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  Twitter cracks down on eggs as part of its anti-abuse measures

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 7:52pm CET par Mark Wilson

  Twitter's assault on abusive accounts and its famous problem with trolling was stepped up a gear today as the company announced a series of new measures designed to crack down on harassment. Having recently introduced account timeouts and refinements to blocking and muting, the company today said it was making it possible to block tweets from Twitter eggs -- those with no profile picture which therefore default to an image of an egg. Other filtering options are available, and algorithms are to be used to automatically identify abusive content. The ability to silence egg accounts is something that will be… [Continue Reading]
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  Windows 10 Creators Update will offer users 'more choice and control' -- and fewer update reboots

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 7:03pm CET par Wayne Williams

  Windows 10 Creators Update is expected to launch in April, and will deliver a wealth of new features and improvements. While a lot of the focus is on 3D creation, gaming enhancements, and security, Microsoft has also made a lot of welcome changes to the user experience. Michael Fortin, CVP of Windows and Devices Group Core Quality, reveals today that the Creators Update will give users much greater control over privacy, security, and updates. SEE ALSO: Latest Windows 10 Creators Update build has secret settings for pausing and deferring updates In a new blog post, Fortin explains that in addition… [Continue Reading]
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  Microsoft donated more than $650 million in cash, software, and services to nonprofits in 2016

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 6:46pm CET par Brian Fagioli

  When a company earns huge amounts of profits, there is a lot that it can do with them, such as expand the business, spend lavishly, or just sit on stacks of money. There is something much more noble that can be done, however -- it can donate some of its bounty to people and organizations in need. Microsoft is a company that has historically been very generous with its money, something likely inspired by the philanthropic actions of its founder Bill Gates; at least partially. Even more impressive is the company's Employee Giving program, where Microsoft matches donations of both time… [Continue Reading]
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  Latest Windows 10 Creators Update build has secret settings for pausing and deferring updates

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 6:18pm CET par Wayne Williams

  One of the most requested Windows 10 features to find its way into the forthcoming Creators Update is the ability to pause updates. That means if Microsoft pushes out a bad update, you don’t have to simply accept it any more. The Creators Update will let you pause updates for up to 35 days, but there’s an option that gives you much greater control over what -- and when -- updates get installed. The intriguing thing is, this isn't visible to everyone, and even if you manage to get to see it, it may suddenly vanish the moment you look… [Continue Reading]
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  Why security will always be a people problem

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 6:17pm CET par Richard Henderson

  We've heard the phrase, "users are the weakest link," more than we can count. Building a more resilient cyber security strategy means flipping the model on its head and making people part of the solution. Instead of starting with a technology-based strategy, Absolute discusses how and why organizations can take a people-first security strategy. Paul Proctor, chief of research for risk and security at Gartner was quoted as saying: "we are facing a cultural disconnect [...] executives believe that IT risk and security is a technical problem." Of course, that’s wrong. Deep down, we know it’s wrong. Security, is, and… [Continue Reading]
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  New security offering to guard against account take overs

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 6:00pm CET par Ian Barker

  Data breaches caused by account take overs (ATOs) are a growing problem, partly due to people reusing passwords so that when a high profile breach -- such as the recent one at Yahoo -- occurs other accounts are put at risk. User behavior specialist Sift Science is taking on this threat and expanding into the cyber security market with a new tool to detect ATOs. Sift ATO Prevention assesses customer data as well as anonymized data from Sift's global network of customers to flag accounts that raise suspicions of having been taken over. Accounts are flagged using algorithms that automatically apply… [Continue Reading]
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  Digital transformation must be a priority in a cloud-first world

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 5:49pm CET par Phil Turner

  As the UK enters an uncertain economic future, the issue of falling productivity is once again center stage. Since the 2008 financial crisis, studies measuring how much output is produced per hour or worker have been constant disappointments when compared to the country’s global counterparts. According to the latest reports from the Office of National Statistics, UK productivity rose by 0.4 percent between July and September 2016. However, this figure is still far below the 2.1 percent average being achieved before 2008. In response, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to launch a national industrial strategy aimed at… [Continue Reading]
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  Informatica uses behavioral analytics to spot and protect high risk data

