Category: Computers

Hackers take down Bingham County computer systems

Bingham County officials first realized something was amiss when, at 4 a.m. Wednesday, the county’s emergency dispatch employees suddenly were unable to access computer files. The ransomware attack by unknown hackers slowly infected all 28 of the county’s main computer servers.

Fastest computer in the West might run out of time

The $30 million, house-sized supercomputer named Cheyenne belongs to a federally funded research center. It began work a few weeks ago crunching numbers for several ambitious projects, from modeling air currents at wind farms to figuring out how to better predict weather months to years in advance.

Want to See the Future of Networking? It’s in Research & Education Today

In a demonstration organized by the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University and the Advanced Internet Research group of the University of Amsterdam, researchers utilized computing clusters in San Diego and Amsterdam to give an example of how computation doesn’t need to be localized within a data center, but can instead be migrated across geographical distances to run applications and external clients with minimal downtime. You might be asking yourself- wait, isn’t that just “the cloud”? The cloud has been omnipresent for several years now, so why are research institutions just now looking into it? Well, they’re not.

Now Available: Micro Server IC Market – Global Forecast to 2022

Micro Server IC Market by Processor , Offering , End User , Application , & Geography – Global Forecast to 2022 The global micro server IC market is expected to be worth USD 1.35 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 44.00% between 2016 and 2022. The key opportunities for this market are the emerging need for new data centers in less technologically advanced regions.

Always ‘Just Around the Corner,’ AI Finally Arrives

After years of being on the verge of arriving, the AI revolution is here, says Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Steve Bell. “There’s a saying that AI is going to be big in the next ten years, but they’ve been saying that for the last 20 years,” the Heavy Reading man said in a wide-ranging interview with Light Reading.

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A new supercomputer in the top coal-mining state has begun critical climate-change research with support from even some global warming doubters, but scientists worry President Trump could cut funding for such programs. The $30 million, house-sized supercomputer named Cheyenne belongs to a federally funded research center.

Ebix Hosts Q4 Investor Call, Tuesday February 28 at 11:00 a.m. EST

The call is open to the public. About Ebix A leading international supplier of On-Demand software and E-commerce services to the insurance, financial, e-governance and healthcare industries, Ebix, Inc. provides end-to-end on-Demand solutions ranging from infrastructure exchanges, front end & back end enterprise systems, outsourced administrative & custom software development solutions, and risk compliance solutions for various entities involved in these industries.

Simple Server Hardening

These days, it’s more important than ever to tighten up the security on your servers, yet if you were to look at several official hardening guides, they read as though they were written for Red Hat from 2005. That’s because they were written for Red Hat in 2005 and updated here and there through the years.

Qorvo Wi-Fi Innovator Cees Links Honored with Golden Mousetrap Lifetime Achievement Award

QorvoA , a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, today announced that company executive Cees Links has been recognized for his significant contributions to the Wi-Fi industry with the prestigious Design News 2017 Golden Mousetrap Lifetime Achievement Award. Presented Feb.7 in Anaheim, California, the aw James Klein, president, Qorvo Infrastructure and Defense Products, said, “Cees is passionate about building a smarter, more connected world – one where we can live more meaningful lives through the power of billions of interconnected devices.

Why Intel Corporation’s Cannon Lake-EP and EX Server Chips May Be Dead

Skylake-EP and EX represent all new architectures built using the company’s 14-nanometer+ technology, while Cannon Lake-EP and EX were supposed to represent mild architectural enhancements of the Skylake-EP and EX chips, but with the benefit of being built on the company’s upcoming 10-nanometer chip manufacturing technology. Although I can’t make this prediction with 100% certainty, I strongly suspect that based on Intel’s most recent disclosures, Cannon Lake-EP and EX are dead.

DARPA sued as competition to build space robots heats up

Orbital ATK, a Dulles-based aerospace manufacturer, is suing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency over plans to award a Canadian firm a $15 million contract to build a fleet of space-faring robots capable of repairing government and commercial satellites. Satellites are often declared obsolete because of problems that could be fixed easily if the objects were accessible, and the satellites’ owners are saddled with the extra costs of sending replacements into orbit.

What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory

To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. As CPU cores become both faster and more numerous, the limiting factor for most programs is now, and will be for some time, memory access.

