The contract for the JEDI Cloud could be worth more than $10 billion over 10 years. The GAO rejected Oracle’s arguments that it should go to multiple vendors. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Storytelling enters the augmented reality era. …read more Source:: CNet

Black Hat Europe attendee survey shows European cybersecurity leaders are uncertain of their ability to protect end user data – and are fearful of a near-term breach of critical infrastructure. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The new Monopoly game sports the tagline, “Forget real estate. You can’t afford it anyway.” …read more Source:: CNet

Bill Gates wants to end malaria, and so he’s particularly “energized” about gene drives, a technology that could wipe out the mosquitoes that spread the disease. Gates calls the new approach a “breakthrough,” but some environmental groups say gene drives are too dangerous to ever use. From a report: Now the sides are headed for…

It will retool its factories in Emden and Hanover to build EVs starting in the 2020s. …read more Source:: CNet

This might be the smartest, smallest selfie drone. …read more Source:: CNet

The widespread Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities were first revealed in January. …read more Source:: CNet

All-flash, Arista top-of-rack switching and… single tier HPE has finally coughed some details on those all-flash server configs it said it would provide for its Azure Stack rack last week.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

A team of nine academics has revealed today seven new CPU attacks. The seven impact AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to various degrees. From a report: Two of the seven new attacks are variations of the Meltdown attack, while the other five are variations on the original Spectre attack — two well-known attacks that have…