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Volkswagen drives the automotive industry cloud forward

CIO Business Intelligence

The main purpose is to develop powerful software for our internal processes to improve performance in production and logistics, namely to enhance factory efficiencies and supply chain management,” Goeller explains. “If But as a spokesperson for VW told CIO.com, “The second goal is to open up new software business areas.

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Ray Ozzie’s cellular IoT startup Blues Wireless raises $22M from Bill Gates and others

GeekWire

Sequoia Capital and former Stripe exec Lachy Groom led the Series A round, which will fuel growth for the company’s technology that helps product manufacturers send data from their physical assets to cloud-based apps over cellular networks. Developers use the JSON programming language and two lines of code to make it all work.

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Your car is about to go open source

Galido

. “Today, automakers are having a hard time getting their customers to buy informatics systems because they only can do 10% of what a mobile phone can do,” said Rudi Streif, who leads the Automotive Grade Linux workgroup for the Linux Foundation. By developing an open-source platform, carmakers can share upgrades as they arrive.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

.” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. In fact, I remember starting a new job by flying to Auburn Hills, Michigan for the very first meeting of the Featherstone Group, a collection of automotive OEM executive and security professionals.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

For example, I have a laptop and it runs Linux so I can get into network security. You can buy the stuff the problem going to eBay and buying a controller is a now you need the software. A lot of times it's software is not free. You're not going to find the software. I can do those basic things. How would that even look?

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The Hacker Mind: Hackers Wanted: Filling the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

ForAllSecure

Turns out, SANS Institute -- which stands for SysAdmin, Audit, Network, and Security -- has launched some programs to find out. I worked in automotive and now I want to get into InfoSec. So do your research, go online, spend a number of days looking up nonprofit organizations, there are a lot of them out there with the same mission.

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GeekWire Awards 2023 revealed: Community honors top innovation in Pacific Northwest tech

GeekWire

GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The gist: A Harvard graduate in computer science and astrophysics, Ana-Maria Constantin was a software engineer at Microsoft for more than five years before starting Cascade Health. GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The gist: The nonprofit A Way Home Washington a nonprofit uses tech to tackle youth homelessness.