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YouTube rules at VidCon, but still empty-handed on live mobile video

YouTube's CEO led the opening keynote at VidCon for the third year in a row, and though the online video giant had its 'best year ever,' its still lags behind competitors on key features such as live streaming on mobile devices.

Hortonworks ups its security and data governance game with HDP 2.5

Hadoop distribution vendor, Hortonworks, announced HDP 2.5 at Hadoop Summit, along with an expansion to its Partnerworks program and a reseller agreement with self-service BI on Hadoop specialist AtScale.

OpenSUSE comes to Linode

The announcement comes on the heels of the openSUSE Conference, where the growth was a key topic of discussion.rn

Obama, Zuckerberg push better broadband, innovative startups

Obama administration unveils new initiatives to promote global startups as Obama calls for broadband expansion and freedom of expression on the web.

Facebook COO launches Together Women Can campaign

Spreading awareness of the power of peer mentoringrn

Red Hat announces Ceph Storage 2

The software defined storage solution introduces Ansible based storage management and monitoring system.rn

Nearly 1 in 3 Azure virtual machines now run Linux

Microsoft is betting big on open source for cloud

macOS Sierra: First looks from around the web

The macOS Sierra developer preview is now in the hands of many bloggers and journalists. Find out what they are saying about macOS Sierra. Is it the best version of macOS yet?

Docker packs container orchestration within its Docker engine

Customers now donu2019t need orchestration tools like Kubernetes.rn

Instagram daily use nearly equals Twitter’s monthly rate

Instagram's daily active user base is close to Twitter's number of monthly users, and the gap between the companies continues to widen as Facebook, Instagram's parent, consolidates power through its family of popular apps.

Apple leads fight to ban rifle emoji

Apple and other technology companies have blocked the roll out of a rifle emoji for the Olympics. The decision has drawn some criticism from media outlets and users.

Google bumps up bounty on Android bugs

During the past year, Google paid more than half a million dollars to researchers who identified flaws in its mobile OS. In fact, the Android Security Rewards program has been so successful that Google increased related bug bounties.

Will government ‘IT special forces’ put CIO role in jeopardy?

As new units of IT experts take shape across departments and agencies to advance high-priority projects, lawmakers and a government watchdog warn that CIO authorities must be preserved.

Fedora 24 released, brings something for everyone

It comes with a great mix of enterprise, cloud and desktop technologies.rn

Apple purposefully avoids enterprise at WWDC

Enterprise definitely was not the star of Apple's show at WWDC last week. The company barely mentioned business users or developers during the opening keynote, but it did introduce several improvements that should have far-reaching implications

IBM leverages machine learning for hyper-local weather

New precision forecasts will help businesses in industries ranging from aviation and agriculture to energy generation and retail better respond to their environment.

Ethnic, gender imbalances plague computer science education

Amid a new report from BSA, quantifying the economic impact of the software industry, Obama administration officials stress importance of broadening access to programming instruction in K-12 schools.

Health IT adoption lags due to lack of patient interest

New Nielsen survey highlights slow rate of adoption and interoperability in health technology as patients donu2019t see the value of online scheduling, mobile apps and EMRs.

Microsoft’s big bet on LinkedIn not just about data

The initial shock of Microsoft's massive $26.2 billion bet on LinkedIn has mostly worn off, but it's still unclear just what Microsoft will do with LinkedIn, how the social network's loyal users will react to related change, and how Mi

Splice Machine releases dual-engine RDBMS to open source

The startup hopes to dramatically increase adoption of its dual-engine relational database management system, powered by Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, by making the technology open source.

GE Power taps IoT to reduce coal power plant emissions

Through Internet of Things analytics and optimization, GE says coal-fired steam power plants can reduce fuel consumption by 67,000 tons of coal per year, while maintaining the same megawatt output.

What Apple’s new open stance means for iOS apps

At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple this week empowered third-party developers to further integrate their apps with native iOS software. The changes should have significant impact behind the scenes of iOS and on iPhone users' sc

What Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro Tango phone means for AR

Lenovo this week announced the world's first smartphone that supports Google's Tango augmented reality platform. The Phab 2 Pro is a consumer-oriented device that ironically could help progress AR in the enterprise.

Biden says big data is key to fight against cancer

In ambitious bid to accelerate cancer diagnosis and treatment, vice president announces aggregated set of genomic and clinical cancer data.

GE to open new locations to develop Industrial Internet talent

New facilities in Atlanta, Miami and Providence are a first step in GE's efforts to attract and retain IT talent with a mix of technical, analytical and leadership skills.

