Danish intelligence agency helped NSA spy on Europe
The National Security Agency, an American intelligence agency, has had access to Danish intelligence networks to spy on several countries in northern Europe for years.
This is reported by the Danish website DR. According to a whistleblower within the Danish intelligence service FE, the FE had an... Read more
Amazon Textract adds new languages and handwriting extraction
Five new languages are supported, as well as extraction of handwriting data in English
Amazon this week announced two new features for Amazon Textract. First they have added support for handwriting in English documents. Amazon have also expanded language support for extracting printed text from ... Read more
Intel fixed leaks that can be used to install malicious firmware
Last week, Intel rolled out fixes for some vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to install malicious firmware in millions of computers using Intel CPUs.
The number of sensitive documents stored on computers over the past ten years has increased. This prompted hardware and software developers t... Read more
Canonical’s Juju adds charms to Kubernetes Operators
Juju brings DevOps best practices to the Kubernetes platform.
Kubernetes is an industry-leading container-orchestration program. However, using Kubernetes properly requires a great deal of skill and the right tools to manage software on its clusters properly.
What are Kubernetes Operators?
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Pandemic reveals that data is the most essential tool for businesses
Businesses leveraging data say that decision-making gives them a critical advantage over their competitors, especially during the pandemic. This fact comes from a new report penned by Tableau, who polled 3,500 senior managers and IT decision-makers in the UK and three European countries.
The mos... Read more
Microsoft’s new Jupyter extension supports more than Python
The new VS extension has been refactored to support languages such as R and Julia.
Last week Microsoft announced that the November 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release, the company are introducing the Jupyter extension, which the Python ex... Read more
Qualcomm allowed to sell 4G chips to Huawei again
The United States on Friday has granted Qualcomm a license to sell 4G chips to Huawei. Trade with the Chinese company is still officially prohibited.
A Qualcomm spokesperson told Reuters that the company has been licensed to sell a number of products, including 4G equipment. Exactly which produc... Read more
Microsoft announces end-of-support for Surface drivers and firmware
If you wondered how long Microsoft would continue to provide driver and firmware updates for specific Surface tablets and PC's, then wonder no more because the software behemoth has released information about that.
Last week, Microsoft publicly announced device support dates for some of their Su... Read more
Google makes migrating database to the cloud easier
Google has announced its Database Migration Service. The service helps companies migrate their databases to the Google Cloud without having to deploy additional servers.
With the Google Database Migration Service, companies can send their databases to the Google Cloud, whether they are stored lo... Read more
BlackBerry discovers hacker group selling their services
BlackBerry's security team has come across a group of hackers offering their services for hire. The group calls itself CostaRicto and appears to be based in South Asia.
The group is responsible for a series of orchestrated attacks on every continent, although most attacks take place in India, Ba... Read more