Structure News: The rise of the freelance hacker

Where Opening Day Brings Bots Instead Of Bats April 8th, 2015 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk about the how bots are the talk of the web in early 2016, Nvidia's new blockbuster deep-learning chip, and a fast-growing and scary portion of the gig economy. STRUCTURE NEWS THE STRUCTURE SHOW: THE RISE OF THE BOTS? After a brief hiatus due to Structure Data and my relocation north, The Structure Show is back for your listening pleasure this week. Stacey Higginbotham and I talk about Microsoft and open source, a shakeup at Intel, and whether the hype behind bots is justified. INTEL'S GROBMAN: YOU CAN'T LEGISLATE MATH Steve Grobman of Intel got off one of the best lines at Structure Data 2016, at least in my opinion, in discussing the (at the time) pending Apple-FBI case. "Encryption is math. You can’t legislate or prevent the use of math any more than you can legislate the use of gravity,” he said, something we'll likely discuss this November at Structure Security (more on that in a bit).   INDUSTRY NEWS TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES GET WHITE HOUSE OUT OF THE 20TH CENTURY If you think your infrastructure is outdated, imagine having to upgrade the infrastructure at the White House, which was not exactly designed for the modern era of technology.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.   BIG PICTURE 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. The freelance hacking market is booming, according to the Wall Street Journal. Apparently you can now spend as little as 129 bucks to hire someone to break into a desired Gmail or Yahoo email account, and corporate accounts command a mere $500 for access. Sure, most of these "attacks" are probably social engineering or phishing as opposed to sophisticated breaches, but the cost to an organization can be immense either way. Additionally, Brian Krebs reports that the FBI is warning companies of new attacks centered around the impersonation of a leadership figure in a company, usually the CEO. The idea is to get someone lower down on the totem pole that doesn't usually interact with the boss to move a little quicker in transferring funds or information out of the company via a spoofed URL. For good reason, a lot of talk in the security world centers around the big scary threats posed by organized hackers, ransomware, and state-sponsored intellectual espionage. But "petty" hackers pose just as much of a threat to the average organization, given how much corporate data is available to employees and how damaging (or embarrassing) the leak of such information could be. Consider this topic -- the rise of the freelance hacker -- something that will definitely be on the agenda for Structure Security this September. It certainly pays better than the market for freelance writers, cab drivers, or delivery people.       DISCOVER MORE   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. 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Structure News: Microsoft continues to Build its cloud future

Where We're Not Foolin' April 1st, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk about the sudden end to the Apple-FBI fight, how Asana beat the fund-raising crunch, and Microsoft's pitch to cloud developers. STRUCTURE NEWS AT MICROSOFT RESEARCH, YOU LIVE BY THE AI BOT, YOU DIE BY THE AI BOT Just a few weeks before Microsoft found itself at the middle of a firestorm over the near-instant loss of innocence of its Tay bot, Peter Lee (picture, with Jack Clark of Bloomberg) told Structure Data 2016 attendees about a similar project in China that has over 40 million followers without controversy. Looks like the bot era will adhere to one of the oldest computing maxims: garbage in, garbage out. CAN MACHINE LEARNING KILL SURGE PRIING AT UBER? Surge pricing is Uber's attempt to deal with market inefficiencies: when there are more riders than drivers, expect to pay more for a ride. However, machine learning techniques could allow Uber to better anticipate surges in demand that seem to come out of nowhere, said Jeff Schneider, engineering lead for Uber's Advanced Technologies Group, at Structure Data 2016. INDUSTRY NEWS THE APPLE-FBI BATTLE IS OVER, BUT THE NEW CRYTO WARS HAVE JUST BEGUN After all that brinksmanship, the dispute between the FBI and Apple over security, cryptography, and back doors came an abrupt halt when the FBI figured out another way to get into the iPhone used by one of the San Bernadino terrorists. Wired looks at the aftermath of the FBI's decision to suspend its lawsuit, and what might come next. MARINES FORMING NEW CYBERWARRIOR UNIT From the halls of Montezuma, to the ISPs of North Korea? The U.S Marines have formed their own "cyberwarrior" unit, reports Stars and Stripes, joining the rest of its military counterparts in forming a group dedicated to "both defensive and offensive operations." THE NEXT REIGN OF CLOUD KINGS WILL NOT RULE WITH "IRON" FISTS Now that cloud computing is very much established as a computing strategy, the battleground for cloud providers will shift to the tools and services