Dumping Moore’s Law is perhaps the best thing that could happen to computers, as it’ll hasten the move away from an aging computer architecture holding back hardware innovation. That’s the view of prominent scientist R. Stanley Williams, a senior fellow in the Hewlett Packard Labs. Williams played a key role in the creation of the…
Windows 10 Creators Update has an official release date of April 11, but in reality it will roll out in waves. Here’s how it will work. On March 29 Microsoft announced that Insiders already have access to the Creators Update builds. The other group that received the Creators Update on March 29 was Xbox One…
Apps that integrate with Slack can now include drop-down menus in the messages that they post to the service, as part of a push to improve the interactivity of third-party integrations. Slack’s message menus let apps spawn clickable lists that users can choose from in order to take actions that developers have enabled. For example, using…
In a few months, publicly trusted certificate authorities will have to start honoring a special Domain Name System (DNS) record that allows domain owners to specify who is allowed to issue SSL certificates for their domains. The Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) DNS record became a standard in 2013 but didn’t have much of a real-world impact because…
The gang behind the Dridex computer trojan has adopted an unpatched Microsoft Word exploit and used it to target millions of users. The exploit’s existence was revealed Friday by security researchers from antivirus vendor McAfee, but targeted attacks using it have been happening since January. After McAfee’s limited public disclosure, researchers from FireEye confirmed having…
Cisco this week took the wraps off several products aimed at helping existing Fibre Channel customers grow the speed, capacity and management of their storage environments. In particular, Cisco rolled out a 32Gb Fibre Channel module for its MDS 9700 storage switch family with baked-in storage networking analytics, a 32Gb Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter…
The iPad made it possible to leave your laptop at home and still stay productive. You could write emails, watch movies, and surf the web all through a 9.7-inch touch screen display. It wasn’t the first tablet, but it was one of the most popular. Apple sold 300,000 units on the first day and that hit…
The arrest last week of a Russian man in Spain was apparently for his role in a massive spam botnet and not related to an ongoing investigation into foreign tampering with last year’s U.S. election. The botnet, called Kelihos, has enslaved hundreds of thousands of computers, and distributed spam and malware to users across the globe. However,…
You will very soon be able to use Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant with the Raspberry Pi 3 and make cool devices that can accept voice commands. But for that, you’ll need to upgrade the popular developer board, which can run Windows 10 IoT Core, to the Creators Update of the OS. You’ll be able to use…
A group of hackers that has been trying to sell exploits and malware allegedly used by the U.S. National Security Agency decided to make the data available for free over the weekend. The security community was expecting the password-encrypted archive that the Shadow Brokers group unlocked Saturday to contain previously unknown and unpatched exploits —…