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Why Apple’s Photos announcement should offend you

The new Apple Photos now labels photos based on facial recognition and content such as landscapes and objects so that users can search and sort photos. Apple copied what Google announced last year. This is good news for Apple users. No one wants to deny iPhone users a better experience organizing their photos. But any of them with a lick of sense about scientific research should also be offended.Apple stood on the shoulders of giants to produce Photos. Photo labeling isn’t new. It was one of the first areas of machine learning research to be tackled by machine learning researchers after character recognition. Almost all the software or concepts used to do this could be open source.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IT worker at Panama Papers firm arrested in Geneva

An IT worker at Mossak Fonseca, the company at the heart of the "Panama Papers" leak, was arrested Wednesday in Geneva.The arrest was made as part of the investigation into the leak, which saw 11.5 million documents from the law firm leaked to the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.The documents detailed thousands of offshore companies set up by Mossak Fonseca on behalf of rich clients, sometimes for the purpose of tax avoidance.The identity of the worker has not been released, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung reporter who led a year-long investigation into the documents said he did not believe the arrested worker was his source.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IT worker at Panama Papers firm arrested in Geneva

Cisco platform lets IT rein-in disruptive data center operations, security, applications

Two years in the making, Cisco today rolled out a turnkey, full-rack appliance that promises to do just about everything it takes to control a data center -- from easing IT operations and controlling security to application monitoring.The platform, Cisco Tetration Analytics gathers information from hardware and software sensors and analyzes the information using big data analytics and machine learning to offer IT managers a deeper understanding of their data center resources. The system will dramatically simplify operational reliability, application migrations to SDN and the cloud as well as security monitoring, said Yogesh Kaushik, Cisco senior director of product management, Tetration.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Cisco platform lets IT rein-in disruptive data center operations, security, applications

Cisco Unveils Data Center Monitoring Platform

Tetration Analytics, which gathers telemetry from Nexus 9K switches and server sensors, promises complete visibility.

Worth Reading: Leaky end users

Insider threat once again tops the list of enterprise cyber security threats in the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). For the second straight year, Verizon research showed that the average enterprise is less likely to have its data stolen than to have an end user give away sensitive credentials and data—whether unintentionally or maliciously. -Cloud Security Alliance

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Huge FBI facial recognition database falls short on privacy and accuracy, auditor says

The FBI has fallen short on assessing the privacy risks and accuracy of a huge facial recognition database used by several law enforcement agencies, a government auditor has said.A new report, released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office Wednesday, shows the FBI's use of facial recognition technology is "far greater" than previously understood, said Senator Al Franken, the Minnesota Democrat who requested the GAO report.The FBI's Next Generation Identification-Interstate Photo System (NGI-IPS), which allows law enforcement agencies to search a database of more than 30 million photos of 16.9 million people, raises serious privacy concerns, Franken added in a press release.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Huge FBI facial recognition database falls short on privacy and accuracy, auditor says

Programmable hardware: Barefoot Networks, PISA, and P4

Barefoot Networks recently came out of stealth to reveal their Tofino 6.5Tbit/second (65 X 100GE or 260 X 25GE) fully user-programmable switch. The diagram above, from the talk Programming The Network Data Plane by Changhoon Kim of Barefoot Networks, shows the Protocol Independent Switch Architecture (PISA) of the programmable switch silicon.

A logical switch data-plane described in the P4 language is compiled to program the general purpose PISA hardware. For example, the following P4 code snippet is part of a P4 sFlow implementation:

table sflow_ing_take_sample {
    /* take_sample > MAX_VAL_31 and valid sflow_session_id => take the sample */
    reads {
        ingress_metadata.sflow_take_sample : ternary;
        sflow_metadata.sflow_session_id : exact;
    }
    actions {
        nop;
        sflow_ing_pkt_to_cpu;
    }
}

Network visibility is one of the major use cases for P4 based switches. Improving Network Monitoring and Management with Programmable Data Planes describes how P4 can be used to collect information about latency and queueing in the switch forwarding pipeline.

