Scott Lowe

JANUARY 19, 2024

Servers/Hardware Alex Ellis provides some details on his workflow for booting Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe. Tom Hummel finds himself veering back into a hardware-based home lab (instead of a cloud-based lab). Operating Systems/Applications Julia Evans has a lovely article on Git commits that is well worth reading.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 22, 2015

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County operates the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF), a community-based, interdisciplinary core facility for scientific computing and research. More than 80 projects are using or have used the HPC for research across various disciplines. The Result.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Federal Government Researchs Tech To Remotely Track, Disrupt, Destroy Guns - Bearing Arms. Does Government Need 'Hardware-Separated' Operating Systems? More stolen fingerprints, an Einstein contract, an invisibility cloak and more - FCW.com. The EPA Needs to Get Better at Recording IT Spending - Nextgov.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has previously ruled out official support for natively booting alternate operating systems like Windows or Linux. Hector Martin, a developer who regularly gets Linux running on a variety of hardware, is also porting Linux to M1 Macs.

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 15, 2024

Servers/Hardware Menno Finlay-Smits shares information on reducing fan noise on Intel NUCs. The Sysdig Threat Research Team uncovered the malicious use of a network mapping tool called SSH-Snake. Operating Systems/Applications Here’s one person’s take on sudo for Windows. Read more about it in this post.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2016

Research Team. The Company operates through five segments: Global Technology Services (GTS), Global Business Services (GBS), Software, Systems Hardware and Global Financing. Its GBS segment provides consulting and systems integration, application management services and process services.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

It’s packed with tools for exploring hardware, software, and wireless protocols. Researchers demonstrated the ability to bombard Apple devices with bogus connection requests, triggering an endless torrent of pop-ups and wreaking havoc on notifications. Well, Wall of Flippers is here to become a remedy for that!

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 24, 2022

After all, entry-level pricing for mainframes in the z15 family running IBM Z operating systems is $250,000. IBM LinuxONE III systems run only Linux at prices starting at $135,000. The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2021

The planned device is Facebook’s first stab at releasing hardware specifically for the wrist, opening up another area of competition with Apple at a time when the two tech giants are already at odds on other fronts. Facebook’s track record for making hardware is spotty. Facebook’s track record for making hardware is spotty.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 1, 2020

But according to recent research from Eclypsium, the reason might be flawed drivers. In a recent study, "Screwed Drivers Open ATMs to Attack," Eclypsium dove into the discussion about the risks that malicious or insecure drivers pose to Windows-based systems. Interested in this research? It's the IT version of robbing a bank.

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TM Forum

JULY 19, 2021

Put simply, Open RAN is an attempt to disaggregate radio access network (RAN) functionality, by splitting up the hardware and software thus opening up the architectures and diversifying the supply chain for the radio portion of the network. What is it? The graphic below, published by TIP in October 2020, shows deployments and trials: image.

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 3, 2013

IE zero-day vulnerability exploited more widely than previously thought - “A recently announced and yet-to-be-patched vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) has been exploited in targeted attacks against organizations in Taiwan since the beginning of July, according to security researchers.”

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This surge is primarily attributed to the recent announcement that Nvidia, along with other leading hardware and software companies, is enhancing AI technologies within the telecommunications sector. Voice-based operating systems are increasingly being recognized as a crucial interface for future AI technologies. as of 2:40 p.m.

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GeekWire

JULY 21, 2021

The news, announced Wednesday morning, is part of a broader effort by Amazon to boost developer interest in Alexa skills, which are the equivalent of apps for Amazon Echo devices and other Alexa-enabled hardware. Amazon announced more than 50 new developer features and tools as part of its Alexa Live virtual conference.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A researcher at Aerojet Rocketdyne examines a container of a low-toxicity propellant during preparation for flight testing. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture and Aerojet Rocketdyne’s operation in Redmond, Wash., Glenn will also characterize the thruster’s plasma plume to optimize the system.

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GeekWire

JUNE 11, 2020

research assistant. ” WiBotic’s power management software can work with the hardware to optimize battery use for whole fleets of robots, without a human ever having to handle a plug. “He’s got a lot of expertise when it comes to hardware, software, management and sales and marketing,” Waters said.

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Wireless System Hardware Applications 144

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A truly robust endpoint solution will provide protection at all levels of the device, from the core BIOS, through to the hardware, firmware and application layers. On the hardware layer, Intel boosts the security of devices with total component traceability that starts at the factory floor. Ongoing training of employees.

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CIO Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

For me there was, and is, a fascination with using free tools on inexpensive hardware to do impressive things. On this I run the BOINC grid computing software and participate in projects to map cancer markers, sequence the ebola genome and do AIDS research. Fast forward 30 years. The source code can be customized by anyone.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. I’m not sure how I feel about security researchers calling this flaw “not that bad.” Operating Systems/Applications. Programming. Virtualization.

