Wednesday's letter from five US lawmakers urges Google to reconsider its "strategic partnership" with Huawei, claiming that the collaboration represents a potential threat to US national security. […]

The hackers were found targeting satellite organizations and a US defense contractor, probably for cyberespionage purposes, said Symantec, which traced the attacks to three computers based in China. […]

This suite from Trend Micro provides protection against viruses, ransomware, email scams, and phishing sites, keeps your social media feeds private, offers parental controls, and can even fix problems and optimize your Mac. […]

Still using your kid's birthday as your universal password? You're heading toward trouble. With a password manager, you can have a unique and strong password for every secure website. We've evaluated two dozen of the best password manager apps and services to help you choose. […]

Bitdefender warns of a fake VPN app called S5Mark that can actually fill your PC's web browser with online ads. It's usually bundled with free software packages distributed online. […]

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Managing human resources (HR) departments well requires efficiency in handling employee benefits, performance, and shift scheduling. We test top HR software solutions that can help companies better accomplish all of these tasks. […]

Email marketing tools are a vital part of today's digital marketing campaigns. With a robust set of features, including the ability to integrate with an expanding number of digital communication channels, email marketing tools are getting more sophisticated. […]

The G7 ThinQ hits the latest phone trends and includes signature LG features like a wide-angle camera and audiophile-quality sound for a solid alternative to flagships from Apple and Samsung. […]

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Harsh words from Sen. Wyden apparently compelled rival carriers to act, as AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile later pledged to wind down partnerships with third-party data aggregators, too. […]

Now, before handing your phone over to a friend or family member to borrow, activate Guest Mode on Datally. Plus, Daily Limit lets you easily keep tabs on your own use. […]

Verizon took the top spot in PCMag's Fastest Mobile Networks this year with the fastest download and upload speeds across the country. T-Mobile came in second to win the Southeast region. […]

Ookla's North American airport Wi-Fi rankings found that Seattle-Tacoma International has the fastest free Wi-Fi in the US and Canada with 103 Mbps download speeds. […]

According to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report, 20 percent of global mobile data traffic will be on 5G networks in 2023, led by North American uptake with 48 percent as US carriers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon charge toward 5G deployment. […]

The high-end discrete graphics cards will reportedly target the PC gaming market and data centers, putting pressure on AMD and Nvidia. Intel hired a former AMD exec to lead the effort. […]

Microsoft realizes you can use the sea as a giant heatsink and save a small fortune in cooling costs. […]

Originally announced in February 2015, Apple is giving up on trying to build the new facility. […]

Intel's domination will continue as Qualcomm is set to quit after just seven months of trying. […]

Only a few vendors are the best for routing your internet signals and storing your files at the office. Here are PCMag readers' top picks. […]

Data visualizations have pervaded nearly every aspect of today’s data landscape. Initially conceived of as a means of best presenting analytics results, data visualizations have evolved to affect everything from drag-and-drop approaches to data preparation to visual mechanisms for issuing queries. The ability to visualize data, their relationships to one another and connections to business objectives is central to the notion of data exploration, in which users manipulate these graphical representations for greater understanding of data’s overall meaning. Data visualizations are vital for exploring knowledge graphs, which determine relationships between even seemingly unrelated datasets to indicate their relevance to specific tasks.To read this article in full, please click her […]

Hybrid IT in the enterprise has emerged primarily as a response to devops. Enterprises with decades of investments in IT infrastructure, and a natural reluctance to store their data elsewhere, suddenly are forced to contend with a significant portion of their new infrastructure being in the cloud. Agile development needs have outpaced the capabilities of traditional infrastructure, driving demand for infrastructure as a service (IaaS).This impact of devops on the enterprise—driving the adoption of a cloud-traditional hybrid environment—is the obvious outcome. What is less appreciated is how the formation of hybrid IT can affect devops in turn.Change is a two-way street Enterprise requirements for scalability, resilience and security don’t disappear simply because of a desired increase in release velocity. Devops practices must be adapted for the enterprise as much as the opposite is true, because the enterprise can be encumbered by more regulations and possess more to lose than the digital disruptors that pioneered devops methods.To read this article in full, please click her […]

Zapcc, a caching C++ compiler built for speed, has gone open source.Ceemple Software, Zapcc’s builder, claims the compiler offers dramatic improvements in both incremental and full builds compared to building with Clang 4.0 and Clang 5.0. Based on heavily modified code from the Clang compiler project, Zapcc uses an in-memory compilation cache in a client-server architecture. All compilation information is remembered between runs.[ Discover 2017’s best open source software for enterprise: The Bossie Award winners. ]Zapcc works in an existing build and ignores precompiled headers, an approach that requires a project be built to precise headers rules. Precompiled headers also do not cache to the same extent as Zapcc. C++ modules are not standard, are rarely used, and do not support legacy code or C++ macros well, Ceemple said. C++ modules also require significant refactoring or they are slow.To read this article in full, please click her […]

What might the Node.js server-side JavaScript runtime look like today if founder Ryan Dahl could build it all over again? With his Deno project, a secure TypeScript runtime built on the same Google V8 JavaScript engine as Node.js, we get an idea.Open source Deno, which is not explicitly compatible with Node.js, is a minimal take on server-side JavaScript. One key difference between Deno and Node is Deno eliminates the need for a package manager. (Node.js uses the popular NPM package manager.) “There are no packages even,” Dahl said. “You only link to JavaScript files—like you do in the web.” Deno also cannot run Node scripts. It does use TypeScript, which Dahl views as being well-done and approachable. Dahl recently described Deno as being in an “extreme prototype” stage of development and cautioned against all but the most-diehard technical people from trying it.To read this article in full, please click her […]

Presenting to management is different than presenting to other technical staff. However, it shares a lot in common with good writing: Keep the audience in mind, keep your key points in mind, and focus on communicating them succinctly. Presenting to management is about realizing that you have a busy audience that wants to know the impact, cost, and risk of the plan, not every detail of it (knowing and taking care of those details is what they pay you for). Management wants to know that you thought this plan out, considered alternatives, and did the research (even though management doesn’t want to know all the details).To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story) […]