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 5:01pm CET par Ian Barker

  With increasing amounts of sensitive data stored in the cloud and accessed on mobile devices, protecting that information presents a major challenge. Data management specialist Informatica is adding to its Secure@Source platform with behavioral analytics to detect high risk data and ensure it's properly protected. Key features include automated and integrated sensitive data discovery, proliferation analysis, detection of anomalous user activities, multi-factor data risk analytics, and automated orchestration of remediation in a single platform. It covers cloud, Hadoop and legacy environments, and can support diverse and complex data classifications, proliferation and risk analytics, user access and activity correlation, user behavior… [Continue Reading]
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  Windows 10 Creators Update Build 15042 ISO images available now

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 4:04pm CET par Wayne Williams

  If you’re thinking of joining the Windows 10 Insider program, or you just want to do a clean install with an up to date version of Windows 10, the good news is Microsoft has released a new ISO image. The image, for Build 15042, is available to all, and you can download it now. This build rolled out to Insiders on the Fast ring last Friday. It's not the very latest release -- that would be Build 15046, which Microsoft released yesterday -- but it includes a lot of important bug fixes, and some welcome additions to Edge and Cortana.… [Continue Reading]
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  Database-as-a-service platform introduces encryption-at-rest

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 3:18pm CET par Ian Barker

  While storing data in the cloud is undoubtedly convenient it also introduces risks and encryption is increasingly seen as a way of helping combat them. Database-as-a-service company mLab is introducing encryption-at-rest as an opt-in data security measure for customers of its most popular plans, at no additional cost. The mLab platform currently manages nearly 500,000 MongoDB deployments across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Encryption-at-rest will be available to mLab's Database-as-a-Service customers on Dedicated Standard and High Storage plans, covering deployments across both Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. The company already offers customers in-transit encryption… [Continue Reading]
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  Desktop Dimmer takes Electron-based RAM-hogging to a whole new level

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 2:28pm CET par Mike Williams

  We’ve always been fans of ultra-lightweight programs, anything which measures its RAM requirements in kilobytes rather than megabytes. Other people see that as old school, and in some ways they have a point. If your PC has 16GB of RAM, do you really care whether a program uses 500KB or 5MB? That view is partly why Electron apps are now so popular. They’re great for cross-platform development, building native applications with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, so it doesn’t really matter that you’re running a copy of Chromium in the background… Right? The Electron-based Desktop Dimmer didn’t admit to any issues.… [Continue Reading]
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  Facebook ramps up its suicide prevention tools and Messenger chat support

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 12:46pm CET par Mark Wilson

  Facebook is updating the tools it offers to help try to prevent suicide. Aimed both at those thinking of suicide, and friends and family who are concerned about loved ones, the revamped support tools make use of artificial intelligence and real people to offer help when it is needed most. This is not the first we have heard about suicide prevention tools from Facebook, and the latest announcement sees the social network taking its "unique position" even more seriously, seeing it as a way to offer help and a means of intervention. It comes after a number of suicides have… [Continue Reading]
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  Bad news for Microsoft as Windows 10 loses market share -- again

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 12:21pm CET par Wayne Williams

  According to NetMarketShare, in January, Windows 10 hit a big milestone. The new OS managed to grow by nearly one percentage point, to give it over 25 percent of the market. That’s pretty good going. However, in February, Windows 10 went back into reverse gear, losing share, and not for the first time. If you recall, back in September, Windows 10 was reported to have lost 0.46 percentage points. February’s drop, which sees the OS falling from 25.30 percent to 25.19 percent, a decline of 0.11 percentage points, isn’t as dramatic, but it’s still far from good news for Microsoft.… [Continue Reading]
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  Google integrates Keep into Docs and welcomes it to the G Suite fold

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 12:20pm CET par Mark Wilson

  Google Keep may not be something that is used by a huge number of people, but that could be about to change. Google is finally doing something that should have happened from the start -- bringing Keep to G Suite to allow for integration with Docs. The company has taken the decision to boost its notetaking app to a key member of its cloud app lineup.  Google says that as well as being a G Suite core service when used within a domain, Keep notes can also be accessed from within Google Docs. Announcing the change, the company says: "As… [Continue Reading]
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  Why the cloud needs a new approach to security

