Mit einem falsch konfigurierten Internetstandard in Linux lassen sich unverschlüsselte Internetverbindungen manipulieren. Auch das Tor-Netzwerk ist von dem Fehler betroffen. (Security, Server-Applikationen)
Quelle: Golem
Der Karma Revero ist das erste Auto des Fahrzeugherstellers Karma. Es soll vermutlich wieder ein Hybridauto werden, auch das Solardach des Fisker Karma wird beibehalten. (Elektroauto, GreenIT)
Quelle: Golem
On Wednesday afternoon, a man with four suction cups, a harness, and some rope began scaling Trump Tower in an attempt to meet with its proprietor.
Though the climber failed to get a personal audience with Donald Trump, he did succeed in creating another huge social livestreaming moment — a predictably successful one.
Social livestreaming is still in its infancy, but it’s quickly becoming clear that the videos that “go big” largely fall into two distinct categories: the horrifying and the absurd (with an element of suspense). Periscope is a little more than a year old, and Facebook Live a little less, and so far the streams that have captured the public’s attention seem to pendulum between death and baffling spectacle.
The Trump Tower climber was perhaps the perfect example of the latter. Full of absurdity (a man with suction cups was climbing a New York City skyscraper) and suspense (would he get apprehended? Or fall? Or unfurl a banner with a political message?), it’s no wonder its social livestreams did record numbers. CNN said the video was its most watched on Facebook Live, with over 5 million viewers.
An amateur Periscope broadcast of the incident reached over 200,000 concurrent viewers, a whopping number. And though Periscope won’t say whether that was its largest broadcast ever, a spokesperson said that around 25% of those who watched it stuck around the full stream. The stream lasted over an hour.
When you look back through social livestream history, you find more of the same. There was BuzzFeed’s exploding watermelon, an absurd and suspenseful video. And the #NoBillNoBreak congressional sit-in, which, while deeply serious, was also remarkable for the surprising and unexpected nature of a large gathering of politicians livestreaming their own sit-in. Indeed, when C-SPAN started airing Periscope and Facebook Live footage from the house floor, the moment became a watermark event for both platforms.
On the other end of the spectrum, there’s the horrifying. Social streams of shootings in the United States — such as aftermath of the police shooting of Philando Castile in Minnesota, Micah Johnson’s rampage against police in Dallas, and more — and the scenes of terrorist attacks in France, Belgium, Turkey, and elsewhere have struck a chord. They’ve been watched by many, incorporated into traditional media broadcasts, and turned social livestreaming into part of the story. For some, it’s become instinct to go live from the heart of devastation. Indeed, Diamond Reynolds, Castile’s girlfriend, did so right after her boyfriend was shot by a patrol officer.
Outside of these circumstances, little seems to move the needle for social livestreams. Yes, there was Chewbacca Mom. But that video was largely an outlier. Nothing has come close to its popularity, and the format (person in car laughing uncontrollably while wearing a grunting Star Wars mask) hasn’t proven itself as something that works for repeatable success.
But the fact that patterns are emerging at all bodes well for the future of social livestreaming, since they mean success (at least as far as the numbers look) should be repeatable. There will always be absurd things to stream, and, even more assuredly, there will always be horror. So yes, get ready for the format to stick around, even though you might get a bit of whiplash moving back and forth between its specialties.
Disclosure: BuzzFeed is a Facebook Live paid partner.
Quelle: <a href="Livestreaming Dances Awkwardly Between The Horrifying And Absurd“>BuzzFeed
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The second day of OpenStack Days Silicon Valley continued with conversations about containers and the processes of managing OpenStack. If you missed the event and the live stream, no worries; here are the highlights.
Christian Carrasco – When OpenStack Fails. (Hint: It’s not the Technology)
Christian, a cloud advisor at Tapjoy, started off the day by sharing what Tapjoy has learned from working with OpenStack. Tapjoy is an SaaS player that from early on set its sights on OpenStack. The company has grown to be the leading player in the mobile app monetization space, with more than two million daily engagements, 270,000 active apps, and 500 million users.
