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  The future role of AI in fact checking

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 10:29pm CEST par Barry Cousins

  As an analyst, I’d like to have a universal fact checker. Something like the carbon monoxide detectors on each level of my home. Something that would sound an alarm when there’s danger of intellectual asphyxiation from choking on the baloney put forward by certain sales people, news organizations, governments, and educators, for example. For most of my life, we would simply have turned to academic literature for credible truth. There is now enough legitimate doubt to make us seek out a new model or at a minimum, augment that academic model. I don’t want to be misunderstood: I’m not suggesting… [Continue Reading]
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  Edge Computing 101

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 10:04pm CEST par Michael Morton

  Enterprises today have adopted a cloud-first mentality, and the numbers show it. According to a 2018 Gartner survey, investment is public cloud services will reach $186.4 billion this year, representing 21.4 percent growth from 2017. But there’s growth that is just as exciting and strategic taking place far from the cloud, down at the network edge in the world of end user devices, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and other network-connected systems. Without strategic management of the network edge, investments in the cloud are going to run into trouble. To be a successful cloud-first enterprise, you need manage both the… [Continue Reading]
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  Windows 10 continues to close in on Windows 7, will overtake it soon

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 9:24pm CEST par Wayne Williams

  NetMarketShare reports on the state of the desktop operating system market on the first day of each month. Usually at least. It spent a few days auditing June’s figures last month, which caused a bit of a delay. There’s no such lag for July’s figures though, which arrive on time and show Windows 10 continuing to cut into Windows 7's dominance. SEE ALSO: These are all the websites Windows 10 connects to after a clean install In July, Windows 10 went from 35.71 percent to 36.58 percent, an increase of 0.87 percentage points. That’s down from the 0.97 percentage points… [Continue Reading]
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  Samsung unveils Galaxy Tab S4 premium Android tablet

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 8:23pm CEST par Brian Fagioli

  For whatever reason, Android tablets have largely fallen out of favor with consumers. Some people will blame cannibalization by large-screen smartphones, while others will point to low-quality offerings from no-name manufacturers. I would say both are contributors. Sadly, quality Android tablets are few and far between because the market is littered with low-cost models that are poor quality -- it makes it difficult for the top-tier makers to compete. Thankfully, Samsung has not yet given up on the Android tablet market. Today, it unveils an absolutely beautiful -- albeit pricey -- 10.5 inch tablet. Called "Galaxy Tab S4," it ships… [Continue Reading]
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  Apple pulls away from Microsoft and Facebook on the way to becoming a trillion-dollar company

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 5:52pm CEST par Mark Wycislik-Wilson

  Apple reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue for Q3 yesterday, taking the iPhone-maker closer to becoming the first every trillion-dollar company. Sales increased by 17 percent to a record $53.3 billion, and profit jumped a massive 32 percent to $11.5 billion. While the value of Facebook plummets following numerous scandals, Apple now has a market cap of $935 billion -- the closest competitors in the world of technology are Amazon at around $870 billion, Alphabet at $845 billion, and Microsoft at $815 billion. See also: Facebook value plummets by $118bn and Zuckerberg's fortune drops $16bn following privacy scandal-fueled growth slowdown Apple… [Continue Reading]
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  Android apps carry hidden Windows 10 malware

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 5:16pm CEST par Ian Barker

  Over 140 apps on the Google Play store have been discovered to contain malicious Windows executable files. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks found that among the infected apps, several had more than 1,000 installations and carried 4-star ratings. The Windows code is of course unable to infect Android devices, but as the researchers point out, "The fact that these APK files are infected indicates that the developers are creating the software on compromised Windows systems that are infected with malware. This type of infection is a threat to the software supply chain, as compromising software developers has proven to be… [Continue Reading]
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  Spear phishing attack hits more than 400 industrial companies