Motion Stills: Google’s free app turns Live Photos into GIFs

Google releases a new app that turns your iPhone 6s or 6s Plus Live Photos into GIFs that loop forever, or you can opt to make them movies. Motion Stills also provides helpful stabilization algorithms.

SUSE Enterprise Storage 3 brings Ceph support

With SUSE Enterprise Storage, powered by Ceph, SUSE becomes the first company to offer a commercial storage solution that is based on the Jewel release of the open source storage platform.rn

MapR shows off enterprise-grade Spark distribution

With companies increasingly turning to Apache Spark to build their data pipelines and analytical applications, MapR Technologies has released an Apache Spark distribution that packages the complete Spark stack, patented features from the MapR Platfor

U.S. Cyber Command struggles to retain top cybersecurity talent

Top official in Defense Department's cybersecurity unit says organization is doing an u2018effective jobu2019 at recruiting, but keeping up with the evolving threat landscape remains a challenge.

7 things you need to know about the Galaxy S7 Active

Samsung's Galaxy S7 Active smartphone is water- and shatter resistant, and it's more stylish than past generations of ruggedized Galaxy S phones, but all potential GS7 Active buyers should consider these seven facts before making a purchase

HP’s OpenSwitch becomes a Linux Foundation Project

Yet another promising open source project goes to the Linux Foundation.rn

CoreOS takes on container storage with Torus project

Torus is a fully open source project by CoreOS, hosted on GitHub.rn

Federal CIOs need help with legacy-to-cloud transition

Government IT leaders stress value in private-sector partnerships, repeatable contracting provisions as they look to incremental modernization strategies.

Microsoft brings advanced security management to Office 365

Microsoft aims to give IT more visibility and control into Office 365 environments with advanced security features that leverage behavioral analytics and machine learning for threat detection.

Why I won’t use Dropbox’s Project Infinite if it’s not open source

If Dropbox wants to get into the kernel, they should open source their client side software so the community can audit their codern

U.S. CIO aims to cut legacy spending, proposes IT modernization

With three-quarters of all government IT spending going to support legacy systems, administration is seeking to borrow a page from private sector with a dedicated modernization fund.

Top emerging IT careers for recent college grads

It's that time of year when college seniors are graduating and entering the workforce. Recent graduates, or those who have entered the workforce over the last few years but may be interested in a career pivot, should explore options in IT. The t

Ansible 2.1 comes with Windows and Azure support

This is the second update to Ansible since Red Hat acquired it. rn

State Department argues against ‘cyber arms’ treaty

Senior State Department official says cyber is fundamentally different than any sort of conventional military or diplomatic arena, urges ongoing and multilateral development of u2018normsu2019 in global Internet talks.

Twitter’s tiny tweaks do little to address big issues

Twitter plans to make some changes to its social network later this summer, but the overdue modifications demonstrate the company's ongoing struggle to innovate.

Open source is a positive sum game, says Cloud Foundry CEO

Why Android on Chrome could have big impact on business

Businesses that have overlooked Chromebooks due to software limitations now have a new reason to reconsider their decisions. Chrome OS devices will soon be able to run Android apps.

Accenture aims to accelerate AI adoption

The global services company is creating a new artificial intelligence practice around IPsoft's Amelia cognitive agent, with an initial focus of deploying virtual agent technology for clients in the banking, insurance and travel industries.

Apprenda acquires Kismatic, releases a new Kubernetes distribution

The platform as a service provider gains container smarts

Google doubles down on the enterprise at I/O

Google says the enterprise represents a largely untapped opportunity for the company, and at this week's Google I/O conference it shared its strategy to corner the business market.

FCCs heavy-handed regulations splits party lines

Positions harden within the Federal Communications Commission as agency officials and lawmakers complain about heavy-handed regulation of cable sector.

CIO.com and Drexel to honor 50 analytics innovators (deadline extended)

Deadline extended to August 15. The Analytics 50, a collaboration between Drexel University's LeBow College of Business and CIO.com, will recognize 50 of the most innovative analytics executives.

FCC’s ‘relentless regulatory assault’ threatens cable industry

Former FCC Chair Michael Powell, who now leads cable's top trade group, warns that the commission's actions are creating a two-tier regulatory regime that favors tech firms over broadband providers.

Open Data Platform Initiative looks to ease fears

In an effort to address concerns that the ODPi is a vendor organization designed to exert undue influence on Apache Hadoop ecosystem projects, the Linux Foundation organization announced a gold sponsorship of the ASF.rn

Big data essential to cancer ‘moonshot’

Vice president Joe Biden says data analytics, common standards and cultural changes will be critical to success of administration's efforts to improve cancer treatment.