Industria

Protecting Yourself From Spectre, Meltdown and other Speculative Execution (“SPEX”) Vulnerabilities Helping Akamai professionals protect themselves and the company from cyber-threats Protecting Yourself From Spectre, Meltdown and other Speculative Execution (“SPEX”) Vulnerabilities Three potentially damaging vulnerabilities code-named Meltdown and two variants of Spectre have been announced. These vulnerabilities are found within the architecture of processors used across a wide variety of devices including computers, tablets, and smartphones. Code to exploit these vulnerabilities is publicly available, and we can expect that more capable code will be released soon. For more information on the vulnerability, you can read the Akamai Blog post...

Biggest Dow winners and losers in 2017 Boeing shares have enjoyed a 90% gain in 2017, while venerable blue chip GE has languished Boeing The FAANG stocks — Facebook Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc., which have all generated a lot of buzz this year — can take a seat in coach class because the biggest gainer on the Dow Jones Industrial Average this year has outperformed the lot, even though it isn’t a Silicon Valley darling but an old-economy company with origins dating back to 1916. Boeing Co. BA, -0.49% , the commercial...

Ripple has soared a staggering 35,000% in 2017 AFP/Getty Images Ripple coins were on the rise on Friday, as the cryptocurrency sector mounted a rebound on the final weekday of 2017. The prominent crypto asset, which earlier in December overtook bitcoin rival Bitcoin cash, is now eclipsing Ethereum’s Ether tokens as the most highly valued cybercurrency. Although much of the focus in 2017 has been on the stratospheric ascent of bitcoin BTCUSD, -5.14% up about 1,400% so far in 2017 in recent trade, Ripple has catapulted 280,000% in 2017, boasting a market value of nearly $74 billion, according to CoinMarketcap.com...

2018: Waiting for driverless cars to become a reality Technology and regulation are key hang-ups for the ‘killer app’ of artificial intelligence Silicon Valley has thrown its technological and deal-making weight behind getting humans away from the steering wheel, but will have to do what tech companies are typically least equipped for before real progress in driverless cars: wait. That’s because it is stubbornly hard to get artificial intelligence, a key component of driverless-car technology, mighty enough to parse out every situation that may arise on the road, to say nothing of technical difficulties that still prevent much more than...