LinkedIn tool prepares data for TensorFlow
LinkedIn has created an internally built open source tool. This is Avro2TF, a conversion tool that transforms data from Apache Spark to a format that can easily be used by TensorFlow, for machine learning purposes.
The new tool allows data scientists and other users to convert data sets in Apache Av... Read more
Hackers spread malware through fake accounts on LinkedIn
Security researchers have discovered that hackers are increasingly focusing on LinkedIn users. They offer them a job on the business social network by means of a private message, or draw their attention to a vacancy. But instead of a job, the users have to deal with a More_eggs infection on their co... Read more
LinkedIn helps jobseekers compare salaries
The social networking site LinkedIn has provided its payroll tool LinkedIn Salary with a new function. It provides an in-depth salary comparison between your current and any future jobs. According to our own research, 70 percent of the LinkedIn professionals want information about their salary befor... Read more
LinkedIn brings all recruitment services together under one heading
LinkedIn is not only a professional social network. The Microsoft site also offers a variety of products to help recruiters find new staff: Recruiter, Jobs and Pipeline Builder. But where these services were separated for a long time, they will soon continue to live under one denominator.
That is wh... Read more
LinkedIn does trial with live videos
LinkedIn carries out tests with its own live video function. The social network for professionals is launching LinkedIn Live this week, a tool that allows users and companies to broadcast real-time video for select groups of people or for LinkedIn users from all over the world.
That's what the TechC... Read more
LinkedIn: demand for knowledge of blockchain and AI continues to grow
The demand for the knowledge and skills of blockchain and artificial intelligence is increasing rapidly. This is evident from the LinkedIn 2018 Emerging Jobs Report that the business social network has recently published. The report maps out the fastest growing functions in the past five years.
Guy... Read more
In spite of GDPR, LinkedIn collected millions of e-mail addresses
LinkedIn appears to have violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). European privacy legislation regulates the way in which organisations are allowed to deal with the data relating to their users. But LinkedIn doesn't seem to have fully gone along with that.
Last Friday, a report by the... Read more
Massively downloading email addresses via LinkedIn is no longer possible just like that
From now on it is no longer possible to export the email addresses of contacts directly from LinkedIn. Until now, this has been possible for companies, recruiters and in fact all other users of the business social network. But from now on this is no longer possible, which makes LinkedIn an important... Read more
“Security company identifies hacker selling MySpace and Dropbox databases.
The American security company Recorded Future claims to have discovered the identity of a hacker who was behind the sale of a series of databases in 2016, reports among others ZDNet. The databases were of companies like MySpace, Badoo, Dropbox, LinkedIn and Twitter.
The hacker's pseudonym is Tessa8... Read more
LinkedIn comes with its own version of Snapchat Stories
LinkedIn has launched a new feature that is very reminiscent of the Snapchat Stories. This means that the social network for professionals will join Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google and WhatsApp, among others, which had previously developed similar functions.
The newest feature of LinkedIn is St... Read more