As it stands, Microsoft’s Surface Pen stylus Microsoft may be hard at work to address that annoyance, however:
Pakistan has lifted a ban on YouTube in the country after Google offered a localized version, which the government claims will allow it to ask for the removal of material considered offensive from the website. YouTube was ordered Pakistan authorities told a court that they were blocking the whole domain because it was not technically feasible for them to block specific links to the video.
Internet-connected industrial devices could be accessible to anyone, with no password, thanks to a coding error by a gateway manufacturer. Taiwanese firm Advantech patched the firmware in some of its serial-to-IP gateway devices in October to remove a hard-coded SSH (Secure Shell) key that would have allowed unauthorized access by remote attackers. But it overlooked an even bigger problem: Any password will unlock the gateways, which are used to connect legacy serial devices to TCP/IP and cellular networks in industrial environments around the world. Researchers from security firm Rapid7 discovered the vulnerability in the revised firmware, version 1.98, released for the Advantech EKI-1322 Internet protocol (IP) gateway which can connect serial and Ethernet devices to a cellular network.
PowerPoint 2016’s changes include new transitions and charts, and some powerful new research tools. Other features may follow the Let’s start with the larger toolbar up top, the Quick Access Toolbar, and the reorganized Ribbon menu. The Ribbon menu spreads out more, resulting in fewer icons and more drop-down menus—slowly working its way back to the original menus (from the beginning through 2003).
Qualcomm is setting up a server chipset design and sales unit with a provincial government in China, a move that could help boost the company's bid to diversify from mobile chips into the server chips market. The chip maker will own 45 percent in the joint venture, Guizhou Huaxintong Semi-Conductor Technology, that will be 55 percent owned by the Guizhou provincial government's investment arm. The initial registered capital of the joint venture will be about US$280 million. Qualcomm
If you have a PC, you’re a target. You need security software. That's as true today as it was a decade ago, despite significant security improvements to Windows over the years. But you have a choice—you can either continue paying the security software vendor of your choice an annual fee for protection or you can take matters into your own hands and build your own suite of security tools using free products. Here’s how to keep your PC protected without paying a dime. Going free can save you some cash, but it isn’t a panacea. When you buy a paid antivirus product, you usually get some form of customer support with it; with free products, you are often on your own when it comes to solving problems. Also, going free means that you have to stitch together a combination of utilities, so it sometimes takes a little trial and error to find the best tools for your needs. Premium suites offer seamless, relatively pain-free security solutions.
There’s a lot we know about the HoloLens, Microsoft’s upcoming augmented reality headset. There’s also a lot we While speaking at an event in Tel Aviv, Microsoft Technical Evangelist Bruce Harris stated that the HoloLens’s battery will run between 2.5 and 5.5 hours between charges, depending on the task,
A relatively simple phishing attack could be used to compromise the widely used password manager LastPass, according to new research. Notifications displayed by Cassidy, who is CTO of
A public-safety network across the U.S. that could speed up disaster response may also lead to a big payoff for a mobile carrier. The FirstNet will bring U.S. first responders into the modern age by replacing many legacy radio systems with an LTE network. The project began in the wake of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, because of concerns that public safety wireless networks were too weak and fragmented for agencies to respond to major events. In addition to being a shared system, the network will bring broadband to public safety for things like transmitting video from a disaster site.
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Sony has often struggled to break into the U.S. market with its phones, and it’s latest moves are a textbook example why. The flagship Z5, which is already several months tardy in comparison to its launch in other countries, won’t have a fingerprint sensor when it comes stateside. To make it even less attractive, the retail price of $599 and $499 is higher than what you can track down on The
Businesses are rushing toward Windows 10 as fast as they can, but they simply need more time. To accommodate them, Microsoft is trying something different: creating a transitional list of PCs built on the latest Intel
When you post on Facebook or Twitter, watch a movie on Netflix, or play an online game, a server somewhere is powering it. Most of those servers today have central processing units from Intel. The chip maker is now preparing to release a plethora of server chips in the next three months. The highest-profile chips that will come later this quarter are the Xeon chips code-named Broadwell-EP for single- and dual-socket servers. The family of processors will be the latest in Intel's family of largest selling chips for high-volume servers. No details have been yet shared, but the chips will be based on Intel's Broadwell architecture. Expect the chips to be faster and have features so data moves faster in and between servers in data centers. The chips could have more cores, DDR4 memory and faster Ethernet networking support. The predecessor Haswell-EP chips had up to 18 cores.
Major automakers plan to work with the U.S. government to try to deter hacks of connected cars before they become a major issue. To date, there haven't been any major cyberattacks on cars, but a number of security researchers demonstrated potentially serious attacks in 2015, and that has the government worried. So the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is hoping it can get the auto industry to mirror proactive safety work that already takes place in the aviation industry. The agreement has been signed by all major automakers that operate in the U.S. "Real safety is finding and fixing defects before someone gets hurt, rather than just punishing after the damage is done," U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Friday when he announced the initiative at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.
Anti-virus firm Enigma Software has released a list of cities to avoid if you don’t want your PC to catch malware. Just kidding. There’s obviously no correlation between where you live and your risk of a computer infection. Still, some U.S. cities do appear to be far more malware-ridden than others in terms of infections per capita, according to Enigma’s analysis of more than 25 million infections across 150 cities. Little Rock Arkansas, for instance, saw infection rates that were a whopping
Hackers managed to compromise payment cards used at 250 Hyatt Hotels locations in around 50 countries after infecting the company’s payment processing systems with malware. Hyatt Most of the potentially compromised cards were used at restaurants in the affected locations, but a small percentage were used at spas, golf shops, parking systems, front desks and sales offices.