they provide on top of their basic infrastructure. The Next Platform examines how this might play out, paying special attention to Google's assertion that artificial intelligence is the next wave of must-have cloud services. TASK MANAGEMENT APP ASANA RAISES $50M AT A $600M VALUATION LED BY YC'S SAM ALTMAN Despite all the talk about money in Silicon Valley being harder to find than parking around The Battery at happy hour these days, quality companies continue to find a way. The latest is Asana, founded by early Facebook employees, which picked up another $50 million this week to continue building out its management application, according to Techcrunch. GOOGLE ADMITS ORIGINAL ENTERPRISE CLOUD STRATEGY WAS WRONG, WHY IT'S GONE IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION Left unspoken in much of Google's cloud marketing push over the last few weeks was the fact that it's actually pivoting away from its initial plans for this market. Tech Republic looks back at Google's initial cloud computing strategy, and how it got to this point. IS ALPHAGO REALLY SUCH A BIG DEAL? Spoiler alert: yes. "I see AlphaGo not as a revolutionary breakthrough in itself, but rather as the leading edge of an extremely important development: the ability to build systems that can capture intuition and learn to recognize patterns," writes Michael Nielsen in Quanta Magazine.   BIG PICTURE It was Microsoft's turn in the spotlight this week, hosting thousands in downtown San Francisco for its annual Build conference. An awful lot of the Build content focused on the Windows franchise, which despite the seismic shifts in computing over the last decade retains quite a few users. But there were still plenty of enterprise computing nuggets to talk about as Satya Nadella executes the turn of the Battleship Microsoft. -- Microsoft's commitment to embracing open-source technologies continues full steam ahead, as it committed to putting tools from recent acquisition Xamarin into the next version of Windows, so that developers can write cross-platform apps. And Linux apps will be able to run on Windows through the coming release of Ubuntu for Windows, a joint project between Microsoft and Ubuntu developer Canonical (whose founder, Mark Shuttleworth, spoke at Structure 2015). -- It sought to dent Amazon Web Services' Lambda service with a preview of Azure Function, which it is billing as a "serverless compute" service. And speaking of tweaking its much larger competitor, it announced that BMW is using Azure after a long run for the German carmaker as an AWS marketing chip. -- And it stepped in as the hero to an awful lot of developers who were frustrated and caught adrift by Facebook's decision to close down the Parse development platform. Fear not: Azure will support Parse developers and throw in some incentives to move their work over to Microsoft. Like Google, Microsoft has an uphill battle when it comes to the public cloud market, and much of its strategy this week was reflective of that competitive position. But unlike Google, Microsoft is throwing everything it has at the cloud opportunity, sending a clear signal once again that cloud computing services will be one of Microsoft's biggest priorities over the next several years. It's up to CEO Satya Nadella (above) to find the right mix of offense and defense to stay ahead of a hard-charging Google and a well-positioned AWS.       DISCOVER MORE   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: Structure 405 El Camino Real, #215 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2016 Structure All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend. Update your profile.

Structure News: Has Google done enough to impress cloud buyers?

Where It's Not Easy Being Greene March 25th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk about a big mess at Nest, a big round of funding for Mesosphere, and whether big talk from Google can make a dent in a big gap between it and other cloud players. STRUCTURE NEWS HOW TECH COMPANIES AND UNIVERSITIES FORMED A ONCE-UNLIKELY FRATERNITY AROUND OPEN SOURCE Back in the 1990s, open-source software was just getting off the ground from its research-oriented roots, but more than 20 years later, an awful lot has changed. Two excellent Structure Data 2016 speakers -- MIchael Franklin of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab and Raghu Ramakrishnan of Microsoft (pictured, with Andrew Brust of Datameer) -- discussed how much they have in common these days, and how the corporation/university dynamic will evolve. WHY 40 PETABYTES IS PROBABLY ENOUGH DATA FOR NETFLIX, FOR NOW We talked a lot at Structure Data 2016 about how “big data” isn’t really the right way to think about data science any more; data efficiency is what’s important now at big companies like Netflix. “We’re not trying to add more petabytes and brag about it, we want to get the most out of it,” said Eva Tse of Netflix. INDUSTRY NEWS INSIDE TONY FADELL’S STRUGGLE TO BUILD NEST We haven’t heard a lot out of Nest lately, and The Information (subscription required; The Verge, um, aggregated it) had a big report Thursday that