Last week I highlighted some of The Next Platform’s coverage of the International Supercomputing Conference, but this later caught my eye: an Intel engineer frankly discussing the coming end of Moore’s Law in public, which would have put you on double-secret probation back in the day.
This recap of Joshua Fryman’s talk in Germany is worth your time if you’ve been wondering where the next chapter in high-performance chip-making will take us.
AMAZON’S FIRST INDIAN AWS DATA CENTERS LAUNCH IN MUMBAI The thousands of Amazon Web Services customers in India will now have access to a data center within the borders of the country.
Venturebeat reports that the new data centers should help improve performance and satisfy local laws about data storage.
CLEVER ATTACK USES THE SOUND OF A COMPUTER’S FAN TO STEAL DATA This is kind of amazing: Security researchers at Ben-Gurion University have figured out how to use the sound of cooling fans on machines disconnected from the internet in order to steal small amounts of data. There are a few hoops to jump through,
as Wired details, but it seems like a feasible technique in the hands of extremely sophisticated hackers.
HIGH-SEVERITY BUGS IN 25 SYMANTEC-NORTON PRODUCTS IMPERIL MILLIONS If you were affected by this vulnerability, you probably updated your systems already, but worth noting that Symantec disclosed flaws in 25 security products this week.
Ars Technica notes that it’s another reminder that security products can themselves cause security problems, and this one is particularly scary because it doesn’t require a user to click on something in order to activate the worm.
TESLA DRIVER KILLED IN CRASH WITH AUTOPILOT ACTIVE, NHTSA INVESTIGATING While it might not be as dangerous as trying to drive on 101 in Silicon Valley, the road to fully autonomous cars is still going to be dangerous.
The Verge reports on the news that Tesla’s Autopilot feature failed to prevent the crash of a Tesla Model S into a tractor-trailer that it apparently didn’t notice crossing a highway, killing the driver.
DO THIRD-PARTY VENDORS HAVE A BULLSEYE ON THEIR BACKS? Outsourcing non-core business functions, especially in the cloud software era, is standard-operating procedure for an awful lot of companies. But each provider you bring into your organization can create security issues that you’ll have to deal with,
according to CSO, and many companies don’t pursue security service-level agreements with as much zeal as they do uptime agreements.
