Ab September will HP Notebooks der Elitebook-Serie mit einem Privatsphäre-Filter versehen. Die integrierte Displayschicht verhindert auf Knopfdruck die Sichtbarkeit für neugierige Nachbarn. (Business-Notebooks, Mobil)
Quelle: Golem
Beim Verbinden eines Kindle E-Book-Readers per USB-Kabel kann es zu einem Totalabsturz von Windows 10 kommen. Ursache ist vermutlich das Anniversary Update. Ein aktueller Patch korrigiert den Fehler wohl nicht. (Windows 10, Microsoft)
Quelle: Golem
Sowohl für das Nexus 5 als auch das Nexus 7 der zweiten Generation gibt es erste Portierungen von Android 7.0 alias Nougat. Noch funktioniert nicht alles, aber es dürfte nicht lange dauern, bis Android 7.0 auf den von Google nicht unterstützten Geräten einwandfrei läuft. (Android 7.0, Google)
Quelle: Golem
Ab der Ifa 2016 soll die Deutsche Telekom einem Bericht zufolge Apple Music als Streamingoption für Mobilfunkverträge anbieten. Bisher wird nur Spotify auf diese Weise vermarktet. Möglicherweise sind weitere Mobilfunkanbieter dabei. (Apple Music, #Cloud Computing)
Quelle: Golem
Ein neuer Angriff auf TLS- und VPN-Verbindungen betrifft alte Verschlüsselungsalgorithmen wie Triple-DES und Blowfish, die Daten in 64-Bit-Blöcken verschlüsseln. Der Angriff erfordert das Belauschen vieler Gigabytes an Daten und dürfte damit nur selten praktikabel sein. (SSL, Browser)
Quelle: Golem
Reparaturdienste berichten von flackernden Displays beim iPhone 6 und iPhone 6 Plus sowie Ausfällen des Touchscreens. Vermutet werden Konstruktionsfehler, die zur Beschädigung der Elektronik führen. Es könnte sich um ein Bentgate 2.0 handeln. (Bentgate, Display)
Quelle: Golem
Canon bringt mit der EOS 5D Mark IV das nächste Modell seiner Kleinbild-DSLR auf den Markt. Der Sensor erreicht eine Auflösung von 34 Megapixeln und kann auch zum Filmen von 4K-Videos eingesetzt werden. Die Kamera wird allerdings teuer. (Canon, DSLR)
Quelle: Golem
You can now run Tomcat applications with an Nginx proxy server in your AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments. Previously, you could only run an Apache proxy server with Tomcat.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com
Posted by Ines Envid, Product Manager
The promise of public cloud networking is about securely meeting the demand of customers even if your needs grow more quickly than expected.
To address this challenge, today we’re introducing expandable subnetworks, a new capability that lets you quickly and efficiently expand your subnetwork IP space without disrupting running services. This enables more efficient control of your network as the compute resources and number of users on your network grow.
In addition, you can extend your Google Cloud Platform subnetwork both geographically (diagram 2 below: growing across new regions) and within an existing region (diagram 3 below). You don’t have to make irreversible IP allocation planning decisions up front.
Our existing subnetwork capabilities already allow you to extend your private space across additional regions as needed. Now, with the introduction of expandable subnetworks, you can also extend the IP ranges of pre-configured subnetworks without any impact to existing instances and workloads. That means you can accommodate additional compute capacity within your existing subnet simply by expanding your IP ranges — without the need to reconfigure or recreate your existing workloads.
To illustrate the power of subnetworks, let’s consider three situations.
Specify deployment regions while enjoying a global private space
Consider an initial deployment that requires your application to run only in the US West and US Central regions. It’s possible to decide based on your requirements to host your applications exclusively in those specific regions.
Further, you can now customize the IP ranges of networks with regional subnetworks. The IP range configuration model provides maximum flexibility by allowing several subnetworks within the network to be configured with IP ranges that don’t need to be aggregated at the network level. Each subnetworks is configured regionally, covering between two and four different availability zones, depending on the region, allowing workload mobility across zones keeping a persistent IP address.
