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2017 in cybersecurity and privacy news

The Parallax

Ransomware, a particularly nasty form of malware that locks your computer until you pay off your attackers and has been around for decades, continued to wreak havoc in 2017. Margaret MacAlpine and Harri Hursti, voting machine researchers, appear with the AVS WinVote System at DefCon 25, July 30, 2017.

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Ultraleap’s mid-air haptics tempts Tencent to join its $82M Series D fundraising

TechCrunch

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. The underlying technology was based on post-graduate research from inventor – and still CEO – Tom Carter.

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PopSQL aims to be a modern data team’s best friend

TechCrunch

But what you often have to do next is save the query somewhere, send it to someone else so they can review it and make sure it’s good or if you make a data table or charts, have an easy way to share that.”. “The most basic task is connecting to the database, writing the query, then getting the results,” he added. PopSQL raised a $3.4

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Container Security – What Are Containers? – Part 1

Xebia

It could be from development to production or the testing environment (Paul Rubens, 2017, ref.2). A VM is the virtualization/emulation of a physical computer with its operating system, CPU, memory, storage and network interface, which are provisioned virtually. It can be installed on a large variety of operating systems.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. We’re skeptical about things like job displacement, at least in technology. This has been a strange year. What will those changes be?

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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. The mini game renaissance. For the past few years, Cocos has emerged as one of the main tools for building WeChat games.

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Make a resolution to clean up your digital act? Here’s how

The Parallax

Did you get hacked in 2017? That includes the operating system, the programs and apps that run on it, and the aforementioned Internet of Things. Tech companies often have extensive privacy policies written in dense legalese, but that doesn’t mean you should do your due diligence about a new product before buying it.