WhatsApp turns on end-to-end encryption

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has strengthened the encryption of its widely used instant messaging app, a development that in theory makes it harder for law enforcement to gain access to communications.WhatsApp's founders said Tuesday that the application now implements end-to-end encryption, which means only authorized users can decrypt messages."The idea is simple: when you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to," Jan Koum and Brian Acton wrote in a blog post. "No one can see inside that message. Not cybercriminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even us."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Sigfox’s slow but thrifty IoT network is going Down Under

The Sigfox low-power IoT network is due for an expansion that may not be game-changing in practical terms but will certainly look good on a map.Sigfox announced a deal on Tuesday with a partner that will build a network across Australia and New Zealand using the French company's technology. That's a visible win for a vendor competing to connect small Internet of Things devices like sensors and meters around the world.Several vendors and industry groups are pushing technologies for networking small, far-flung objects that may need to run on a single battery for years. These LPWANs (low-power wide-area networks) don't push a lot of data through the air but are more efficient than the cellular infrastructure that talks to smartphones.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

So, Internet TV streaming is now a thing in hotels?

As a somewhat frequent traveler, I’ve been in enough hotels to realize that entertainment options are not as good as the ones you get at your home. You end up watching the local version of news for whatever city you’re in, or, if you’re lucky, something good is on either HBO or Showtime as you’re drifting off to sleep.If you have to be stuck in your room for a longer period of time, it’s likely that you end up watching Netflix or Amazon Prime streaming on your computer, but you usually need to position the notebook (or tablet if you’re one of THOSE people) near a power source/cord so that the battery doesn’t run out after the third episode of “House of Cards” finishes).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Jeff Bezos praises Amazon’s cloud in letter to shareholders

In a letter to shareholders, Amazon.com founder, CEO and Chairman of the board sounds like a proud father talking about the success of the moonshot project that launched the company into being a powerhouse of the cloud computing market.Amazon Web Services is on pace to earn $10 billion in revenue this year, he notes. “AWS is bigger than Amazon.com was at 10 years old, growing at a faster rate,” he adds.+MORE AT NETWORK WORLD: The myth about how Amazon's cloud started that just will not die | Happy 10th birthday AWS +To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

HSRP VRRP GLBP Comparison

HSRP VRRP GLBP Comparison– In this post I am going to cover the similarities and the differences between HSRP VRRP and GLBP protocols. All these technologies provide first hop redundancy for the hosts. I will use the below table for HSRP VRRP GLBP Comparison and the design attributes listed in it. For the more technology comparison tables; please click […]

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Servers with Nvidia’s Tesla P100 GPU will ship next year

Nvidia's fastest GPU yet, the new Tesla P100, will be available in servers next year, the company said.Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cray and IBM will start taking orders for servers with the Tesla P100 in the fourth quarter of this year, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said during a keynote at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California.The servers will start shipping in the first quarter of next year, Huang said Tuesday.The GPU will also ship to companies designing hyperscale servers in-house and then to outsourced manufacturing shops. It will be available for in-house "cloud servers" by the end of the year, Huang said.Nvidia is targeting the GPUs at deep-learning systems, in which algorithms aid in the correlation and classification of data. These systems could help self-driving cars, robots and drones identify objects. The goal is to accelerate the learning time of such systems so the accuracy of results improves over time.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google brings calendar reminders feature to desktop web

Google Calendar users now have the ability to add reminders from their desktop browsers that will follow them around to other Google services, thanks to a feature the company introduced Tuesday.  People can now set reminders in other services like Google Now, Keep and Inbox, and have them show up in their calendar, informing them of what they have to do during the day. Reminders are meant to help people take care of what they need to do, and will follow users around at the top of their calendar until completed. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Underwhelmed by UL’s announcement

Today, Underwriters Laboratory announced the UL CyberSecurity Assurance Program. I won’t call it an oxymoron, but I’m deeply worried about it. While I have faith in UL, I’m not sure if they realize the breadth and depth of what they’re getting into.UL is the reason there are only small holes in appliances and CE gear. Why? So an average toddler can’t stick something inside and become electrocuted. UL helps product vendors have liability insurance within sane ranges. They promulgate standards that vendors are responsible to adhere to for insurance sake. Test labs do the rest, ensuring that First Article Samples (and then, perhaps subsequent production samples) of products adhere to a bevy of standards—all designed to make products safer but at least insurable.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Underwhelmed by UL’s announcement

