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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. This would be why I hate it when companies force me to use SMS for two-factor authentication—at least let me use a one-time passcode or something. Rory McCune explains Kubernetes authentication. Falco has graduated within the CNCF.

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Microsoft Pluton is a new processor with Xbox-like security for Windows PCs

The Verge

Pluton is based on the same security technologies used to protect Xbox consoles , and Microsoft is working with Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm to combine it into future CPUs. That means features like BitLocker encryption or Windows Hello authentication will transition over to using Pluton in the future. Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge.

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Cloudera Strengthens Hadoop Security with Acquisition of Gazzang: Builds on additional community efforts to deliver end-to-end security offering

CTOvision

Later, more and more security related capabilities were added, including better access control, authentication, auditing, and data provenance. Another very positive development was the application of engineering and security talent by an amazing firm named Gazzang. Then some very positive things started happening.

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IDF 2013: Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2013 session EDCS003, titled “Enhancing OpenStack with Intel Technologies for Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud.” ” The presenters are Girish Gopal and Malini Bhandaru, both with Intel. Intel has also done work on TCP plus Geo-Tagging.

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Preventing Next-Generation Fraud with Graph Database Technology

CIO Business Intelligence

This goes beyond what might be considered reasonable behavior for an authentic customer. The action can be flagged as potentially fraudulent and escalated to a higher level of authentication such as sending a message to every cardholder verifying the purchase, and/or immediately blocking all the transactions. .

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Should Data Centers Think?

Cloud Musings

To support this rapid evolving space, Intel announced a “ Cloud for All ” initiative last year in order to help businesses get the most out of their cloud infrastructure. TAP makes these resources accessible in one place for data scientists, application developers and system operators.

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Review: 2020 M1-Based MacBook Pro

Scott Lowe

While the raw performance may not “blow away” its 2020 Intel-based counterpart—at least, it didn’t in my real-world usage—the M1-based MacBook Pro offered consistently responsive performance with a battery life that easily blew past any other laptop I’ve ever used, bar none.