The Python programming language has become the Swiss Army Knife for data scientists. In the interactive online course Data Analysis with Python, Dr. Julian von der Ecken, Senior Data Scientist and Trainer at Point 8, in intensive exercises over two days on how to read, analyze and visualize data with Python – including an overview of the basics of the language to refresh Python knowledge.
You will get to know the Python Scientific Stack: the standard libraries numpy for efficient calculation with large amounts of data and pandas for working with tabular data and tools for plotting and visualizing data. An introduction to machine learning is also on the program.
The workshop will take place on March 2nd and 3rd as an online course via video conference, the exercises take place in prepared Jupyter notebooks in the cloud – for A current browser is sufficient to participate. The course is aimed at developers who want to get into working with data and statistical methods. Basic knowledge of Python is an advantage. The course is limited to 15 participants, so that there is plenty of space for questions to the speakers and the exchange between the participants. When booking by 1.2. you get 10% early bird discount.
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Intel reported its fourth quarter 2020 earnings today, marking a stronger-than-expected quarter and the fifth consecutive record-breaking year, largely propelled by sales of PC chips during the pandemic. Incoming CEO Pat Gelsinger and Omar Ishrak, Chairman of Intel’s board, joined current CEO Bob Swan on the call and stated that the company has largely fixed the issues with its 7nm process node, which you can read about here, but will still outsource some manufacturing for its 2023 products.
Intel’s earnings beat expectations as the company enjoyed record revenue for the fifth straight year. The company’s client, data center, memory, and mobileye businesses all set revenue records.
Intel’s Q4 net income weighed in at $5.86 billion, compared to its $6.91 billion last year. Revenue weighed in at $20 billion, down 1% year-over-year, but well above the company’s $17.4 billion guidance. Despite the decline, Intel’s performance beat its own estimates and the market consensus on the strength of its performance in its data center and PC businesses. Intel’s 2021 revenue weighed in at $77.9 billion, up 8% year over year.
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Intel’s PC sales were powerful on the client computing side of the house, with the company selling 33% more PC chips than it did the year prior. That equated to $40.1 billion for the year, an increase of $3 billion over 2019. The increased demand could stem from a combination of factors; the PC market is enjoying its fastest growth in the last decade, AMD has struggled to satisfy demand as it grappled with shortages of its market-leading Ryzen 5000 processors, and the shift to a work from home environment continues to accelerate demand.
For the quarter, Intel’s Client Computing Group (CCG) notched $10.9 billion in sales, up 9% year-over-year and easily beating the $9.6 billion market consensus. Intel’s sales volumes of chips for desktop PCs increased 25% compared to the previous quarter, but declined 7% year-over-year, landing at a 10% decline for the full year. Intel’s average selling prices also had a minor 2% quarterly drop, but gained 2% for the full year.
Most of that growth took place in the notebook segment, which enjoyed a 30% jump in revenue over the prior year. Quarterly notebook volumes were up 54% over the prior year and up 28% for the entire year, but average selling prices declined 15% on the quarter and 6% on the year. Intel also cited a heavier mix of lower-end products, like Chromebooks, as impacting average selling prices. Perhaps increased competition with AMD’s Ryzen Mobile products took a toll, too, but we’ll have to wait until next week for the market share update.
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Intel had predicted its data center business to fall by 25% in the fourth quarter, but the Data Center Group (DCG) posted an 11% drop, which was better than estimates. The $6.1 billion in Q4 revenue easily beat the $5.4 billion consensus.
However, Intel’s DCG revenue fell to less than half that of its client side of the business, marking a step backward on its goal to relying less upon income from desktop PCs.
Intel’s press release cites that its server platform revenue was down in the quarter due to a challenging macro/competitive environment and cloud digestion cycle. Intel is obviously becoming more price-competitive in the face of AMD’s EPYC data center chips – its average selling prices dropped 12% compared to the prior quarter, and 3% for the entire year.
These factors impacted the company’s gross margins, which increased slightly quarter-over-quarter to 56.8%, but remain lower than the company’s historical +60%. Likewise, Intel’s full-year 2020 margins weighed in at 56%, down from 58.6% the year prior.
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Nvidia’s GeForce Now streaming service is kicking off 2021 strong with another major expansion to new territories. Starting this year, gamers in Australia, Turkey and Saudi Arabia will be able to take advantage of Nvidia’s streaming tech.