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 12:12pm CET par Ian Barker

  With more and more organizations moving their operations to the cloud, old approaches to security are put under strain and struggle to cope with the new way of working. Network security specialist Observable Networks has put together an infographic looking at the current state of cybersecurity and how old approaches don’t adapt to the cloud. It points out that perimeter-based detection is failing to respond to modern threats and also looks at the most common data breaches. Observable believes that a new active method of detection is required such as endpoint modeling, to provide behind the perimeter security via analytics-driven… [Continue Reading]
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  Enterprises with heavy mobile use are more profitable

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 12:09pm CET par Sead Fadilpašić

  There’s a new research report that says companies whose employees use mobile devices for multiple things are more productive than those with limited usage. It was commissioned by Synchronoss and conducted by Sapio Research. The report says that 38 percent of enterprises use mobility solutions for basic tools like email and calendar. Such enterprises are 15 percent less productive and almost a third (29 percent) less profitable than those with more advanced mobile capabilities. Those capabilities include file sharing, data analytics, app integrations and multi-factor authentication. It was also said that these companies don’t have a firm requirement to secure… [Continue Reading]
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  Google has no plans for a new Pixel laptop at the moment... maybe

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 11:32am CET par Mark Wilson

  At a meeting with journalists at MWC 2017 in Barcelona, Google's hardware chief, Rick Osterloh, said there are no plans to release any more premium Pixel laptops. We may have seen the last of Google's top-of-the-range Chromebook. The Pixel name is these days reserved solely for Google range of smartphones. These have proved so popular that the company has struggled to meet demand -- something that also blighted the Nexus phone launched in the past. But in an interesting piece of backpedaling, TechCrunch was later contacted by Osterloh who wanted to clarify things a little: "Regarding the future of Google-branded… [Continue Reading]
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  Google Play now ranks games according to engagement, not just downloads, and sale prices are go!

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 10:51am CET par Mark Wilson

  Google has announced a few changes to the Play Store, one of which means that listings for games will be promoted not based solely on the number of downloads. The company is tweaking its algorithms to take into account how much time is spent playing games -- so a game which achieves large numbers of downloads but isn’t played much will drop down the rankings. Another change that has been a long time coming is the option for developers to list sale prices for their apps and games. While it was previously possible to manually change the price of a… [Continue Reading]
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  Samsung Galaxy S8 revealed a month early

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 9:10am CET par Wayne Williams

  In addition to launching some new tablets, Samsung also used MWC 2017 to tease us about its forthcoming Galaxy S8 smartphone. The tech giant even released a little video announcing that the eagerly awaited flagship will be unveiled on March 29. If you’re wondering what the new device will look like, and what changes it will deliver, the good news is you don’t have to wait until the end of the month to see the new phone in all its glory. SEE ALSO: Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is the first interesting Android tablet in ages Professional smartphone leaker Evan Blass… [Continue Reading]
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  Windows 10 Creators Update Build 15046 for PC arrives on the Fast ring

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 12:36am CET par Wayne Williams

  Work continues apace on the next big update to Windows 10, and Microsoft has rolled out a new build to the Fast ring a mere four days after the last one. Build 15046 for PC (no new Mobile build yet) adds some additional functionality and tweaks to the OS, as well as squashing plenty of bugs. SEE ALSO: You'll be able to unlock any device running Windows 10 Creators Update with a Samsung phone The first change isn’t really a change at all. Microsoft has been experimenting with the color of Cortana on the taskbar… and has decided to stick… [Continue Reading]
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  Google unveils YouTube TV -- live sports, unlimited storage DVR, and affordable price

  Publié: mars 1, 2017, 12:19am CET par Brian Fagioli

  Cable television is very expensive nowadays, so many people are opting to cut the cord. Depending on where you live, you can sometimes get free over-the-air programming -- this is a great way to save money, but the number of channels is low. Another option is internet-based solutions such as PlayStation TV or Sling TV. The problem with these services, however, is the limitations, such as missing channels and a lack of some live sports. Today, Google is aiming to be the best internet-based television provider with the all-new YouTube TV. The search-giant's new offering is very affordable, plus it has… [Continue Reading]