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Adobe has patched a number of vulnerabilities in Flash Player and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Forms in the company’s latest round of patch updates. According to the tech giant’s latest security advisory, seven critical issues (CVE-2017-3068, CVE-2017-3069, CVE-2017-3070, CVE-2017-3072, CVE-2017-3073, CVE-2017-3074) have now been resolved in Flash. Six of the bugs are memory corruption issues and the seventh problem (CVE-2017-3071) is a use-after-free vulnerability. All of the […]

Feathery clouds hang above a stretch of aquamarine water, bordered by a hilly island landscape speckled with pastel-coloured houses. There’s a cruise ship, some yachts, a couple of chase boats and some sailboats – but not the typical kind, with soft fabric sails fluttering in the wind. These are professional racing sailboats, with statuesque sails that sport the logos of luxury brands. They are riding the waves […]

Today’s State of Work: At the Breaking Point ServiceNow is rolling out a machine learning engine that’s designed to predict outages, automate routing and workflow, predict outcomes, and benchmark performance. The engine, called the Intelligent Automation Engine, was built with technology from ServiceNow’s DxContinuum acquisition in January. ServiceNow said that it will use the Intelligent Automation Engine across the platform and in cloud services for customer service, […]

Image: Shutterstock / Dan74 By Karissa Bell2017-05-09 00:14:26 UTC Last week, Intel revealed that a serious security flaw in some of its chips left potentially thousands of devices vulnerable to attackers. Then, security researchers revealed the problem was way worse than anyone initially thought as the vulnerability could allow attackers to remotely “hijack” affected machines. It’s still not clear just how many devices are impacted as Intel […]

Deloitte has announced that it has acquired Strut Digital, a Sydney-based professional and managed services firm, to fill the DevOps gap in its cloud implementation service. Kevin Russo, lead partner in Deloitte’s Technology, Strategy, and Architecture division, told ZDNet that Strut was the next logical acquisition for Deloitte, complementing the purchases of Plenary Networks, Sixtree, and Cloud Solutions Group over the last couple of years. He added […]

The biannual OpenStack Summit opened with Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, saying “We’re a inflection point … We are moving into the second generation of the cloud.” And OpenStack is leading the way. What are these generations? The first generation was built on immature technologies that required expert architects, engineers, and developers. Only large technology companies, such as eBay and Yahoo, could implement them. […]

Comcast is making it a whole lot easier to manage a home Wi-Fi network, introducing the new xFi platform gunning for top Wi-Fi routers. In recent times, various companies such Eero, Google and others have made efforts to facilitate the setup and maintenance of a home network. Comcast now joins the party as well, announcing its new xFi cloud-based gateway for easy home network management. Smart Wi-Fi For […]

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Nvidia is rolling out a new platform that aims to provide deep learning analytics to video streams produced from smart city applications. Dubbed Metropolis, the platform takes data captured by cameras deployed in government properties, public transit systems, commercial buildings and roadways, and then runs it through AI to help cities monitor video instantaneously. The idea is that cities are inundated with video data and need a […]

Virtustream announced Monday that it’s launching Healthcare Cloud, a service built on the Virtustream Enterprise Cloud that’s designed to meet the security, regulatory, and IT needs of healthcare providers. It provides an environment compliant with federal HIPAA and HITECH regulations with availability service level agreements of up to 99.999 percent. It can be deployed in a public, private, or hybrid cloud environment, with a set of on […]

With the kick off of Microsoft’s Build 2017 developer conference this week, I’m expecting to hear the phrase “on the edge” more than a few times. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella set the stage for the coming distributed computing/edge computing talk during the company’s recent earnings call with press and analysts. “When everyone’s talking about the cloud, the most interesting part is the edge of the cloud,” Nadella […]

VISTA’s infrared capabilities have now allowed astronomers to see the myriad of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy much more clearly than ever before. The result is this record-breaking image — the biggest infrared image ever taken of the Small Magellanic Cloud — with the whole frame filled with millions of stars. (via WSJ)

