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Ransomware attack on healthcare admin company CaptureRx exposes multiple providers across United States
Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare in New York, Randolph, VT-based Gifford Health Care and Thrifty Drug Stores are just a few of the victims.
Brazilian authorities call for postponement of WhatsApp privacy changes
Agencies want the messaging service to address points relating to consumer and data protection rights as well as competition.
Octopai announces new layered data lineage platform
Octopai's Data Lineage XD provides valuable cross-system, inner-system and end-to-end data column lineage, on an automated basis. Its connectors can detect detailed data flow/transformation details from database scripts and stored procedures, ETL packages, BI models and reports.
AXA pledges to stop reimbursing ransom payments for French ransomware victims
One of Europe’s biggest insurers is now suspending policies in France that reimburse victims for ransomware payments.
Acronis banks $250M in funds to grow portfolio, partners
Singapore-based data security vendor plans to tap funds from its latest round to support more workload types, such as Netsuite and Salesforce, and add more managed services providers to its partner network.
Open-source software economics and community health analytics: Enter CHAOSS
Trying to capture the value open-source software generates can be a bit chaotic. The CHAOSS project may lend a helping hand.
China calls out 33 apps for collecting more user data than deemed necessary
Citing complaints from users, the Cyberspace Administration of China lists 33 mobile apps it says breached various regulatory rules, mainly, for collecting personal data deemed not necessary to provide their service.
Yellowbrick shows that its data warehouse is not smoke and mirrors
As Yellowbrick readies its cloud SaaS service, it is pulling up the covers to reveal the underlying technology that is key to its high performance.
Hadoop’s Legacy: No more fear of data
It’s become fashionable to pronounce Hadoop as “dead.” But Hadoop led the way to enterprises losing their fear of big data. And in turn, Hadoop unleashed a virtuous cycle of innovation that has resulted in the rich marketplace of the cloud analytic and AI services that we know today.
Bill proposes jail term for fake news dissemination in Brazil
Imprisonment and fines for spreading disinformation form part of legislation intended to replace the current National Security Law.
Singapore puts intellectual property focus on innovation, intangible assets
Country's new 10-year IP roadmap puts emphasis on the role of innovation in driving its digital economy, with anticipated legal changes involving the use of big data and artificial intelligence technologies.
User ability to opt-out key in Google FLoC debacle
Opt-out process should be easy and available to anyone who does not want advertising to be personalised, says chief science officer at Acquia, which has its own audience cohort analysis tool, and who calls for more transparency and user control.
TigerGraph and Google Cloud make it a threesome
TigerGraph rounds out its cloud portfolio and tightens connections with the BI world.
Central Bank of Brazil adds data protection to Open Banking rules
Changes relate to areas such as account holder data sharing consent and greater control around updates to shared information.
Oracle makes GoldenGate a cloud-native, fully-managed service
The general purpose real-time data fabric platform is designed to deliver data integration for both operational databases and analytic data stores
Apricorn Aegis Secure Key 3NXC
The new Aegis Secure Key 3NXC builds on Apricorn's Secure Key 3z and Aegis Secure Key 3NX, taking the same proven form-factor and physical keypad, and adding something that users have been asking for -- USB-C support.
ioSafe Duo: Fireproof and water resistant data storage (in pictures)
The ioSafe Duo brings peace of mind to onsite storage.
When chatbots are a very bad idea
Not every business problem can be solved by using chatbots. Here are some inappropriate uses for the AI tool.
Hybrid transactional analytical processing
Traditionally, operational databases and platforms for data analysis have been two different worlds. This has come to be seen as natural, as after all the requirements for use cases that need immediate results and transactional integrity are very different from those that need complex analysis and long-running processing.
Insight Platforms as a Service
Remember how we noted data is going the way of the cloud? While there are no signs of this slowing down, there's another interesting trend unraveling, the so-called Insight Platforms as a Service (IPaaS). The thinking behind this is simple: if your data is in the cloud anyway, why not use a platform that's also in the cloud to run analytics on them, and automate as much of the process as possible?
Streaming becomes mainstream
The endless streams of data generated by applications lends its name to this paradigm, but also brings some hard to deal with requirements to the table: How do you deal with querying semantics and implementation when your data is not finite, what kind of processing can you do on such data, and how do you combine it with data from other sources or feed it to your machine learning pipelines, and do this at production scale?
The machine learning feedback loop
The pace of change is catalyzed and accelerated at large by data itself, in a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts: data-driven product -> more data -> better insights -> more profit -> more investment -> better product -> more data. So while some are still struggling to deal with basic issues related to data collection and storage, governance, security, organizational culture, and skillset, others are more concerned with the higher end of the big data hierarchy of needs.
