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A firmware flaw in older Apple computers could allow an attacker to slip a rootkit onto the machine, a security researcher says. Credit: IDGNS Organizations need to automate low-complexity, high-volume tasks that are eating up their experts’ time This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should…
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As Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels was on stage at the AWS Summit in New York, Microsoft released a new tool for migrating workloads from AWS’s cloud into Azure. Credit: Brandon Butler On the day of AWS’s New York Summit, Microsoft launches tool for migrating AWS workloads into Azure This week all eyes in the cloud…
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Chrome tools every Web developer will love Chrome DevTools and powerful add-ons lend keen insights into your code Chrome tools every Web developer will love Google Chrome has fast become the most popular Web browser, eclipsing Firefox and Internet Explorer with over half of the browser market share worldwide, according to StatCounter. For Web developers…
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Privacy advocates are sounding the alarm over a potential policy change that would prevent some people from registering website addresses without revealing their personal information. ICANN, the regulatory body that oversees domain names, has asked for public comment on whether it should prohibit the private registration of domains which are “associated with commercial activities and…
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Insiders will get stable build on July 29 for free, whether they had Windows 7/8.1 or not Microsoft on Friday said it would soon tweak the Windows 10 preview program as its engineers push toward the July 29 launch of the final code to customers. As of the next build to the Windows Insider program,…
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For first time, hyperwebscale company details its data center network, offers it to developers At this week’s Open Network Summit, Google spoke for the first time publicly about its custom data center network. For nearly a decade, we’ve been hearing, reading and writing about how Google was building its own switches and writing its own…
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Report gives Amazon a ‘D’ for energy efficiency; Google gets a ‘B’ Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy. In response, rather than divulge additional details about the source of…
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Apple shows iOS 9’s major upgrades, from multitasking to picture-in-picture Side-by-side apps, video overlays, and much more are coming to iPads when Apple’s mobile OS releases this fall. Major changes are coming to our iPads, from the way we select text, to the way we interact with our favorite apps and play videos. Speaking at…