Disney’s best releases may be its open source tools

While most people associate Disney with Mickey Mouse, animation, and amusement parks, the company is forging a path in the open source software realm, encouraging contributions from its developers and releasing software of its own.Not surprising, several projects involve images, such as the OpenEXR high-dynamic-range image file format developed by Disney subsidiary Industrial Light and Magic. Others are less image-focused, including Munki, a set of tools to help MacOS X admins manage software installs and removals.[ Get the most out of collaborative programming with InfoWorld’s 20 essential pointers for Git and GitHub. | Keep up with hot topics in programming with InfoWorld’s Application Development newsletter. ] The company’s GitHub repo highlights its Open Source Program, through which it encourages Disney developers to tap open source software, contribute to open source projects, and release what they create to the open source community at large. Disney’s GitHub repo “features” a few homegrown open source projects in particular, including Universal Scene Description (USD), which Disney notes as being the core of Pixar’s 3D graphics pipeline.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

First look: Visual Studio for Mac is here at last, almost

Visual Studio for Mac is something that many Microsoft developers have sought for more than a decade. As Mac OS X became interesting in the early 2000s, coders who spent most of their days working in Visual Studio on Windows wondered why they couldn’t use the same languages, frameworks, and tools for the Mac, rather than needing to learn Objective-C, Cocoa, and Xcode, all of which were substantially different from the languages and tools for Windows development.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

U.S. says cybersecurity skills shortage is a myth

The U.S. government has released what it claims is myth-busting data about the shortage of cybersecurity professionals. The data points to its own hiring experience.In October 2015, the U.S. launched a plan to hire 6,500 people with cybersecurity skills by January 2017, according to White House officials. It had hired 3,000 by the first half of this year. As part the ongoing hiring effort, it held a job fair in July.At the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), "We set out to dispel certain myths regarding cybersecurity hiring," wrote Angela Bailey, chief human capital officer at DHS in a blog post Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

U.S. says cybersecurity skills shortage is a myth

The U.S. government has released what it claims is myth-busting data about the shortage of cybersecurity professionals. The data points to its own hiring experience.In October 2015, the U.S. launched a plan to hire 6,500 people with cybersecurity skills by January 2017, according to White House officials. It had hired 3,000 by the first half of this year. As part the ongoing hiring effort, it held a job fair in July.At the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), "We set out to dispel certain myths regarding cybersecurity hiring," wrote Angela Bailey, chief human capital officer at DHS in a blog post Monday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cyber Monday 2016 tech deals sampler features Dell, Walmart

The line between what constitutes a Black Friday 2016 deal and a Cyber Monday one has pretty much disappeared, but what we have here are a handful of tech deals specifically available for Cyber Monday, which is Nov. 28.Cyber Monday got its start as an online-only alternative to once in-store focused Black Friday, but of course Black Friday, Black November, etc., is now a mishmash of online and in-store action. Nevertheless, some retailers still trot out the Cyber Monday marketing term, and we'll accommodate them briefly here by highlighting a few of their deals.(Black Friday & Cyber Monday watchers such as BFads and Best Black Friday have been a big help in keeping tabs on deals.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Make companies pay full cost of breaches to restore trust in the internet, says ISOC

Fake news, online banking thefts and data breaches: It's no wonder that trust in the internet is at an all-time low. But don't worry: The Internet Society has a five-step plan for restoring faith in the network of networks.The first step is to put users first, according to ISOC, which published its 2016 Global Internet Report on Thursday. That involves being more transparent (step two) about risk and the incidence of data breaches and prioritizing data security (step three) to ensure breaches don't happen.ISOC isn't just a talking shop, it is also the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), source of many of the protocols and standards on which the internet relies. That adds weight to the more detailed recommendations on how to prioritize security contained in the ISOC report.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Make companies pay full cost of breaches to restore trust in the internet, says ISOC

Fake news, online banking thefts and data breaches: It's no wonder that trust in the internet is at an all-time low. But don't worry: The Internet Society has a five-step plan for restoring faith in the network of networks.The first step is to put users first, according to ISOC, which published its 2016 Global Internet Report on Thursday. That involves being more transparent (step two) about risk and the incidence of data breaches and prioritizing data security (step three) to ensure breaches don't happen.ISOC isn't just a talking shop, it is also the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), source of many of the protocols and standards on which the internet relies. That adds weight to the more detailed recommendations on how to prioritize security contained in the ISOC report.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Inside Intel’s Strategy to Integrate Nervana Deep Learning Assets

There is little doubt that 2017 will be a dense year for deep learning. With a sudden new wave of applications that integrate neural networks into existing workflows (not to mention entirely new uses) and a fresh array of hardware architectures to meet them, we expect the space to start shaking out its early winners and losers and show a clearer path ahead.

