Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
A company backed by Elon Musk wants to help robots to learn to steal cars by playing games
Information Service Group’s purchase of competitor Alsbridge creates a larger, more well-rounded outsourcing advisory, but will also reduce competitive pricing leverage for clients.
This bank wants to function and feel like a technology company
Confidence levels dropped from 76 percent last year to 70 percent
Microsoft too markets 12 Days of Deals to lure post Black Friday & Cyber Monday shoppers
Last week’s AWS re:Invent conference celebrated the cloud—and Amazon’s dominance of it
Arista’s new 7160 series brings agility and programmability to the actual switch, giving customers the ability customize the product for specific location needs
The web hosting company used for the alleged attack has found no evidence of unusual activity in its servers
Intel remains mum about the release date of Optane SSDs but is testing the drives in data centers, not gaming PCs
Collecting personal data on you is now a video game being played by government agencies that feel they can do whatever they want with their ‘game’
Shuffling software code around can stop hackers’ exploits, a research team says. And better, faster versions of the scrambling are the future of computer defense.
The researchers crashed the lock screen by inserting long strings in the Wi-Fi configuration settings
Man-in-the-middle attackers could exploit an AirDroid flaw to execute malicious code on devices
Fashionista editions of Surface Pro cases, Lenovo laptops and record turntables among Best Buy Special Edition items that go on sale Dec. 4
Certain Apple iPhone 6s devices shutting down even though battery life indicator shows 30%
Return of growth may be due to early migrations by enterprises
The drive kits include a microSD card preloaded with a custom OS installer
At re:Invent, company unveils AWS Glue tool
Year after year, China has arrested internet users for posting fake online rumors
The cloud-based software company can now serve more countries and integrate its products with Oracle services
AppFormix focuses on orchestration systems like Openstack and Kubernetes; technology to be migrated into Juniper’s Contrail system
Microsoft hasn't cut a requirement for Windows smartphones to include a port for audio jacks, while Apple and Android phones are moving on from the legacy technology
The Avalanche network used 500,000 infected computers to launch phishing email attacks
The few Windows Phone users left said they want a promise of commitment, which Satya Nadella gave them
The head of the Windows Phone initiative has a new mission
Apple's GPU in the A10 Fusion chip used in the iPhone 7 is based on the same architecture used in the A9 chip, with tweaks for the speed boost
Several government bodies and vital installations experience the attack from malware known as Shamoon
And Mac owners continue to desert default browser, Apple's Safari
Scientists around the world can share and collaborate on research in AWS cloud
Shield is available for free, by default, starting Wednesday
Got innovation? DARPA wants to hear from you
Amazon wants to bring machine learning to developers
The way to a man's heart is through his pacemaker's security flaws, researchers say
After gaining cloud experience, they look to make the bigger moves
The domestic IT services industry hires U.S. workers and says H-1B restrictions will help them compete
In the wake of reports about Russian involvement in fake news and hacks against political targets leading up to the recent presidential election, scholars and security experts are calling for federal action
Okay, Okay we'll buy a damn Amazon Echo, whatever it's for!
The company will let others use it time servers to ride out a "leap second" on Dec. 31
Amazon's Greengrass offline IoT service will work on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 410c board and should work with Raspberry Pi 3
AWS Chief predicts IoT devices will increasingly become customers’ on-prem infrastructure.
Its new 'Snowmobile' data truck offers 100PB of data transfer
Ambitious supercomputer being built at Barcelona Supercomputing Center will host a trifecta of chip architectures
End-of-support countdown for original Windows 10, aka build 1507, starts in January
Finnair will work with Apple and IBM to develop a set of enterprise iOS apps for airplane mechanics and their supervisions. The software is expected to be available in early 2017.
The proposed Surface phone won't change things
Services offer flexible GPU acceleration, simple virtual private servers and improved compute
The Gooligan malware targets devices running older versions of Android
Google, Microsoft have also made big green energy commitments for cloud facilities
New authority for law enforcement agencies to hack computers across jurisdictional lines goes into effect Thursday