According to the analysts at Ericsson, 5G coverage is estimated to reach 15 percent of the population in 2021, which would be the equivalent of over 1 billion people. With 5G bringing consumers faster speeds on the go, interest in game streaming is expected to pick up. With that in mind, 2021 is going to be a very interesting year for cloud gaming.
Nvidia is looking to serve as many gamers as possible by expanding GeForce Now into new territories via the GFN Alliance programme. Nvidia is working with telco companies around the world to bring GeForce Now to other parts of the world at a faster rate. In Australia, Nvidia is partnering with Pentanet, in Turkey it is partnering with Turkcell and in Saudi Arabia, Nvidia is partnering with Zain KSA.
All three regions should get access to GeForce Now later this year. This will include access to the premium GeForce Now Founder’s Member servers, which include RTX graphics cards, enabling the streaming of ray-tracing capable games.
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The Italian Ambition Plan from 1, 5 billion is enriched with a new initiative, Microsoft AI Hub, which aims to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence and train professionals capable of spreading this type of skills
by Alberto Falchi , Vittorio Manti published on 21 January 2021 , at 17: 17 in the Cloud channel Microsoft artificial intelligence
Microsoft AI Hub is a new initiative that the Redmond company has activated as part of the quin plan quennial Ambition Italy # DigitalRestart. Microsoft has decided to also focus on artificial intelligence because this technology is able to help companies to grow rapidly, accelerating digital transformation processes: according to the study The Impact of Artificial Intelligence in Italy conducted by AmCham Italy , companies that adopt these technologies will see an increase in turnover that is 3 percentage points above the average.
L’ But Italy is not yet ready for this revolution: only the 39% of companies are evaluating or testing AI, and only 23% of the projects are at an advanced stage . This is why it becomes important to spread knowledge through various initiatives.
Microsoft is also keen to underline an important aspect: AI should not be considered a trend, it should not be introduced just because everyone is doing it. For a successful implementation it is essential to start from the real needs and focus on the data , even before focusing on the experience. Once the needs have been identified, artificial intelligence can become a fundamental tool for meeting needs, thus showing the full potential of technology.
What is the Microsoft AI Hub
As part of the AI Hub initiative , Microsoft will make available its skills and the Azure cloud platform with the aim of developing application scenarios that leverage data and AI, with the aim of identifying the realities that have the greatest potential for growth through a Date & AI Maturity Check-Up. Companies will be proposing pilot projects and sharing their expertise, while Microsoft will support them in development and implementation together with partners such as Accenture, Alterna, Altitudo, beanTech, Capgemini, DataSkills, Factory Software, Hevolus Innovation, Iconsulting, Integris, NTT DATA, Porini, Sopra Steria, 4ward.
The initiative will be aimed at companies operating in 6 key sectors for the Italian industry: manufacturing, financial services, health, energy, infrastructure and Made in Italy, which includes retail, fashion and design.
Microsoft AI Hub will also have the function of competence center, with the aim of spreading the digital culture and, as Ambizione Italia envisages, helping to bridge the knowledge gap digital. The platform will therefore be equipped with a section dedicated to training, with courses dedicated to young people, partners and companies. These are supported by the AI Business School of Microsoft , which plans to create training courses built around its needs and the sector in which you operate, courses that will also allow you to obtain certifications.
“ Italy has good potential, since the i-Com index on the degree of development of AI sees it in 13 ° position up 27 EU states, not far from Germany. To seize this opportunity, more needs to be done by helping companies to get closer to Artificial Intelligence and to develop projects with a real impact that can be easily replicated in the key sectors of the Italian economy, contributing to a virtuous cycle of relaunch “- he has declared Silvia Candiani, CEO of Microsoft Italy – “For this reason also the ‘AI is at the center of our commitment with the Ambition Italy #DigitalRestart plan, which just eight months after its launch has already seen us collaborate with companies and institutions to launch many initiatives aimed at contributing to the digital transformation of the country, from the Alliance for Smartworking to the Alliance for Sustainability, from support for SMEs to digital training for students. “.
