Eyefi leaves some card owners stranded, highlighting IoT hazards

Older networked flash cards from Eyefi will become the next IoT devices to effectively die in consumers’ hands when the company cuts off support for older models in September.Eyefi's cards store data like other SD cards but also include a Wi-Fi radio so users can send photos straight from a camera to their laptop or phone. When Eyefi's first card went on sale in 2007, it already had some of the qualities of what’s now called an IoT device: It was remarkably small and had no display but could connect to a local network or the Internet over the air.The products are also tied into a cloud-based service, which they usually rely on to get configured each time they’re used. Important functions of the device don’t work without a service that has to be maintained throughout the life of the product.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

DNC hacker Guccifer 2.0 denies Russian links and mocks security firms

The hacker who claims to have breached the Democratic National Committee’s networks is trying to beat back accusations that he’s linked with the Russian government.The intrusion, which stole confidential files from the DNC, was his “personal project,” hacker Guccifer 2.0 said in a Thursday blog post.Security firms and the DNC may be trying to blame the attack on Russia, but “they can prove nothing!” Guccifer 2.0 added.“All I hear is blah-blah-blah, unfounded theories, and somebody’s estimates,” he wrote.Guccifer 2.0 appeared on the web just a day after the DNC revealed it had been hacked. To prove he was behind the breach, the hacker began posting the files he stole. This included opposition research on presidential candidate Donald Trump, along with donor lists and foreign policy files. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

DNC hacker Guccifer 2.0 denies Russian links and mocks security firms

The hacker who claims to have breached the Democratic National Committee’s networks is trying to beat back accusations that he’s linked with the Russian government.The intrusion, which stole confidential files from the DNC, was his “personal project,” hacker Guccifer 2.0 said in a Thursday blog post.Security firms and the DNC may be trying to blame the attack on Russia, but “they can prove nothing!” Guccifer 2.0 added.“All I hear is blah-blah-blah, unfounded theories, and somebody’s estimates,” he wrote.Guccifer 2.0 appeared on the web just a day after the DNC revealed it had been hacked. To prove he was behind the breach, the hacker began posting the files he stole. This included opposition research on presidential candidate Donald Trump, along with donor lists and foreign policy files. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

23% off Segway miniPRO Personal Transporter, Now Shipping – Deal Alert

Forget hoverboards. The Segway miniPRO is a smarter, stronger and safer personal transporter, UL 2272 Certified for the highest standards of electrical and fire safety requirements established by Underwriter Laboratories. The miniPRO has large air-filled tires suitable for almost any terrain. Its innovative knee bar makes steering easy and precise, and its powerful lithium-ion battery will take you up to 14 miles on a single charge at speeds of up to 10 miles per hour. Automatic head and tail-lights produce maximum visibility night or day, personalized from a spectrum of 16 million color variations. It comes with a full-featured app, available for iOS and Android, that lets you personalize your miniPRO, activate anti-theft features, control your miniPRO remotely, and much more. It's available to ship now, and its initial list price of $1,299 has been reduced for launch to $999. See or buy it now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Android N is neither 3 Musketeers nor Snickers: Just plain Nougat

The suspense is over: Google has revealed the sweet nickname for its newest edition of the Android operating system -- Nougat. Google, which had been calling the in-progress OS Android N, disclosed the news initially via Snapchat and Twitter.Google has a history of naming Android versions after sweet treats, with Kitkat, Lollipop and Marshmallow being the most recent three. The company solicited suggestions for the latest name following its recent Google I/O event.Google CEO Sundar Pichai earlier this year hinted that an Indian delight could be in the offing as a nickname, and indeed nougat is popular in India. It's also contained in popular candy bars such as 3 Muskateers and Snickers.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Worth Reading: Independence from L2 data centers

We’ve all been there. That “non-disruptive” maintenance window that should “only be a blip”. You sit down at the terminal at 10pm expecting that adding a new server to the MLAG domain or upgrading a single switch will be a simple process, only to lose the rack of dual-attached servers and spend the rest of your Thursday night frantically trying to bring the cluster back online. If I never spend another evening troubleshooting an outage caused by MLAG, I’ll die happy! -Cumulus

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Inside Look at Key Applications on China’s New Top Supercomputer

As the world is now aware, China is now home to the world’s most powerful supercomputer, toppling the previous reigning system, Tianhe-2, which is also located in the country.

In the wake of the news, we took an in-depth look at the architecture of the new Sunway TiahuLight machine, which will be useful background as we examine a few of the practical applications that have been ported to and are now running on the 10 million-core, 125 petaflop-capable supercomputer.

The sheer size and scale of the system is what initially grabbed headlines when we broke news about the system last …

Inside Look at Key Applications on China’s New Top Supercomputer was written by Nicole Hemsoth at The Next Platform.

DockerCon 2016: Part 2 of Top 10 Videos

We received lots of positive feedback from DockerCon 2016 attendees on the content presented at the conference!

“Best keynote I’ve seen in a long time” 
“The talk challenged some ideas I had – which is exactly what I would hope for” 
“Too many awesome talks at DockerCon – it was so hard to choose!” 