Intel Corporation Expects to Grow Client Computing Group Profit Margin

CCG is Intel’s largest business by revenue, generating nearly $33 billion in sales during 2016. Most of that revenue comes from sales of processors and related components into personal-computer systems, although the company has seen reasonable success from the sale of chips that power cable gateways and, more recently, cellular modem chips into Apple ‘s At Intel’s Feb. 9 analyst day, company management went over its financial expectations for this segment for 2017 — and beyond.

Laptop refuses to connect to 802.11g modem-router1

Devices: Samsung N150 DLINK DSL-2640B modem-router Netgear WNR2000 router Realtek RTL8188CE Mini PCI-E Here’s the story… a friend sold me his laptop for $25, everything works fine, except for the wireless connection, the laptop had Windows 7 installed but it ran horrible, wireless didn’t worked with 7 so I installed Debian 8.7, wireless still not working with my modem-router, drivers are ok, but here’s the thing, my modem has 802.11g and it works because I tried connecting my computer and had no problems, so after hours of trying stuff including checking the modem configuration I plugged in the Netgear router, 802.11n and guess… it works, well, almost, the laptop connects but if it enters sleep mode then I have to disconnect and reconnect the network from the Debian network manager, not a big problem though.

Schools help fuel rise of Google Chromebooks

The Google Chromebook, a type of stripped-down laptop, isn’t a practical mobile device for many people – mostly because it basically turns into an expensive paperweight whenever it can’t find a Wi-Fi connection. In retrospect, that shouldn’t be too surprising.

How Google Chromebooks conquered schools

The Google Chromebook, a type of stripped-down laptop, isn’t a practical mobile device for many people – mostly because it basically turns into an expensive paperweight whenever it can’t find a Wi-Fi connection. In retrospect, that shouldn’t be too surprising.

Slow Wi-Fi at Work Is Exasperating Employees in All Fields

The excruciating days of dial-up may be long gone, but employees are still less than happy with the speed of their internet connection. A new survey by MonsterCloud found that of the 2,000 office employees it consulted, over 60 percent cite slow wi-fi or internet connection speeds as their top IT pet peeve.

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Acer America has begun accepting entries for its Acer Extreme Classroom Tech Makeover program that gives educators at K12 schools in the United States the opportunity to transform their classroom with technology. Acer will be awarding one classroom a set of Acer Switch Alpha 12 two-in-one notebooks, valued at $20,000.

Dell EMC Reveals U.S. Disty Changes: Ingram Gets EMC Back; Arrow,…

Dell EMC has restored Ingram Micro’s EMC relationship in the United States and extended Dell’s heritage server and networking products in the U.S. to Arrow, Avnet and Carahsoft. Ingram Micro still employs a lot of the talent that drove the Irvine, Calif.-based distributor’s success with EMC before it severed ties with Ingram in April 2015, according to Kirk Robinson, Ingram Micro’s senior vice president of go-to-market.

Orbital ATK sues Pentagon over plans to award a space robots contract to a Canadian-owned firm

Orbital ATK, a Dulles-based aerospace manufacturer, is suing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency over plans to award a Canadian firm a $15 million contract to build a fleet of space-faring robots capable of repairing government and commercial satellites. Orbital argues the federal program, called the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites, would unfairly compete with its own privately funded effort, a system called the Mission Extension Vehicle 1, backed by at least $200 million from investors.

Turning Protests Into Action With Technology

Tweet by tweet, post upon post, and petition after petition, Americans are voicing their views of government with the most powerful amplifier ever known: the Internet. Although we have lived with this tool for decades, the combined and continued acceleration of globalization and technology has opened the doors to government – while enabling fabricators of fake news – in ways that were inconceivable in the age of AOL dial-up.

Amazon to Move Prime Air Hub to Cincinnati

When Amazon announced last year that it was entering directly into the air logistics business with the launch of Prime Air, the airfreight world knew that it had to prepare for bold moves by a deep-pocketed company with a passion for innovation. Now, the Seattle-based online retail giant has announced the shift of its current air hub from Wilmington Airpark in Ohio to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport this spring, hinting at a possibly vast expansion of Amazon’s e-commerce air service.