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Report: Amazon is looking to acquire cable television channels

By Duncan Riley Sep 18, 2017

Amazon.com Inc. is looking to acquire cable television channels to expand its Prime video service, according to a new report. Sources quoted by NBC claimed that the e-commerce giant has started talks to buy scores…

Apps

Slack lands $250M funding round led by Japan’s Softbank Group

By Mike Wheatley Sep 17, 2017

Slack Technologies Inc., maker of the popular team messaging application of the same name, has become the latest beneficiary of Softbank Group Corp.’s $1 billion Vision Fund. The company said on Sunday it has…

Emerging Tech

The Pirate Bay caught hijacking computing power for cryptocurrency mining

By Duncan Riley Sep 17, 2017

Infamous entertainment media piracy site The Pirate Bay has been caught inserting the code for cryptocurrency mining software into its pages which without warning taps the computing power of visitors. The miner, provided by…

Infra

Terabytes of data stolen in hack of online music video site Vevo

By Duncan Riley Sep 17, 2017

Vevo, the online music video service owned by the big record companies with support from Google LLC, has been hacked, with the data stolen finding its way online — at least briefly. The Ourmine…

Infra

David Goulden, Dell EMC’s infrastructure services president, will quit next year

By Mike Wheatley Sep 17, 2017

One of Dell EMC’s most senior executives, David Goulden (pictured), who is currently in charge of the company’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, will leave the company by the end of its current fiscal year in…

Cube Event Coverage

A bash script rap? Holberton student prepares for programming career

By Mark Albertson Sep 15, 2017

In what might well be a technology industry first, an enterprising student at the Holberton School of Software Engineering in San Francisco, California, penned and posted a three-minute in-class rap performance about bash scripting.…

Cloud

Docker’s Moby Project feeds developer interest in container tools

By Mark Albertson Sep 15, 2017

Being able to mix and match software components in container configuration has become an important part of virtualizing the distribution of applications in the enterprise stack. So when Docker Inc. announced the Moby Project at DockerCon…

Infra

Fury over Equifax breach may finally shake enterprises out of cybersecurity stupor

By Paul Gillin Sep 15, 2017

The Equifax Inc. hack may be the alarm bell that finally jolts Congress and large enterprises out of their somnambulance and forces them to do something meaningful about cybersecurity. At least that’s the hope…

Emerging Tech

IBM Blockchain scales to limit plastic waste around the globe

By Mark Albertson Sep 15, 2017

An ambitious project to recycle plastic refuse in developing countries that have little or no waste management systems is being powered by the IBM Blockchain. Big Blue’s use of the tamper-proof ledger system is only…

Infra

Researcher says Equifax executives used ‘alarmingly simplistic’ passwords

By Paul Gillin Sep 15, 2017

Cybersecurity professionals who lament senior executives’ lack of interest in threat protection will find little to cheer about in new findings released Friday by software security firm Comodo Group Inc. Researchers in the company’s…

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Report: Amazon is looking to acquire cable television channels

Slack lands $250M funding round led by Japan’s Softbank Group

The Pirate Bay caught hijacking computing power for cryptocurrency mining

Terabytes of data stolen in hack of online music video site Vevo

David Goulden, Dell EMC’s infrastructure services president, will quit next year

Fury over Equifax breach may finally shake enterprises out of cybersecurity stupor

Researcher says Equifax executives used ‘alarmingly simplistic’ passwords

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