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The post Home Computing at IFA 2018: What’s New and What’s Hot? appeared first on BardTech . One of the biggest announcements at IFA this year, Europe’s consumer electronics show currently taking place in Berlin, Germany until September 5, is Intel’s launch of their refreshed 8th generation processor series. Simultaneously, laptop manufacturers like Asus, Acer, Dell, and Lenovo are releasing new hardware equipped with the new processors. Intel 8th Generation U-series and Y-series Processors Intel released two new laptop CPUs, both of which are based on the previous generation Kaby Lake processors. The Intel U-series “Whiskey Lake” runs at an ultra-low power 15 Watt. Meanwhile, the Y-series “Amber Lake” gets by with an extremely low power 5 Watt, which should significantly increase the battery life of devices equipped with this processor.  In contrast to their predecessor, they come with overhauled chipsets, that natively support USB 3.1, among other features mainly rele...

The post WeTransfer is getting weird… appeared first on BardTech . What do you do if you’re a European startup competing against the likes of Box and Dropbox , and are looking to make a splash in international markets like the U.S.? Well, if you’re the Dutch startup WeTransfer (which raised a cool $25 million about three years ago to take the U.S. market by storm), you get weird. Really, really, avant garde-level weird. WeTransfer, Funky Dutch Cousin Of Dropbox And Box, Gets $25M To Go Large In The U.S. The latest overture to the hipsterati is the company’s three video set collaboration with King Krule (which I applaud for no other reason then it lets me write about King Krule on the site). Here’s the first video from the collaboration between the ( Beyonce -and- Tyler-the-Creator -and- New-Yorker -approved) artist and the file transfer and storage service. On the WePresent “platform” (which, back in my day, we would have called a “web zine”), Krule discusses the pr...

The post VMware pulls AWS’s Relational Database Service into the data center appeared first on BardTech . Here’s some unusual news: AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing arm, today announced that it plans to bring its Relational Database Service (RDS) to VMware, no matter whether that’s VMware Cloud on AWS or a privately hosted VMware deployment in a corporate data center. While some of AWS’s competitors have long focused on these kinds of hybrid cloud deployments, AWS never really put the same kind of emphasis on this. Clearly, though, that’s starting to change — maybe in part because Microsoft and others are doing quite well in this space. “Managing the administrative and operational muck of databases is hard work, error-prone, and resource intensive,” said AWS CEO Andy Jassy . “It’s why hundreds of thousands of customers trust Amazon RDS to manage their databases at scale. We’re excited to bring this same operationally battle-tested service to VMware customers’ on-premises and ...

The post Abbyy leaked 203,000 sensitive customer documents in server lapse appeared first on BardTech . Abbyy, a maker of optical character recognition software, has exposed a trove of sensitive customer documents after a database server was left online without a password. The exposed server was found by former Kromtech security researcher Bob Diachenko , who now works independently. In a blog post shared prior to publication, he said one of the company’s MongoDB servers was mistakenly configured for public access. He told TechCrunch that the server contained 203,896 scanned files , including contracts, non-disclosure agreements, memos and other highly sensitive documents dating back to 2012. The data also included corporate usernames and scrambled passwords. The Moscow-based company specializes in document capture products and services, including converting physical documents to searchable and indexable digital content across a range of languages. The company claims to serve...