LyteLoop Wants to Take Data Storage Beyond the Clouds Into Orbit Around Earth
Diminishing returns on costly data center investments—facilities already bulging at the seams—are engendering novel architectures for storing data. Early prototypes such as Microsoft’s submersible data center address cooling requirements ...Full Article
Ubuntu Core 20 Linux Gets Bolstered Security, Full Disk Encryption for Embedded, IoT
Canonical’s latest Ubuntu Core 20 Linux operating system now features several important security updates, including anti-malware and anti-hijacking technologies and full-disk encryption capabilities. The new version of Ubuntu Core ...Full Article
AI-Based Cyber Defenses Secure Drones From Zero-Day Attacks
Vulnerable to hacking, drones are getting another layer of defense via an AI-based cybersecurity approach that promises to shield the flying edge devices from zero-day attacks. SparkCognition, an industrial ...Full Article
Red Hat Bolstering Its OpenShift Kubernetes Security with Acquisition of StackRox
Red Hat is bringing deeper security capabilities to its popular Red Hat OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform through the acquisition of container and Kubernetes security vendor StackRox. The deal is ...Full Article
Proposed Expansion of Facial Recognition Use at U.S. Borders Slammed by ACLU
A proposed expansion in facial recognition technology use by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency to screen foreign travelers coming in or out of the United States ...Full Article
AI in Fintech, Technology and Academia Is Focus of Nascent U.S. Tech Council
Finding ways to bring AI more deeply into the business worlds of fintech, technology and academia is the mission of the new National Council for Artificial Intelligence (NCAI). Bolstered ...Full Article
Cyber Defenses Get an AI Boost
Greater access to big data and HPC resources are enabling enterprise use of emerging AI tools and machine learning models to help protect corporate networks and secure enterprise applications. ...Full Article
Open Source Survey Reviews Project Security and Sustainability Issues
A Linux Foundation report on trends in open-source software development assesses the factors driving contributors while urging more incentives to secure code and sustain community-based projects. The document, "Report ...Full Article
DoD Spending Bill for 2021 Seeks to Create New National Cybersecurity Czar
Funding for the creation of a new national cybersecurity director post within the Executive Office of the President is a key part of the latest spending authorization bill for ...Full Article
Survey: Kubernetes Deployments Can Be Hard to Navigate
A vendor survey of early Kubernetes adopters embracing cloud-native applications finds that high-maintenance microservices and API sprawl have created a new set of security and networking issues for some ...Full Article