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AWS upgrades highlight growing focus on cloud management

US Secretary of State Lays Out Five Principles for International Cyber Security

DDoS reflection attacks are back – and this time, it’s personal

Attackers targeting personal computers on misconfigured home networks

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, May 19

Global digital rights groups say Facebook’s Internet.org increases inequality

Gartner: Cloud IaaS is a $16.5 billion market

Led by Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, the market will grow 29% per year until 2019

Login system supplies fake passwords to hackers

This well-funded startup could turn bitcoin mining – and the chip industry – on its head

iPhone 6s release may come as early as August

A new report claims that Apple's iPhone 6s may be released earlier than expected.

Survey finds most US residents want changes to Patriot Act surveillance

Amazon’s apps face uphill battle in the cloud vs. Microsoft and Google

AWS's chief IaaS competitors have a distinct advantage in collaboration apps

It’s Google and Facebook’s web, we just surf in it

Google's 'buy' button and Facebook's Instant Stories underscore the incredible dominance of a few a big online companies.

Apple’s Tim Cook tells GW grads: Ignore the cynics, change the world like Steve Jobs did

Transcript of Apple CEO Tim Cook's commencement address at George Washington University

In desperation, many ransomware victims plead with attackers

The LG G4: Three things right, three things wrong

Solar power road surface actually works

A Dutch solar power-generating road is making more electricity than expected.

Microsoft not to give deal to pirates

Company now says its free offer does not apply to non-genuine copies, but plans to make upgrades 'very attractive' to some counterfeits

Microsoft bars more enterprise devices from seeing Windows 10 upgrade ‘nag’ campaign

Blocks on-screen notifications and ads from appearing on managed mobile devices

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, May 18

FTC recommends conditions for sale of RadioShack customer data

Security researcher’s hack caused airplane to climb, FBI asserts

iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Camera magic via teeny pixels, plus an “airy” new design

iPhone 7 rumors and speculation include an airy new design and potentially huge sales; plus, a futuristic new case designed to keep you charged up

Big Data and Intelligence: Minimizing or preventing violence against citizens and the destruction of property

The Social Analysis and Intelligence Group, SAIG, analyzes trending social behaviors to predict and track civil unrest and violence.

How low can we go? Introducing the $9 Linux computer!

The potential of the CHIP is fantastic and it'll bring Linux to the masses everywhere

Google looks set to join the ‘buy’ button trend

Cisco CEO feisty til the end

Chambers' last quarterly conference call as chief executive brashly bullish on switching

Verizon’s acquisition of AOL is a move to disrupt the TV market

Faced with the FCC regulating its networks like a utility, Verizon steps up to monetize video and television.

SAP journeys to simplicity, but customers still live in a complex world

ARM seen making rapid progress on next high-end chip

European mobile operators seemingly divided over sanity of blocking ads

Samsung launches Internet of Things boards

Tiered-architecture ARTIK is a brand new, small-footprint, production-ready IoT platform aimed at developers.

Penn State yanks engineering network from Internet after China-based attack

FBI alerted school of attack in November, Mandiant says China attacker behind one incident

Spec showdown: HTC’s J Butterfly flies past its One M9

A requiem for AOL: Looking back on the web’s first big company

With the news that Verizon is buying AOL, it's time to look back at all the joy the company has brought to the world over the past couple decades.

John Chambers bids adieu with Cisco on a roll

The outgoing CEO had some fun touting Cisco's impressive numbers on his last quarterly call with Wall Street.

BlackBerry CEO/Twitter latecomer on how he got @JohnChen handle: ‘Beats me…very lucky’

Amazon’s cloud to test new Tesla batteries

Batteries could be a helpful pick-me-up for cloud data centers

Google cripples all Chrome add-ons from outside its app store

'We can't have nice things' because 'total jerks' took advantage of loophole, says Chrome software engineer

5 ways to future-proof your cloud computing deals

It pays to future-proof cloud contracts, making sure the deal you sign today is aligned with evolving business needs. Here are five terms SaaS buyers should insist on when making new deals.

Five tips to comply with the new PCI requirements

Failure to comply with these five new requirements will mean paying significant fines

Slammed by phone rivals, Sharp pins hopes on in-car displays

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, May 15

To push electric cars, Seoul rolls out portable chargers with RFID

Reddit’s new anti-harassment rules anger some users

Critics blast NSA phone records bill as ‘fake reform’

With a fresh $40M, Percolate wants to be a Swiss Army knife for marketing software

iOS 9 rumor roundup

With WWDC just one month away, here's what we can expect iOS 9 to deliver.

Smartphones from Xiaomi and Micromax pressure established manufacturers

Asian nations increasingly hit by espionage groups

Microsoft introduces the many flavors of Windows 10

Microsoft is reversing course on its mission to reduce the number of SKUs in Windows 10.