However, interestingly, most of the lessons Christian has learned while working at Tapjoy have less to do with the technology or maturity underpinning OpenStack or the many components necessary to its deployment. Instead, they revolve around the people, process, and organizational choices that are necessary for your OpenStack cloud to succeed.
Christian urged the audience to stop focusing on building a better buggy, and to instead focus on making a better cloud—the next generation of cloud. Christian argued that before we can hyper-converge the cloud, we need interoperability standards, arguing that there were many industries that couldn’t have existed without standards, such as the internet, the automobile industry, and healthcare.
Luke Kanies &8211; DevOps: Myths vs. Realities
Next up was Luke Kanies, the founder and CEO of Puppet. Luke spoke to the audience about the myths that surround DevOps in the enterprise, and argued that we need to leave behind the old way of delivering software to adopt the new world of DevOps practices.
Luke made it clear just why: top performing DevOps teams deploy 200 times more often and recover from failure 24 times faster, he said.
Luke argued that the fears companies have about adopting DevOps practices are due to two beliefs. First, that certain practices just won’t work for an organization, due to factors such as legacy environments, traditional enterprises, or hierarchical organizations. The second belief, he said, is that DevOps practices are simply unworkable when enterprises are subject to a host of external regulatory and compliance requirements.
Luke said that most organizations (97-98 percent) that had fears about introducing DevOps practices had legacy issues, but he argued that ignoring those legacy issues undermined their work.
Luke ended his talk by discussing how to overcome misconceptions by dispelling the most common myths. He said that adopting DevOps practices didn’t have to be all or nothing, they could be simpler than it appeared, and that often the largest returns come from unexpected areas. Ultimately, he argued, you have a choice—do you want to start using DevOps practices, or would you prefer for your competitors to beat you to it?
James Staten &8211; Hybrid Cloud is About the Apps, Not the Infrastructure
James Staten, Microsoft’s Chief Strategist for the Cloud and Enterprise division, was next up on stage to talk about building and deploying true enterprise cloud apps.
James said the key to this is understanding how to blend your environments, as leading enterprise examples of #cloud computing are not exclusively private or exclusively public cloud deployments, but are instead a mixture of both plus multiple public clouds. He said that even Microsoft runs on a hybrid cloud.
James argued that the hybrid cloud is here to stay, and not just because of the legacy code that can’t move anywhere (let alone to the cloud). He pointed to statistics that showed 74 percent of enterprises believe a hybrid cloud will enable business growth, and 82 percent have a hybrid cloud strategy (up from 74 percent a year ago).
He said that organizations used to be worried about application integration, security, and data sovereignty when considering moving apps to a public cloud. However, now organizations say they don’t use public clouds because of needing compute on premises, the Internet of Things, optimization of economics, and wanting to leverage the right resources in the right places.
James ended his session by outlining new hybrid models with many elements, including local resources, public clouds, and SAAS apps and microservices. He said that hybrid isn’t just about location, but the programming languages, devices, and operating systems. He said that the apps we are building need to have compute capability everywhere, because a hybrid cloud is about the apps you are designing.
Alex Williams, Frederic Lardinois, Craig Matsumoto, Mitch Wagner &8211; Open Source and the News Media
The first panel discussion of the day was about Open Source and the News Media, with four technology journalists: Alex Williams (founder of The New Stack), Frederic Lardinois (writer for TechCrunch), Craig Matsumoto (Managing Editor at SDxCentral, and Mitch Wagner (Editor, Enterprise Cloud, for Light Reading).
Key takeaway: People are often confused by messages coming from open source projects and companies that build products and services using them, and acronyms, clever names, and not-for-profit foundations had further contributed to this confusion. Alex said that some people would say that cloud service providers are the greatest threat to open source.
In addition, the panelists discussed the difficulties they had with tracking and learning all of the players and their interests in the Open Source movement.
Kim Bannerman (Director, Advocacy & Community &8211; Office of the CTO, Blue Box), Kenneth Hui (Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Rackspace), Patrick Reilly (Founder and Former CEO of Kismatic) — All Open Source Problems Solved in This Session
Next, Kim Bannerman, Kenneth Hui, and Patrick Reilly, a group of open source veterans, discussed critiques that are common for open source projects and looked at how to address them.
