Новости за 16.12.2015

Microsoft today restarted distribution of Windows 10 previews by delivering the first new build since the November upgrade of five weeks ago.

Internet of Things startup Afero says it can secure small and large IoT devices with a Bluetooth radio module and a cloud service.

OneDrive for Business entered the next stage of its evolution on Wednesday when Microsoft launched a series of updates that are aimed at improving its cloud storage and productivity service for businesses and other large organizations. 

There are at least 35,000 publicly accessible and insecure MongoDB databases on the Internet, and their number appears to be growing. Combined they expose 684.8 terabytes of data to potential theft.

When IBM and Apple forged their partnership last year to bring new mobile apps to the corporate world, their promise of bringing 100 such apps to market by the end of 2015 was widely considered an ambitious goal. Sure enough, though, it now looks like they've hit their target right on schedule.

Congressional leaders early Wednesday morning released a $1.1 trillion spending bill that dramatically hikes the H-1B filing fee for IT services that rely heavily on visa workers.

Every great operating system sputters, falters and fails at one time or another, and Windows 10 is no exception. Whether caused by a Windows Update snag or a good app installation gone bad, you'll probably need to take some substantial steps to fix the OS at some point.

2015 may almost be over, but one final Chromebook is sneaking its way onto store shelves before the year's out -- and despite its late arrival, this is one that shouldn't be ignored.

Pressing the backspace key 28 times can bypass the Grub2 bootloader's password protection and allow a hacker to install malware on a locked-down Linux system.

Box and Salesforce announced a new partnership Wednesday aimed at helping their joint customers get work done more efficiently by bringing documents from their cloud storage and content management solution into Salesforce.

Your privacy and security is a top priority for the company behind MacKeeper; at least that’s what Kromtech claimed after 13 million user account credentials leaked from an unsecured database.

Time flies. It seems like just yesterday we heard that Microsoft would stop supporting older versions of Internet Explorer. But it was over a year ago that it announced that support would end for all IE browser versions older than version 11. And the deadline is now upon us all: Jan. 16, 2016.

Microsoft will seed hundreds of millions of Windows 7 PCs next month with a nag notice reminding their owners that older editions of Internet Explorer (IE) are being dropped from the company's support list, a recently-published support document announced.

Backblaze is no longer just a backup company. It now also offers Backblaze B2—a full object storage cloud service, using the same DIY, Pod-based architecture.

A long time ago in a century getting further and further away, Bill Gates compared MSN with the exploding World Wide Web, saw the future, and pivoted nicely to embrace the Internet. A few decades later, someone at Microsoft looked at the cloud and recognized that the old days of selling Windows Server OS licenses were fading. Today we have Microsoft Azure, Microsoft's pivot to cloud computing.

If there's any company that's been virtually synonymous with growth over the past year or so, it's Slack, and now the team-software vendor is taking a big step to make sure that momentum continues.

The ongoing political discourse over encrypted Internet communications used by potential terrorists sparked some major fireworks in last night's GOP presidential debate.

Confused about how updates work in Windows 10? Join the club. In this latest version of its operating system, Microsoft has transformed what was once a straightforward procedure into a seemingly complicated process that varies according to whether you have Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro. As a result, there have been lots of misperceptions about how Windows 10 Update works, and how to best use it.

The U.S. data center industry is now operating just like a sports franchise. When a local NFL football team wants a new stadium, it can threaten to move to a city promising a bigger and better stadium.

Apple’s decision to make Swift open source has the potential to intensify development of powerful new HomeKit solutions.

Having assessed the landscape in my role as a futurist, I have concluded that trends are trending.

Boss calls this sysadmin/network admin pilot fish into his office with bad news: A machine under someone's desk has been hacked.

Ford will begin testing a fully autonomous version of its Fusion Hybrid on California streets in 2016, becoming the latest major automaker to put driverless car technology to the test on real roads.

Google researchers found a software flaw in several models of FireEye's security appliances that they say could give a cyberattacker full access to a company's network.