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AWS files motion to stop work on Pentagon’s JEDI cloud computing contract

By Robert Hof Jan 23, 2020

Amazon Web Services Inc. Wednesday evening filed a motion to stop further work on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing project. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI contract was awarded to Microsoft Corp.…

Policy

A political first for Seattle: voting by mobile phone

By James Farrell Jan 22, 2020

Residents of King County, Washington, which includes Seattle, will become the first people in the U.S. to be able to cast a vote by smartphone, it was announced Wednesday. It’s a modest start. The…

Security

Cybersecurity firm founder pleads guilty to organizing a DDoS attack

By Duncan Riley Jan 22, 2020

The founder and previous owner of a cybersecurity firm has confessed in court to hiring hackers to carry out a distributed denial-of-service attack. Tucker Preston, 22, from Macon, Georgia, the previous owner of BackConnect…

Security

Microsoft exposes 250M customer service records via misconfigured Elasticsearch database

By Duncan Riley Jan 22, 2020

Microsoft Corp. today disclosed a data breach that exposed 250 million customer records via a misconfigured Elasticsearch database. As is somewhat typical with these exposures, the database was exposed because the settings on the Elasticsearch…

Apps

Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus users will have their default search engine set to Bing

By Duncan Riley Jan 22, 2020

Microsoft Corp. is making its search engine Bing the default search engine for Office 365 ProPlus customers who use Chrome, at least according to a Microsoft support document. “Starting with Version 2002 of Office 365 ProPlus,…

Cloud

Microsoft to open its first Israeli cloud region in 2021

By Mike Wheatley Jan 22, 2020

Microsoft Corp. said today it will open its first cloud region in Israel next year, bringing its total number of announced cloud regions to 56 across 21 countries. When Microsoft talks about its cloud…

Apps

Enterprise intranet startup LumApps closes $70M round led by Goldman Sachs

By Maria Deutscher Jan 22, 2020

In the age of Slack, enterprise collaboration startups are attracting strong interest from the venture capital community. The latest example is LumApps SAS, a French intranet provider that today revealed it has closed a $70…

Cloud

GM’s Cruise debuts a self-driving van with no steering wheel or pedals

By Maria Deutscher Jan 22, 2020

General Motors Co.’s Cruise LLC subsidiary on Tuesday evening unveiled the Origin, a self-driving vehicle that doesn’t have a steering wheel or pedals. The Origin (pictured) is the production-ready successor to a car design GM introduced in…

Blockchain

Blockchain game startup SuperTree nets $2.5M in early-stage funding

By Kyt Dotson Jan 22, 2020

South Korea-based distributed ledger blockchain game developer SuperTree Co. Ltd. announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in a Series A investment led by Korea Investment Partners, the country’s largest venture capital firm,…

Cloud

Forrester study highlights benefits of Google Anthos hybrid cloud app platform

By Mike Wheatley Jan 22, 2020

Google LLC today highlighted the findings of a recent study by Forrester Research Inc. on the impact of its Google Anthos application platform, revealing some major financial benefits for early adopters of the service.…

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A political first for Seattle: voting by mobile phone

Cybersecurity firm founder pleads guilty to organizing a DDoS attack

Microsoft exposes 250M customer service records via misconfigured Elasticsearch database

Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus users will have their default search engine set to Bing

Enterprise intranet startup LumApps closes $70M round led by Goldman Sachs

GM’s Cruise debuts a self-driving van with no steering wheel or pedals

Blockchain game startup SuperTree nets $2.5M in early-stage funding

Forrester study highlights benefits of Google Anthos hybrid cloud app platform

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