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Why create a deep learning framework that doesn't use GPU acceleration by default? For Intel, it's part of a strategy to promote next-gen CPUs for machine learning

Google's Key Transparency project offers a model of a public lookup service for encryption keys

Nim compiles and runs fast, delivers tiny executables on several platforms, and borrows great ideas from numerous other languages

Google prides itself on its encryption efforts, but it lags behind Amazon and Microsoft in providing encryption tools for the cloud

The developer-centric alternative to Twitter and Facebook might give rise to something new—but it probably won't be a social network

Yahoo's internal continuous delivery system makes its open source debut, joining a crowded field

AT&T and Verizon would like nothing better than to push legacy unlimited data customers onto more expensive capped plans

Still in the early stages, the Fission framework turns any Kubernetes cluster into a system for delivering lambda architecture or serverless applications

Beam offers a high-level API and programming paradigm for streaming and batch systems

Admins, act now to avoid ransomware and other forms of extortion -- you won't likely get your data back even when you pay

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux is evolving into a credible alternative to running Linux inside Windows on VMs

The Google-grown language bests Dart and Perl, while Java, C, and Python slip

Though powerful and safe, Rust still can't overcome the typical inertia of software projects

The two open source tools check for cyptographic keys and other sensitive information in code saved on GitHub and offers warnings if secrets are at risk

Like Lisp, Lux runs on the Java Virtual Machine but promises more power and flexibility than its predecessors

Ransomware is lucrative, and attackers looking for new ways to extort enterprises are going after data stored on web and app servers, even SaaS apps

Forget expired TLS certificates; the lightweight Caddy web server handles Let's Encrypt certificates and redirects HTTP traffic by default

Machine learning and AI-related job offers outpace the number of searches conducted for them, according to job search engine Indeed

Major changes are coming to telecom, in the form of more mergers, less competition, and other regulatory shifts

The biggest losses were in datacenter hardware spending, but network security and wireless LAN saw major gains as cloud-first strategies come to the fore