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HEI Hotels reports point-of-sale terminals breach

The hotel operator said payment card information could have been stolen

HP leaks some details on Intel’s Kaby Lake and Apollo Lake chips

Intel's Skylake successor Kaby Lake, described in a maintenance document for the upcoming Pavilion x360 m1 laptop, will be capable of DirectX 12 gaming

People are patching Windows but not their apps

Users are far more lax about updating and fixing apps they run on their PCs than updating Windows

HP turns to Windows 10 for mobile devices, cutting reliance on Android

The company has no interest in selling low-cost Android mobile devices

Is a bidding war brewing for Raspberry Pi manufacturer Premier Farnell?

Swiss conglomerate Datwyler today said that it was still considering its options after its $795 million bid for Raspberry Pi manufacturer Premier Farnell

More details on rumored Microsoft Surface desktops appear

Three Microsoft Surface models, two with 4k displays, are reportedly in the works

New compromises won’t end the fight between LTE-U and Wi-Fi

A test plan to prevent interference keeps evolving, but tensions remain

Here’s why Azure Stack will only run on certain hardware

Microsoft thinks that limiting its private cloud software will be better for users

Millions of Volkswagens can be broken into with a wireless hack

Researchers say the remote key systems for most VWs since 1995 are affected

HPE aims for a big-data boost with $275 million SGI buy

The price looks good but will it help to revive HPE's fortunes?

AMD turns back to x86 for server reboot as it downgrades ARM

AMD pulls back on its ARM server efforts as it refocuses its server strategy around x86-based Zen chips

Microsoft relents on shorter Windows 7 support decree

Customer, OEM complaints likely led to nullification of January's mandate

iPhone 7 to be unveiled Sept. 7 ahead of Sept. 16 release date

Intel’s new Atom chips for cars and IoT could shed ugly mobile past

The next-generation of Atom chips will be detailed at Intel Developer Forum next week

Open source R extension simplifies data science with IBM Watson

Open source R extension is designed to help data scientists access a bevy of Watson services without leaving their native development environment.

Four free tools for handling Amazon Web Services security incident response

Researchers presented four tools at Black Hat 2016 that they wrote specifically to deal with incident response in AWS.

Open vSwitch finds new home at the Linux Foundation

What will space living look like? NASA picks 6 habitat prototypes

NASA picks Boeing, Bigelow, Lockheed Martin, Orbital, Sierra Nevada and NanoRacks to build prototypes

ForeScout simplifies IoT security

ForeScout can now secure IoT endpoints that were historically unmanageable

Taking stock of Apple’s 2016 acquisitions

Turi is latest Apple acquisition to bring machine learning and AI into Mac and iPhone mix

Twitter is not liable for ISIS activity on its service, judge rules

The use of social networks by terrorist groups has prompted lawsuits alleging material support

Ecuador says Swedes will question Assange at its UK embassy

WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange has been holed up in the embassy for over four years

Tech sector employment sees gain in July

There’s dissent over the government data and how jobs are tallied

Samsung both denies and admits mobile payment vulnerability

Samsung said that reports of a vulnerability in Samsung Pay mobile payments were "simply not true" -- but also admitted that token skimming was, in fact, possible but difficult enough that the potential risk was acceptable

IoT is now growing faster than smartphones

U.S. mobile carriers added more cars than phones to their networks in the second quarter

Use the internet? This Linux flaw could open you up to attack

'It can be done easily by anyone in the world,' one researcher says

HP pushes for AR at work with its Elite x3 phone and HoloLens

HP says it'll be possible to use HoloLens apps on the Windows 10 Mobile-based Elite x3 smartphone

Bugs & Bugs: DARPA, bug bounties & thousands of bees

Facebook Live stream captures latest news on computer bugs & real insects

City-funded broadband just lost a big fight in court

A U.S. appeals court has struck down an FCC decision meant to protect municipal networks

Facebook to bypass ad blockers

The company says it will give users some measure of control over advertisements that they see

iPhone 7 to be announced Sept. 7? How fitting

iPhone 7 expected to ditch standard headphone jack, gain better camera

Raspberry Pi roundup: Keys to Pi foundry changing hands; Pi in the ocean, sky

Raspberry Pi Foundation swears Avnet will be good for hobbyists

Disable WPAD now or have your accounts and private data compromised

Researchers show the WPAD protocol can be used to steal user data despite HTTPS or VPN connections

When dolphins attack… iPads

Isn't the first time we've seen an animal toying with an Apple iPad tablet

How to block phishers when they come a knockin’

Microsoft patches 27 flaws in Windows, Office, IE, and Edge

Many of the flaws could allow for remote code execution attacks through websites and malicious documents

Box extends its global push with new Zones in Canada and Australia

Its routing network, meanwhile, just got a major speed boost

Raspberry Pi in the sky: How to build this awesome $115 airplane tracker

This homemade device delivers information about a plane's altitude, speed, and destination directly to your smartphone or tablet.

Datadog integrates with AWS Lambda, enables support for serverless architectures

Datadog’s AWS Lambda integration gives users insight into their serverless application's performance

Oracle says it didn’t ask employee to cook cloud accounts

The software and cloud company claims the employee was terminated for performance reasons

Intel snaps up Nervana for a crash course on deep learning

The startup's technology will help Intel catch up in AI, one analyst says

Intel paves way for 3D XPoint SSDs and memory to work on AMD PCs

The SSDs and DIMMs will work with standard storage and memory interfaces

Branch office links, big bandwidth needs drive SD-WAN evolution

Microsoft pledges two Windows 10 upgrades in 2017

This year's sole upgrade -- last week's 1607 -- will simplify enterprise migrations if they get going soon

Remember that RHEL/Mirantis storm? SUSE helps to sidestep the issue

It's popcorn time for the OpenStack ecosystem watchers, as SUSE deftly makes Red Hat's position irrelevant

Lenovo crams 48TB of SSD storage on a board

The company's upcoming storage board has multiple drives on it

Brands, take note: Customers still struggle to reach you

Social media isn't helping, one U.S. survey says

Micron’s super-fast 3D Xpoint SSDs will ship through storage partners

Micron says its 3D Xpoint drives -- with a QuantX brand name -- should be available next year

An engineer uses IoT to tackle illness

Knowledge of interface design, sensors and access to off-the-shelf tech like Amazon’s IOT buttons is used to help a family

White House software code sharing policy gains steam

Government departments will share custom code and some will be released to the public as open source software