If you think your infrastructure is outdated, imagine having to upgrade the infrastructure at the White House, which was not exactly designed for the modern era of technology.
The New York Times takes a look at the efforts by the Obama administration to upgrade some of the basic gear, including an effort to make sense of a basement full of cables that staffers were scared to touch.
THE BUSINESS INSIDER INTERVIEW: SATYA NADELLA Coming off the Build conference last week,
Business Insider sat down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella for a conversation about the current state of the company and tech industry. "The thing that has fundamentally changed is the ubiquity of computing that's there for us to take advantage of," he said, and while it's taken Microsoft too long to embrace that change, it's reinventing every product it manages around that core truth.
HOW CERN FIGHTS HACKERS Systems like the Large Hadron Collider make people nervous enough as is, and if you're in charge of security for CERN, the organization that runs the LHC, you're paid to be extra nervous.
Motherboard examines how CERN is fighting off its attackers (a group that includes "everybody") with the help from the white-hat hacker community.
NVIDIA CREATES A 15B-TRANSISTOR CHIP FOR DEEP LEARNING Nvidia has always been known as the company that makes sure you can play PC games at the highest performance levels possible. But chips for deep-learning research are now Nvidia's fastest growing business, and its new Tesla P100 chip looks like it might be one of the most powerful deep-learning oriented products on the market when it arrives,
according to Venturebeat.
AFTER 10 YEARS, AMAZON'S CLOUD SERVICE IS A $10 BILLION BUSINESS Amazon let Google and Microsoft have their marketing events in March to tout their clouds before waiting until April to reveal that Amazon Web Services is on pace to do $10 billion in revenue in 2016, a figure its rivals aren't close to even approaching. AWS "is bigger than Amazon.com was at 10 years old, (and) growing at a faster rate," said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in revealing the milestone,
as reported by Recode.
HERE'S HOW GOOGLE MAKES SURE IT (ALMOST) NEVER GOES DOWN For as much traffic as the company handles across as many regions of the world and different services, a Google outage is a pretty rare thing.
Wired looks at how Google's engineers make sure that's the case, and how its practices have been adopted across the tech industry.
It was a good week for the underground hacking market, which perhaps even more than nation-state and major corporation-sanctioned hacking, presents quite a danger to the chief information security officers of the world.
