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Reuters/Mike Blake Amazon Web Services has over 100,000 partners, helping support its dominant cloud platform. Amazon says its tech, market position, and reach help partners like Splunk and Snowflake thrive. But some say working with AWS carries risks: Amazon doesnt hesitate to compete with its own allies. Amazons cloud unit has, over the last 15 years, built itself up into the dominant cloud computing player in the market. Amazon Web Services is now a $54 billion-...

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

Power to the People From the dawn of the semiconductor until the late 1980s it was commonplace for software to be completely open source. When you purchased a device, not only did you have the best Bakelite clad hardware, but also complete access to the code that made it run, allowing you to fine tune the product to its intended purpose. As computers became smaller and found their way into more walks of life, software became big business. As the value of the industry exp...

By Chris Riotta May 14, 2021 Responding to the surge in telework and corresponding demand for cloud services, the General Services Administration is considering a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement that would make cloud infrastructure, storage, software and services available to federal agencies and state, local and tribal governments. The agency is conducting market research, asking for comments on developing an enterprisewide cloud-based acquisition strategy to deliver pay-as-you-go s...

By GCN Staff May 14, 2021 As the Defense Department weighs migrating legacy applications to programming languages that are more secure and easier to maintain, it must ensure automated solutions deliver the best chance of success to justify the migration costs. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is asking small businesses to submit proposals to its Lifting Legacy Code to Safer Languages program. LiLaCSL aims to not only develop tools and methodologies to migrate legacy C/C++ code to s...

May 14, 2021 15:08 EDT with 2 comments ShareX is an open source program that lets you take screenshots or screencasts of any selected area with a single key, save them in your clipboard, hard disk or instantly upload them to over 80 different file hosting services such as Imgur, FTP, Dropbox, Mega and Pastebin. User can select any or all of these tasks to be automatically run after each screen capture: Add image effects: User can choose from over 37 image effects and apply multipl...

By Jenni Bergal May 14, 2021 A cybercriminal gang that breached the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department’s computer network in a ransomware attack published detailed information this week about nearly two dozen officers, including Social Security numbers and psychological assessments. The group, Babuk, already had posted on the dark web lengthy dossiers of several officers. It claimed it stole more than 250 gigabytes of data late last month and is threatening to release more info...

May 14, 2021 Small military units conducting hostage rescue, scouting and training missions depend on radio communications to coordinate actions with each other and their commanders. In some areas, such as in caves or jungles with heavy foliage, mobile radio frequency (RF) communications are difficult to sustain. In World War II, for example, radio communications in tropical jungles required the use of long strings of wire as a transmission medium. Recent developments in RF mobility gain – th...

By Andrew Churchill May 12, 2021 Under the Industries of the Future Act, Congress proposes to spend $10 billion on artificial intelligence, quantum computing and 5G over the next 10 years. Further, the recently released National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence report highlights how the AI revolution will impact the U.S. economy, national security and welfare. Recognizing the significance of these groundbreaking technologies is an important first step, but now comes the difficult ...

By Stephanie Kanowitz May 13, 2021 A cloud-based secure email gateway has helped the Oklahoma Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) decrease the threat from inbound ransomware messages and other malware. Although state government offices now receive about half a million email messages per day, compared to 372,000 per day last July, they were getting more than three times as many malware messages last year. “I think it’s because we didn’t have good email security in place,”...