Wayne Rash

The successful launch of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy ushers in a new era of practical space operations for private industry. The view of Earth through the windshield of a Tesla roadster may represent one of the more important technological achievements in recent memory. The view, which happened while Elon Musk’s sports car was on its […]

By the time your employees have had their laptop computers for a few years, you’re bound to start hearing complaints that they’re too old to use productively.  Too old usually means that your employees think they’re getting too slow, that they’re tired of waiting for the computer to start up, for programs to execute or […]

It seems hard to believe that a major part of an enterprise would be left unprotected or nearly so and available on the open internet for anyone who looks for them or just happens upon them, but it’s true.  Worse, the number of such unprotected industrial control system (ICS) networks is growing every year, with […]

Microsoft Outlook wasn’t working properly, that much was clear. I was trying to write a quick email, but the text was lagging far behind my typing. Clicks on the menu bar weren’t responding. Then Outlook simply stopped working and aborted.  So I tried running the program again and it hung up during restart, then aborted. […]

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich directly addressed the questions about the security of Intel processors during the Intel earnings call on Jan. 25 even before reporting Intel’s strong results.  “We’ve been around the clock with our customers and partners to address the security vulnerability known as Spectre and Meltdown,” Krzanich said during the call. “While we […]

Frustrated users who found that their iPhones and iPads had been slowed down by Apple are about to get some relief. In an unusual action for a point release update to a mobile operating system, the company announced details on iOS 11.3, set to be released in the spring.  The new features include the much-demanded […]

It turns out that Intel’s fix for its processor security issues needs a fix of its own. In a statement released on Jan. 22, Intel senior vice president Navin Shenoy, reversed course in an update that tells Intel customers to stop applying patches to fix a speculative execution flaw, widely known as Spectre.  According to […]

The much anticipated short list of places that Amazon plans to evaluate as the location for its second headquarters is out and there are only a couple of surprises.  Perhaps the biggest surprise is that there are a few areas on that list that don’t really meet the web retailing giant’s stated requirements. The presumption here […]

Apple says it’s preparing to launch a massive business investment program that promises to make the company bigger than ever and become an even more powerful force in consumer and enterprise information technology.   This is going to happen because Apple announced today that the company is planning business investments that will contribute more than $350 […]

Opponents to the move by the Federal Communications Commission in December to undo the 2015 reclassification of internet services to Title II announced that a Republican lawmaker has joined the ranks of Senators who plan to vote in favor of a resolution overturning that action.  All 47 Democratic members of the Senate and the two […]

Enterprise IT administrators are dealing with a confusing array of patches and advice as they look for effective ways to fix the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities.  A growing number of reports say that the patches and updates have bugs—including at least one that’s causing serious issues—and now there are now reports that Intel is […]

When I wrote on Jan. 5 about ways to protect your computers from exploits related to two processor issues called Spectre and Meltdown, I mentioned that Microsoft had released Windows Update patches that would be applied either immediately or on the normal Patch Tuesday, Jan. 9.  As it turns out, not every Windows user received […]