Cloud Stories for 2016

Voice Is the Next Big Platform, But Amazon Already Owns It 229
Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation 6
Another One Bites the Dust: Cisco Discontinues Its $1B Cloud Initiative as AWS, Azure and Others Expand 34
Researchers Point Out 'Theoretical' Security Flaws In AMD's Upcoming Zen CPU 57
Canonical Sues Cloud Provider Over 'Unofficial' Ubuntu Images 47
Taking a Stand Against Unofficial Ubuntu Images 103
Seagate Introduces External Hard Drive That Automatically Backs Up To Amazon's Cloud 106
Red Hat CEO Predicts Open Source Infrastructures With Proprietary Business Functionality 53
Google Cloud Will Add GPU Services in Early 2017 19
Microsoft Says Windows 10 Version 1607 is The Most Secure Windows Ever 194
'Lurking Malice' Study Finds Malware Hiding In The Cloud 45
New Software Remembers Everything Your Computer Has Ever Displayed 117
AWS Releases Amazon Linux Container Image For Use in On-Premises Data Centers 33
Red Hat CEO: Linux Is Now The 'Default Choice' For The Cloud 89
Is Microsoft Mainstreaming Machine Learning? 51
Microsoft Raises UK Cloud, Software Prices 22% After Brexit-Fuelled Pound Drop 214
Microsoft Shares Hit All-Time High As Company Strengthens Its Cloud Grip 43
Microsoft Expands Azure Data Centers To France, Launches Trust Offensive vs AWS, Google 33
Google Rebrands 'Apps for Work' To 'G Suite,' Adds New Features 63
OVH Hosting Suffers From Record 1Tbps DDoS Attack Driven By 150K Devices 116
Microsoft Partners With Bank of America On Blockchain Trade Finance 43
Adobe To Run Some Of Its Creative Cloud Services On Azure 17
Ask Slashdot: Who's Building The Open Source Version of Siri? 186
A New Programming Language Expands on Google's Go 173
Accenture Patents a Blockchain-Editing Tool 87
GoPro Launches Karma Drone and Voice-Controlled Hero5 Cameras 14
Larry Ellison Says 'Amazon's Lead is Over' As Oracle Unveils New Cloud Infrastructure 157
Google Teams Up With Cloud Company Box To Sell More Google Apps For Work 9
New Cloud Attack Takes Full Control of Virtual Machines With Little Effort 34
Google's Close To Beating Amazon, Microsoft For a Major Cloud Client: Sources 59
Dropbox Is Urging Users To Reset Their Passwords 30
New RancherOS Offers Lean Linux Functionality Within Docker Containers 49
Researchers Warn Linux Vendors About Cloud-Memory Hacking Trick 73
Should Cloud Vendors Decrypt Data For The Government? 136
Google Cloud Now Allows Customer-Generated Encryption 19
Amazon and Microsoft Are Running One and Two in Two-Cloud Race 75
Canada Wants To Keep Federal Data Within National Borders 104
8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze 209
Oracle To Buy Cloud-Software Provider NetSuite For $9.3 Billion 32
Office 365 Gets New Word, PowerPoint and Outlook Features 99
Skype Finalizes Its Move To the Cloud; To Kill Older Clients -- Remains Tight Lipped About Privacy 74
Amazon Isn't Saying If Echo Has Been Wiretapped 86
Coursera Relaunches Classic Computer Science Courses 17
Microsoft To Begin Reducing Your Free OneDrive Cloud Storage Starting Today 212
Ex-Google Engineer Launches Blockchain-Based System For Banks 62
17,000 Leaked Names From DNC Hack Appear To Be Ticket Purchasers 25
That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business 240
Microsoft Will Be Largest Infrastructure As A Service Vendor By 2019, Says Morgan Stanley Survey 75
Data Can Help Fix America's Overcrowded Jails, Says White House 213
2 Million-Person Terror Database Leaked Online 165
Google's 'FASTER' 9000km, 60Tbps Transpacific Fiber Optics Cable Completed 73
Google's Satellite Map Gets a 700-Trillion-Pixel Makeover 70
154 Million Voter Records Exposed Due To Database Error 95
Red Hat Launches Ansible-Native Container Workflow Project 35
Ask Slashdot: Should You Store Medical Details In The Cloud? 262
Microsoft is Working On Software For The Legal Marijuana Industry 87
Samsung Buys US Cloud Services Firm Joyent 43
DNC Hacker Releases Trump Opposition File 421
Assange: Wikileaks Will Publish 'Enough Evidence' To Indict Hillary Clinton 742
Bitdefender Finds 'Hypervisor Wiretap' For Reading TLS-Encrypted Communications 86
Microsoft Has Created Its Own FreeBSD 247
Nest's Time At Alphabet: A 'Virtually Unlimited Budget' With No Results 193
Oracle Whistleblower Suit Raises Questions Over Cloud Accounting 63
Nest CEO Tony Fadell Steps Down After Tumultuous Two Years At Google 35
Microsoft Sells 1,500 Patents To Xiaomi To Build 'Long-Term Partnership' 66
How The IoT Will Change The Chip 70
FBI Raids Dental Software Researcher Who Found Patient Records On Public Server 130
Microsoft May Ban Your Favorite Password 232
State Dept. IT Staff Told To Keep Quiet About Clinton's Server 371
Google Turns Firebase Into Its Unified Platform For Mobile Developers 11
Amazon Introduces $20 Dash-Like Button For IoT 52
Streaming Surpasses CD Sales At Warner Music 63
