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Bitcoin plunges as ‘Death Cross’ suggests longer-term price decline

By Duncan Riley Mar 29, 2018

The price of bitcoin plunged below $7,000 Thursday as reports discussed the cryptocurrency passing a so-called “Death Cross,” a statistical estimate of longer-term trends. Bitcoin has been mostly stagnant in March as many investors sat on it…

Cloud

CNCF adds 3 new open-source projects aimed at boosting container security

By Mike Wheatley Mar 29, 2018

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced it’s taking three new open-source projects under its protective wing. The new projects include the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone, or “SPIFFE,” and the SPIFFE Runtime…

Infra

Cryptominers love college: Report finds universities have the highest infection rates

By Duncan Riley Mar 29, 2018

Higher-education institutions are the new battleground for cryptomining-related hacking, according to a newly published report from security firm Vectra Networks Inc. A full 60 percent of all cryptomining software detections occurred in college and…

Infra

Under Armour fitness tracking app hacked and 150M customer records stolen

By Duncan Riley Mar 29, 2018

Sports apparel maker Under Armour Inc. revealed Thursday that its MyFitnessPal service had been hacked with the account details of 150 million users being stolen. MyFitnessPal is a smartphone app and website offered by…

Apps

Telegram raises $850M more in ICO as messaging service suffers major downtime

By Duncan Riley Mar 29, 2018

Encrypted-messaging startup Telegram Messenger LLC has raised an additional $850 million in its initial coin offering even as the service suffered serious downtime today. The figure, reported in a filing today with the U.S. Securities…

Apps

Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types

By Mike Wheatley Mar 29, 2018

Microsoft Corp. is enhancing its Excel spreadsheet software with two new “rich data” types that provides a better way to access information on companies and places. The geography and stocks data types allow users…

Cloud

Oracle puts GPU-powered bare-metal servers in the cloud

By Paul Gillin Mar 29, 2018

Oracle Corp. is expanding its bare-metal-computing-in-the-cloud offerings with a service that incorporates Nvidia Corp.’s Tesla graphics processing unit chips. The platform, announced Tuesday, is intended primarily for organizations that need high-performance computing capacity for…

Big Data

Whether or not business believes in weather, it believes in business, says IBM

By R. Danes Mar 29, 2018

If a business thinks the weather isn’t its business, it needs to think again. Practically all companies stand to gain or lose from incorporating weather data into their decision making, according to Michelle Boockoff-Bajdek (pictured,…

Cloud

Cloud ascendant: Microsoft launches major reorg as Windows head departs

By Maria Deutscher Mar 29, 2018

If Microsoft Corp.’s employees didn’t already realize cloud computing and artificial intelligence will drive their company’s future much more than its venerable Windows software, they sure know it now. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya…

Emerging Tech

Is Facebook a victim of its own bad karma? This company wants to return data to the individual

By Betsy Amy-Vogt Mar 29, 2018

Facebook may be scrambling to reassure its two billion users that their data privacy is being respected, but no one can deny that data willingly and openly shared is being appropriated for proprietary profit by the big…

all stories

Bitcoin plunges as ‘Death Cross’ suggests longer-term price decline

Cryptominers love college: Report finds universities have the highest infection rates

Under Armour fitness tracking app hacked and 150M customer records stolen

Telegram raises $850M more in ICO as messaging service suffers major downtime

Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types

Oracle puts GPU-powered bare-metal servers in the cloud

Cloud ascendant: Microsoft launches major reorg as Windows head departs

Is Facebook a victim of its own bad karma? This company wants to return data to the individual

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