AI, cloud and augmented reality: Microsoft’s customer success stories
During d In the presentation of AI Hub, Microsoft brought a few examples of companies that have leveraged its technologies to transform their business. Starting from the UNESCO site of Castel del Monte, which thanks to the collaboration of Hevolus, Infratel Italia and MS itself has introduced a visit modality phygital , which combines physical and virtual experience. Visitors to the museum will be able to access a series of augmented reality content via their smartphone while visiting the museum, via the app MVRGIA .
The solution implemented in Castel del Monte also provides the possibility to visit the museum remotely in Mixed Reality mode, using the HoloLens 2 viewer.
Another example comes from Ferragamo , well-known clothing brand, which created the service Tramezza Made -to-Order , which harnesses the potential of Azure and the HoloLens 2 headset.
Based on platform Augmented Store at Home by Hevolus , Tramezza Made-to -Order, allows customers to choose shoes from the Tramezza i augmented reality collection, observing a digital twin of the shoe and customizing its colors, details and finishes.
The last case of success given as an example is that of Stevanato , a specialized Paduan group in the production of glass containers for the pharmaceutical industry which in this period is producing components for Covid diagnostic tests – 19. In the two-year period 2018 – 19, Stevanato began his digital transformation journey by relying on Microsoft cloud and Microsoft 365, especially Teams. In 2020, in full pandemic, it was introduced Microsoft Dynamics , so as to obtain a single view on sales processes and customer engagement, and the group is continuing its journey by leveraging artificial intelligence and reality mixer . This has led to the launch of two projects in 7657 which, thanks to Hololens 2 and Azure Synapse, allowed to carry out virtual audio activities and to remotely run the Factory Acceptance Test , so as to be able to guarantee operations even during the lockdown.
Another project based on AI will allow to improve the performance of the inspection systems and recognition of defects in glass containers filled with different drugs: at the moment Stevanato is working on this solution, which will be completed for 2021.
“ The inspection systems work with three main parameters: speed linked to productivity, effectiveness in detecting defects (detection rate) and incidence of false positives that affect production costs “- explains Luca Vallati, Vision System Manager of Stevanato Group – “ In the pharmaceutical sector, artificial intelligence systems cannot operate in learning by doing mode, because the algorithms must be certified and crystallized. For this, reliable infrastructures (storage and computing power) and algorithms are required. Using different modules of the Microsoft Azure ecosystem and Microsoft’s Machine Learning and AI capabilities we have managed to reduce down to 10 times the false positives, therefore the deviations of pr oduction, and to improve the detection rate by 5%. The inspection machinery we supply to pharmaceutical companies is therefore increasingly intelligent “.
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has version 4. 15 of their IaaS software (Infrastructure as a Service) CloudStack released. The update is a so-called LTS release with an extended support period (long-term support). Since the release of CloudStack 4. 04 according to ASF, the open source software for creating cloud infrastructures has been about Improvements have been incorporated and 15 new ones Features added – including a modernized user interface.
Renovated surface From CloudStack 4. 15 comes via the URL : 8080 / client uses the new, revised user interface by default, which is now generally available (general availability). The previous legacy UI remains for the time being via : 8080 / client / legacy and will also be used in production environments supported. However, it is already marked as out of date (deprecated) and should be dropped with the release of CloudStack 4. 16.
New in the release is the integration of the VNC console (Virtual Network Computing) noVNC for virtual machines (VM). Another new Websocket Proxy allows interaction with the VNC console, ConsoleProxyClient is used to read and write data during communication between VM and Websocket. The console developed on the basis of noVNC 1.1.0 has been tested on various platforms – including KVM, Ubuntu, CentOS and VMware 6.5.
Workaround for new KVM Hosts CloudStack 4 supports management servers and KVM hosts. 15 now CentOS8 and Ubuntu 20. 04. However, users should note that an End-of-Life (EoL) has already been announced for CentOS8 at the end of the year. When adding new KVM hosts, users of some GNU / Linux distributions must also be aware of a problem associated with the latest OpenSSH package. Due to a lack of support in the trilead-ssh library used by CloudStack, individual SSH algorithms and encryption methods do not work correctly. Therefore, a workaround is currently necessary before adding new KVM hosts. The following lines must be added to / etc / ssh / sshd_config of the KVM host and then the SSH server restarted:
PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes = + ssh-dss HostKeyAlgorithms = + ssh-dss KexAlgorithms = + diffie-hellman-group1-sha1 Among the other new features in CloudStack 4. 15 are to be mentioned, the support for role-based users in projects, extended storage functions from VMware (vSAN, vVols, VMFS6, Datastore Clusters), PVLAN for L2 networks as well Support for XCP-ng 8.1 and MySQL 8. A complete overview of all round 20 improvements and new functions can be found in the release notes. CloudStack 4. 15 is now available for free download under the Apache license 2.0.
