eWEEK Staff

Today’s topics include Red Hat launching Fuse 7 and Buildah 1.0 for advanced application development, and a new ENCRYPT bill to create national encryption rules.  Red Hat is boosting its application development efforts with Fuse 7 and Buildah 1.0, which will help developers build and integrate cloud-native container applications.  With version 7, Red Hat is […]

Today’s topics include IBM announcing Summit, which it claims is the world’s most powerful scientific supercomputer, and Google introducing sole-tenant nodes for enterprise cloud customers. On June 8, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory unveiled IBM’s Summit supercomputer and immediately billed it as the “world’s most powerful and smartest scientific supercomputer.” With […]

Today’s topics include Facebook’s recent data sharing scandal possibly resulting in new regulations, and Motorola releasing its Moto Z3 Play smartphone. Recent disclosures about Facebook sharing data with Chinese cell phone maker Huawei is getting close scrutiny from Congress, which could result in significant regulations on the technology industry. While the situation with Huawei was […]

Today’s topics include Oracle moving legacy app customers to the cloud through its Soar program, and Nvidia building the Isaac platform for intelligent robots. On the opening day of chief rival SAP’s SAPPHIRE conference, Oracle introduced its new Soar program, which encourages business application customers to shift to the cloud faster from the company’s legacy, […]

Today’s topics include Microsoft acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion, and Apple upgrading iOS and introducing macOS Mojave. Microsoft is acquiring GitHub for $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock, the companies announced Monday. GitHub’s popular code repository service is home to many open source projects and is popular with developer teams. The transaction, which is expected to […]

Today’s topics include IDC reporting surging revenue growth for server makers as well as predicting a drop in global smartphone shipments in 2018 but a rise again in 2019. The global server market is continuing to expand due in part to demand from large cloud service providers and the rise of modern workloads such as […]

Today’s topics include rumors of Google’s Pixel 3 smartphones, and Microsoft releasing performance-enhanced .NET Core 2.1. The next generation of Google Pixel smartphones, likely to be called the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, are rumored to be coming this October, according to Bloomberg. The larger Pixel 3 XL could include an almost edge-to-edge screen […]

Today’s topics include a U.S. government report warning about a lack of security tool use, and Google claiming its Pixel 2 encryption prevents even privileged attacks. In a 51-page report to the president publicly released May 30, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security detailed the status of botnet threats and […]

Today’s topics include two Canadian banks reporting customer data breaches, and Google and AT&T offering a combined connectivity option for cloud customers. Two Canadian banks reported on May 28 that they are investigating alleged data breaches that could impact up to 90,000 customers. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce’s Simplii Financial division reported that approximately […]

As the tech world adjusts to the General Data Protection Regulation passed by the European Union that went into effect May 25, several services are now threatened, including the public blockchain that tracks crypto-currency transactions and the internet’s “WHOIS” domain name identification function. Using blockchain, which is basically a digital ledger, to store personal information […]