Loads of these guys have awesome Instagram accounts.Image: Paul Buck/Epa/REX/Shutterstock By Sam Haysom2017-05-06 08:30:00 UTC Warning: Contains spoilers for all seasons of Game of Thrones. We’ve still got far, far too much time to kill before Game of Thrones Season 7 kicks off, so what better way to fill the gaps between promos than with some good old fashioned Instagram stalking? Gone are the days when an […]

May 5, 2017 by: Adam Samson and Mamta Badkar in New York IBM shares came under pressure on Friday when Berkshire Hathaway, one of the technology group’s biggest shareholders, revealed that it sold a third of its stake. The Armonk, New York-based company’s shares declined by 2.8 per cent on the day to $154.58, bringing its year-to-date fall to 6.8 per cent. Big Blue’s market value has […]

Trump may bring jobs back to the US, but robots will get them This could be an important victory for a new president, a major capitulation by an Indian IT company or the emergence of a new model for Indian IT in the face of a rapidly shifting business landscape — or, as the case may be, all of the above. A few days ago, Indian IT […]

Google’s autosuggest feature lets you know, sometimes with spooky accuracy, what other people are looking for when conducting queries similar to yours. So, with Google’s help, we provide answers to a few of the most popular searches about Android. Can you use iTunes and FaceTime on Android? I combined these two Android-related questions, which are both at the top of Google’s auto-suggested list, based on their common […]

(Image: file photo) The UK government is planning to push greater surveillance powers that would force internet providers to monitor communications in near-realtime and install backdoor equipment to break encryption, according to a leaked document. A draft of the proposed new surveillance powers, leaked on Thursday, is part of a “targeted consultation” into the Investigatory Powers Act, brought into law last year, which critics called the “most […]

Abu Dhabi, UAE – 04 May, 2017  ITWORX Education, the front-running education services provider, has won the BETT Middle East Game Changer Award for its Children in Distress program, powered by its social learning solution: WinjiGo. The award is a tribute to the innovation ITWORX Education brings to the Ed-Tech landscape and the impact it continues to make in delivering sustainable, quality education to children around the […]

Microsoft looks ready to widen its Cortana Skills Kit availability as of next week, simultaneous with its Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle. Microsoft has published its schedule and session descriptions for many of its Build 2017 talks via its official Build schedule builder mobile application. (I downloaded a version from the Google Play Store today for my Android phone.) The session list includes several Cortana Skills […]

Or at least not just about the Panama Papers. This election is about saving journalists their jobs. You see, the thing is, this really was the government that kept on giving. And I’m not referring to the just announced minimum wage increase which we will get in two years time, nor the hundreds of employees who have just started working with government and have been immediately given […]

Intel has shuffled its executive ranks again, announcing that long-time executive Diane Bryant is stepping down from her role as GM of the Data Center Group (DCG). Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said in an email to employees that Bryant would be stepping away for six to eight months to tend to a personal family matter. Navin Shenoy, formerly GM of the Client Computing Group (CCG), will be […]

Dubai Municipality has launched a new meteorological radar project which can detect rain drops in clouds from a distance of 200km. According to state news agency WAM, Hussain Nasser Lootah, director-general of Dubai Municipality, inaugurated the project, which is part of an early warning system for weather forecasting. The radar can also identify the types of thunderstorms and its time of occurrence and direction. In many cases, […]

T-Mobile just announced its plans for a true nationwide 5G network, not long after AT&T announced that it would roll out its 5G Evolution Network to 20 U.S. cities by the end of this year. In particular, T-Mobile was sternly disparaging AT&T, with CEO John Legere calling its 5G Evolution “bull****” in a vlog published on Tuesday, May 2. T-Mobile emphasized that its 5G network will leverage its […]

Tesla boss Elon Musk surpassed even his own lofty standards of both hubris and humility on Wednesday, as he looked ahead to a day when the electric carmaker will be worth more than Apple — but also admitted he had confused his customers with a bad product-naming decision. “I want to preface this by saying I could be delusional,” Mr Musk told Wall Street analysts on his […]

A graphical representation of a swath of Facebook users illustrates the distributed nature of this research. The nodes represent Facebook accounts and connections represent friendships. Credit: Isaac Klickstein It is human nature to seek to spend the least amount of energy, time and cost on any given task to achieve a desirable result, whether that is working out at the gym, finding the best path to travel […]

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