Новости за 22.12.2016

The cyberespionage group blamed for hacking into the Democratic National Committee (DNC) earlier this year also infiltrated the Ukrainian military through a trojanized Android application used by its artillery units.

Hoping that 2017 will be a good year in some important ways, I've gathered 17 useful Unix tricks to make your hours on the command line a little more productive.

News about Uber being forced to stop their autonomous car test in California came as quite a shock...to Uber, their test drivers, and anyone trying to get across town.

Nokia filed new patent infringement lawsuits against Apple on Thursday, a day after it weighed in on a licensing dispute with the company by filing claims in Germany and the U.S.

A lot changed in the enterprise messaging and collaboration market during the final months of 2016. Facebook formally entered the space with Workplace and the accompanying Work Chat app, for example. Microsoft released Teams. Google rebranded its portfolio of apps for business as G Suite.

One item on many Christmas wish lists is a new Playstation 4 Pro. If this is your first Playstation 4, setup is simple and after spending some time on updates you should be up and running without any major issues.

Infosec budgets. They are small, they largely come from IT, and CISOs/CSOs often complain they are not nearly big enough.

Developers of the popular Signal secure messaging app have started to use Google's domain as a front to hide traffic to their service and to sidestep blocking attempts.

Alibaba’s Taobao.com marketplace is in the eye of a storm after the U.S. trade representative included the popular online Chinese marketplace on the list of "Notorious Markets" for 2016, after a long break.

It's been a year of change in the enterprise software market. SaaS providers are fighting to compete with one another, machine learning is becoming a reality for businesses at a larger scale, and containers are growing in popularity.

Much has been made of A.I.'s potential to destroy jobs by automating away routine and bureaucratic tasks. But when I think about what makes a job fulfilling, regardless of industry, a few things come to mind: consequential decisions, meaningful personal interactions and challenging problems to solve. It's not fun to do nothing or nothing important. So while we worry about A.I. reducing the job supply, it's also true that those that remain will be better. A.I. is a powerful engine of job inequality. Читать дальше...

Honda Motor's research and development subsidiary is in talks to integrate Waymo’s self-driving technology with its vehicles, suggesting that working with auto makers as a technology partner is key on the agenda of Alphabet’s autonomous car unit.

Quick question: Who here gets frustrated with the DMV?

After the last week, we know that Uber certainly does. The company just lost a public battle with the California Department of Motor Vehicles over whether its self-driving cars could operate on San Francisco roads. Who would you side with?

In IT Blogwatch, the DMV becomes interesting. 

So what is going on? Greg Bensinger has the background:

Uber has halted its self-driving car trials in San Francisco and agreed to work with state regulators on obtaining proper permits for 16 test cars. The move amounts to a retreat by Uber, which had last week argued that it didn't need to obtain the permits.

In Memoriam

Image by Derrick Nauflett, Intel, New York Times

In 2016, the world got a little bit smaller as we said goodbye to many of the tech industry's founders. Yet those innovators left behind legacies and technology that brought us all closer — whether it's the Internet we use daily, digital artwork that inspires us or a futuristic vision we still strive to realize. They were scientists, astronauts, artists and code-breakers; some connected the world, while others flew beyond it. Here... Читать дальше...

IT pilot fish gets a call from his company's security manager at a few minutes before midnight: The front-desk security guard's phone is completely dead.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is keenly worried that President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress will step up surveillance activities and pass laws to curtail electronic rights.

Three dimensional NAND (3D NAND) is expected to dominate the solid-state drive (SSD) industry beginning next year, as suppliers reduce their shipments of flash storage based on traditional 2D or planar NAND, according to a new report.

An international patent dispute has broken out between Apple and Nokia over the Finnish mobile network vendor's licensing terms for the widely used H.264 video codec and other technologies.

With Twitter struggling to fuel its user and financial growth, the strain may be showing as several top executives head out the door.