MacBook Pro and its slick Touch Bar cull several old standbys from its design—and kill one of its siblings in the process. Here are seven technologies eradicated in the new MacBook Pro notebooks. For more details on whether we think the eliminations are worthwhile, check out Macworld’s MacBook Pro hands-on impressions.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

12 Touch Bar controls we can’t wait to try on the new MacBook Pro

Touch and go, in a good wayApple has finally revealed the next-generation MacBook Pro, giving its notebook line a much-needed refresh. Its biggest change is the Touch Bar, a contextual row at the top of the keyboard that changes depending on which software you’re using, replacing your traditional row of function keys. It’s the first time Apple has built a Mac with touchscreen capabilities, and it’s one of the most elaborate Mac features we’ve ever seen.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to bring back a physical Escape key on the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Apple showcased its new MacBook Pro on Thursday and demonstrated the new Touch Bar, an OLED touchbar across the top of the keyboard that replaces the function keys. The Touch Bar can be customized to suit the app that your Mac is currently running. The problem is that you may not have instant access to one of the most important keys on your Mac: The Escape (esc) key.The esc key isn't completely gone. If the Touch Bar is in another mode, you can hold down the fn key on the lower left of the keyboard. That will make the function keys appear on the Touch Bar, and that includes an esc key.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: How the government can help businesses fight cyber attacks

When a criminal robs a store, the police visit the scene, conduct an investigation and try to bring the perpetrator to justice. What happens when a criminal breaches that same store’s server and makes off with its customer’s credit-card numbers? I’d argue that the response to the physical crime would be much greater and effective than how the cyber crime would be handled, although cyber attacks have the potential to cause more damage than robberies.Blame cyber criminals, not nation-states, for attacks While nation-states are typically blamed for breaches, the culprits are usually cyber criminals who are using nation-state techniques and procedures. Companies likely claim infiltration by nation-state attackers because it provides them with some cover from lawsuits and preserves business deals and partnerships. (Yahoo is using this tactic with little success.) The reasoning could look like this: how could our organization protect itself from attackers who have the support and resources of a major government? We’re simply outgunned.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: How the government can help businesses fight cyber attacks

When a criminal robs a store, the police visit the scene, conduct an investigation and try to bring the perpetrator to justice. What happens when a criminal breaches that same store’s server and makes off with its customer’s credit-card numbers? I’d argue that the response to the physical crime would be much greater and effective than how the cyber crime would be handled, although cyber attacks have the potential to cause more damage than robberies.Blame cyber criminals, not nation-states, for attacks While nation-states are typically blamed for breaches, the culprits are usually cyber criminals who are using nation-state techniques and procedures. Companies likely claim infiltration by nation-state attackers because it provides them with some cover from lawsuits and preserves business deals and partnerships. (Yahoo is using this tactic with little success.) The reasoning could look like this: how could our organization protect itself from attackers who have the support and resources of a major government? We’re simply outgunned.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Last Three days for the 10 days Online CCDE Practical Bootcamp

Last three days for the November 10 days Online CCDE Bootcamp ! By November 1, I am going to start my NEW CCDE Practical Lab Training. There are couple things to highlight. Online Bootcamp is Instructor-Led Bootcamp. I will be in the class and explain everything you need to pass the CCDE Practical exam. Instructor Led doesn’t […]

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The New Intelligence Economy, And How We Get There

Earlier this month, Samsung acquired Viv, the AI platform built by the creators of Siri that seeks to “open up the world of AI assistants to all developers.” The acquisition was largely overshadowed by the more high-profile news of Samsung’s struggles with its Galaxy Note smartphone, but make no mistake, this was a bold and impactful move by Samsung that aggressively launches the company into the future of smart, AI-enabled devices.

Viv co-founder Dag Kittlaus makes a compelling argument for why Samsung’s ecosystem serves as an invaluable launching pad for Viv’s goal of ubiquity – the electronics giant’s

The New Intelligence Economy, And How We Get There was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

The New Intelligence Economy, And How We Get There

Earlier this month, Samsung acquired Viv, the AI platform built by the creators of Siri that seeks to “open up the world of AI assistants to all developers.” The acquisition was largely overshadowed by the more high-profile news of Samsung’s struggles with its Galaxy Note smartphone, but make no mistake, this was a bold and impactful move by Samsung that aggressively launches the company into the future of smart, AI-enabled devices.

Viv co-founder Dag Kittlaus makes a compelling argument for why Samsung’s ecosystem serves as an invaluable launching pad for Viv’s goal of ubiquity – the electronics giant’s

The New Intelligence Economy, And How We Get There was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

IDG Contributor Network: How much does a data breach actually cost?

The American public has become so inured to data breaches that it’s difficult to remember them all. Infamous breaches like the ones at Target and Sony become almost forgettable when confronted with the recently disclosed half-billion accounts compromised at Yahoo in 2014.The numbers are simply staggering. It is estimated over 900,000,000 records of personally identifiable information (PII) have been stolen in the U.S. over the past few years. Keeping a memory of all the hacks and when they happened may require the use of complex data visualization.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: How much does a data breach actually cost?

The American public has become so inured to data breaches that it’s difficult to remember them all. Infamous breaches like the ones at Target and Sony become almost forgettable when confronted with the recently disclosed half-billion accounts compromised at Yahoo in 2014.The numbers are simply staggering. It is estimated over 900,000,000 records of personally identifiable information (PII) have been stolen in the U.S. over the past few years. Keeping a memory of all the hacks and when they happened may require the use of complex data visualization.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

What’s New in Tower 3: Search

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In July, we released Ansible Tower 3. In this blog series, we will take a deeper dive into Tower changes designed to make our product simpler and easier to scale Ansible automation across your environments. In our last post, our Principal Software Engineer Matt Jones highlighted what’s new for Tower 3 notifications.

If you’d like to learn more about the release, our Director of Product Bill Nottingham wrote a complete overview of the Tower 3 updates.

Simplifying Search

Tower gives you the ability to manage the use of Ansible for an entire enterprise, allowing you to potentially manage hundreds of Playbooks and thousands of hosts in a single place. Tower also gives you the ability to audit all types of usage through its integrated activity stream, which can be verbose. One of the goals of Tower 3 was to provide a consistent and full-featured user interface for dealing with these large collections of data.

In Tower 2, searching these collections was pretty limited. You could only make a single query for a particular collection. In Tower 3, we developed and implemented a tag-based searching system throughout the app, allowing you to chain multiple queries together so that you can quickly Continue reading