DockerCon 2016 attendees voted for their favorite sessions from the conference through the mobile app, powered by Docker. Yesterday, we published five of the top ten talks and today, we are happy to share the next five! Below are the recorded videos along with slides from those sessions at DockerCon 2016 sessions. Continue reading

Latest iPhone 7 rumor shows Apple is getting serious about storage

The iPhone 7 is going to be an interesting release for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the iPhone 7 may be defined by what it lacks more so than by what ever new features it brings to the table. I am, of course, referring to the fact that the iPhone 7 may ship without a traditional 3.5mm headphone jack, a controversial decision to say the least.So perhaps in an effort so soften the blow, the latest iPhone 7 rumor we've stumbled across indicates that Apple is finally getting serious about storage. Indeed, one of the longstanding complaints regarding Apple's popular smartphone is that the base model only offers 16GB of storage. And sure, 16GB might have been more than enough storage back in 2009, it's arguably unacceptable in today's age of 4K video and more.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

US Courts wiretap report: Smartphones impact, encryption confounds

After dropping slightly in the previous year, the number of federal and state wiretaps increased nearly 17% in 2105 over 2014, according to an annual report submitted to Congress by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. +More on Network World: NASA’s hot Juno Jupiter mission+ A total of 4,148 wiretaps were reported in 2015 versus 3,554 the previous year. Of those, 1,403 were authorized by federal judges, 10% more than in 2014, and 2,745 were authorized by state judges, an increase of 21%.   The report said 4,448 persons had been arrested in wiretap investigations, a 26% increase from 2014. The number of convictions rose 7%, to 590. Federal wiretaps were responsible for 29 %of the arrests, and 19 % of the convictions, according to the report.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

US Courts wiretap report: Smartphones impact, encryption confounds

After dropping slightly in the previous year, the number of federal and state wiretaps increased nearly 17% in 2105 over 2014, according to an annual report submitted to Congress by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. +More on Network World: NASA’s hot Juno Jupiter mission+ A total of 4,148 wiretaps were reported in 2015 versus 3,554 the previous year. Of those, 1,403 were authorized by federal judges, 10% more than in 2014, and 2,745 were authorized by state judges, an increase of 21%.   The report said 4,448 persons had been arrested in wiretap investigations, a 26% increase from 2014. The number of convictions rose 7%, to 590. Federal wiretaps were responsible for 29 %of the arrests, and 19 % of the convictions, according to the report.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft ends its deceptive Windows 10 upgrades

After spending the better part of a year aggressively pushing consumers to upgrade to Windows 10, Microsoft is finally taking a step back with the acknowledgment it went too far.Customers have endured unwanted downloading of the software onto their PC without being told, then unwanted upgrades. And finally, the Get Windows 10 (GWX) application was changed so if you clicked the red “X” at the corner of the window thinking it would opt out, Microsoft treated this click as a confirmation of a scheduled update.The outcry has been very loud, and it recently cost Microsoft $10,000 in the form of a court loss over one small business user's forced upgrade that left her work PC unusable.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

CIOs combat messaging overload with mobile ‘micro apps’

Thanks to cloud and mobile applications, companies have eliminated tedious paper shuffling but this has created a new problem -- application fatigue. Enterprise software is cramming email inboxes with messages prompting workers to manage expense reports, purchase orders and other business processes. The very software designed to enhance your productivity is taking more of your time than was originally intended.The situation is especially challenging for managers who oversee hundreds or even thousands of workers. On a typical work day, VMware CIO Bask Iyer approves salary increases in Workday and IT requests in ServiceNow, signs off on procurement requests in Coupa and expenses in Concur. The demand on Iyer’s attention makes him feel like a clerk and has him longing for the days of signing paper approvals by hand. “It’s become so tedious that what we did 20 years ago was more efficient,” Iyer tells CIO.com.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Critics denounce Windows 10 upgrade changes as PR ploy

Commenters have scoffed at Microsoft's backtracking from a widely-criticized practice to trick users into upgrading to Windows 10, arguing that it was nothing more than a public relations ploy employed when the free upgrade was just weeks from expiring."People have been complaining about GWX [Get Windows 10] since last October. To finally admit there's a problem 1 month before the end of the promotion (and it'll be another week before everyone has this update) is really sad," wrote someone identified as Rossco1337 on a Reddit thread Wednesday.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

PQ Show 84: Cloud Network Complexity Vs. Romana.io

Todays Priority Queue takes a visit to Romana, an open-source project that tackles network and security issues for cloud-native applications. Well explore just what the Romana project is about, drill into its major components, and look at its integration with OpenStack and Kubernetes. The post PQ Show 84: Cloud Network Complexity Vs. Romana.io appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Microsoft expands cloud management licensing to include on-premises tools too

Microsoft Monday announced that customers can now purchase a joint licensing agreement for its cloud-based Operations Management Suite and its on-premises Systems Center infrastructure manager.Packaging these separate but related management platforms will encourage customers to use public cloud resources and make it easier to manage hybrid clouds.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: Why Brexit could be a data management headache for US companies | Microsoft appears to be building a business app marketplace +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Dell stops selling Android devices

Dell has stopped selling Android devices as it steps away from slate-style tablets to focus on Windows 2-in-1 devices.The company isn't refreshing the Venue line of Android tablets, and will no longer offer the Android-based Wyse Cloud Connect, a thumb-size computer that can turn a display into a PC. Other Android devices were discontinued some time ago."The slate tablet market is over-saturated and is experiencing declining demand from consumers, so we’ve decided to discontinue the Android-based Venue tablet line," a Dell spokesman said in an e-mail.Though Dell has killed its Android devices, it made interesting products with the OS. One was the Venue 8 7000 tablet, which had an OLED screen and a 3D RealSense camera. Meanwhile, 2-in-1s can serve as both tablets and laptops.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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