At RSAC 2019, speculative execution threats take a back seat

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The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities disclosed in early 2018 dominated much of the infosec discussions and news coverage last year, including those at RSA Conference 2018. But at this year’s event, speculative execution threats are virtually non-existent.

RSA Conference 2019 has a single item…READ MORE

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Win10 Hibernation Situation

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Hibernation is an inactivity option for Windows 10 PCs that’s been around since before Windows 10 itself. Hibernation sits halfway between sleep mode and the old-fashioned shut down (off) mode. When a Windows 10 PC is set to hibernate, it saves the current state — including open programs and docume…READ MORE

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Effect vs. affect; amorous cats

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Which is correct?
A manager’s level of emotional intelligence _______ the entire office.
a. affects
b. effects

Answer: a

Explanation:
As a verb, affect means to influence. Effect, as a verb, means to cause or to bring about. A manager’s level of emotional intelligence definitely influence…READ MORE

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How the equipment rental industry is rethinking maintenance with IoT

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Equipment rental companies can increase profits and enhance customer service just by gaining critical real-time insights into their asset performance. We’ve seen equipment rental companies flip the switch on IoT data and quickly improve asset uptime, longevity and performance. But while it’s importa…READ MORE

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Summing multiples

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Came across the project Euler web site – https://projecteuler.net. It has literally hundreds of problems – mainly mathematical – that’ll illustrate some useful PowerShell techniques. The first problem is summing multiples.

You need to sum all of the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000.

T…READ MORE

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Google opens developer space in Singapore

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Inspired by the cafes in Silicon Valley that developers hang out at to meet fellow coders and potential employers, Google has opened a similar space at its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Singapore for the developer community in Southeast Asia.

The first of its kind for Google in the region, the 7,2…READ MORE

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AI democracy, hybrid clouds top IBM Think takeaways

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SAN FRANCISCO – IBM’s bold push of its Watson AI technology to the masses may produce product and services opportunities, but the democratization of AI won’t happen overnight.

Perhaps the strongest message at the IBM Think 2019 event here was the company’s “Watson anywhere” strategy to allow cu…READ MORE

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Connectivity at the heart of app ‘experiences’

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Experience is everything, or so we’re told — this is the age of the experience economy and millennials and Gen-Z’ers will (allegedly) now even turn down (or leave jobs) if they’re not ‘getting the right experience’ in their workplace.

This new truth has given rise to the terms User eXp…READ MORE

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Nearly a third of UK tech startups are setting up presence in mainland Europe because of Brexit

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In its latest Startup Outlook report Silicon Valley Bank has revealed that 28% of UK startups plan to open an office in mainland Europe, as a result of the UK’s exit from the EU.

Meanwhile three quarters of the surveyed group said that Brexit will have a negative impact on the UK innovation eco…READ MORE

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Richard Madeley vs the internet

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Nothing even vaguely amusing has happened in the world of technology this week, cutting the lifeblood of this blog off at its source.
We watched on as MPs announced their newfound independence and hoped in vain for Chuka Umunna to sling us a bone with at least some mad throwaway accusation that Jer…READ MORE

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The Future of Work

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In the days of the industrial revolution, work was a place. A coal mine, an oil well, a train yard, and a factory.The goal was to get the factory to run itself, as efficiently as possible. With the work stable, predictable, and repeatable under scientific management, the owners can walk away and col…READ MORE

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Here's how to get by without Concurrent Mark Sweep

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As part of JEP-291, the popular Concurrent Mark Sweep garbage collection algorithm has been deprecated by Java Development Kit 9. This decision was made to both reduce the maintenance burden of garbage collection (GC) code and to accelerate new development.

As a result, if you launch an applicati…READ MORE

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AI For Accessibility A Superb Global Initiative @MicrosoftIndia – III

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This is the final post of the series AI for Accessibility. This first post can be accessed by clicking here. And the second post is here. This is the concluding post.

A. S. Narayanan, President, National Association of Deaf (NAD) says, ”This Summit is a reflection of changing times. It is so he…READ MORE

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Cybersecurity needs both psychologists and field marshals

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Many cybersecurity professionals like military analogies. Indeed, some security pros are ex-military. But after a recent security exercise involving IBM’s new lorry-mounted SOC (security operations centre), I found myself wondering just how apt those analogies really are.
For example, there’s t…READ MORE

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Veeam revenue edges up in 2018; acquisitions possible in 2019

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Veeam Software narrowly missed its goal to become a $1 billion revenue company in 2018, falling $37 million shy and probably six months short.

Veeam founder and executive vice president Ratmir Timashev said Veeam finished 2018 with $963 million in bookings revenue after 16% growth over 2017. Tima…READ MORE

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Backup Lessons Learned From the VFEmail.net Hack

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Note to self: When you’re doing your backups, make sure you have them on a different place than your production network.

That’s a lesson learned the hard way by VFEmail.net, a worldwide email service provider, which recently lost not only its subscribers’ email messages, but also all its ba…READ MORE

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Putting print security on the C-Level agenda

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Data breaches are rarely out of the headlines and compliance pressure, such as the introduction of GDPR, means security remains high on the corporate agenda. Cyber threats and data breaches are no longer the sole domain of the IT department, they must be considered at board level as the repercussion…READ MORE

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WWW at 30: the worldwide swamp

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Next month will be the 30th anniversary of the world wide web. In 1989, who would have thought the web would touch every aspect of people’s lives – not only in a good way but also in ways that seem to undermine the fabric of society? An elegant way for researchers across the globe to collaborate, …READ MORE

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Rubrik Build open source cloud data management for 'any' contributor

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Rubrik has announced Rubrik Build, a new open source community built around the organisation’s own cloud data management platform.

The community created is said to be 100% public and 100% open source — meaning that contributors can use existing software development kits, tools and use cases o…READ MORE

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NVMe Storage in the Cloud using the Lsv2-series Azure VMs

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There are those cases when VMs need super fast storage in the cloud. Now Azure has an offering to get you that storage speed. With the introduction of the Lsv2-series of VMs, you can now get NVMe storage on your Azure VMs. Like with the other VM sizes, the more CPU that you purchase, the more storag…READ MORE

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