Civil rights groups on Wednesday said Facebook has failed to address dangerous content in India and demanded that the head of public policy there be removed. A letter addressed to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg and his second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg wanted the social network’s India policy chief Ankhi Das sidelined pending the results of a civil […]
Archives for September 2020
Rhea Chakraborty’s tee makes social media hyper, raises biz question
Pictures credit: The Souled Store | Collage: Photocollage.com A T-shirt, a slogan, combustible and creative partisans on social media — and maybe a smart business opportunity or a dumb business strategy. While broadcast media parsed every moment of actor Rhea Chakraborty’s arrest by the Narcotics Control Bureau on Tuesday, social media fixated on the slogan […]
Cisco Details New SD-WAN SDK
News Cisco Details New SD-WAN SDK By David Ramel 09/09/2020 Cisco has been highlighting documentation for its software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) solution, most recently with a post about its new software development kit (SDK), which followed new documentation on the SD-WAN API. The new SDK post fits in nicely with the previous Aug. 26 SD-WAN […]
Cloud Research Report Addresses ‘Hard Questions’ Caused by COVID-19
News Cloud Research Report Addresses ‘Hard Questions’ Caused by COVID-19 By David Ramel 09/09/2020 Like it has for years, Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report on cloud computing platforms lists the same three vendors at the top — AWS, Microsoft and Google — but there is one new factor in the mix: COVID-19. “The global spread of […]
TeamTNT Gains Full Remote Takeover of Cloud Instances
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Top 18 companies hiring work-from-anywhere tech-related remote jobs
Telecommuting needn’t be pandemic-dictated or just for freelancers: Flexjobs identifies the top 18 companies offering tech-related fully remote jobs with substantial salaries. Image: iStock/simonapilolla The “willing to relocate” job description verbiage is quickly becoming obsolete. And working remotely hasn’t just introduced flexibility to staff, bosses are increasingly happy with the results. In a recent study, […]
Azure Files SMB Multichannel provides improved performance for clients
Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0 introduced SMB Multichannel technology for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 client. This feature allows SMB 3.x clients to establish multiple network connections to the SMB server 3.0 for greater performance over multiple network adapters and/or by taking advantage of NIC Receive Side Scaling (RSS). Today, we are announcing the […]
Senet and Symmetry Electronics Partner to Simplify Access to LoRaWAN Developer Resources
Partnership Aims to Reduce Time-to-Market in the Fastest Growing Segment of the Low Power Wide Area Device Market. Senet, Inc. today announced a partnership with Symmetry Electronics, a leading global distributor of wireless, IoT, and video technologies. Together, the companies are simplifying access to a robust combination of components and developer tools, reducing the number […]
What slowdown? Amazon seeks to hire 33,000 people
Amazon is on a hiring spree. In the latest sign of how it’s prospering while others are faltering during the pandemic, Amazon said Wednesday it is seeking to bring aboard 33,000 people for corporate and tech roles in the next few months. It’s the largest number of job openings it’s had at one time, and […]
Hackers abusing legitimate cloud monitoring tool to infiltrate Linux environments
Cyber criminals are abusing a trusted Docker and Kubernetes cloud monitoring tool to map the networks of their victims and execute system commands. Having previously been known to use malicious Docker images to infect victims’ servers, TeamTNT has now been observed using Weave Scope as an effective backdoor into the cloud networking infrastructure of its […]