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Blockchain

Bitcoin surges as Chinese president backs blockchain technology

By Duncan Riley Oct 27, 2019

Bitcoin had a remarkable return to form over the weekend after declining over the last month into a bear market. The reason: China. The cryptocurrency peaked as high as $10,071.47 early Saturday, up 36% in…

Security

Ransomware hackers demand payment for not releasing Johannesburg data

By Duncan Riley Oct 27, 2019

In a targeted ransomware attack, hackers took down the computer network of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa Oct. 24, stealing data from the city and threatening to release it unless the ransom payment…

Security

Sophisticated spear-phishing campaign targets UN and NGOs

By Duncan Riley Oct 27, 2019

The United Nations and nongovernment organizations are being targeted by a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign that’s attempting to gain account credentials for Okta, Office 365 and Outlook. Detected by security firm Lookout Inc. and publicized…

Security

7.5M customer records exposed on Adobe Creative Cloud database

By Duncan Riley Oct 27, 2019

Adobe Systems Inc. is the last company to expose customer data on an unsecured database, with 7.5 million Adobe Creative Cloud accounts found online. Discovered by Comparitech Ltd. and security researcher Bob Diachenko and…

Cloud

In a big surprise, Pentagon grants Microsoft $10B JEDI cloud contract over Amazon

By Robert Hof Oct 25, 2019

Microsoft Corp. today won the Department of Defense’s hotly contested $10 billion, 10-year cloud computing contract, beating out frontrunner Amazon Web Services Inc. Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit had been the presumed favorite for…

Big Data

After acquisitions, Splunk focuses on bridging the gap between development and IT

By Silvia Fregoni Oct 25, 2019

Big-data analytics company Splunk Inc. is committed to expanding its business to broader enterprise solutions and maintain its market growth. Following recent acquisitions, the company’s aspiration is to bridge the gap between developers and…

Emerging Tech

Legendary venture capitalist Don Valentine dies at 87

By Robert Hof Oct 25, 2019

Don Valentine, the longtime founding venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital who led investments in Cisco Systems Inc., Oracle Corp., Electronic Arts Inc. and many other iconic Silicon Valley firms, died today at age 87…

Apps

Facebook starts testing News tab in mobile app with content from 200 outlets

By Maria Deutscher Oct 25, 2019

Starting today, a few hundred thousand Facebook Inc. users in the U.S. will see a new tab at the bottom of the social network’s mobile app that features articles curated from major media outlets.…

AI

Google adds more developer features to its serverless AI services

By Maria Deutscher Oct 25, 2019

Google LLC today released a set of enhancements for its AI Platform that will give customers more flexibility in how they manage their artificial intelligence projects. AI Platform is a relatively new addition to…

AI

Google deploys new NLP models, Cloud TPUs to make its search engine smarter

By Maria Deutscher Oct 25, 2019

Google LLC is augmenting its search engine with natural-language processing features that it said represent the most significant update of the past five years. The company detailed the changes in a blog post published…

all stories

Bitcoin surges as Chinese president backs blockchain technology

Ransomware hackers demand payment for not releasing Johannesburg data

Sophisticated spear-phishing campaign targets UN and NGOs

7.5M customer records exposed on Adobe Creative Cloud database

After acquisitions, Splunk focuses on bridging the gap between development and IT

Legendary venture capitalist Don Valentine dies at 87

Facebook starts testing News tab in mobile app with content from 200 outlets

Google adds more developer features to its serverless AI services

Google deploys new NLP models, Cloud TPUs to make its search engine smarter

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