Microsoft this week began a low-key promotion for the next Microsoft Windows 10 feature upgrade after issuing the month’s Patch Tuesday updates. Once Windows 10 applied the March 14 cumulative update, the “Update & security” section of the Settings panel displayed text reading, “Good news! The Windows 10 Creators Update is on its way. Want…
President Donald Trump’s federal budget outline released Thursday represents a major shift in U.S. priorities. It would increase defense spending, boost immigration enforcement and include in seed money for a wall along the southern border. It does all of that, in part, by cutting science funding. [ Further reading: The march toward exascale computers ]…
LG’S G6 was easily the hottest phone to come out of MWC, but the company was tight-lipped about when it was releasing and how much it would cost. With pre-orders set to begin tomorrow, however, we have a clearer picture of LG’s plans for its launch. First the good news: Anyone who orders a G6…
Bug hunters have gathered again to test their skills against some of the most popular and mature software programs during the Pwn2Own hacking contest. During the first day, they successfully demonstrated exploits against Microsoft Edge, Apple’s Safari, Adobe Reader, and Ubuntu Desktop. The Pwn2Own contest runs every year during the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver,…
AMD’s Radeon memory business has slowed down, with fewer products available in the U.S. and no new product releases since the introduction of the Polaris GPUs last year. Products are not being sold by key partners like Newegg, Best Buy, or TigerDirect, and some products are out of or almost out of stock at Amazon.com.…
Google will start shipping development kits for its Project Soli wireless gesture recognition technology later this year. Project Soli involves a millimeter-wave radar chip that can detect “very fine” gestures with fingers and hands. It can then be used for playing games using hand gestures on mobile devices, computers, and electronics. The technology has the…
It’s a bad week for all things network security as Cisco spewed out 20 Security Advisories and Alerts – two critical and three high-impact – that customers should be aware of and implement patches where they can. Cisco, like other big enterprise vendors, regularly issues security warnings but 20 in one day is an unusual…
Since we’ve just had a Raspberry Pi anniversary, you might think that it’s excessive to trumpet another Pi-related holiday just one week later, but, well, Tuesday was Pi Day, this is the internet, and I’m afraid that’s just the way these things go. OK, so Pi Day isn’t, strictly speaking, a Raspberry Pi thing –…
Pwnie Express is adding a tool that ranks the risks its security service finds on customer networks and makes it easier to remediate them. The new feature of the company’s Pulse service assesses potential vulnerabilities that its sensors detect in customers’ networks and issues a grade in each of four categories. This Device Risk Scorecard…
Last month, reports came out that Apple accidentally installed a fake firmware patch on internal development servers. That’s a lesson to all companies to be careful about where they get their patches. What may have happened is that an Apple employee installed a patch shared by the hardware vendor’s employee, instead of using the official…