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Advertisement Mac users get a taste of ransomware, Google named best place to work, Ray Tomlinson passes away @ 74, the new Myst gets its first trailer, and what if Bob Ross had made a Mario level?Hackers Target OS X With Ransomware Mac ransomware reported to Apple on Friday, cert is revoked and binary signature added to XProtect by Sunday night before malware strikes. — Dino A. Dai Zovi (@dinodaizovi) March 7, 2016As reported by Reuters, hackers have successfully infected Mac OS X with ransomware for the first time. Ransomware is a type of malicious software that infects people’s computers, encrypts their data, and then demands payment to decrypt it again Don't Pay Up - How To Beat Ransomware! Don't Pay Up - How To Beat Ransomware! Just imagine if someone showed up on your doorstep and said, "Hey, there's mice in your house that you didn't know about. Give us $100 and we'll get rid of them." This is the Ransomware... Read More . Essentially, holding users to … [Read more...] about Mac Ransomware Hits Users, Google Wins Best Company Award… [Tech News Digest]

Special Feature Special Report: How to Win with Prescriptive Analytics (free PDF) This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, explores how you set up an analytics infrastructure that sees around corners and gives you options to avoid a head-on crash. Read More Prescriptive analytics is a form of advanced analytics that uses big data—including historical information and real-time information—not only to anticipate what will happen in the future, but why it will happen, and to recommend actions to take based on those predictions. Using these insights, businesses can make better decisions to optimize situations, mitigate future risk, and gain a competitive advantage. Prescriptive analytics is typically the third step in a big data analytics strategy, after descriptive analytics (analysis performed to describe an organization's current circumstances, using data like customer feedback, sales numbers, and website traffic to determine where they … [Read more...] about CIO Jury: Two-thirds of tech leaders are using prescriptive analytics

Mindstrong Health is tackling one one of the most difficult challenges in healthcare: Severe mental illness, commonly referred to as SMI in the healthcare industry. The startup, founded in 2013 by Paul Dagum, Richard Klausner and Thomas Insel, recently brought on former Uber VP of Product Daniel Graf as CEO, and is now announcing a number of new hires to its senior product leadership team as it moves to turn the technology and research it’s developed over the past six years into an even more compelling and user-friendly product. As mentioned, Graf was Mindstrong Health‘s first high-profile hire this year, when the former Uber, Twitter and Google product leader joined in October. Graf’s turn as the company’s chief executive is his return to the operational side after spending some time away from building product as an investor. He and Mindstrong have brought in four new c-suite execs to lead the company, including a new CPO, COO and CTO, as well as a new VP of … [Read more...] about Mindstrong Health hires leadership team with all-star tech product experience

Something to look forward to: Aimed at the entry-level luxury sedan segment and a younger audience, the new Cadillac CT4 can now be equipped with the company's semi-autonomous Super Cruise technology. Previously available on the bigger CT6, the feature's inclusion in the CT4 is part of a wider roll-out plan across all Cadillac models. Cadillac's Super Cruise technology holds its own when it comes to self-driving capability and driver assistance, at least on the highways that GM has already mapped out for it. Now the company is offering it on the CT4, Cadillac's smallest sedan for which three new trims were recently announced. These include the Luxury, Premium Luxury and Sport models, all of which are RWD and can be opted with AWD. The car will make use of GM's new digital vehicle platform for OTA updates, active-safety and connectivity needs, similar to Tesla, with claims of managing up to 4.5 terabytes of data processing power per hour. Other standard features across the CT4 line-up … [Read more...] about GM’s Super Cruise hands-free tech makes its way to the Cadillac CT4

Waymo, the autonomous vehicle development firm from Google parent company Alphabet, is exploring how its self-driving technology could impact the cargo trucking industry. The company said in an e-mailed statement to BuzzFeed that self-driving technology can transport people and things much more safely than we do today and reduce the thousands of trucking-related deaths each year. As such, Waymo is taking its eight years of experience in building self-driving hardware and software and conducting a “technical exploration” into how the tech can integrate into a truck. The testing, being conducted at a private track somewhere in California according to Forbes, is said to involve the use of a single Peterbilt Class 8 semi-truck with a human driver behind the wheel at all times. The company apparently declined to specify the location of the test track nor would it share exactly when it plans to conduct road tests in Arizona, only saying that it would happen “later this … [Read more...] about Waymo is testing the feasibility of putting its self-driving tech into semi trucks