Latest news - IPv6.net

Tanium CEO’s Refreshingly Honest Take on the State of Internet Security
October 21, 2017 By Robert Hackett On Tuesday, the wood-smoke air of California’s wildfires descended on the Bay Area as cybersecurity professionals gathered at the Palace Hotel for an industry event. I spent the morning interviewing Orion Hindawi, CEO of Tanium, the world’s highest privately valued cyber startup (worth $3.75 million at last appraisal in May), for a fireside chat at his company’s second annual conference, Converge 2017. Hindawi has a no-nonsense approach to business–a suffer-no-fools attitude that landed him in the sights of a couple of unflattering stories about his management style earlier this year. (He later apologized for being “hard-edged.”) On stage the chief exec delivered his peculiarly unvarnished view of the state of Internet security. “The idea that we’re going to give you a black box and it auto-magically fixes everything, that’s a lie,” Hindawi told the audience. (One could almost hear a wince from part of the room seating his PR team.) “All I can tell you is we can give you better and better tooling every day. We can make it harder for ... Read more...
How Governments Can Be Smart About Artificial Intelligence
October 20, 2017 By Constance Bommelaer The French MP and Fields medal award winner, Cédric Villani, officially auditioned Constance Bommelaer de Leusse, the Internet Society’s Senior Director, Global Internet Policy, last Monday on national strategies for the future of artificial intelligence (AI). In addition, the Internet Society was asked to send written comments, which are reprinted here. * * * “Practical AI successes, computational programs that actually achieved intelligent behavior, were soon assimilated into whatever application domain they were found to be useful Once in use, successful AI systems were simply considered valuable automatic helpers.” Pamela McCorduck, Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence AI is not new, nor is it magic. It’s about algorithms. “Intelligent” technology is already everywhere — such as spam filters or systems used by banks to monitor unusual activity and detect fraud — and it has been for some time. What is new and creating a lot of interest from governments stems from recent successes in a subfield of AI known as “machine learning,” which has spurred the ... Read more...
Raffreddamento a liquido: i vendor puntano ai data center
October 20, 2017 By Gianluca Pisutu Le piastre (liquid cold plate) facilitano il contatto tra i componenti hardware ed il liquido agevolando la cattura del calore. Asetek, CoolIT e Chilldyne, seppur con scelte di design differenti, si affidano a tale soluzione. Data Center Knowledge (DCW) è tornato a parlare recentemente di soluzioni per il raffreddamento a liquido, affrontando la questione della loro difficile affermazione in ambito data center. Ne è un perfetto esempio il bilancio di Asetek che nella prima metà del 2017 ha fatturato circa 1.4 milioni di dollari contro i 21 milioni dei prodotti destinati alla fascia consumer (in particolare modo pc desktop per il gaming). Il CEO Andre Eriksen sembra tuttavia avere un asso nella manica e si prepara ad annunciare a breve (metà Novembre) una partnership (Intel?) che sarà in grado di rilanciare il business della compagnia nelle infrastrutture IT (game changer): The data center is where the biggest potential is long-term“In the longer perspective, I believe that data centers will be liquid cooled. Quanto potrebbe valere il business delle soluzioni a liquido nei data ... Read more...