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Daily Archives: May 12, 2017

Surface Laptop vs. Surface Pro 4: We compare prices, features and more

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

Microsoft’s Surface Laptop is aimed at supplanting the MacBook Air as a college-student favorite. The svelte, stylish clamshell also fills a middle ground between its cousins, the Surface Pro 4 tablet and Surface Book powerhouse 2-in-1, providing a third option that could appeal to many regular consumers.  We went hands-on with the Surface Laptop last week and plan to…

HPE is bringing Optane storage to Unix servers

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

In the next year or two, Hewlett Packard Enterprise will add support for Intel Optane memory and storage to its latest Unix servers. Optane is a new form of storage and memory that could replace today’s SSDs and DRAM. It is significantly faster and denser than both. One new system that can be configured with…

HP rolls out patch to fix keylogging bug in certain laptops

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

Consumers with HP laptops that have been accidentally recording their keystrokes can easily address the problem with a patch from the PC maker. More than two dozen HP laptop models, including the EliteBook, ProBook and ZBook, have an bug in the audio driver that will act as a keylogger, a Swiss security firm said Thursday.…

Google wants to solve the Android update problem once and for all with Project Treble

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

If there’s one thing we hate about our non-Pixel Android phones, it’s the lack of regular and speedy updates. Whenever a new version of Android comes out, even just a small one, it takes LG, Samsung, Sony, HTC, and everyone else months to push out an update to their latest phones. And if you don’t…

Google will review web apps that want access to its users' data

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

In response to recent attacks where hackers abused Google’s OAuth services to gain access to Gmail accounts, the company will review new web applications that request Google users’ data. To better enforce its policy regarding access to user data through its APIs (application programming interfaces), which states that apps should not mislead users when presenting…

Microsoft posts PowerShell script that spawns pseudo security bulletins

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

A Microsoft manager this week offered IT administrators a way to replicate — in a fashion — the security bulletins the company discarded last month. “If you want a report summarizing today’s #MSRC security bulletins, here’s a script that uses the MSRC Portal API,” John Lambert, general manager of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center, said…

Hands-on: How Microsoft's mixed-reality devices could learn a lesson from the HoloLens

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

At Microsoft’s Build conference this week, Microsoft set up what it calls a “shared immersive experience”: a group of HoloLens users perched high up in a virtual sky, directing another group of mixed-reality users on the “ground” through a short maze. It’s easy to see this as a metaphor to describe the relationship between the…

Google adds Street View images to directions so you can see exactly where to turn

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

Street View is finally ready for its closeup. Earlier this week, Google announced a new certification program for 360-degree cameras, letting anyone shoot and upload their interactive experiences right to Maps. And now, Google is looking to use those images and videos to help get you from point A to point B. The next time…

A ransomware attack is spreading worldwide, using alleged NSA exploit

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

A ransomware attack appears to be spreading around the world, leveraging a hacking tool that may have come from the U.S. National Security Agency. The ransomware, called Wanna Decryptor, struck hospitals at the U.K.’s National Health Service on Friday, taking down some of their network. Spain’s computer response team CCN-CERT has also warned of  a…

Android device updates: Android Nougat finally comes to the unlocked Galaxy S7 Edge

NewsBy DeveloperTiatraMay 12, 2017

It’s the quiet before the storm in the world of Android. Google I/O is next week, when we’re likely to hear more about Android O and other initiatives going on at the Googleplex.  In the meantime, owners of the unlocked Galaxy S7 Edge and Huawei Wear both received their long-sought updates. Let’s get to the…

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