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	12 fun, free summer classes for techies Take a break from your day job and immerse yourself in baseball analytics. Or, escape to alien worlds, soak up superhero culture, and study the science of happiness. MOOCs are an easy way to feed your brain without draining your wallet. This summer, check out some fun, free, tech-friendly options from EdX, Coursera and newcomer Kadenze. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Use Analytics to Find the Insights Buried in Video Join IXP and IBM in this webinar and learn how intelligent video analytics can be a force multiplier for police, security, and risk officers. Learn More In this Issue IT workers replaced by foreign labor may regain federal benefit The rise of SSDs over hard drives, debunked Fourth-oldest dot-com domain now relegated to serving up scareware at $400 a victim Cyber-extortionists are liars IBM, Box partner on cloud analytics technologies Snowflake Computing opens data warehouse to the masses Samsung teams with Red Hat to build enterprise apps Amazon, eBay, Etsy to remove Confederate flag merchandise Docker offers enterprise support, software for containers Top 10 botnet targets in the U.S. and worldwide WEBCAST: IBM Use Analytics to Find the Insights Buried in Video Join IXP and IBM in this webinar and learn how intelligent video analytics can be a force multiplier for police, security, and risk officers. Learn More IT workers replaced by foreign labor may regain federal benefit The White House is trying to get Congress to restore coverage for service workers, and that may, once again, make displaced IT workers eligible for benefits. Read More The rise of SSDs over hard drives, debunked In spite of a recent report to the contrary, solid-state drives (SSDs) will not surpass hard disk drives (HDDs) in either price or capacity any time soon, according to industry analysts. In fact, hard drives will remain the dominant mass storage device in laptops and desktops for years to come. Read More Fourth-oldest dot-com domain now relegated to serving up scareware at $400 a victim Do not click on mcc … oh, wait, let's not even create a link here, lest someone be tempted. Do not go there. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Use Analytics to Find the Insights Buried in Video Join IXP and IBM in this webinar and learn how intelligent video analytics can be a force multiplier for police, security, and risk officers. Learn More Cyber-extortionists are liars The good news about cyber criminals who go in for extortion is that they also tend to be liars. The bad news -- they're extremely difficult to catch. Read More IBM, Box partner on cloud analytics technologies IBM and online storage firm Box have formed a wide-ranging cloud technologies partnership that will allow Box users to apply Watson Analytics know-how to their content while IBM customers can use Box's content collaboration platform. Read More Snowflake Computing opens data warehouse to the masses Snowflake Computing announced Tuesday that its cloud-based data warehouse service is available to all users. Read More WEBCAST: IBM Use Analytics to Find the Insights Buried in Video Join IXP and IBM in this webinar and learn how intelligent video analytics can be a force multiplier for police, security, and risk officers. Learn More Samsung teams with Red Hat to build enterprise apps Samsung is partnering with Red Hat to build mobile apps for business users, in a deal that recalls Apple's tie-up with IBM this time last year. Read More Amazon, eBay, Etsy to remove Confederate flag merchandise Amazon, eBay and Etsy have joined big retailers in removing Confederate flags and related items from their sites, in moves responding to increased vitriol over the symbol after a shooting last week at an African-American church in South Carolina. Read More Docker offers enterprise support, software for containers Organizations wishing to explore the use of Docker containers can now tap into commercial support, as well as some new software, to help them manage the new technology. Read More Top 10 botnet targets in the U.S. and worldwide In its new botnet research report, 'Safeguarding the Internet,' Level 3 uses its own threat intelligence, combined with other data feeds, to define trends in botnet behavior, DDoS attacks and malware. Read More
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