Amazon starts our day again, with two new announcements. First, the Elastic File System is now “production ready” in three regions. Also, SNS Messages can now deliver SMS messages worldwide. Thankfully, Twilio was able to have their IPO just before this news, otherwise that could have been a much different outcome. At Ayende @ Rahien… Read More Geek Reading June 30, 2016 #1139
It has been a while, but some security news leads our day. First, The Next Web reports on 45M passwords being stolen from over 1100 VerticalScope forums. This has the potential to bleed into another password reuse hack like we have seen lately. Sentry has an excellent post about a security incident that they had… Read More Geek Reading June 17, 2016 #1130
One of my favorite topics is company culture and how it can save or kill a company. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about the potential of relocating your company and the possible change of employee mindset from loyalists to mercenaries. In the world of data, we have two very good posts. On KDnuggets, we have… Read More Geek Reading June 30, 2015
Well, there was one really big story today, health insurer Anthem being hacked. A huge number of records with personal information. Definitely keep an eye on that story as it develops. Flowing Data gives us some more excellent data visualizations, one regarding the percentage female population in some other countries and one regarding the measles… Read More Geek Reading February 6, 2015
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