The Evernote note-taking program is reinventing itself. When changing to a modern substructure, however, many functions fell by the wayside.
Evernote 10 in the test and Evernote CEO Ian Small in the interview Missing functions and test table Interview with Evernote CEO Ian Small Article in c’t 3 / 2021 read Evernote has been one of the most popular note-taking and information-gathering programs for twelve years. It saves texts, images, handwriting notes, file attachments, links, embedded PDFs and file attachments and organizes them in virtual notebooks. Because of the flexible keyword and search functions and also because it cooperates with many scanners, Evernote is sometimes used as a simple document management system. There are clients for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and web browsers. The data can be kept synchronized on all devices via a cloud connection (Evernote uses Google servers for this).
With the version 10 the manufacturer has developed the clients from scratch. The Electron framework based on Chromium and Node.js serves as the basis for the desktop versions. Evernote for macOS and Windows becomes a web app and looks very similar to the web browser client. Unfortunately, it also took over the moderate speed from that. A few patches that were added quickly have alleviated the initial performance problems significantly, but the new Evernote still feels more sluggish than the previous native clients when leafing through and opening notes.
The surface looks a bit airier and more modern due to larger fonts and line spacing, but it also shows less information with the same window size. Some control elements have changed or postponed, which requires some getting used to. Unpleasant: Only six fonts are supported, two of which are decorative fonts. The previous clients could access all the respective system fonts. Notes designed with it can be seen in Evernote 10 now possibly different.
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By the year 2025 a “telematic infrastructure 2.0” should replace the networking of the healthcare system that exists today. With this TI 2.0, the Gematik project company draws the conclusions from the network failure in the year 2020. The connectors used in medical practices, hospitals and pharmacies are being replaced as “proprietary IT solutions” by open “access interfaces on the Internet”. The master data management of the insured by inserting an electronic health card is being replaced by an internet service.
“IT arena for medicine” Gematik’s groundbreaking white paper outlines the future German healthcare system as an “IT arena for medicine” in which different playing fields exist and different games are played, each with its own rules. As the designer of this IT arena, Gematik takes on other roles such as “entrance control for all parties involved” and the role of the referee who makes sure that nobody commits a foul. In addition, it develops new rules of the game and playing fields for “new disciplines”.
Aside from all the beautiful metaphors and graphics, the white paper on TI 2.0 shows that Gematik is now the consequences of the failure of the TI 1.0 in summer 2020. At that time, after a faulty certificate change 80. 000 medical practices were flown out of the telematic infrastructure. In two thirds of the practices, a software update of the connectors had to be installed manually. The entire troubleshooting took 52 days. Now the connectors are to disappear as a “proprietary IT solution” and the “universal accessibility of the services through access interfaces on the Internet” is to be replaced. This universal accessibility also means that the previous smart card solutions will disappear.
For the insured, the doctors and dentists, this means that the insured master data management via the electronic health card through an internet service of the respective health insurance companies is replaced. The electronic health professional card and the SMC cards for the identification of medical practices, hospitals and pharmacies are also to be replaced by electronic ID procedures, in which the medical associations, associations of statutory health insurance physicians and other associations provide the appropriate federated eID. If possible, a single sign-on should always be used.
Open source preferred As the Gematik explains , the redesign of the telematic infrastructure is inevitable, because a lot has happened in recent times technically. IT is thought and implemented differently today than it was ten years ago. “The basic architecture must become more technology-independent so that data silos are dissolved and mobile patient care possible. The trend is clearly towards the cloud with” unlimited resources “and economies of scale. The spread of the open source culture in society and industry has increased significantly.” Wherever possible, TI 2.0 uses open source.