Microsoft Sees Over 10 Million Cyberattacks Per Day On Its Online Infrastructure 63
NASA Launches Searchable Database Of Public Domain Patents 19
Panama Papers Source Breaks Silence Over 'Scale Of Injustices' 114
Hacker Guccifer Claims He Easily and Repeatedly Broke Into Hillary Clinton's Email Server 416
Microsoft Overhauls SharePoint To Compete With Slack In The Mobile Era 75
IBM Gives Everyone Access To Its Five-Qubit Quantum Computer 84
Datto Launches Datto Drive For SMBs; Offers 1TB at $10 a Month For Unlimited Users 51
New Chip Offers Artificial Intelligence On A USB Stick 81
Microsoft Buys Into DNA Data Storage 81
Intel Declares Independence From PC, Prioritizes Cloud, IoT and 5G Efforts 153
Valve Inks Deal With Lionsgate Adding Over 100 Movie Titles To Steam Platform 117
CERN Releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider Data Into Open Access 60
A New AMD Licensing Deal Could Create More x86 Rivals For Intel 110
Google Records Over 750,000 'Hijacking' Breaches In One Year 14
Intel Confirms Major Layoff: 12,000 Worldwide, 11 Percent of Workforce 238
YouTube Introduces Live 360 Video Streaming and Spatial Audio 7
Music Industry Sees First Big Gains in 20 Years Thanks to Streaming Services 134
Ubuntu Linux Continues To Dominate OpenStack and Other Clouds 23
Mitel Buys Polycom For $1.96B In Enterprise Communications Consolidation Play 14
Badlock Vulnerability Falls Flat Against Hype 21
Infographic: Ubuntu Linux Is Everywhere 185
Jeff Bezos: AWS Will Break $10 Billion This Year 97
Google Launches Android Studio 2.0 With Instant Run, Faster Android Emulator, and Cloud Test Lab 58
Blizzard Shuts Down Popular Fan-run 'Pirate' Server For Classic WoW 266
OpenStack Mitaka Aimed at Simplifying Cloud Operations 20
Outdated and Vulnerable WordPress, Drupal Versions Contributed To Panama Papers Breach 155
China Censors Online Discussion About Panama Papers 109
Toyota Teams With Microsoft On Connected Cars 116
Turkish Citizenship Database Allegedly Leaked Online 44
Microsoft Trials Outlook Premium For $4 Per Month, With No Ads and Custom Domains 108
Head of Oracle Linux Moves To Microsoft 95
FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones 255
Bitcoin Could Consume As Much Electricity As Denmark By 2020 170
FBI Unlocks iPhone Without Apple's Help In San Bernadino Case 457
Redbox Plans To Launch New Streaming Service 'Redbox Digital' 62
Is Old Tech Putting Banks Under Threat Of Extinction? 208
Wrecking Crew Demolishes Wrong Housing Duplex Following Google Maps Error 225
1.5 Million Verizon Customer Records Put Up For Sale 26
Gmail's Encryption Warning Spurs 25% Increase In Encrypted Inbound Emails 57
Microsoft and HP Enterprise Invest $73.5 Million In Mesosphere Startup 27
Guiding Eyes Moves To IBM Cloud To Continue Mission Of Serving The Blind 7
Google Opens Access To Its Speech Recognition API, Going Head To Head With Nuance 46
Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys 251
Red Hat Becomes First $2 Billion Open-Source Company 116
Music Streaming Sales Outstrip Digital Downloads For First Time 74
In Major Cloud Expansion, Google To Open 12 More Data Centers 42
Apple Hires Corporate Security Chief Amid Legal Battle With FBI 61
NSA Suggested Clinton Use A $4,750 Windows CE PDA 109
Apple Stores iCloud Data With Google 49
Microsoft Opens Up Azure Cloud in Germany Even It Can't Access 98
Dropbox Moves Users' Data Off Amazon S3 to Its Own Infrastructure 45
An Inside Look At How Netflix Builds Code 48
HPE's Haven OnDemand Offers 'Machine Learning As a Service' 13
Report Finds OpenStack Still Being Debated In The Industry 32
9 Open Source Alternatives To Picasa 86
Microsoft Releases First Public Preview of RTVS Under MIT and GPLv2 Licenses 57
A New Reality For IT: the 18-Month Org Chart 246
Microsoft Brings SQL Server To Linux 314
FBI May Be Opening A Security Hole To Federal Agencies 152
Crypto Gurus Diffie, Hellman Win 2015 Turing Award 55
Tor Project Accuses CloudFlare of Mass Surveillance, Sabotaging Traffic 116
CloudBees Releases Jenkins-based Platform For CDaaS 17
What Happens When Google Doc Credentials Are Leaked On the Dark Web? 27
How the Cloud Has Changed (Since Last You Looked) 86
Docker Images To Be Based On Alpine Linux 86
The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download 125
CoreOS Launches Rkt 1.0 50
Cisco To Acquire IoT Company Jasper For $1.4 Billion 25
Storing Very Large Files On Amazon's Unlimited Cloud Photo Storage 229
New Hack Shrinks Docker Containers 131
Microsoft Serves Cloud From the Sea Bed 104
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Experiences With Online IDEs For Web Development? 168
Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? 284
Nest Thermostat Bug Leaves Owners Without Heating 432
Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD 175
PostgreSQL 9.5 Released 104
Microsoft Teams With Automakers To Put Windows, Office In Cars 196
Linode Resets Passwords After Credentials Leak 55