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2014

Although the D-Wave approach has been to leverage the power of some very advanced science, the team consciously decided design it in ways conducive to manufacturing of real, fieldable, operable systems. The current use of the system is on optimization problems. Programming the computer takes skill.

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Scott Lowe

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve been scouring RSS feeds and various social media sites, collecting as many useful links and articles as I can find: from networking hardware and networking CI/CD pipelines to Kernel TLS and tricks for improving your working memory. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. That’s quite the range!

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Network Hardware Vmware Tools 79

Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Cloud computing transitions information technology (IT) from being "systems of physically integrated hardware and software" to "systems of virtually integrated services". I''m concerned that this program isn''t focused on creating an inter-operable system that would allow unaffiliated systems to share medical information,” Sen.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It’s taken Microsoft years to get the hardware and software right, but the company firmly believes now is the ideal time for something new. If there’s anything that Microsoft has learned from trying to harmonize Surface hardware and software , it’s that timing is everything. Folding hardware.

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Kitaboo

MAY 23, 2023

Gone are the days of clunky hardware-based DRM solutions that relied on physical tokens or specialized hardware components. Authentication mechanisms can range from simple username/password combinations to more sophisticated methods like biometric authentication or hardware-based authentication tokens.

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Scott Lowe

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Normally I talk about server hardware and such here, but with so much moving to public cloud providers, let’s expand that focus a little bit: in this post , Jeramiah Dooley provides his perspective on the Surface Duo after a month of use. Operating Systems/Applications. I guess time will tell.

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Open Source Vmware Disaster Recovery Linux 60

SecureWorld News

APRIL 9, 2023

Companies can use isolated view on any operating system and any device through a commonly used web browser that supports HTML5 to eliminate the risk of interacting with fraudulent links and files. It is best to research different providers and compare their pricing options to find a solution that fits your budget and meets your needs.

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Security Malware Virtualization Network 84

Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The rise of the disaggregated network operating system (NOS) marches on: this time, it’s Big Switch Networks announcing expanded hardware support in Open Network Linux (ONL) , upon which its own NOS is based. Servers/Hardware. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking. Nothing this time around, sorry!

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2020

But I’m just as interested in something they share: their attempts to bring their desktop operating systems into the modern era of what I’ll call “Managed Operating Systems.” That’s not to say operating systems like macOS or Windows 10 are un managed, of course, but they’ve historically tended to be a little more open.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Engineers in academia, industry and government have designed approaches to address these challenges, including mechanisms like Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) to safeguard and manage security keys for authentication and conduct encryption and decryption. Besides expense, today’s defense in depth faces several technological challenges.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

But Martin Chorzempa, a research fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, believes there’s not much political appetite for loosening restrictions on China. While I’m sure there’s going to be some changes for DJI, they are a very highly vertically integrated company and they produce a lot of their own hardware,” says Winn.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Pulumi says it will use the funds to accelerate its research and development, and expand its sales and marketing initiatives. Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and Tola Capital , which led Pulumi’s $15 million Series A funding round two years ago , also participated in the new Series B funding round.

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Cloud CTO Hire Software Development Open Source 99

Virtualized Greek

JANUARY 14, 2013

This means that basically, just like Hyper-V the hypervisor is native to the operating system. View is actually a pretty decent solution but I haven’t performed much research on the success or failure with offline desktops in View. The largest drawback for XenClient has been its lacklustre hardware support.

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Vmware Virtualization Windows Operating Systems 68

Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

According to Precedence Research , the global market size of machine learning will grow at a CAGR of a staggering 35% and reach around $771.38 These tools troubleshoot everything from password resets to intricate hardware configurations. These technologies have undergone a profound evolution. billion by 2032. billion by 2032.

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Artificial Intelligence Tools Data Report 48

ForAllSecure

AUGUST 26, 2021

At Black Hat USA 2021, researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure. It's the software that emulates a physical computer virtually to run programs operating systems stored data connected networks and do other typical computing functions.

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Research Virtualization Microsoft Cloud 52

Dataconomy

JULY 25, 2023

Sutherland’s “ Sword of Damocles ” was an influential head-mounted display, while Engelbart’s “ Augmentation Research Center ” showcased the idea of using computers to augment human intelligence and improve collaboration.

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Energy Applications Operating Systems Data 36

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. So, in the book, we have a whole chapter dedicated to safely and lawfully conducting security research. Most of us don't have access to industrial systems on this item.

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Internet Research Security Tools 52

ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2013, researcher Nitesh Dhanjani found that a popular brand used simple MD5 hashes of the device's MAC addresses for authentication. So, in the book, we have a whole chapter dedicated to safely and lawfully conducting security research. Most of us don't have access to industrial systems on this item.

Internet 52

Internet Research Security Tools 52