Red Hat announced free availability Red Hat Enterprise Linux for all holders of a Red Hat account, with a limit of 16 server on which you can install this free version. A change following the divestment of CentOS
by Riccardo Robecchi published 21 January 2021 , at 12: 21 in the Device channel Red Hat Linux
About a month after the announcement of the end of CentOS 8, Red Hat has announced that it will provide a completely free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), valid for installation and use on up to 16 devices in production. Red Hat therefore somehow completely replaces CentOS with RHEL, albeit only in those environments that require the use of a few machines. This is a major change of pace for the American company.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux goes free (up to a 16 systems)
Red Hat decides to create a second twist after lowering the curtain on the CentOS project as we have always known it: it was in fact a revival of RHEL without the Red Hat brand, which allowed anyone to have access to such software without having to pay for licenses; the lack of contributions and support from the companies that used it led to the closure of the project.
The company has now announced on its blog that Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be available free of charge to all subscribers of the Red Hat Developer Network, which has no purchase costs or obligations. The only limitation introduced lies in the number of production systems on which distribution can be installed: the maximum ceiling is in fact set at 16 systems . This is a large enough number to satisfy the needs of individuals who want to experiment with RHEL and small businesses.
“It’s exactly what it sounds like: for small production use cases, it’s a no cost, no support RHEL. You just need to log in with a free Red Hat account (or using a GitHub account, Twiter, Facebook or other) to download RHEL and receive updates. Nothing else is required “, writes the company in the ad. “This is not a sales program and no salesperson will contact you to try to make a sale. There will be an option to subscribe to full support, but it’s up to you to decide. “
There are also no limits on where you can run the software: you can install this free version of RHEL on AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure , for example.
Red Hat claims to be aware that this new feature does not cover all possible use cases that it covered CentOS and will then provide new updates in mid-February. The free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be available starting February 1st .
Logz.io is promising new distributions for Elasticsearch and Kibana, which, in contrast to Elastics’ future direction, should appear completely as free software. The developers do not use the word fork, but due to the new licenses, the future project is left with less than a split from the original provider.
This is exactly what CEO Tomer Levy describes in his announcement of the move, because the community and many as yet unknown organizations should be involved in the new distributions. The choice of the Apache 2 license is also not surprising, as Elasticsearch has previously appeared under it. The aim is to put the free versions of Elasticsearch and Kibana under the umbrella of the CNCF or ASF.
Don’t feel sorry for Elastic Elastics CEO Shay Bannon blamed Amazon and the reluctance of the AWS cloud division to cooperate with the original developers for the license change in drastic terms. Tomer Levy doesn’t skimp on criticism himself – but at Elastic, because the developer has let the open source offerings fall asleep over the years and put the innovations into his commercial offers.
In addition, the new Server Side Public License (SSPL) would not just be a measure against AWS: Parts of the license were formulated in such a way that users would expose themselves to legal risks when using such software. In fact, when switching from MongoDB to the SSPL and now again, the OSI determined that the SSPL was not an open source license.
I entered it myself Gigant Tomer Levy generally rejects Elastics’ victim role, because it would rather be a billion dollar company that wants to force its users into commercial dependency and block competition. A look at the figures shows that in the year 2020, Elastic had sales of 427, generated 6 million US dollars, a growth of 57 percent over the previous year.
Instead of wanting to switch off AWS as a competitor with a license change, Elastic should develop a better cloud service. That is more difficult, but it would be the right step for users. The announcement of the new distributions and the new allegations can be found on the Logz.io blog. The provider offers data analysis software on the ELK stack, among other things. Meanwhile, Amazon did not comment on the allegations by Elastic.
A streaming client often significantly expands the functionality of a television. But not everyone may support your favorite service.
The right streaming client for video, television, music and games Classic television, music and games Older televisions are also compatible Movies, series, television Music Play Conclusion Test table Do you want your TV over ya re using it, sooner or later there is hardly a way around a streaming client. After the market launch, the manufacturers hardly change anything in terms of the range of functions or the software offering – at best, the current model year and its predecessors receive smaller updates and new services here and there. We show which client is the optimal choice for which streaming service and in which cases existing devices make buying new ones superfluous.