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 4:32pm CEST par Ian Barker

  Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have detected a new wave of spear phishing attacks disguised as legitimate procurement and accounting letters, that have hit more than 400 industrial organizations. The emails have targeted approximately 800 employee PCs, mostly in Russian companies, with the goal of stealing money and confidential data from the organizations, which could then be used in new attacks. The emails are disguised as legitimate procurement and accounting letters, containing content that corresponded to the profile of the attacked organizations and took into account the identity of the employee -- the recipient of the letter. The attackers addressed the… [Continue Reading]
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  HP launches flexible systems to enhance in-store retail

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 3:56pm CEST par Ian Barker

  Retailing presents some unique challenges for IT. Endpoints tend to be in fixed positions which has an effect on how staff interact with customers. HP is unveiling a new portfolio of devices and service offerings designed to enhance the retail experience by freeing the technology to move around. The HP Engage portfolio provides sleek, versatile, and secure systems to meet the evolving needs of retail and hospitality customers. The technology will be available through a Device-as-a-Service (DaaS) offering that makes it easier for retailers to acquire, support, and manage the technology they need to drive their business, as well as… [Continue Reading]
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  Virtualization tool helps protect critical IP and high value assets

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 3:14pm CEST par Ian Barker

  While breaches often focus on consumer or payment information, they also put at risk key intellectual property and business assets. Virualization-based security specialist Bromium is announcing a new product called Protected App, which allows organizations to establish robust, end-to-end protection around their critical intellectual property (IP) and high value assets (HVAs). Protected App safeguards organizations' IP and HVAs from threats such as keylogging, kernel exploits, memory and disk tampering, and man-in-the-middle attacks, with sensitive applications being walled off from the endpoint. "Zero Trust as a concept is solid, but in practice it’s become a real barrier to user productivity," says… [Continue Reading]
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  Facebook wants you to stop using it so much

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 2:51pm CEST par Mark Wycislik-Wilson

  It might seem counter-intuitive -- or it might seem like a case of just saying what it thinks people want to hear -- but Facebook doesn't want you to use it as much as you do. That's not to say it wants you to disappear entirely, rather it just hopes that the time you spend on the social network is more "intentional, positive and inspiring" -- so you don't feel compelled to stay away and miss out on all those ads! Today, the company launches a new activity dashboard for both Facebook and Instagram that lets you see how long… [Continue Reading]
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  Mozilla fox up its designs

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 1:58pm CEST par Mark Wycislik-Wilson

  Mozilla is looking to change the design of the Firefox logo and it is seeking help -- which is just as well, because the designs it has come up with so far are awful. The company says that it is looking to "evolve the Firefox brand" as it develops new apps and services beyond the browser it is currently associated with. The aim is to come up with a new branding system that can "embrace all of the Firefox products in the pipeline and those still in the minds of our Emerging Technologies group", and it wants to know what… [Continue Reading]
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  New Kodi 18 Leia preview build arrives, download it now!

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 1:33pm CEST par Wayne Williams

  The Kodi Foundation is hard at work polishing up the next version of its hugely popular home theater software -- Kodi 18 'Leia'. The updated software introduces a huge number of changes (you can view the full changelog here) and you can try it out now. SEE ALSO: New Kodi tool lets you configure new devices and download add-ons directly from developers on the fly The third and final alpha build is described as "quite solid to use as a daily driver for those who were brave enough to try it out" -- and quite a few users have taken… [Continue Reading]
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  Warning: DO NOT install the latest version of CCleaner

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 11:30am CEST par Wayne Williams

  A month ago, I wrote about how I felt Avast was ruining CCleaner, the excellent system cleaning software it took over when it acquired Piriform last year. In Avast's short tenure, we've already seen CCleaner suffer from malware, bundled software, and pop-up ads. In my article headline I asked "what’s next?" Well, with a new version of CCleaner available to download, we now have the answer. Inevitably, it's not good. SEE ALSO: Avast is ruining CCleaner -- malware, bundled software, popup ads... what's next? The changelog for CCleaner 5.45 lists the following 'improvements': In this release, we’ve made stability improvements… [Continue Reading]
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  Warning: DO NOT install the latest version of CCleaner [Updated]

