All articles by CBR Staff Writer

CBR Staff Writer

Cybersecurity

Set-Top Box TV Streaming Device Vulnerability Lets Hackers into Your TV and Private Data

Entire customer database of personal info and financial details were at risk.

Hardware

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7: Bug Fixes and More in the New Beta

Lots of bug fixes and a handful of new features

Data

Segment’s President on Tripping Up Early, Growing a Unicorn, Loving GDPR and Customer Data

“I don’t think you can be successful and grow a company if you’re not looking at data in a company.”

Analysis

IBM Confirms Job Cuts

IBM: We’re hiring aggressively in new areas

Cybersecurity

Entrust Datacard Wraps Up nCipher Acquisition

Terms have not been disclosed

Data

The Urban Computing Foundation: What’s It All About?

More smart city hype – or the seeds of something new?

Cloud

Google to Buy Business Intelligence Startup Looker for $2.6 Billion

Two companies already share 350 customers including Buzzfeed

AI and automation

Amazon’s New Delivery Drone: Five Key Things We Know So Far

“Millions of simulations to verify that any situation is covered”

Cybersecurity

Three Slack Plugins for WordPress All Suffer Serious Security Flaw

Beware Wordpress plugins…

Finance and procurement

The Cloudera Bloodbath Continues: CEO Quits, Customer Churn Spikes, Stock Tanks

“During this period of uncertainty, we saw increased competition from the public cloud vendors”