might explain why. Among other things, Nest has struggled to integrate Dropcam and get new products to market that meet the demands of CEO Tony Fadell, according to the rather remarkable story. MICROSOFT SILENCES ITS NEW AI BOT TAY, AFTER TWITTER USERS TEACH IT RACISM This is probably not what Microsoft researchers had in mind when they unleashed Tay, an AI-driven chatting bot, on the general public. Techcrunch reports that Microsoft pulled the bot after a bunch of Twitter users figured out how to make it repeat racial slurs on Twitter, and they’ll go back to the drawing board to find ways to train AI bots on the nuances of conversational racism. MESOSPHERE RAISES $73.5 MILLION WITH MICROSOFT PARTICIPATING, LAUNCHES VELOCITY TOOL Container-management software is likely going to be a lucrative market as more and more companies start putting containers in production, and Mesosphere (CEO Florian Liebert spoke at Structure 2015) showed this week that you can still achieve (likely) unicorn status in an uncertain fund-raising market. Venturebeat notes that the company raised $73.5 million, led by Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and helped by Microsoft, which once took a gander at buying the whole company. AMAZON’S LOFTY PROFITS OPEN CLOUD TO RIVALS Amazon is not known for profit-seeking, but that mentality hasn’t applied to its cloud unit Amazon Web Services. Bloomberg has a nice analysis of AWS’ profit margins and how that might present some opportunity for rivals Microsoft and Google (more on that in a bit) to compete on price. APPLE POLICY ON BUGS MAY EXPLAIN WHY HACKERS WOULD HELP THE FBI Apple has always liked to do things its own way. Its lack of interest in setting up a bug bounty program -- standard fare at many of its tech rivals -- may have prevented it from learning about a possible method to unlock the San Bernadino iPhone before that method was presented to the FBI, according to The New York Times. THE CEO OF $2 BILLION STARTUP DOMO: “WEVE BEEN LYING TO PEOPLE” SO WE COULD SURPRISE THEM WITH OUR MASTER PLAN Josh James must have a very understanding board of directors. In an interview with Business Insider as Domo launched a new version of its data analytics app for business management, James revealed that Domo deliberately mislead customers and even investors about its true product roadmap plans to keep those plans a secret. BIG PICTURE Ever since Google hired VMware founder Diane Greene (above, speaking at GCP Next 2016) to run its cloud business last year (the same week as Structure 2015), we’ve written a lot about whether or not that re-organization was enough to make Google more competitive in the public cloud market. A series of events this week showed that Google’s charm offensive is still very much on the march, but it is starting to land some bigger names for its cloud service. During its cloud conference this week, Google announced that Home Depot and Disney have agreed to put some of their workloads on Google Cloud Platform, as reported by Fortune. It also introduced a machine-learning API that developers can use to add Google’s machine-learning technology to their products, and Greene sat down for lengthy interviews with several publications (I enjoyed Wired’s). As we noted last week, however, the lack of transparency around cloud pricing and revenue makes it difficult to understand how much of this business Google is practically giving away in order to get some big names on its customer list. That information will come out over time, but as Fortune noted, companies in the financial and insurance fields are still conspicuously absent from that list. “You don’t get fired for going with AWS” is the new “you don’t get fired for going with IBM.” At the heart of the question around Google’s cloud efforts is whether or not an advertising company can be a true enterprise computing player. It’s kind of a silly question, given that a book seller practically invented the public cloud infrastructure market and Google's infrastructure set the tone for world-class computing buildouts. But former Google CEO Eric Schmidt always seemed much more enthusiastic about making Google an enterprise player than current Alphabet CEO (and Google co-founder) Larry Page, and corporate culture is a funny thing. By the time Structure 2016 rolls around this November, Google will be under more pressure to show broader customer adoption of its cloud services. Microsoft has made no secret of the fact that it wants to be a world-class cloud company and already has the enterprise sales force to match that ambition. At some point Google will have to stop talking about its cloud ambitions and start talking about its cloud successes if it is to be taken seriously as a public cloud power. “We’re Number 3” worked really well for Snapple, but I doubt that’s what Greene was brought into Google to accomplish.     DISCOVER MORE   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: Structure 405 El Camino Real, #215 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2016 Structure All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend. Update your profile.

