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San Francisco bans government use of facial recognition technology

By James Farrell May 14, 2019

Amid growing fears of facial recognition technology becoming an oppressive tool of surveillance down the line, the city of San Francisco voted today to ban the use of it by police and other official…

Policy

Report: Trump to sign order banning US firms from doing business with Huawei

By Mike Wheatley May 14, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly set to sign an executive order this week that will prevent American companies from buying telecommunications equipment from Chinese firm Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. Reuters cites three U.S. officials “familiar…

Policy

Google opens new center for privacy engineering in Munich

By Mike Wheatley May 14, 2019

Google LLC is getting deadly serious about user privacy, announcing plans today to create what it calls a “Google Safety Engineering Center” in Munich. The center will house a dedicated engineering team that will…

Infra

DevOps rebels against ‘an ancient, powerful order’ of IT

By Teryn O'Brien May 14, 2019

The influence of software developers has taken over the business world, with DevOps mentalities driving innovative startups to great success, from Facebook to Amazon to Netflix. But the agility of software-led business can be lost…

Infra

Q&A: As SAP consolidates under flagship HANA, Dell strengthens partnership

By Nick Marinoff May 14, 2019

There’s comfort in familiarity, especially for specific software platforms employed in the enterprise. But when these platforms evolve to meet modern computing demands, things can get complicated for those employees using the software on a…

Big Data

Q&A: Inside UPS’ massive digital transformation and its ‘agile’ philosophy

By Teryn O'Brien May 14, 2019

Dropping off some 21 million packages daily across 200 countries, the United Parcel Service of America Inc. has plenty of interactions to track. Known for its logistics prowess, UPS has managed to evolve business for…

Security

Researchers discover new security flaws in most Intel processors released since 2011

By Maria Deutscher May 14, 2019

Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc. and other tech companies are rolling out security updates for their products to neutralize four newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Intel Corp. chips. The flaws, which were made public today, affect the vast majority of…

Security

Newly revealed WhatsApp exploit allowed attackers to infect users with spyware

By Maria Deutscher May 14, 2019

A newly discovered vulnerability in WhatsApp has enabled attackers to use the Facebook Inc.-owned messaging service to spread spyware. The social network said today that it had first become aware of the so-called zero-day…

Cloud

Confluent says it has the first cloud-native Kafka streaming platform

By Paul Gillin May 14, 2019

Open-source unicorn Confluent Inc. is ready to go head-to-head with cloud computing giants with the release of a cloud-native and fully managed service based upon the Apache Kafka streaming platform. The announcement today fills…

Security

Companies do a tense tango with new data privacy laws

By R. Danes May 14, 2019

As big data is transforming industries, data analysis is the new competitive advantage in business. But the flip side is that data misuse could land companies in court or put them out of business. Since Europe’s…

the latest

San Francisco bans government use of facial recognition technology

Report: Trump to sign order banning US firms from doing business with Huawei

DevOps rebels against ‘an ancient, powerful order’ of IT

Q&A: As SAP consolidates under flagship HANA, Dell strengthens partnership

Q&A: Inside UPS’ massive digital transformation and its ‘agile’ philosophy

Researchers discover new security flaws in most Intel processors released since 2011

Newly revealed WhatsApp exploit allowed attackers to infect users with spyware

Confluent says it has the first cloud-native Kafka streaming platform

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