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Grow your Virtual Private Cloud with subnetworks in new regions
Assume that customer demand now requires you to grow in the US East and Europe West regions. You can easily add new subnetworks in those regions within the same network by configuring a new IP range that’s non-contiguous with IP ranges in other regions.
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Expand the size of your subnetworks in existing regions non-disruptively
You can now resize your subnetworks without disruption as demand for your application grows. No need to delete existing instances or services configured in that subnetwork. Simply grow in each region as your business grows without additional planning.
In the example below, the IP ranges in US West and US Central are experiencing additional growth and require additional compute capacity. In order to accommodate that additional capacity, the IP range can be expanded from a subnetwork with a prefix mask of /20 to a prefix max of /16 without having to reconfigure existing workloads. Machines using the same subnet in a region can be configured in any of the availability zones in that region. In this case, two machines in 10.132/16 in us-central1 are configured in two availability zones (A and B). This network flexibility is the byproduct of Google’s SDN.
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Google Cloud Virtual Network allows you to have complete control over your virtual networking environment, including selection of your own IP address range, creation of subnets and expansion of those subnets across regions and within region.
GCP provides you with the elasticity to expand your network in the regions where your applications grow. These new features are available now and you can start using them today. And if you’re not already running on GCP, be sure to sign up for a free trial.
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Josh Brener (left) with Soylent CEO Rob Rhinehart.
William Alden / Via BuzzFeed News
The press event could have been a scene from HBO’s Silicon Valley. At least, that's what the reporters who showed up were supposed to think, waiting for the CEO of Soylent in a Silicon Valley parking lot.
Rob Rhinehart, CEO and co-founder of the Los Angeles-based meal-replacement startup, arrived in a white truck emblazoned with the company’s logo, alongside the actor Josh Brener, who plays the character Nelson Bighetti, or Big Head, on Silicon Valley. The truck, too, was an inside joke: Cartoon Soylent trucks appear in the show&039;s opening credits, and Rhinehart said that inspired him to make one in real life.
The entrepreneur and actor were touring California’s actual Silicon Valley to pitch Soylent&039;s latest products, out this month: Coffiest, bottled nutrient sludge combined with coffee, and Food Bar, a caramel-flavored slab of soy protein, algal flour, and isomaltulose. By the time they pulled into the parking lot in Holbrook-Palmer Park, they had already visited eBay and Google X (officially known just as “X,” the “moonshot factory” of Google’s parent company, Alphabet), to hand out product samples and pose for selfies. Later that afternoon, they were scheduled to visit GoDaddy.
Rhinehart
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If Rhinehart is among the weirdest CEOs in the tech world — he sells food whose brand alludes to dystopian sci-fi, he has blogged about getting rid of his fridge and giving up laundry, and he had a brush with the law this summer after installing a shipping container on a small piece of land he owns on an LA hilltop (as an “experiment” in housing) — then Brener is perhaps his perfect celebrity pitchman. The shaggy-haired actor approached the role of shill with a polished deadpan. You almost couldn&039;t tell whether he liked the product — or had even tried it.
“I don&039;t drink Coffiest, because caffeine makes me a monster, but Food Bar is delicious,” Brener, 31, said. “I had it for breakfast and will probably have it for the rest of the meals for my entire life.”
Later, he took a sip of the caffeinated goop. “That&039;s really friggin&039; good!” he said. “I shouldn&039;t sound so surprised.”
“Everyone expects it to be bad,” Rhinehart replied.
At another point, the slightly built Brener said, “I like to use Soylent as a post-gym recovery drink. It gives me the protein I need to bulk up.”
Brener.
William Alden / Via BuzzFeed News
“Silicon Valley has its finger on the pulse,” Brener said. “Soylent is coursing through the veins of this great township.”