Moving up the analytics stack
As descriptive and diagnostic analytics are getting commoditized, we are moving up the stack towards predictive and prescriptive analytics. Predictive analytics is about being able to forecast what's coming next based on what's happened so far, while prescriptive analytics is about taking the right course of action to make a desirable outcome happen.
Photos: How FC Barcelona uses football player data to win games
FC Barcelona is focusing on data analysis to give it an edge on the soccer field and at the bank.
A graph is a graph is graph? RDF vs LPG
Not all graphs are created similar. Here are the main differences between RDF and LPG, as presented by Jesus Barrasa, Director Telecoms Practice, Neo4j: http://bit.ly/howSemanticIsYourGraph
Photos: Zuckerberg offers glimpse inside Facebook's cavernous Arctic datacenter
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
Super Bowl 50: Big tech bringing top talent to keep fans entertained, connected
Estimates peg more than one million people will visit Super Bowl City alone in the two weeks leading up to Super Bowl Sunday. No word yet on how many Instagrams of burritos and palm trees that could produce.
Presenting the 20 dumbest Ashley Madison passwords, in no particular order
Ashley Madison users have many priorities. Apparently, an airtight password is not one of them.
How to dominate at any tech job using spelling bee tips
Letter rip: Lessons any high-tech office warrior can learn from the teenage word masters of the National Spelling Bee
AT&T hauling cows, cheese wheels and a giant eyeball to Outside Lands
The annual Outside Lands music and food extravaganza marks the first occasion where AT&T is deploying all three of the biggest wireless tools in its arsenal at a single festival.
AI is not neutral but this software solution can help reduce the bias
Rooting out implicit bias in AI is fundamental to ensuring an equitable society. Is it even possible? Samasource's AI Bias Detection says it is.
Business pressures of the pandemic hit IT departments hard
As demand for new services is rising, budgets are falling. Business pressures of the COVID-19 crisis are falling at the feet of CIOs and IT.
Construction tech startup gets boost with COVID-19 pandemic
Pandemic continues to spur rapid technology adoption and investment in construction.
Companies generate large troves of data but most of it goes to waste, survey
A new survey from Seagate and IDC reveals what challenges enterprises will need to address before they can better leverage the data they're collecting
How bad data management botched the US COVID-19 financial assistance plan
According to the GAO, 1.1 million payments went to dead people to reach that $1.4 billion tally, but the crux of the issue is data management across the US government.
Singapore looks to ease privacy fears with 'no internet' wearable device
Slated to be ready for rollout later this month, wearable devices the country is developing for COVID-19 contact tracing will not have GPS, internet, or cellular connectivity, so data can only be extracted when the device is physically handed over to the Health Ministry.
Commonwealth to move public prosecution evidence management into the cloud
The SaaS platform will be used for complex criminal prosecutions.
APAC consumers have concerns about online privacy, but let it go for freebies
More than half of consumers in Asia-Pacific are concerned about protecting their online and physical lives, but 20% are willing to offer their personal data for free products or services, while 24% share their social media details for quizzes.
Data security startup Dathena snags $12M in Series A
Singapore-based data security startup Dathena rakes in $12 million in its Series A round, which will be tapped to boost its R&D work and expansion plans in the US market, where it has a sales partnership with Microsoft.
Singapore consumers trust their emotions more than data, technology
Over half of consumers in the country make decisions based on personal experience and intuition, with 67% expressing concerns their data may be disclosed publicly.
How to manage the increase in cloud demand? This is Microsoft's plan
Microsoft officials say they've been taking some behind-the-scenes steps to try to head off current and future cloud capacity issues.
Slack expands data residency program to Australia
It comes after the program was introduced in Germany, France, and Japan.
How data is making the EMS to emergency room hand-off easier
ESO Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brent Myers outlines how structured data from EMS calls are informing COVID-19 responses and protective gear needs. 5G may also bring doctors into the ambulance via video calls in the future. Read more: https://zd.net/2VaHeJ3
Microsoft reports a 775% increase in demand for cloud services
Microsoft is sharing more guidance around capacity limits it is putting in place for its cloud resources caused by higher-than-usual demand due to COVID-19.
California law enforcement shares citizens' vehicle data without controls, audit finds
An audit from the State of California reveals that license plate tracking by law enforcement seems a touch wayward.
PDF-eXPLODE
For standard invoices and reports requiring efficient delivery, PDF-eXPLODE could well be a lifesaver. It can be a bit touchy on occasion, but once your document templates are set up properly it should be plain sailing.
InterSystems launches CACHÉ 2007
InterSystems launches CACHÉ 2007, the latest update to their post-relational database product.
IBM DB2 9
IBM's DB2 database adds several powerful new tools in version 9 including native XML support and DB2 Developer Workbench, and offers serious competition to Oracle and Microsoft.
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