Day: January 18, 2019

WD you like to know the damage? Analyst predicts sales dip ahead for Western Digital

NAND revenues and disk drive topline downbound until mid-year – Wells Fargo The slump in Western Digital’s SSD and disk drive sales is forecast to deepen for the current and next quarters, according to analysts.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


The Rx for HIPAA Compliance in the Cloud

For medical entities, simply following HIPAA cloud service provider guidelines is no longer enough to ensure that your practice is protected from cyber threats, government investigations, and fines. …read more Source:: DarkReading


Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up To 5.0 GHz, Auction Only

Ian Cutress, reporting for AnandTech: AnandTech has seen documents and supporting information from multiple sources that show that Intel is planning to release a new high-end desktop processor, the Core i9-9990XE. These documents show that the processors will not be sold at retail; rather they will only be sold to system integrators, and then only…


Oreo Construction: Hiding Your Components Inside The PCB

In recent months, the ability to hide components inside a circuit board has become an item of interest. We could trace this to the burgeoning badgelife movement, where engineers create beautiful works of electronic art. We can also attribute this interest to Bloomberg’s Big Hack, where Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley asserted Apple was the…


Have Aliens Found Us? A Harvard Astronomer on the Mysterious Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua

On October 19, 2017, astronomers at the University of Hawaii spotted a strange object travelling through our solar system, which they later described as “a red and extremely elongated asteroid.” It was the first interstellar object to be detected within our solar system; the scientists named it ‘Oumuamua, the Hawaiian word for a scout or…


Another scorching TV deal: A 39-inch Fire TV for $150 – CNET

Plus: Three cheap T-shirts I love and a sweet deal on a huge library of documentaries. …read more Source:: CNet


Twitter Android Glitch Exposed Private Tweets for Years

Twitter has fixed the issue, which has been ongoing since 2014. …read more Source:: Threatpost


Tesla to slash 7 percent of its workforce, Elon Musk says – Roadshow

The CEO ties the cuts to challenges of the Model 3 last year. …read more Source:: CNet


Microsoft partner portal ‘exposes ‘every’ support request filed worldwide’ today

No customer data visible but hell’s bells, Redmond, what have you borked now? Exclusive Alarmed Microsoft support partners can currently view support tickets submitted from all over the world, in what appears to be a very wide-ranging blunder by the Redmond-based biz.… …read more Source:: Register


Vodafone signs $550m deal with IBM to offload cloud biz

Up to 750 staff transferring to Big Blue. Good luck people… you might need it Exclusive Vodafone is offloading its cloud and hosting unit to IBM in a $550m eight-year outsourcing deal that will include up to 750 staff packing their bags as they’re sent off to new employer Big Blue, sources say.… …read more…