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 11:30am CEST par Wayne Williams

  A month ago, I wrote about how I felt Avast was ruining CCleaner, the excellent system cleaning software it took over when it acquired Piriform last year. In Avast's short tenure, we've already seen CCleaner suffer from malware, bundled software, and pop-up ads. In my article headline I asked "what’s next?" Well, with a new version of CCleaner available to download, we now have the answer. Inevitably, it's not good. SEE ALSO: Avast is ruining CCleaner -- malware, bundled software, popup ads... what's next? The changelog for CCleaner 5.45 lists the following 'improvements': In this release, we’ve made stability improvements… [Continue Reading]
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  Fortnite is coming to Android -- is your phone supported and will the game ever hit Google Play?

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 11:16am CEST par Mark Wycislik-Wilson

  Fortnite quickly became a gaming sensation, and the wait for the battle royale game to come to Android has felt like a long one. While Fortnite for iOS is already a reality, Fortnite for Android remains somewhere on the horizon. But that's not to say there is no news about the Android version of the game. A list recently came to light that seems to reveal the handsets that will support Fortnite, and there is a persistent rumor that the game will initially launch as an exclusive title for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 9. Now it seems as though… [Continue Reading]
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  Hate phone notches? Google says Android handsets can never have more than two

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 10:26am CEST par Mark Wycislik-Wilson

  Phones with notches are incredibly divisive, but since Apple launched the iPhone X complete with a little screen cutout, there have been endless copies from other handset manufacturers. But is one notch enough? How about two or more? If you fall into the "hate" camp when it comes to notches and cutouts it may be hard to convince you to buy such a phone, but for everyone else, Google has set out some new ground rules stating how many a phone can have, and where they can be located. You might well be of the opinion that one notch is… [Continue Reading]
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  OnePlus is bigger than Samsung in India -- oh, and OnePlus 3/3T owners everywhere are getting Android P

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 9:29am CEST par Mark Wycislik-Wilson

  OnePlus keeps on going from strength to strength, and nowhere is this truer than in India. New analysis shows that the company is now bigger than Samsung in the region in the premium smartphone market. The company is now the market leader in India -- quite an achievement considering OnePlus only started participating in there fours ago. The rise to first place was helped by the success of the OnePlus 6, but it's also helped by the fact that the company does not abandon its users when it comes to software updates. In seperate news, it has been revealed that… [Continue Reading]
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  Logitech buying Blue Microphones

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 4:17am CEST par Brian Fagioli

  When one company acquires another, the deal it is often judged by how much financial sense it makes. For instance, when Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26 billion, many pundits thought it was a colossal waste of money. I suppose time will tell if the Windows-maker made a mistake or not. On the flip side, Amazon's acquisition of Twitch for nearly $1 billion is now looking quite brilliant -- the video platform is getting more popular every day. Today, Logitech announces it is acquiring Blue Microphones for $117 million. While obviously not as big as the two aforementioned acquisitions, it is… [Continue Reading]
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  Microsoft releases Windows 10 Redstone 5 Build 17728, teases new Your Phone app

  Publié: août 1, 2018, 12:21am CEST par Wayne Williams

  The second Windows 10 Redstone 5 Bug Bash is currently underway, but that hasn’t stopped Microsoft rolling out Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17728 (RS5) to Insiders in the Fast ring. This new build introduces a number of changes, improvements and fixes, and Microsoft also used this new flight to detail the forthcoming Your Phone app which will soon allow iOS and Android users to sync content from their phones to a Windows 10 PC. SEE ALSO: These are all the websites Windows 10 connects to after a clean install How to install Microsoft Windows Essentials tools -- including Movie… [Continue Reading]