The document also describes an architecture for In-band Network Telemetry (INT) in which the ingress switch is programmed to insert a header containing measurements to packets entering the network. Each switch in the path is programmed to append additional measurements to the packet header. The Continue reading

Starbucks launches its Outlook add-in for coffee fiends

Nothing says "I vaguely appreciate you in a professional manner" quite like a Starbucks gift card. It's great for coworkers because Starbucks cafes are everywhere, and you don't actually have to spend time thinking about a personalized gift, or how you might go about giving the gift of actually good coffee.Starbucks and Microsoft are capitalizing on that with the launch Wednesday of an Outlook add-in that lets users easily send those ubiquitous gift cards to one another in an email. Users have to install the add-in, then connect to a Starbucks account, which they also need. After that, they can pull up a sidebar that makes it easy to add a gift card to future emails.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Net Neutrality Decision: What Matters, What Doesn’t

The FCC has won its latest court battle over net neutrality rules this week, but a bigger political and economic battle is looming.

74% of Organizations Feel the Pull of the Public Cloud

Numbers showing how many, what kind, and to what extent organizations are moving to public cloud.

Diversity at the top can help attract tech talent

Hiring a diverse workforce is proven to positively impact a company's bottom line and improve performance. But diversity, inclusion and equal representation also are increasingly factors job seekers consider when they're looking for employment. In other words, diversity and inclusion all the way up to the board level makes you a more attractive workplace."We started to see a trend emerge among our job seeker users who wanted to learn about particular hiring companies' diversity, inclusion and representation statistics and information. More and more candidates have this as one of their criteria when they're researching potential companies -- and we see that for every 10 job seekers on our site, six to seven of them are women. What that says to us is that employers who emphasize diversity at all levels, but especially at the more public-facing C-levels and at the board level, have a greater competitive advantage for about 60 to 70 percent of job seekers," says Anthony VanHorne, CEO of job search and culture matching site CareerLabs.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

AT&T to support Wi-Fi calling on the LG G4

Wi-Fi calling is becoming commonplace.AT&T announced Wednesday it will support calling over a Wi-Fi network from the LG G4 phone, with other Android devices to follow.Wi-Fi calls recently became available to customers using iPhones and other iOS 9.3 devices on all four major U.S. carriers, which includes AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. That iOS update first became available March 21.Wi-Fi calling is ideal for places were there is limited or no cell coverage. Many indoor spaces don't provide good cellular connections, so Wi-Fi calling is a suitable alternative. Travelers abroad can reduce roaming costs by using Wi-Fi calling as well.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Visual highlights: The E3 gaming Expo

Looking upImage by Reuters/Lucy NicholsonA boy samples the Vuzix iWear video headphones, which are billed as the equivalent to a 125 inch screen.RELATED: 47 must-see PC gaming gems revealed at E3 2016: Watch every trailerTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Running Barefoot – Thoughts on Tofino and P4

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The big announcement this week is that Barefoot Networks leaped out of stealth mode and announced that they’re working on a very, very fast datacenter switch. The Barefoot Tofino can do up to 6.5 Tbps of throughput. That’s a pretty significant number. But what sets the Tofino apart is that it also uses the open source P4 programming language to configure the device for everything, from forwarding packets to making routing decisions. Here’s why that may be bigger than another fast switch.

Feature Presentation

Barefoot admits in their announcement post that one of the ways they were able to drive the performance of the Tofino platform higher was to remove a lot of the accumulated cruft that has been added to switch software for the past twenty years. For Barefoot, this is mostly about pushing P4 as the software component of their switch platform and driving adoption of it in a wider market.

Let’s take a look at what this really means for you. Modern network operating systems typically fall into one of two categories. The first is the “kitchen sink” system. This OS has every possible feature you could ever want built in at runtime. Sure, you get Continue reading

30 days in a terminal: Day 0 — The adventure begins

Last summer, I wrote an article series called "Kicking Google out of my life." It was an attempt to remove all Google services entirely from my daily usage for 30 days—a surprisingly daunting challenge for someone who had become deeply dependent on Google. I was mostly successful. I chronicled my experience—detailing how I approached replacing Google services with non-Google variants—and in the end, my life was better for it.Did I return to Google for a few things (such as YouTube and G+)? You bet I did. But my heavy reliance on a single company finally came to an end, and I learned a great deal (both about available alternatives and my own personal preferences) in the process.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Unhappiness with MPLS Spurs SD-WAN Adoption

These are enterprises with more than 1,000 employees.

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