Day: July 10, 2018

Microsoft Fixes 17 Critical Bugs in July Patch Tuesday Release

Microsoft patches 17 critical bugs and 34 important bugs as part of its monthly security bulletin. …read more Source:: Threatpost


AT&T abducts AlienVault to bolster its business security probing

Don’t panic: The Open Threat Exchange is still online AT&T has agreed to acquire security intel specialist AlienVault for an unspecified pile of cash.… …read more Source:: Register


BMW agrees to build iX3 electric SUV, electric Minis in China – Roadshow

The vehicles will be produced as part of two separate joint ventures. …read more Source:: CNet


Box acqui-hires team from machine learning startup Butter.ai

Box said the deal will allow the company to bring more intelligent search features into its platform. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Bomgar Acquires Avecto

Purchase adds layers to privileged access management system. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Arm tears down its anti-RISC-V smear website after own staff revolt

Underhand tactic of slagging off the competition backfires Arm has taken offline its website attacking rival processor architecture RISC-V within days of it going live – after its own staff objected to the underhand tactic.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Oracle? A strategic priority for CIOs? Nope, says Goldman Sachs

Spending survey highlights shift to new-world tech vendors Oracle is among the legacy tech losers in a Goldman Sachs spending report that quizzed chief information officers on the procurement areas they consider to be top priorities over the next six months.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Researchers Devise AI System To Reduce Noise in Photos

Researchers from Nvidia, MIT, and Aalto University are using artificial intelligence to reduce noise in photos. The team used 50,000 images from the ImageNet dataset to train its AI system for reconstructing photos, and the system is able to remove noise from an image even though it has never seen the image without noise. VentureBeat:…


Open Hardware Takes Charge in Papua New Guinea

You probably don’t think much about charging your phone. Just find an outlet, plug it in, and wait a while. Can’t find a cable or wall wart? A rainbow of cheap, candy-colored options awaits you down at the brightly-lit corner drugstore. This scenario couldn’t be further from reality in third world countries like Papua New…


Thomas Cook website spills personal info and it’s fine with that

Decides not to report incident despite new GDPR rules Holidaymakers who used Thomas Cook Airlines had their personal information exposed because of basic coding flaws.… …read more Source:: Register