Patrick pointed out that OpenStack really is a community, and to have OpenStack work better you really need to participate. He argued that if you have a complaint, you should follow up and work to fix those issues.
Interestingly, the panel discussed the idea that often criticisms about open source projects, such as their governance, roadmap, and focus, are often just the downsides of advantages open source provides: transparency, inclusiveness, and agility.
Jonathan Donaldson (VP & GM, Software Defined Infrastructure at Intel) — The Future of OpenStack Clouds
Following the two panel discussions, Jonathan Donaldson of Intel and Craig McLuckie from Google talked to us about their collaboration and the future of OpenStack clouds.
Craig said that Google wants to be an enterprise software company, using OpenStack, because the market is too big to ignore. However, Craig said that Google is pretty behind.
During the talk, Jonathan discussed Intel’s Cloud for All initiative. It began last year and Intel began heavily investing in the OpenStack platform in an effort to improve OpenStack for the enterprise and to speed up its rate of adoption around the world. He said that Intel cares so much about a cloud for all because fostering innovation leads to use cases and creates value.
This has led to Intel and the broader community making OpenStack production-ready for enterprise workloads. He said that this has led to new features and significantly lower barriers for businesses that want to deploy private and hybrid clouds.
Randy Bias (VP of Technology, EMC), Sean Roberts (Director Technical Program Management, Walmart Labs), Mike Yang (GM of Quanta Cloud Technology) &8211; The State of OpenStack on Commodity Hardware
The first discussion of the final session was about OpenStack and commodity hardware. In the early days of OpenStack, open cloud software with “open” or commodity hardware was seen as a perfect match.
One question the panel discussed was whether BOMs that mix commodity and proprietary components were the norm, or whether pre-integrated and fully commodity BOMs with components from one manufacturer were more popular.
Randy pointed out that the bottom line is that open or commodity hardware is not free, as it still takes skill to deploy. He argued that while it eventually will be easy to deploy open hardware, it’s not there yet.
Adrian Cockcroft (Battery Ventures Technology Fellow), Boris Renski (Mirantis Co-Founder and CMO) &8211; Infrastructure Software is Dead… Or is it?
Next up Boris Renski from Mirantis and Adrian Cockcroft, a Battery Ventures Technology Fellow, conversed about Boris’ premise that Infrastructure software is dead.
As the two discussed the cloud revolution, Boris argued that the cloud revolution isn’t just about software, but also the delivery model, and that the delivery model for enterprise on-premises software has changed radically. Adrian agreed, adding that traditional hardware and software procurement cycles have collapsed with the cloud.
The two finished their talk by discussing the future of OpenStack. They said its future will not be in making the most “enterprise ready” software, but in building models for delivering customer outcomes that move the needle. Adrian said that he believed that unless you had very specialized or very large scale workloads, there is no competitive advantage to having your own data center.
Michael Miller (President of Strategy, Alliances and Marketing, SUSE) &8211; OpenStack Past, Present and Future
To wrap-up the conference, Michael Miller from SUSE discussed OpenStack’s journey from inception to the present and shared some thoughts on what to expect next, discussing just how quickly enterprise IT is now adopting OpenStack, despite initial apprehensions.
The Last Word
From hallway conversations, to expert commentary, to the swarms of people who were visiting sponsor booths, the OpenStack Days Silicon Valley conference was a great success in getting people talking not about whether OpenStack was a success—that part&8217;s a given—but why. Users were talking about where OpenStack fits in, how it&8217;s still important for enterprise workloads, and how to most efficiently leverage new technologies such as containers.
So here&8217;s our question to you: what do you think we&8217;ll be talking about next year?
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Quelle: Mirantis
Stephen Lam / Reuters
Earlier this month, Facebook, at the request of the law enforcement, disabled Korryn Gaines’ Facebook and Instagram accounts during the standoff with Baltimore County Police that would ultimately end her life. Facebook's decision to comply with that request has drawn sharp criticism — and is the latest example of internal murkiness around how and when the company censors speech — at a time when policing activists are demanding greater transparency from law enforcement officials.
