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F5 Networks will buy Volterra cloud computing startup for $500M in latest major acquisition

GeekWire

F5 Networks CEO Francois Locoh-Donou at the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting. F5 Networks announced an agreement to acquire cloud computing startup Volterra Inc. It’s part of a broader transformation of F5 Networks under CEO François Locoh-Donou in recent years. Haiyan Song (F5 Networks Photo).

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IDG Contributor Network: Massive solar storm will ‘kill’ the internet, says space expert

Network World

Not enough is being done to protect networks from solar storms that could wipe out electric power grids and destroy satellites. The end game in a catastrophic solar storm would be the internet’s time synchronization not working anymore. That would stop the internet altogether. “An

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What Does The “Internet Of Things” Mean For CIOs?

The Accidental Successful CIO

The Internet of things is coming our way – how will this change things? Right now you and I both use screens to interact with the Internet. As the importance of information technology increases, how we interact with the Internet is one of the things that is going to dramatically change as the Internet of things arrives.

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Alphabet’s Loon hands the reins of its internet air balloons to self-learning AI

The Verge

Alphabet’s Loon, the team responsible for beaming internet down to Earth from stratospheric helium balloons, has achieved a new milestone: its navigation system is no longer run by human-designed software. Loon’s internet balloons are now piloted by an AI flight control system. Image: Loon.

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Facebook blocked in Myanmar after users protest military coup

The Verge

In a statement given to The Wall Street Journal , Facebook confirmed that the country’s telecoms providers had been ordered to block its services, adding, “We urge authorities to restore connectivity so that people in Myanmar can communicate with family and friends and access important information.” Facebook is the internet”.

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Coca-Cola Names Alan Boehme CTO, Replacing Jim Scholefield

CTOvision

The Wall Street Journal reported that Coca-Cola has named Alan Boehme as CTO: Mr. Boehme has led Coke’s enterprise architecture, innovation and emerging technologies for the past four years. s power systems unit, Juniper Networks Inc. We’re moving more and more things into the cloud, every corporation is.” She reports to Mr. Boehme.

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Microsoft will shut down local version of LinkedIn in China

GeekWire

“We recognized that operating a localized version of LinkedIn in China would mean adherence to requirements of the Chinese government on Internet platforms,” LinkedIn wrote in a blog post. Earlier this year Chinese regulators told LinkedIn to improve regulation of its content, The Wall Street Journal reported.