Structure News: When Apple met Google

Where Our Cloud Prices Are Insane March 18th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll talk Dropbox going solo, Google's triumphant AlphaGo victory, and Apple's plans for its infrastructure needs. STRUCTURE NEWS DATA SCIENCE IS A RECRUITING TOOL FOR DIVERSE CANDIDATES AT AIRBNB One session that stood out for me personally at Structure Data was the discussion about how Airbnb's Elena Grewal (pictured, left) worked with the company's recruiters to apply data science principles to its hiring process in order to solve for diversity. They're not quite there yet (the company is now 30 percent women, as compared to 15 percent last year) but it shows the benefits of having all departments -- not just product -- be data driven. HORTONWORKS CEO ROB BEARDEN THINKS THE DATA EXPLOSION HAS ONLY BEGUN Rob Bearden probably has a different opinion of Wall Street these days than he did a few years ago, but he didn't appear very worried at Structure Data 2016 about investors eventually realizing how valuable big data can be. With projections that the amount of data will increase by 10x over the next ten years, and the complexity of that data increasing at a similar rate, he's got a point. INDUSTRY NEWS MINECRAFT TO RUN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERIMENTS One of the shrewdest things Microsoft did in the last few years was buy Minecraft, one of the most ubiquitous video games among the younger set. The company plans to take advantage of that popularity by running a few tests (opt-in only) to help train AI algorithims on dealing with complex, open-ended worlds, according to BBC News. THE EPIC STORY OF DROPBOX'S EXODUS FROM THE AMAZON CLOUD EMPIRE One topic I like to ask fast-growing cloud-native web startups about at Structure is how they think about "the datacenter tipping point;" the point at which -- if you're fortunate enough -- you've grown so big that it starts to make sense to bring more things in-house. Wired takes us through the two-and-a-half year process Dropbox went through in moving its storage system, arguably the very core of its service, from Amazon Web Services to its own hardware. GET RICH OR HACK TRYIN' In what might have been the first hip-hop themed blog post title ever written by Google, the company announced it was doubling its bug bounty for those trying to hijack a Chromebook. It also introduced a new bounty on bugs involving its Safe Browsing feature on Chrome, showing how important web companies continue to feel that keeping the outside hacker network friendly and active is a good security measure. QUIETLY, SYMBOLICALLY, US CONTROL OF THE INTERNET WAS JUST ENDED We won't be able to judge the effects of this for a long time, but this is a big deal: ICANN members, after a two-year process, have agreed to transfer control over internet addresses and domain names from a non-profit kinda-sorta controlled by the U.S. government to a consortium of leaders from multiple countries. The Guardian has a nice analysis piece from former ICANN member Maria Farrell on how the world got to this point. WHAT WE LEARNED IN SEOUL WITH ALPHAGO Google's AlphaGo contest was an amazing thing to follow for anyone interested in the future of artificial intelligence, and Dennis Hassabis, CEO of the company's DeepMind unit, shared a few reflections in a blog post this week. "But as they say about Go in Korean: 'Don’t be arrogant when you win or you’ll lose your luck,'" he wrote. "This is just one small, albeit significant, step along the way to making machines smart." US GOVERNMENT PUSHED TECH FIRMS TO HAND OVER SOURCE CODE The tech industry's side-eye looks at the intentions of government law enforcement officials this year might be partly informed by what they've had to put up with already. ZDNet reported Thursday that the U.S. government has pushed companies to share source code with the government (it's not clear if any actually had) through the secret FISA court, which is an amazing request of a modern software company that no sane executive would ever willingly sign off on. BIG PICTURE We all like to think of the tech industry as the clash of rival titans, and for a long time Apple and Google have given us that satisfaction. Ever since the birth of Android, the CA-85 rivalry has been one of the hottest in tech, with plenty of overheated rhetoric and genuine dislike on both sides. But neither company is stupid. Under Diane Greene, Google is courting big customers for its Google Cloud Platform, likely at fire-sale prices. Apple is smart with its money and creating a little competition among big suppliers is smart. So it makes sense that Apple has struck a $400 million to $600 million cloud-computing deal with Google, as first reported by CRN Wednesday. As Recode later reported, Apple appears to see this deal with Google as just a stopgap while it builds out its own datacenters to run iCloud, iTunes, and all of Apple's other internet services. Project McQueen (as in Steve, look it up, Millennials) is a fascinating undertaking, as Apple tries to build the world-class computing system its rivals have enjoyed for decades while operating under its customary cloak of secrecy. Still, it's a coup for Google, as it has won the business of one of the world's most demanding buyers of the technology and services needed to run its operation and dented Amazon Web Services, its much