News

Microsoft takes a swing at Trello and Asana with new Planner app

It's supposed to help employees build plans -- no project management expertise needed

Ping Identity invests in blockchain vendor to create new identity standard

Everyone's number one trend, blockchain, even has a part to play in the identity world

Petition condemns Windows 10 upgrade practices, asks EFF to investigate

'It's like someone changed your underwear while you sleep!' exclaimed one signer

Widespread exploits evade protections enforced by Microsoft EMET

Companies should not rely on EMET to delay patching frequently attacked programs

Samsung’s new, water-resistant Galaxy S7 Active survives severe crash tests

The new phone is a fortified version of the flagship Galaxy S7

Verizon’s ‘Can you hear me now?’ guy is now selling us Sprint. This is wrong.

Hackers breach social media accounts of Mark Zuckerberg and other celebrities

The compromises might be the result of recent data breaches from other websites that exposed user passwords

A former NASA chief just launched this AI startup to turbocharge neural computing

Two offerings are now available: one software and one hardware

Intel’s next monster 24-core chip is made for high-performance computers

Intel's 24-core Xeon E7-8890 v4 chip could help protect against bank fraud, the company says

iPhone 7 Rumor Rollup: WWDC invites; Storage party; 3-year cycles

Is Apple really going to make us wait 3 years between big upgrades from now on?

Nest CEO Tony Fadell set to leave the company

TeamViewer Hacked or Breached or Something

Users of the popular remote access tool have had their accounts abused and no one is exactly certain how.

Watching Steve Jobs stare slack-jawed at Muhammad Ali

Google’s Nest may become a different kind of IoT company after CEO Fadell leaves

The company might start selling more through service providers

The quantum era has begun, this CEO says

'It opens up a completely new tool chest for scientists and developers,' said D-Wave CEO Vern Brownell

Maersk hopes drones can deliver sweet savings

The technology is cool, but enterprise adoption requires more than drones for drones' sake

Microsoft continues campaign to shut down stupid software pirates

Like a bank robber who uses the same get-away car dozens of times, alleged thieves used the same IP address to activate more than 1,000 copies of Windows and Office

Twitter briefly considered bidding for Yahoo

But Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wasn't sufficiently interested to meet Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer himself, the New York Post reports

Windows PC makers hang customers out to dry with flawed crapware updaters

Investigation finds Windows OEMs guilty of 'egregious' omissions in basic security

Decline in slate tablets bigger than expected, IDC says

But the 9.7-in. iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard is a big hit

Don’t expect a self-driving car from Microsoft

LTE equipment party is over, as carrier spending drops

Amy Schumer savages mobile phone TV ads

"Excuse me, I think my Internet bill's too low..." says guy in "adorkable" spoof ad

Arista launches Universal Leaf Platform

A new WordPress plug-in exploit endangers thousands of websites

WP Mobile Detector flaw allowed hackers to install malicious files on servers

Land O’Lakes maps out farming’s future with Google cloud

Co-op helps farmers visualize their data and use tech tools

Human error biggest risk to health IT

Military health official warns that cyber hygiene falls short in health IT. Healthcare data breaches have hit more than nine out of 10 organizations in the field.

Top Raspberry Pi news of the week: Magic mirror; Micro:Bit gets real; more on Android

This week for our Raspberry Pi news roundup, we check out a little bit of magic, check in on the competition and follow up on some exciting Android-related buzz.

SS8 makes enterprise version of traffic-analysis platform designed for intelligence agencies

Texas goes big with 18-petaflop supercomputer

Its current top-10 system, Stampede, is getting replaced

Mysterious malware targets industrial control systems, borrows Stuxnet techniques

The IRONGATE malware is likely a proof of concept, but could signal future attacks

Microsoft’s drastic upgrade tactic pays off with boost to Windows 10 share

Records biggest one-month increase since August 2015 after launching 'click-the-X' trick

OpenSwitch finds critical home at Linux Foundation

Linux Foundation goes all in on open-source network operating system project

Cisco & IBM are taking IoT analytics to the edge

The companies are bringing some smarts from IBM's Watson platform to Cisco edge devices

Groundbreaking jury verdict finds Utah firms made 117 million illegal telemarketing calls

Oracle: We’re going to sue that whistleblower cloud employee

'She was terminated for poor performance,' the company says

FBI: Extortion e-mail, tech support scam-bags turning up the heat

FBI/Internet Crime Complaint Center offer some tools to battle e-mail, tech support fraudsters

Extortion schemes expand, threatening consumers and businesses with data leaks

Hackers threaten to expose users' personal data if they’re not paid

Intel’s data center chief talks machine learning — just don’t ask about GPUs

The company's Xeon Phi chip can accelerate AI workloads just like a GPU, Intel says

Server market slumps after seven quarters of growth

The enterprise refresh cycle appears to be over, IDC said

Oracle employee says she was sacked for refusing to fiddle with cloud accounts

Svetlana Blackburn was working as senior finance manager in Oracle's cloud business

The PC upgrade cycle slows to every five to six years, Intel’s CEO says

If you buy a PC today, you could wait several years to upgrade it

Understanding Deep Text, Facebook’s text understanding engine

Deep Text uses unsupervised machine learning to understand humans and interpret what they say

All-female team to lead Association for Computing Machinery

Distinguished Professor from RIT takes the reins at ACM

Microsoft ships a major update to its HoloLens platform

The HoloLens update is the first big update since the developer edition was released at Build, and it packs a lot

IBM buys EZSource to help transform your mainframe apps for the digital world

'I’m surprised IBM didn’t make this acquisition sooner,' one analyst says

EMC jumps into container market with open source storage platform

Open source tool allows EMC storage platforms to communicate with container managers

Hey, Microsoft! Fish or cut bait on enterprise phones

Window of opportunity for Windows phones will close by end of year, says analyst

Intel faces a challenge in the server market with new ARM chips

Cavium and Marvell announce new ARM chips for servers and appliances at Computex

Espionage cited as the US Federal Reserve reports 50-plus breaches from 2011 to 2015

Potential rewards for hacking central bank are high for attackers who have a sophisticated skill set