Amazon and Microsoft are partnering to better integrate their Alexa and Cortana digital assistants. Alexa users will be able to access Cortana, and vice versa on a range of devices, although the integration will be a little awkward initially. As first reported by The New York Times, someone using an Alexa device will have […]
Gartner: Worldwide information security spending to hit $93B in 2018; exceed $1 trillion over next five years.
The latest forecast from Gartner Inc. says worldwide information security spending will grow 7 percent to reach $86.4 billion (USD) in 2017 and will climb to $93 billion next year. Gartner’s forecast concentrates on corporate IT and includes categories such as IT security outsourcing, managed security services, consulting and implementation, infrastructure protection, […]
Read Google CEO’s email to staff about anti-diversity memo
Google employee James Damore has been reportedly fired for âperpetuating gender stereotypes.â The senior software engineer authored a 10-page âmanifestoâ condemning Googleâs diversity efforts and claiming men are biologically more predisposed to working in the tech industry than women. In an internal memo to Google employees, CEO Sundar Pichai says […]
Microsoft Releases Long-Awaited Security Tool “Project Springfield.”, Sets Linux Preview
Microsoft has released its long-awaited cloud-based bug detection tool, previously code-named “Project Springfield.” The Windows version became generally available, and a new Linux version became available as a preview last week. The tool, Microsoft Security Risk Detection, uses artificial intelligence to hunt down security vulnerabilities in software that is about […]
Microsoft is Googlebombing âLinuxâ This Week in Order to Sell Proprietary Software That Does Not Run on GNU/Linux
We really donât want to write about those sorts of things, but the GNU/Linux/FOSS news feeds are getting stuffed with marketing of proprietary Microsoft software which neither runs on GNU/Linux (it runs on DrawBridge) nor is final (itâs just some RC). Itâs all about promoting surveillance of database by the […]
