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BitTorrent tracker blocks Windows 10 users Summary:   If you use BitTorrent a lot, you may want to re-think moving to Windows 10.  BitTorrent sites are starting to block Windows 10 users.Windows 10 is quickly gaining fans. Some of them, however, are growing distrustful of Windows 10's privacy settings. Some BitTorrent sites don't trust Windows 10 at all. So, at least one BitTorrent tracker, iTS, has blocked Windows 10 users from accessing torrents from their site. Others are considering banning Windows 10 users. In a YouTube video, iTS proclaimed that " Windows 10 is nothing more than a spy tool that will keep track of every action, email, conversation, video, picture, or anything else that you do on your computer." iTS based its position largely on Microsoft's new unified services and privacy agreements , specifically the clause which states that, "We may automatically check your version of the software and download sof...

Intel's radical Optane next-gen SSD ​Intel teased their new Optane SSD this week, saying it's 7x faster than flash SSDs, with much longer life, using a radical new memory they call 3D Xpoint.  A couple of weeks ago Intel and Micron jointly announced their Xpoint - pronounced "cross point" - memory. Offering few details they claimed 3D XPoint technology combines the performance, density, power, non-volatility and cost advantages of all available memory technologies on the market today. The technology is up to 1,000 times faster and has up to 1,000 times greater endurance than NAND, and is 10 times denser than conventional memory. 3D Xpoint is the technology inside the Optane drive. At last week's Flash Memory Summit , semiconductor analysts Jim Handy and Dave Eggleston , whose work I respect, offered their educated guesses on the Xpoint technology. I'm stealing freely from both. What is it? Xpoint is a form of res...

Microsoft's third Windows 10 cumulative update said to fix Store issues Summary:   Microsoft officials say the latest Windows 10 cumulative update fixes problems some users were having with Windows Store. What else is in it? We have no idea.Microsoft rolled out late on August 14 the third cumulative update for Windows 10 since the product began rolling out to users on July 29. The newest cumulative update is KB3081438 . The Microsoft Support page says nothing about the specific features and fixes that are new to this update beyond "This update includes improvements to enhance the functionality of Windows 10." But a Microsoft spokesperson did let me know that the new update is designed to fix the Windows 10 Store issues which had been affecting a number of us Windows 10 users for the past week. A number of us were unable to access the Store, obtain app updates and/or download new apps. In some cases, Windows Store apps like Mail...

Samsung to supply AMOLED panels to Huawei Summary:    Samsung Display is reportedly said to be providing AMOLED panels to Chinese smartphone maker Huawei in a bid to diversify its customer base. Samsung Display, one of the world's largest producers of OLED displays, is looking for new clients on the back of the fading glory of South Korean brands. After several Chinese smartphone brands, including Meizu and Oppo, have already adopted the AMOLED panels into their handset products, the Korean panel company is now eyeing even bigger fish in China, and has began sending AMOLED panel samples to Huawei, according to a Chinese report on Tuesday. Shipment numbers remain small at the moment, but are expected to climb in the following months after Huawei finishes testing of the first-batch products, according to the report. Teaming up with Huawei is a major step for Samsung Display given that t...

News, entertainment sites hotbed for serving malware ads, from statistics Summary:   More than half of "malvertising" attacks come from news and entertainment sites.Hackers and malicious actors are increasingly targeting online ad networks as a means to infect users, a new report says. A new report by Bromium, a Cupertino, Calif.-based firm with a commercial stake in the security space and a research unit, says more than half of these "malvertising" attacks originate from news and entertainment sites that inadvertently display infected online ads. Bromium has created technology called micro-virtualization, which is designed to sandbox various threats and malicious code. The company is venture backed and counts Andreessen Horowitz and Intel Capital among its investors. NBCSports.com, Weather.com, and CBSNews.com were named in the report as "attractive" targets for hackers. "In a classic malvertisement attack, ...

Google releases Kubernetes 1.0: Container management will never be the same Summary:   Google's open source container deployment and management tool is ready for general use in production environments. At OSCon , Google announced that Kubernetes , its open source container deployment and management tool, was ready for the big time -- general use in production environments -- by releasing Kubernetes 1.0 . Google wants Kubernetes to be in every one's cloud, and with the 1.0 release it's already well on its way. Chances are many of you don't know Kubernetes, but the odds are even greater that you use it every day. That's because every time you run a Google program -- Search, Gmail, Google Docs, whatever -- you are running it in Google's own container technology, lmctfy (Let Me Contain That For You) . The program that created and managed these billions of containers is Kubernetes. Sounds pretty darn production ready ...

Windows 10-Insiders get final version Summary: Microsoft Windows 10 finished before launch and started the roll-out of the final version to Windows Insiders. Microsoft Windows 10 finalized. Build 10 240 is called the RTM version will be sent out to manufacturers, though Microsoft refuses to use that name themselves. That is not surprising since the company's Windows "as a service" launches and therefore is not really there can be a final version. Even as Microsoft is already working on updates when the OS on July 29 will officially. Ordinary users will Windows 10 only resume in July 29 may install, but who is registered on the Windows Insiders program - and in recent months has already tested the various preview builds - the finale can build 10 240 already installed. Microsoft rolls out the build are already looking forward to Insiders to test the update process runs smoothly. Only existing Insiders get the update, it does not bring on you to re...

What's next for Bing? Summary: And while many of us expected hardware/devices to be first to bear the brunt, Bing was where the leadership team tightened the screws. Not Bing the search engine, but the broader, extended Bing and advertising platforms. In the wake of some belt-tightening, what's next for Microsoft's search and advertising platforms? Last week, we learned of some of the "tough choices" that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella had warned would be coming as Microsoft began its fiscal 2016. Microsoft handed off its display advertising business (and possibly 1,000-plus of its employees working in that business) to AOL. The company also opted to get out of the map-data-collection business and sold off those assets and about 100 employees to Uber ; its new strategy is to license/display other companies' mapping data. These moves are part of Microsoft's attempt to streamline and focus Bing -- a core part of Microsoft's Applications a...

Ubuntu Intel Compute Stick arrives but specs lag behind Windows Summary: The Ubuntu version of the Intel Compute Stick will be released next week but comes with significantly less memory and storage than the Windows version. From next week you will be able buy a desktop PC that fits in your hand and runs the open source operating system Ubuntu.The Intel Compute Stick is a PC the size of a long memory stick that plugs into a monitor or TV, effectively allowing you to carry a desktop in your pocket. The Intel Compute Stick  Image The Windows version of the stick was released earlier this year, and the Ubuntu version will go on sale next week - but has half the memory and one quarter the storage of the Windows stick. The specs put the 1GB Ubuntu stick above the minimum requirements for the operating system, yet there is disagreement over whether a 1GB machine can run the desktop edition of Ubuntu smoothly. Even the official guidance for desktop edition recommends 2GB ...

Mobile news aggregator Circa closes as media disruption continues Summary: Even news organizations without reporters are finding it hard to continue. Circa, a news aggregation service for smartphone users has closed, a further casualty in the ongoing disruption in the media industry. News app Circa, once a media darling for its mobile-first approach, has announced that it is going on an "indefinite hiatus" after it was unable to find someone to buy the company. In a Medium post entitled "Farewell to Circa News," CEO Matt Galligan admitted that while they had succeeded in their goals of making a high-quality mobile news platform, Circa had failed to become a viable business. Foremski's Take: Producing a "high-quality news platform" is hard, as Circa CEO Matt Galligan says it is but Circa had it easy, it didn't have any reporters writing original stories, it pulled together stories from several major news sites which had journalists on...