‘US wants to scale down Huawei trade bans’
The government of the United States appears to be on the verge of scaling down its ban on trading with Huawei. This means that manufacturers will again be allowed to supply processors, among other things, to the Chinese telecom company.
The rumors originate from a market analist, the Financial T... Read more
Zuckerberg breaks ranks to support section 230 reform
Facebook's support for the changes could threaten the open Internet.
Almost lost amid the frantic news cycle leading up to next week's Presidential election, a potentially momentous piece of news was made in the Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Wednesday, where the princes of Big Tech were s... Read more
Apache Spark gains .NET support
Microsoft and the .NET Foundation released version 1.0 of .NET for Apache Spark. The package enables developers to use Spark in .NET programming languages such as C# and F#.
To develop the package, a team of people from Azure Data Engineering, the Mobius project and .NET was put together.
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9 out of 10 executives say data is more important due to COVID-19
Business leaders look to data analytics to survive in a post-pandemic world.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations across private industries have become more reliant on data and analytics. This is according to a new report released this week by Teradata, a leading cloud data analy... Read more
LinkedIn’s Career Explore tool helps job-seekers find new jobs based on skills
Covid-19 has had a significant impact on the economy. Unemployment is rising fast. The estimates coming from the International Labour Organization have shown that about 245 million full-time jobs have been affected.
To challenge this outcome, LinkedIn is launching a new Career Explorer tool that... Read more
Cisco updates Intersight with integration for AppDynamics
Cisco is now rolling out updates for Intersight, its hybrid cloud operations platform, and integrating it with AppDynamics. Cisco’s Intersight platform aims to connect private data centers to private clouds.
The suite first became publicly available in 2017. It is used as a cloud-based managem... Read more
TIBCO expands its enterprise reach by acquiring Information Builders
TIBCO Software is on the acquiring Information Builders in a move that will bring their combined 70 years of data management expertise under one roof. Information Builders was founded in 1975 in New York City. Since then, it has been providing tools for data analysis for upward of 45 years now.
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Researches extract security key for microcode in Intel CPU
Researches have found the key that Intel uses to secure microcode updates in a number of their processors. The keys can be used to analyze updates or install custom patches.
The technique can't be used to hack all Intel processors. The key can only be found in chips based on the Goldmont archite... Read more
AWS announces that EC2 Nitro Enclaves are now generally available
Amazon Web Services announced that it is making AWS Nitro Enclaves generally available. The capability allows users to process sensitive data with ease securely. Nitro Enclaves was first announced as one of three new security products from Amazon last December.
It offers customers the ability to... Read more
AMD, Nvidia challenge Intel’s chip market dominance
Looming acquisition deals could put Intel's leading position in jeopardy.
The COVID-19 pandemic has created skyrocketing demand for semiconductors as companies accelerate toward digital transformation, Cloud-based remote working and increased data analytics.
Emboldened by what they see as a b... Read more