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Silicon Valley is hoping technology can provide some relief from gun violence. Athena Security, a San Francisco-based AI company that utilizes computer vision for security applications, has announced implementation of an AI camera system it says can identify guns in crowds. The system is one of a  growing number of technologies  aimed at preventing gun crime. In addition to detection, Athena's cameras can also alert police to the presence of an active shooter, potentially reducing response time, according to the company. Wood High School in Warminster, PA, will be an early testbed for the technology. Though mass shootings in schools have  declined  since the 1990s, the threat has never loomed larger in the minds of concerned parents. Information on mass shootings (defined as an event in which four or more people are shot, not including the gunman) is notoriously difficult to track, but the  Gun Violence Archive  places the overall number of mass...

Sapho's Employee Experience Portal plans to use machine learning to monitor how an employee uses business applications and then dish out the most relevant information to them. Sapho is banking that machine learning will allow it to manage your personal enterprise applications so you don't have to. The company, which is focused on integrating enterprise applications into what it calls an Employee Experience Portal, plans to use machine learning to monitor how an employee uses business applications and then dish out the most relevant information to them. Time savings from Sapho's machine learning tools would come from less time searching, navigating various systems and completing work within legacy systems. Sapho estimates that employees spend one day a week searching enterprise systems for work information. Sapho's machine learning features are being rolled out with key features being in tech preview. Sapho's machine learning technology integrates with b...

FragmentStack can drive CPU usage up through the roof, jamming servers bombarded with malformed IP packets. Just the ideal vulnerability for DDoS attacks on Windows servers. Microsoft has fixed this week a vulnerability that can cause Windows systems to become unresponsive with 100% CPU utilization when bombarded with malformed IPv4 or IPv6 packets.The vulnerability is already well known in the Linux community as FragmentSmack, part of a duo of DDoS-friendly vulnerabilities, together with SegmentSmack. Both vulnerabilities allow an attacker to bombard a server with malformed packets to trigger excessive resource usage.The SegmentSmack ( CVE-2018-5390 ) vulnerability uses malformed TCP packets, while the FragmentSmack ( CVE-2018-5391 ) vulnerability relies on IP packets. Because of their consequences, both bugs were deemed ideal to integrate into DDoS botnets, and as a result, many Linux distros hurried to patch their systems. The Linux Kernel team patched both issues in...

Microsoft focuses on simplifying Skype after users find its calling and messaging 'overcomplicated'. Microsoft has redesigned Skype once again, after taking on customer complaints that the addition of features from Snapchat "overcomplicated" the app. As a result of user feedback, Microsoft has decided to kill off Highlights, a feature that let users post a collection of photos that friends could react to.Highlights was Skype's answer to Snapchat stories and came with its poorly received redesign a year ago aimed at making it more of a messaging app. Microsoft's experimentation with design changes "overcomplicated some of our core scenarios", including Skype's original purpose of making calls, according to Peter Skillman, director of design for Skype and Outlook. "Calling became harder to execute and Highlights didn't resonate with a majority of users. We needed to take a step back and simplify,"  he explained . Skype...

AIOps -- or artificial intelligence for IT operations -- may help take the complications out of the Ops side of things. " AIOps " may be another new mashed-up term for the  xOps  lexicon, but it appears to have captured the attention of many an IT manager. A new survey finds a majority of IT managers, 68 percent, are working with or considering AIOps, or artificial intelligence for IT operations. So, where does AIOps fit into the scheme of things? In a recent Forbes  post , Janakiram MSV outlined the following potential use cases for AIOps.AIOps may help IT managers "differentiate between legitimate signals and inconsequential noise," according to the authors of a recent  survey  from OpsRamp.  The survey finds nearly three-quarters (73 percent) are taking advantage of AIOps capabilities to gain more meaningful insights related to system alerts. Capacity planning:  "As enterprise workloads start to migrate to the cloud, cloud providers will...