DEF CON 25 Hacking Conference, July 27-30, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas

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25 Years! DEF CON is the world's longest running and largest hacker convention. It takes place immediately following Black Hat in Las Vegas every year.

DEF CON 25 Hacking Conference, July 27-30, 2017, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

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Full Schedule here.

See also: The Story of DEFCON | YouTube.com

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Tech Review: How Google Cloud Plans to Overtake Amazon's AWS

Tech Review (TR 2017-07-15)--Domain Mondo's weekly review of tech news:

Features • 1) How Google Cloud Plans to Overtake Amazon's AWS: TensorFlow, 2) FCC Net Neutrality | Nomination Hearing, 3) Mars Rover 2020 and Europa Clipper, 4) Q2 2017 earnings T-Mobile $TMUS & Qualcomm $QCOM, 5) BlackHat and DefCon, 6) Rural Broadband Internet, 7) ICYMI Tech News.

1) How Google Cloud Plans to Overcome Amazon's AWS Lead in Cloud Computing: TensorFlow

TensorFlow: Machine Learning for Everyone

"TensorFlow [domain: tensorflow.org] is becoming the clear leader among programmers building new things with machine learning. “We have significant usage today, and it’s accelerating,” says Jeff Dean, who led TensorFlow’s design and heads Google’s core artificial-­intelligence research group. Once you’ve built something with TensorFlow, you can run it anywhere—but it’s especially easy to transfer it to Google’s cloud platform." --MIT TechnologyReview.com (link added).

Other Tech News:

2)  FCC Net Neutrality | Nomination Hearing FCC - U.S. Senate Committee On Commerce, Science, & Transportation: "Ajit Varadaraj Pai, of Kansas, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission (Reappointment) - Jessica Rosenworcel, of Connecticut, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission (Reappointment) - Brendan Carr, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission," Wednesday, July 19, 2017 10:00 a.m. EDT. See also Poll of Republican voters shows that a majority of President Trump's supporters are in favor of net neutrality rules and also oppose the pending AT&T-Time Warner merger | TheHill.com.

3) U.S. House of Representatives Space Subcommittee Hearing- Planetary Flagship Missions: Mars Rover 2020 and Europa Clipper | Committee on Science, Space, and Technology: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - 10:00am EDT.

4) Q2 2017 earnings webcasts this coming week: 

• T-Mobile TMUS July 19 4:30pm EDT; 

• Qualcomm QCOM July 19 4:45pm EDT.

5)  BlackHat and DefCon: BlackHat.com: Black Hat USA 2017 July 22-27, 2017--Late registration pricing discounts on Briefings & Trainings end at 23:59 PT on July 21. DEF CON® 25 Hacking Conference: DEF CON 25 July 27-30, 2017, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas.

6) Rural Broadband Internet Public Hearing RE: The State of Infrastructure in Rural America | US House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture: Wednesday, July 19, 2017 @ 10:00 am EDT.

7) ICYMI Tech News Quick Takes:

• French government to appeal pro-Google court tax ruling | Reuters.com

• DHS delays rule allowing entrepreneurs into the United States until March 14, 2018 | TheHill.com

• VISA takes its War on Cash to US Retailers | Wolf Street.com

• Kaspersky Lab says it has become pawn in U.S.-Russia geopolitical game | Reuters.com

• Tencent Is Bringing Its Most Successful Mobile Game to the U.S. and Europe | Bloomberg.com

• 60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed | hbr.org

• Uber and Yandex to combine ride-hailing in Russia and beyond | Reuters.com

• UK-based luxury phone-maker Vertu to be liquidated after plan to save it fails; 200 will be laid off | BBC.com

• Windows Phone dies today | TheVerge.com

• Apple sets up China data center to meet new cyber-security rules | Reuters.com

• FanDuel and DraftKings drop their merger, after FTC voted to challenge it last month | Recode.net

• Cryptocurrencies Collapsed | WolfStreet.com: "Ethereum down 52%, Ripple down 57%, EON down 70% in eight days."

• Faraday Future moves electric SUV production site, mothballs Las Vegas plant | Reuters.com

• Blue Apron: Future Bleak At Best - Blue Apron Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:APRN) | SeekingAlpha.com

• Two-factor authentication is a mess, as companies offer various implementations, with SMS and email account recovery methods vulnerable to determined hackers | TheVerge.com

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Defcon video: FTC, Cybersecurity, Crowdstrike, Bruce Schneier, NSA

UPDATE: Video No Longer Available

Bloomberg West from Defcon and Blackhat, Las Vegas (August 7, 2015). Guests: FTC Commissioner Terrell McSweeny on robocalls, Google, Apple Music, Internet of Things, IoT; also Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry; and Resilient Systems CTO Bruce Schneier on the TSA and breaking up the NSA. (Source: Bloomberg.com)

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