It took about an hour for Facebook to disable Gaines’ accounts after police said her posts were escalating the standoff. But the social network’s policy and protocols for handling such emergency requests for the removal of content are unclear. On the company’s government request report, Facebook presents its information on emergency law enforcement requests as a single category; instances of Facebook taking someone’s account offline are lumped together with cases of Facebook handing over information to law enforcement. Facebook labels the category “Emergency Disclosures.”
“We comply with emergency requests based on representations from law enforcements and the facts as we understand them. That compliance without delay is required to prevent physical harm or death — that&039;s our standard,” a spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. Facebook has a team on staff that fields emergency requests, but the company declined to share details on the team’s makeup, its leadership, how many staff members they employ, or more on the protocols that guide the internal deliberation process.
The Baltimore County Police Department has said they filed for the emergency removal to help ensure the safety of Gaines, her child, and for the officers involved.
“Gaines was posting video of the operation, and followers were encouraging her not to comply with negotiators&039; requests that she surrender peacefully. This was a serious concern,” the police said in a statement. Most of Gaines’ posts from the encounter are no longer publicly accessible.
Facebook agreed to take Gaines’ accounts offline, and the police emphasized that it was ultimately the company’s decision.
Facebook releases information detailing the number of law enforcement requests for people’s data that the company receives. In the second half of 2015, Facebook received 855 emergency disclosure requests and complied with 73% of them. Facebook, however, does not state how many of those requests were for the suspension or removal of content, as opposed to providing data to law enforcement. A company spokesperson declined to clarify the figures.
As the Intercept reported earlier this week, Facebook’s policies on emergency requests from law enforcement appear to only apply to investigations in which law enforcement is seeking information, not trying to block its dissemination. According to the company’s government request report, Facebook displays information regarding “requests for data” and “percentage of requests where some data produced.” There’s no stated language on account takedowns.
The Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that its standards for compliance and the statistics it publishes on emergency requests apply to both disclosures and takedowns.
But Lee Rowland, an attorney with the ACLU’s speech, privacy, and technology project told BuzzFeed News that it’s a mistake for Facebook to consider law enforcement requests for deactivation the same way it does for disclosures.
“There should be a much higher bar for silencing content because you are not just impacting one person’s rights, you are impacting the public’s right to access that speech,” she said.
Rowland added that powerful images, including the Facebook live video of Castile, are playing a crucial role in elevating the national debate on police accountability. And by censoring speech at the request of law enforcement, without a warrant, Facebook risks not only circumventing our rights to record interactions with police, but in alienating Americans who see the company as all too eager to side with the government.
“We have the Constitution to protect us from government abuse,” she said. “What’s a little trickier to establish is a right to be free from social media giants who voluntarily cooperate with requests from law enforcement that don’t meet those Constitutional standards.”
Quelle: <a href="Facebook Offers Few Details On Account Takedowns Following Korryn Gaines Standoff“>BuzzFeed
Welcome to our weekly column, “Is This An Ad?“, in which we aim to figure out what the heck is going on in the confusing world of celebrity social media endorsements. Because sometimes when celebrities are being paid to post about something, it's very obvious, and sometimes it&039;s not.
Last spring, when the New York Times wrote about Juicero, a $700 Keurig-for-juice-style startup, a lot people scoffed at the machine and company as a totem of Silicon Valley excess and a tech bubble ready to burst.
But Amber Rose — talk show host, Kardashian frenemy, Slut Walk organizer, model, and designer — just saw a convenient way to get delicious, healthy fresh juice…. or did she?
On Snapchat, Rose posted videos of her friends (possibly paid assistants or her stylists/makeup artists; I admit my knowledge of the greater Amber Rose entourage is lacking) trying the juice. Unfortunately, I do not have saved evidence of the Juicero on her Snapchat story, due to the nature of Snapchat, you know, disappearing. You&039;ll just have to take my word for it that this did indeed happen.
