Day: November 5, 2018

Nokia’s open SDN, SoC-it-to-me open ‘Chiplets’, Verisign exits the DDoS protection biz, and more

Quantum boffinry, SS7 acquisition, Arista results Roundup Nokia this week announced an SDN-based open optical transport management suite of products for optical transport management, WaveSuite.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Tencent wants you to play its games with your real name in China – CNET

The program is called “health system” and will roll out to all of its games next year. …read more Source:: CNet


Heart Internet stops beating, starts Monday with big portion of FAIL

Do you have a service, Heart, or is that web blackout all there is today? Webs will wobble – and frequently fall down – but it is the way that cloud or hosting providers manage this that sets them apart. On this Monday morning, Heart Internet isn’t distinguishing itself from the great and good, at…


M1 CEO to retire with buyout talks hanging overhead

Karen Kooi Lee Wah is set to retire next month and pave the way for Pareteum Asia CEO Manjot Singh Mann to take over the helm at the Singapore telco, which has been in the middle of buyout discussions involving its shareholders. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Heighten your organisation’s risk awareness at the SANS Security Awareness summit

Raise your security expertise to a new level Promo Information security training specialist SANS promises that its fourth European Security Awareness Summit will be its biggest yet.… …read more Source:: Register


National biometric database could be on the way (and in private hands)

AI-based facial recognition and fingerprinting are allowing new levels of authentication, but privacy advocates should be concerned. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company’s LA Tunnel

Elon Musk is keeping to his promise of opening the Boring Company’s proof-of-concept tunnel to the public on December 10th. The two-mile-long Los Angeles tunnel takes 30 seconds to get through via a sped-up video. The Verge reports: Construction on the tunnel began over a year ago, and extends from SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California headquarters, to…


Hands on with LIME: Come now, sourpuss. You’ve got some explaining to do

Everyone loves a manic pixel dream swirl Deep learning has become the go-to “AI” technique for image recognition and classification. It has reached a stage where a programmer doesn’t even have to create their own models, thanks to a large number available off the shelf, pre-trained and ready for download.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Amazon drops its $25 free shipping minimum for the holidays – CNET

The new benefit comes after similar moves from Target and Walmart. …read more Source:: CNet


We love Kubernetes, but it’s playing catch-up with our Service Fabric, says Microsoft Azure exec

Jason Zander on cloud native, Red Hat, and figuring out open source Interview A curious feature of Microsoft’s cloud platform is that it has two fundamentally different platforms for microservices. One is based on the homegrown Service Fabric, while the other is orchestrated by the Google-originated Kubernetes, available on Azure through the Azure Kubernetes Service…