This applies, for example, to consoles that are compared in the form of Microsoft Xbox Series S and X as well as the Sony Playstation 5 are considered. Because they also offer apps for some services and thus compete with classic clients. There are also four streaming clients in stick format: Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and Fire TV Stick Lite, Google Chromecast with Google TV (hereinafter referred to as Chromecast) and the MagentaTV Stick from Deutsche Telekom. With the Apple TV 4K, the Amazon Fire TV Cube and the Nvidia Shield TV, three clients rely on a box or box-like design. Since it is unclear how long Microsoft and Sony will support the previous generation of consoles, we have not included you in this comparison. The Amazon Fire TV Stick (without addition) is missing, as it corresponds to the Lite model in terms of performance and limitations. The statements made for Nvidia’s Shield TV also apply to the Pro version.
Classic television, music and games In addition to video-on-demand services (VoD), we also consider live TV -Streaming and other types of entertainment: streaming music and gaming. In addition to the installation of games, the latter also includes corresponding cloud gaming services and the flat-rate offers from Deutsche Telekom (MagentaGaming) as well as from Microsoft (Xbox Game Pass) and Sony (Playstation Now).
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With Access-as business model -a-Service, cybercriminals will put a strain on IT’s ability to protect data, which with smart working are no longer found within the corporate perimeter. Bees will become the preferred attack vector
of Alberto Falchi , Vittorio Manti published on 21 January 2021 , at 08: 21 in the Security channel Trend Micro
Trend Micro has no doubts: in the 2021 we will see an increase in targeted attacks against cloud systems and software to work remotely . A predictable trend in many ways: now that workers are outside the corporate perimeter, attackers will focus on the most vulnerable home networks, particularly by targeting HT and sales managers, who have access to information about coveted customers. to hackers. But also against health structures, in particular those where telemedicine is applied, and e-commerce. What is striking are the modalities of these attacks, which will exploit not only zero-day bugs but also known vulnerabilities. The preferred attack vector will be APIs, according to Trend Micro’s Turning de Tide report, which contains the safety forecast for 2021.
Home networks will be among the main targets of hackers in the 2021
Lo smart working , the spread of which was a response to the pandemic to ensure business continuity, has proven to have positive aspects in terms of productivity, but also has some critical issues in terms of safety. Smart working employees connect through common ISPs, using consumer-grade routers, which do not offer the same levels of protection as corporate systems. This is also pushing a new way of attacking: on the one hand, criminals will search for vulnerabilities in the most used software, and not necessarily zero-day , but also exploiting those n-day , bug known threats, tools and vulnerabilities and taking advantage of the fact that not all users apply security patches frequently. A simple approach, for an attacker, since information on known vulnerabilities is widely disseminated on the net, also accompanied by the exploits needed to exploit them. Not only that: Trend Micro does not exclude the possibility of real marketplaces specialized in n-day vulnerabilities , with exploits made to measure, which will also open the way to attackers with little technical skills, who will limit themselves to using tools made by others.
Another trend that is rapidly spreading is that of Access-as-a-Service: criminals sell their “peers” access to compromised routers, particularly those belonging to IT administrators or executives.
The pandemic pushes e-commerce and telemedicine
Covid – 19 gave a huge boost to e-commerce, which is not escaped from attackers, who will try to monetize by trying to sabotage production, but also by exploiting these channels to smuggle goods or transport counterfeit products.
Even more worrying is the attention that criminals will pay to health facilities, both the laboratories where vaccines are developed, which will risk seeing their activity slowed down by attackers in search of data to steal, and the structures that provide telemedicine services.
Also the diffusion of contact tracing apps is a potential danger, also due to the haste with which these solutions were implemented, which increases the risk of seeing this data exposed or not very protected.
Bees as preferred attack vector
“ With the increasing presence of API in the enterprise space, their attack surface will become more visible. APIs are set to be a prime target as they also serve for third-party integration, and we expect API security to be a new area of concern for cybercriminals in 2021 “, specify the ratio.
Trend Micro points out that APIs are lagging behind in terms of security, and can introduce vulnerabilities that can be exploited to breach corporate applications , also because traditional defense mechanisms such as Captcha, JavaScript or SDK tools for mobile environments cannot be used effectively to prevent an automated attack or.
Emotet still poses a threat to companies. But instead of leaving it with a security analysis carried out by external consultants based on established facts, those responsible should take the reins into their own hands and prepare their security infrastructure. The new iX 2 / 665 shows how to tackle such a self-test.