Today, Underwriters Laboratory announced the UL CyberSecurity Assurance Program. I won’t call it an oxymoron, but I’m deeply worried about it. While I have faith in UL, I’m not sure if they realize the breadth and depth of what they’re getting into.UL is the reason there are only small holes in appliances and CE gear. Why? So an average toddler can’t stick something inside and become electrocuted. UL helps product vendors have liability insurance within sane ranges. They promulgate standards that vendors are responsible to adhere to for insurance sake. Test labs do the rest, ensuring that First Article Samples (and then, perhaps subsequent production samples) of products adhere to a bevy of standards—all designed to make products safer but at least insurable.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

GE’s move to Boston could revive local tech business ambitions

Jeff Immelt candidly told Boston’s business and political elite yesterday about what GE hoped to get from the company’s move to Boston. He said GE moved to Boston for two reasons: to win the Internet of Things and rethink how companies work in this winner-take-all technology innovation economy.He also said he liked Boston because of the chip the tech community has on its shoulder; an obvious reference to the Silicon Valley’s domination of nearly every segment of technology. The Boston technology ecosystem, arguably the richest and most diverse R&D center in the world seems to have lost the DNA for growing big tech companies like the personal Internet, social or the sharing economy.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

GE’s move to Boston could revive local tech business ambitions

Jeff Immelt candidly told Boston’s business and political elite yesterday about what GE hoped to get from the company’s move to Boston. He said GE moved to Boston for two reasons: to win the Internet of Things and rethink how companies work in this winner-take-all technology innovation economy.He also said he liked Boston because of the chip the tech community has on its shoulder; an obvious reference to the Silicon Valley’s domination of nearly every segment of technology. The Boston technology ecosystem, arguably the richest and most diverse R&D center in the world seems to have lost the DNA for growing big tech companies like the personal Internet, social or the sharing economy.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Nvidia’s DGX-1 supercomputer packs the horsepower of 250 servers

Your electric bills could soar if you kept Nvidia's monster DGX-1 computer running continuously for one month. The DGX-1 supercomputer can deliver the computing power of 250 two-socket servers in a desktop box, claimed Nvidia, which introduced the system Tuesday at its GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California. The computer can deliver about 170 teraflops of performance, and multiple boxes on a rack could deliver 2 petaflops of performance. The fastest computer in the world delivers a peak performance of about 10 petaflops. Nvidia says DGX-1 is about 56 times faster than a server with two Intel Xeon-E5 2697 v3 chips, which can deliver about 3 teraflops of performance.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Banks are failing to capitalize on Big Data, says financial IT expert

Banks are neglecting to analyze the highly useful data being generated by new kinds of consumer-facing products, like apps, says an expert in the financial IT sector.Many financial institutions are overlooking key intelligence and indicators that they could be taking advantage of to re-invent themselves and ultimately compete with future disruption, thinks Deanne Yamato-Tucker, who heads Xavient Information Systems’ banking and financial services practice. Banking disruption could include peer-to-peer, blockchain and services like Bitcoin, for example.“Banks need to address the threat from new entrants such as PayPal, Google, Amazon, Apple, and P2P FX,” Yamato-Tucker told me in an e-mail. But they’re not managing their data properly to do so, she thinks.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Reaction: The 650 Gb/s software router

I’m forever seeing announcements like this in the software defined networking world—

The Linux-based CloudRouter Project, which is working on code for an open source virtual router, released version 3.0 this week. It adds Linux Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) kernel enhancements and claims throughput in excess of 650 Gb/s on commodity hardware.

But you need to note one specific thing about this announcement. How did they achieve these forwarding rates? By using DPDK to offload the actual, well, forwarding to a custom ASIC on a NIC. The reality is that we’ve always done the control plane in software, and we’ve always done the forwarding in hardware. There have been precious few router platforms over the years where the forwarding plane is actually an “embedded system.”

Certainly we’re seeing a world where open source operating systems are learning to interact with commodity ASICs so it’s possible to separate the software from the hardware, and the operating system from the control plane, and this is all too the good. But if this is software defined networking, then we’ve been doing this since sometime in the 1990’s, perhaps even earlier…

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Three-year-old IBM patch for critical Java flaw is broken

Security researchers have found that a patch released by IBM three years ago for a critical vulnerability in its own Java implementation is ineffective and can be easily bypassed to exploit the flaw again.The broken patch was discovered by researchers from Polish firm Security Explorations who found the vulnerability and reported it to IBM in May 2013. IBM issued a fix in a July 2013 update for its Java development kit.IBM maintains its own implementation of the Java virtual machine and runtime. This version of Java is included in some of the company's enterprise software products, as well as in the IBM Software Developer Kit, which is available for platforms like AIX, Linux, z/OS and IBM i.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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