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	Lawmakers call on DOJ to reopen investigation into Google Wi-Fi spying Two U.S. lawmakers have called on the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into Google's snooping on Wi-Fi networks in 2010 after recent questions about the company's level of cooperation with federal inquiries. Read More WEBCAST: Hitachi Making Information Matter Join us in the upcoming Hitachi virtual Forum on Wednesday, June 6th, at 8:30am PT / 11:30am ET and gain meaningful insights on how to maximize efficiency and reduce expenses. Register Today! In this Issue Should you care that Siri is taking notes? JRuby gets speedier in version 1.7 Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches FAQ: The new push to increase STEM work visas WHITE PAPER: Amazon Web Services Microsoft SharePoint on the AWS Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides services & tools for deploying Microsoft® SharePoint® workloads on its cloud infrastructure platform. This white paper discusses general concepts regarding how to use these services and provides detailed technical guidance on how to configure, deploy, and run a SharePoint Server farm on AWS. Deploy SharePoint quickly at lower total cost on AWS Cloud. Learn how Should you care that Siri is taking notes? If you ask Siri, the iPhone's voice-controlled personal assistant, to schedule a sales meeting with a potential new client at a restaurant across town, Siri will dutifully carry out your command (barring any service hiccups) -- and send that information to server farm in North Carolina to be converted into text and saved. That revelation has bubbled up in the tech world after IBM CIO Jeanette Horan recently told MIT's Technology Review that Big Blue blocks Siri on employees' iOS devices because Apple stores potentially sensitive voice-inputted data. Read More JRuby gets speedier in version 1.7 JRuby, which provides a version of the Ruby language to run atop the Java Virtual Machine, is being enhanced performancewise via an upgrade released as a preview this week, a developer who co-leads the JRuby project said on Thursday. Read More Security researcher urges IT managers to keep up with SAP patches More than 95 percent of over 600 SAP systems tested by security firm Onapsis were vulnerable to espionage, sabotage and fraud, mainly because patches had not been applied, according to a researcher. Attackers targeting SAP platforms don't need access credentials to perform these attacks, said Juan Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO of Onapsis, a U.S. security firm with research and development in Argentina, that is focused on ERP systems and business-critical infrastructure. Perez-Etchegoyen made his remarks at the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam on Thursday. Read More FAQ: The new push to increase STEM work visas There is a bipartisan push for legislation to automatically give green cards to students who earn a master's degree and above in science, technology, engineering and math, the so-called STEM degrees. In the past two weeks, three green card STEM bills were introduced in the Senate. There are already bills in the House. Read More
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