In this way, potential weak points can be identified in advance with a systematic analysis of your own IT landscape, which is compared with the malware that is currently widespread will. And such a self-test pays off, because prevention is not only easier, but also cheaper than cleaning up after a successful attack by criminals.
Double AMD performance for you RZ Another topic of the new February – iX is AMD’s second Zen generation: In Lenovo’s ThinkSystem SR 665 the CPU architecture must show how much more power two processors can offer in one system. The top model is not always worthwhile, because in many areas of application models with fewer cores but the same size L3 cache achieve high performance values.
In addition, several articles take a closer look at knowledge management in the company, especially afterwards Atlassian’s move to the cloud. On the one hand, a market overview shows which wiki systems are available for companies and how they differ.Furthermore, the best practices show what a practical and user-oriented basic concept looks like.
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While the economy has recently picked up again in many places after the sometimes catastrophic pandemic year 2020, a chip shortage is now slowing down several industries. The chip manufacturers AMD and Nvidia do not assume that this will be resolved in the first half of the year. In Germany, for example, the automotive industry has recently been particularly hard hit, with the first manufacturers having to send employees on short-time work because delivery bottlenecks are slowing down production. The problem has persisted for a long time with graphics cards. We’ll talk about the reasons and further expectations in a new edition of our #heiseshow.
What exactly is missing at the moment? What do we know, what are the rumors? Who is affected and how much and when is improvement in sight? Is it just the pandemic to blame or are there other reasons as well? Does the lack of graphics cards, for example, only make them more expensive, or are the affected components simply not available at all? What is being done about the deficiency and how quickly can it also bear fruit?
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Nvidia has updated its Shield TV media streaming box to add support for the Bluetooth enabled PlayStation 5 DualSense and the Xbox Series X|S controllers. These controllers can now be paired with the streaming device through the latter’s Bluetooth settings.
The Shield TV is a media streaming box but it can also play Android games from the Google Play Store. On top of that, the device is compatible with the Nvidia GeForce Now service, which allows you to play games from Nvidia’s cloud service.
The Shield TV devices are compatible with other wireless controllers and Nvidia also sells its own but now if you already have a PS5 or Xbox Series controller around then you don’t need to purchase one separately for the Shield TV. Then again, it’s hard to say how many people will be playing on their Shield TV when they already have a PS5 or Xbox Series console around.
Nvidia added support for Control4 home automation system in this update for the Shield TV, which allows Control4 remote or app to navigate the Shield TV UI. The OS has also been patched with the Android December 2020 security update.
Big discount, just under 50% on the official price list, for MIcrosoft 365 Family that allows you to equip up to 6 Microsoft users of the Office package and each of 1TB of storage space via OneDrive
of Editorial published on 20 January 2021 , at 16: 09 in the Software channel Microsoft Microsoft 365 OneDrive
Microsoft 365 is the package so ftware known until a few months ago with the name of Office 365, thanks to which it is possible to acquire a user license that includes the use for one year of the Office suite applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook.
The peculiarity of Microsoft 365 is to offer the possibility of installing your license, linked to your Microsoft account, on multiple personal devices . In addition to this, its users are combined with a cloud storage space of 1TB through Microsoft’s OneDrive service, accessible both from PC with Windows operating system as from mobile devices based on Android or iOS OS thanks to the appropriate APP provided by Microsoft in the respective stores.
Microsoft 365 is offered to end users in a Personal version , which provides a license for a single person, or in the richer Family that can be shared with a maximum of 6 people . By purchasing one of these licenses, therefore, the user not only gains access to their own 1TB storage space with free use of the Office package applications but can share everything up to 6 people, each able to receive on their own Microsoft account not only the Office APPs that can be installed on their personal devices (personal computers, smartphones and tablets) but also their own 1TB cloud storage space via Onedrive.
Microsoft 365 Family is on promotion on Amazon, with a price that is equal to 54, 99? ? at this time against the 99? ? to which it is typically proposed. Difficult to miss this opportunity, which with less than 10 ?? per user per year, it allows you to install the applications of the Office package on the personal devices of 6 users with Microsoft accounts as well as having 1TB storage space available in the cloud with OneDrive. This last feature alone pays off the cost, which is extremely competitive and interesting.
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