Sustainable Cities of the Future

Today, we are seeing an interesting confluence of factors colliding: the rise of smart cities, the move toward greater sustainability, and new transportation trends, including EVs (electric vehicles)—all of which just might come together to transform the way we live and operate our businesses in the future. The post Sustainable Cities of the Future appeared…

Facebook invests $5.7B in Indian mobile carrier Reliance Jio to bring small businesses online

Facebook today announced that it investing ₹43,574 crores ($5.67 billion) into India’s biggest carrier, Reliance Jio, to pick up 9.99% stake in the company. It’s the social network’s biggest investment in the country till date. Last month, Financial Times reported that the social networking giant was in talks with Jio to make an investment. However, the…

Unpatchable ‘Starbleed’ Bug in FPGA Chips Exposes Critical Devices to Hackers

A newly discovered unpatchable hardware vulnerability in Xilinx programmable logic products could allow an attacker to break bitstream encryption, and clone intellectual property, change the functionality, and even implant hardware Trojans. The details of the attacks against Xilinx 7-Series and Virtex-6 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have been covered in a paper titled “The Unpatchable…