larger competitor. I definitely agree with Om Malik that most likely, Google gave away this business, and that in general, the tech world needs more transparency in cloud pricing and financial performance to help startups and bigger companies that don't have Apple's leverage make supplier decisions. We haven't really had a public cloud rivalry yet: Amazon has run so far ahead of the pack for so long it's been  kind of silly to call Microsoft's Azure and GCP rivals. But Azure is one of the biggest parts of Microsoft's future strategy, and Google is clearly willing to fight for business. Google's competitive focus might be shifting north. One of my biggest questions about this revolutionary cloud era is whether the new guard in enterprise software will eventually mimic the strategies and tactics of the old guard of enterprise computing as their businesses grow. Over the next five years, we're going to figure that out. 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Structure News: Recapping Structure Data 2016

Where The Data Was Actionable March 11th, 2016 / by Tom Krazit This week, we'll recap Structure Data 2016, a great week of interviews, talks, and conversations about the future of data-driven tools and strategies inside companies and organizations. STRUCTURE NEWS BUILDING DATA INFRASTRUCTURE AT STARTUP SPEED? STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF THOSE BEFORE YOU June Andrews of Pinterest and Josh Wills of Slack (pictured) have two of the most interesting data science jobs in technology, building data science practices at fast-growing companies known for their focus on design. Thankfully, the prevalence of open-source software makes it easy to get off the ground, but as they explained, things can get quite tricky quite quickly. WHY DATA ANALYSIS TOOLS NEED TO GET SMARTER AND MORE ACCESSIBLE After focusing on gathering "big data" for so many years, data science needs to evolve to reach more people with smaller datasets, according to Chris Neumann, formerly of DataHero, and Dan Wagner of Civis Analytics. That means helping people and businesses develop the right questions to ask and making user-friendly tools. HOW THE ORLANDO MAGIC ARE USING DATA TO KEEP FANS HAPPY Using data to shorten beer lines might be the smartest use of data science yet. Orlando Magic CEO Alex Martins explained how working with John Paul of Venuenext has allowed the Magic to offer season-ticket holders perks while refining the club's ticket-pricing algorithms. THE ASCENT OF THE SENTIENT ROBOTS MAY HAVE BEEN OVERSOLD While the robots might be coming for our jobs, they're probably not going to destroy us. Yet. Artificial intelligence expert Andrew Ng of Baidu predicted that we'll see the commercialization of self-driving vehicles in three years and mainstream use in five, but "worrying about killer robots today is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars," he said. INDUSTRY NEWS GOOGLE JOINS THE OPEN COMPUTE PROJECT Back in the day, Google was notorious for treating the designs for its world-class datacenters and networks like state secrets. A lot has changed since then, and Google's embrace of the Open Compute Project this week (a movement launched by rival Facebook) with its power-efficient rack designs is a notable and laudable shift, as reported by Techcrunch. HOW WE BUILD CODE AT NETFLIX Netflix also dropped some knowledge this week, explaining how it writes code on local machines and deploys that code to its servers running in Amazon Web Services' cloud. The company has managed to reduce the time it takes to deploy some of its code to 16 minutes, from local machines to a multiregional deployment.   BIG PICTURE Over the years we've put together Structure Data, I'm not sure we've assembled a better lineup of speakers. We had the CEOs of all the major big data companies, world-renowned experts in artificial intelligence from the most powerful internet companies on the planet, and representatives from the next generation of data-driven startups like Uber and Airbnb. But when I look back at the week, I'm also struck by how many conversations that I hope we continued, or even started, about the impact of big data on society. We explored how the health care system is changing in response to the data era, albeit at a frustrating pace. Kalev Leetaru of GDELT delivered a legendary Structure Data talk on the power of data to understand our world (and passionately explained his work and love of data science all week on the sidelines). And Sugreev Chawla of Thorn showed how data is helping law enforcement track down some of the most horrifying elements of our world, like child traffickers and pornographers. Harnessing data has made our websites better, our computers more efficient, and our advertising more lucrative. And while all of those outcomes are great, it's important that we recognize and assist those who are using the latest in data science tools in important ways without regard for the profit motive. Thanks to our speakers, sponsors, attendees, and everyone else who made Structure Data 2016 such a great event. We'll see you all again soon.       DISCOVER MORE   Click here to unsubscribe from this list. Our mailing address is: Structure 405 El Camino Real, #215 Menlo Park, CA 94025 Add us to your address book Copyright (C) 2016 Structure All rights reserved. Forward this email to a friend. Update your profile.