As we described earlier this week, Intel has big plans to integrate the Nervana ASIC and software stack with its Knights family of processors in the next several years. This effort, codenamed Knights Crest, is a long-term …

Inside Intel’s Strategy to Integrate Nervana Deep Learning Assets was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

T-Mobile offers users a free iPhone 7 with qualifying trade-in

T-Mobile CEO John Legere has a penchant for making a big splash, and with Black Friday just a few days away, Legere on Tuesday announced an intriguing new promotion that prospective iPhone 7 buyers might want to keep on their radar.As part of the company's Black Friday push, T-Mobile is offering users either a free iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus with a qualifying trade-in. In order to get a free 32GB iPhone 7, users can trade in the following devices: an iPhone 6s, an iPhone 6s Plus, Samsung's Galaxy S6, the S6 Edge, the S7, the S7 Edge and the Note 5. Other qualifying devices include the LG V20 and the LG G5.If you have an older device, there are still good deals to be had. Case in point: users can get $100 off a 32GB iPhone 7 if they trade-in any of the following devices: iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone SE, Samsung Note 4, Samsung Galaxy S5, the LG G4 and the LG V10.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to make home IoT more secure: Assume the worst

Sometimes the truth hurts but you just have to face it. The internet advisory group BITAG lays it on the line for the IoT industry in a new report: No, consumers aren’t going to update the software on their devices.“It is safe to assume that most end users will never take action on their own to update software,” the Broadband Internet Technology Advisory Group said. Its recommendation: Build in mechanisms for automatic, secure updates.That bit of human nature is just one of the harsh realities BITAG acknowledges in the report, which came out on Tuesday. It also points out that some consumer IoT devices ship with weak built-in usernames and passwords like “admin” and “password,” can’t do authentication or encryption, or can easily be taken over by malware that turns them into bots.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How to make home IoT more secure: Assume the worst

Sometimes the truth hurts but you just have to face it. The internet advisory group BITAG lays it on the line for the IoT industry in a new report: No, consumers aren’t going to update the software on their devices.“It is safe to assume that most end users will never take action on their own to update software,” the Broadband Internet Technology Advisory Group said. Its recommendation: Build in mechanisms for automatic, secure updates.That bit of human nature is just one of the harsh realities BITAG acknowledges in the report, which came out on Tuesday. It also points out that some consumer IoT devices ship with weak built-in usernames and passwords like “admin” and “password,” can’t do authentication or encryption, or can easily be taken over by malware that turns them into bots.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Using GNOME Keyring for Git Credentials on Fedora 25

In this post, I’m going to show you how to use the GNOME Keyring on Fedora 25 as a credential helper for Git. This post is very closely related to my earlier post on using GNOME Keyring as a Git credential helper on Ubuntu 16.04. As with the earlier Ubuntu-related post, what I’m including here isn’t new or ground-breaking information; I’m posting it primarily to make the information easier to find for others.

Like Ubuntu 16.04, Fedora 25 already has the basis for integrating GNOME Keyring into Git as a credential helper already installed into the /usr/share/doc/git-core-doc/contrib/credential/gnome-keyring directory.

Unlike Ubuntu 16.04, though, Fedora already has a compiled credential helper installed. This Git credential helper is found at /usr/libexec/git-core/git-credential-gnome-keyring. This credential helper is ready to use.

To get GNOME Keyring support for storing Git credentials, then, all one has to do is simply configure Git appropriately (no need to install additional packages or compile anything). You can configure Git via a couple of different ways:

  1. You can use the git config command, like this:

     git config --global credential.helper /usr/libexec/git-core/git-credential-gnome-keyring

  2. You can edit ~/.gitconfig directly, using the text editor of your choice. Add this text:

     [credential]
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AWS is cutting and simplifying its storage prices

Amazon Web Services made a series of price cuts on Tuesday and simplified what customers pay for its storage products. The company's popular Simple Storage Service (S3) has had its six pricing tiers cut down to three, along with a corresponding price cut of roughly 16 percent to 25 percent.Glacier, AWS's storage service for data that doesn't need to be accessed frequently, now has a trio of retrieval options. Companies can have quicker access to their data if they pay more or get cheaper access if they're willing to wait. Glacier users also get a 43 percent price cut.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

12 tips for safer Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping

During Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2016, consumers should watch out for scams that come through spam, insecure public networks and apps that might seem legitimate but could be taking over your phones and computers, experts say.+ RELATED: How to dodge Black Friday schemes +Here are a dozen steps you can take to avoid becoming a victim. Only download or buy apps from legitimate app stores. Suspect apps that ask for too many permissions. Check out the reputation of apps and particularly the app publisher. Only enter credit card info on secure shopping portals. Avoid using simple passwords, and use two-factor authentication if you can. Be alert for poisoned search results when using search engines to find products. Don’t install software that sites require before you can shop. Don’t use free pubic Wi-Fi to make purchases. Be suspicious of great deals you learn about via social media or emails and don’t click the links. Turn off location services while shopping to minimize the potential personal data that could be compromised. Make sure the connection to e-commerce sites is secured (HTTPS). Double check the validity of the SSL certificate for the site. To read this article in full or Continue reading

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