Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Assange offered to be extradited to the US if President Obama granted clemency to WikiLeaks source Manning
Avaya needs to shed debt as its focus shifts away from hardware, the company says
Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) enlists security vendor Galois to develop a cyber deception system
Via Technology customers will be able to customize their very own board computers with ARM processors, memory, storage, wireless, ports, and other features
The ProtonMail team has set up a Tor hidden service to foil potential censorship attempts
iPhone 8 could match Samsung Galaxy S7 and S8 on water resistance rating
After MongoDB and Elasticsearch, attackers are looking for new database storage systems to attack
A new IDC forecast predicts spending on cloud infrastructure to top traditional IT approaches by 2020
Trump's CEO advisers offshore jobs, and want the H-1B cap to increase
Q&A: The CEO of Stratoscale makes the case for his company’s datacenter OS replacing VMware and OpenStack, thus transforming your servers into an AWS region
Anti-virus software is getting worse at detecting both known and new threats
Cumulus is introducing hardware and Barefoot's chips will start shipping in products
Well, that’s a jarring change. Former pure-play networking software vendor Cumulus Networks is jumping into the hardware space.
Walk-and-talk meetings can energize employees and boost creativity
Certain sensitive data will have to be destroyed within five years
The malware, which Apple calls Fruitfly, can also run on Linux
Machine Learning, IoT security, cloud security among the big themes for Innovation Sandbox Contest finalists
The popular work messaging app adds one of its most-requested features
The $29 SOPINE A64 Compute Module is a smaller version of Pine64 and will ship in February
Number of e-commerce transactions grows by 16%
AMD's 32-core Naples is the next Zen chip on deck for release, and it'll be in servers in the first half of 2016
A researcher found that Facebook was still vulnerable to the ImageTragick exploit months after it was disclosed
Military drones may not be the only autonomous weapons we have to fear in the future: Hacked self-driving cars could hurt us, too
Simplygon simplifies 3D models to speed rendering on low-powered hardware
There are many reasons why IT pros can be fired, but a majority of them are related to security
Intel stalks Tom Brady, Wix goes with action heroes, carriers Sprint and T-Mobile make their cases in their Super Bowl 51 commercials
DARPA SocialSim program develop high-fidelity computational simulation of online social behavior
The company's quarterly patch update includes a total of 270 security fixes for many products
Outgoing FCC chairman Tom Wheeler urges his successors not to undo controversial open internet order, which he says is key to a vibrant cloud computing marketplace.
Will Congress make it possible for independent workers to remain independent?
The new processing memory can at least double mobile device and laptop performance
Assange had earlier promised to face US extradition if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency
The company dictated licensing terms by threatening phone makers' access to chips, the agency says
A software engineer wants to take down the Whitehouse.gov site to oppose Trump's inauguration
HPE will offer SimpliVity's server management tools in its DL380 servers but will keep VMware in other hyperconverged servers
Bare metal servers, a focus on hosted databases and application development are keys
Windows 7's retirement clock tick-tocks, shows 3 years of support left
Free smartphone OS, intelligent voice-enabled personal assistant among focus areas
Mobile app privacy, quantum computing and hacker-thwarting code randomization among serious research topics at schools like Carnegie Mellon, Princeton and MIT
Imagine a tablet that could fit in your pocket
The IT industry should build AIs that will take us by the hand, not take our jobs, they suggest
The credentials provided access to accounts on Amazon Web Services, Slack, Dropbox, Twitter, and other services
Microsoft's first tethered VR headsets ship as part of developer kits for those looking to create apps based on the Windows Holographic platform
Countries need to work together to craft an online counternarrative, they say
Imagination's Series8XE GPU is targeted at smartphones priced between $200 and $400
AT&T is retraining its IT workforce