This reporter&039;s attempts to ask normal questions — Is Soylent paying you? How much? — were futile. Rhinehart and Brener, who wore Soylent windbreakers that Velcroed up the front, are friends (they met through Rhinehart&039;s sister, a filmmaker). They shoot skeet together in LA. On Tuesday, they did a jokey friend routine.
“All my meals for the next — what is it, 300 years? — are taken care of,” Brener said, sitting at a table on a sun-baked dirt patch near the park&039;s Fitness Cluster.
“Or death, whichever comes first,” Rhinehart added.
So, that&039;s payment in Soylent?
“You wouldn&039;t pay an elephant in anything but peanuts,” Brener said.
What did he and Rhinehart do at the mysterious Google X?
“We handed out product, we stole company secrets,” Brener said. “They came by and hung out with us and told us what they were working on, in great detail.”
The whole thing was layered thick with irony. Even the visit to Google involved a wink or two: In Silicon Valley, Brener&039;s character works for a Google-like company, and previously, in the 2013 comedy The Internship, Brener played a Google employee. When Hollywood imagines a comical Googler, it sees Brener.
Brener on Silicon Valley.
HBO / Via hbogo.com
His TV show, packed full of inside jokes and references, seems at times like it&039;s tailor-made for the Soylent-drinking tech set. It&039;s satire, sure, but it&039;s gentle enough to be widely beloved among the young strivers and the power players of Silicon Valley, as BuzzFeed News&039;s Nitasha Tiku has written. Brener&039;s character, in theory, represents one of the show&039;s more pointed jokes, a slacker who manages to make millions without lifting a finger. But real-life Big Heads eat it up.
“It is shocking the number of people who are like, &039;Dude, I&039;m your character&033; I just sit around and do nothing and get paid for it,&039;” Brener said. “Which is sort of disheartening.”
Brener isn&039;t the only Silicon Valley actor to moonlight in the tech sector. Kumail Nanjiani, who plays Dinesh in the show, has shilled for the e-commerce startup Jet.com. This is the sort of convenient windfall can arise when you set out to mock a popular industry that has wealth. There&039;s nothing wrong with it, per se, but it does show how closely tied this satirized tech world is to the real one.
Or as Brener put it, “Who doesn&039;t like getting ribbed? Trojan built a whole empire on being ribbed.”
“I do think it shows great, not self-awareness, but at least a levity, that you embrace the satire instead of fighting against it,” Brener added later, getting serious. “People here are really big fans of the show and enjoy having that crossover.”
Coffiest.
Soylent
The people who make Silicon Valley like to talk about how realistic it is. In doing research, the show&039;s writers have to act almost like venture capitalists, searching for themes that will be relevant in a year&039;s time, when episodes finally air. Brener relayed an anecdote about a neighbor who found the show hard to watch because it was “too close to home.”
But the weirdness of the real tech world, embodied in Rhinehart, is sometimes too out-there for the show. A group of Silicon Valley writers once met with Astro Teller, the head of Google X, according to a recent New Yorker article, but when an annoyed Teller tried to leave the meeting in a dramatic huff, he ended up wobbling away on his Rollerblades. They didn&039;t use the joke because it was too “hacky,” the article says.
A joke like that “doesn&039;t feel real,” Brener said. “It&039;s so insane, it&039;s so bonkers.”
Brener and Rhinehart.
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Minutes earlier, Rhinehart had given a small speech about his shipping container project, which was supposed to be an experiment in sustainable housing. Neighbors complained about the metal eyesore and said it attracted vandals. City prosecutors charged Rhinehart with violations including unpermitted construction. He removed the container and wrote a blog post offering his “sincerest apologies.”
But on Tuesday, Rhinehart said he wanted to try again.
“Hopefully by next year I&039;ll have four or five containers on the land,” he said.
He explained how he would arrange them on his quarter-acre property on top of the hill. “Where there&039;s a will,” he said, “there&039;s a way.”
Quelle: <a href="An Afternoon In The Park With The Soylent CEO And A Star Of "Silicon Valley"“>BuzzFeed