On Twitter, she posted about how she was going to buy one:
Diet tea products
Rose is no stranger to a paid endorsement on social media. In the last few months, she&039;s hit the Holy Trifecta of Instagram ads with a diet tea, waist trainer, and teeth whitener.
So what do we think about the Juicero? On one hand, she does say right in that tweet that she&039;s buying it herself, based on a friend&039;s recommendation. “A recommendation from a trusted friend” is probably the best way someone is going to end up buying a $700 juicer, right? (assuming the musician A-trak and Amber Rose are friends. But really, when you&039;re a celeb, what is a “friend” anyway?)
On the other hand, is Amber Rose really just chatting about juice with her pals and then tweeting about it…. for free? Come on. Muva doesn&039;t do anything for free, right?
A final theory (brought up by one of the people in her replies to the tweet): she&039;s tweeting about a juicer the day after Kanye West&039;s video for “Famous” debuted on Tidal – the video which featured a wax figure of her nude. Perhaps she&039;s just trying to change the subject.
Waist trainer
Not an ad!
We reached out to the nice people at Juicero to ask them what the deal was. They told us that indeed, Amber decided to buy one herself based on DJ A-Trak&039;s recommendation. She was not paid to talk about the machine nor did she get it for free.
She just genuinely loves really, really expensive juicers.
Quelle: <a href="Is This An Ad? Amber Rose And The 0 Juicer“>BuzzFeed
Today’s businesses operate in an environment of accelerated transformation and rapidly changing business models. It is critical for concerned IT leaders to reduce the risk of failure. It’s no secret that application deployment failures and slow deployment timelines lead to massive financial losses. Potential damage to one’s businesses reputation and, ultimately, the loss of customers […]
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Quelle: Thoughts on Cloud
This post was authored by the Microsoft Azure Stack Team.
Over the course of the last several weeks, we have continued to get a lot of great feedback and questions about Azure Stack. We are seeing some common questions and comments, so we thought it would be a good time to address them and continue our dialogue.
First, a lot of customers have asked us about the next technical preview of Azure Stack. We’ve got good news – we’ve started rolling out Azure Stack Technical Preview 2 (TP2) to some early adopter customers this week. This begins the process of rolling it out more broadly, and we expect to release TP2 publicly later this year.
We have also heard questions around the integrated systems hardware strategy, with concerns around flexibility, cost, and size. So, we asked Vijay Tewari to sit down with us and provide some insights behind our vision and rationale for integrated systems in this short video. The video provides insight into their top engineering design goals, the value of having software tightly connected with specific hardware, and how they ultimately think about lifecycle management of this system. One point worth reemphasizing is the prioritization of integrated systems from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo, as a starting point. As we have done in other cases in the past, we will continue to broaden our support for a diverse hardware ecosystem that allows customer choice and configuration from a certified catalog of solutions.
Finally, we know customers want to protect their investment in the turnkey Cloud Platform System (CPS) from Dell, HPE, and Nutanix, as well as more general deployments of Windows Azure Pack (WAP). We are working on side-by-side integration between CPS/WAP and Azure Stack, which will allow users to seamlessly manage Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) resources, created in WAP, from within the Azure Stack portal. In this way customers can use these Azure-consistent cloud solutions now, and leverage those resources in Azure Stack deployments in the future.
Let’s keep up the discussion!
Quelle: Azure
AWS Key Management Service (KMS) is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data. Starting today, you can import keys from your key management infrastructure into KMS, and use your imported keys in all KMS-integrated AWS services and custom applications. This feature gives you greater control over the generation, lifecycle management, and durability of your keys. Import Key could also help you meet your compliance requirements to generate and store copies of keys outside of your cloud provider.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com
Amazon API Gateway now supports API usage plans. You can now easily define plans for third-party developers by associating them with individual API keys. This allows you to configure which APIs the caller can access as well as define throttling and request quota limits. You can also extract utilization data on a per API key basis to analyze API usage and generate billing documents. Usage plans allows you to easily manage and monetize your APIs for your API-based business. Read our documentation to learn more.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com
