Google announced the launch of a new job search engine: Google for Jobs. Machine learning algorithms will be used to match job search criteria across multiple job search sites such as CareerBuilder.com, Monster.com, etc.
The project is based on work done for the prior release of Cloud Jobs API.
More information on this project should be released by Google in the coming weeks.
The “WannaCry” or “WannaCrypt” ransomware that has spread around the world in the past few days has prompted Microsoft to release a security update for long-unsupported Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows 8.
The following supported operating systems should not be vulnerable to this ransomware if Windows Updates were completed, since those updates included the Security Bulletin MS17-010 (4013389) in March 2017:
US-CERT Security Operations Center, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has also issued an alert on WannaCry ransomware at https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA17-132A.
Microsoft’s annual developer conference will run May 10th – 12th 2017 in Seattle, WA. Live streaming of the event can be found at https://build.microsoft.com/ starting at 8 a.m. Pacific Time/11 a.m. Eastern Time.