Canada seen approving extradition hearing against Huawei executive

Canada is likely to announce on Friday that an extradition hearing against a Huawei Technologies Co Ltd executive can proceed, legal experts said, worsening already icy relations with Beijing.

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China P2P lender Dianrong closing 60 stores, laying off 2,000 employees: source

Dianrong, one of China's biggest peer-to-peer (P2P) lenders, is shutting down 60 of its 90 offline stores and laying off an estimated 2,000 employees, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Friday.

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Pompeo says world should have eyes wide open about Chinese tech risks

U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday that the world should be "eyes wide open" about the risks of using Chinese technology, and that there could be problems for American firms operating in certain places where Huawei equipment was deployed.

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Dell beats revenue estimates in first report as public company

Dell Technologies Inc topped Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday in the computer maker's first earnings report since a return to public markets and also forecast annual revenue above estimates, lifted by demand for its servers and network devices.

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Tesla debuts $35,000 Model 3, sees loss in first quarter

Tesla Inc said on Thursday it would offer a $35,000 version of its Model 3 sedan with a delivery time of two to four weeks, while closing many of its retail stores worldwide, steps designed to increase demand and cut overhead costs for the electric vehicle maker.

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Tesla to close many stores as $35,000 Model 3 goes on sale

Tesla Inc said on Thursday it would offer a $35,000 version of its Model 3 sedan with a delivery time of two to four weeks, while closing many of its retail stores worldwide.

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Tesla starts selling $35,000 Model 3 for delivery in two-four weeks

Tesla Inc's website showed on Thursday that the electric vehicle maker will offer a $35,000 version of its Model 3 sedan with a delivery time of two to four weeks, nearly two years after the company originally promised the car at that price.

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Tesla launching $35,000 Model 3 with deliveries as soon as next month: Electrek

Tesla Inc's will offer a $35,000 version of its Model 3 sedan with a shorter battery range and new interior, Electrek reported on Thursday, nearly two years after the company originally promised the car at that price.

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Dell revenue rises 9 percent in first report as public company

Dell Technologies Inc reported on Thursday a nearly 9 percent rise in quarterly revenue in its first earnings report since a return to public markets, lifted by demand for its servers and network devices.

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Tesla halts orders for cars ahead of promised announcement

Tesla Inc halted https://ift.tt/2SzvY5s orders for all its cars on its website on Thursday, ahead of a scheduled announcement from the electric carmaker's Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk.

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In U.S. charm offensive, China's Huawei launches ad to combat dark image

Huawei Technologies ran a full page ad in major U.S. newspapers on Thursday urging readers not to believe "everything you hear," about the Chinese tech firm, as it defends itself against government accusations its equipment can be used to spy.

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Trump Can’t Make a North Korea Deal on His Own

The Hanoi debacle shows that if you want to make progress with North Korea, you have to put in the work.

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Unleash the Power of Cloud Security – 300% Performance Improvement with CloudGuard IaaS

By Amir Kaushansky, Sr. Product Manager, Cloud Security

 

We all want a higher network performance. We all want a better price-performance ratio, and we all want all of it for free.

 

As desirable as that may be, the cold reality is that higher network performance requires an investment in special hardware or more hardware (for more processing power).

 

Check Point’s CloudGuard IaaS latest update changes that equation.

 

New Software Update Delivers Industry-Leading Threat Prevention and Winning Performance

 

Check Point recently released a new version of CloudGuard IaaS that allows its enterprise customers to enjoy significantly higher performances and better security across data centers and public and private cloud environments.

 

CloudGuard IaaS new features include:

 

Performance: CloudGuard IaaS delivers performance enhancements rapidly. The new cloud security gateway, based on Check Point’s latest R80.20 software release, achieves up to 300% performance improvement compared to previous release, as measured by network throughput with security capabilities enabled. Customers can often expect more than double the performance of leading competitors.

 

Robust Threat Prevention: CloudGuard IaaS R80.20 has added over three AI engines to its impressive threat prevention capabilities, delivering higher-precision verdicts (‘HUNTRESS’), and blocking more zero-day attacks through its threat emulation and threat extraction. The gateway uses the new ‘CADET’ context-aware detection to achieve a tenfold reduction in false positive rates, and discovers even unknown bots and malicious domains using ‘Campaign Hunting’ predictive IOCs.

 

Support for New Machines: Keeping pace with the innovation driven by cloud service providers, the new Check Point cloud security gateways now support all the new VM models offered by leading cloud vendors, such as the C5 instance type from Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure VMs with accelerated networking.

 

Customers enjoy the benefits of Check Point’s powerful security capabilities without compromising on performance.

 

The First Certified Azure-Accelerated-Networking Compliant Vendor

 

Recently, Microsoft released support for SR-IOV, an accelerated networking in Azure. Accelerated networking enables single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) to a VM, greatly improving its networking performance. This high-performance path bypasses the host from the data path, reducing latency, jitter, and CPU utilization, for use with the most demanding network workloads on supported VM types.

 

The following picture shows communication between two VMs with and without accelerated networking:

 

 

Accelerated networking means network traffic arrives at the VM’s network interface (NIC), and is then forwarded to the VM. All network policies that the virtual switch applies are now offloaded and applied in the hardware. Applying policy in hardware enables the NIC to forward network traffic directly to the VM, bypassing the host and the virtual switch, while maintaining all the policy it applied in the host.

 

End-to-End Workloads Protection with AWS Transit Gateway

 

AWS Transit Gateway (TGW) is a new service on AWS that allows customers to connect multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in a scalable manner, reshaping transit VPCs. TGW allows traffic to flow between VPCs without requiring transit through the public internet.

 

 

 

 

AWS Transit Gateway allows a single connection from the central gateway in to each Amazon VPC, on-premises data center, or remote office across the network. It acts as a hub that routes traffic on all the connected networks which act like spokes. This hub and spoke model simplifies management and reduces operational costs because each network only has to connect to the Transit Gateway to talk to each other and not use the internet or other methods like VPC peering. New VPCs are connected to the Transit Gateway and are therefore automatically available to every other network. This ease of connectivity simplifies network scaling as you grow.

 

The latest version of CloudGuard IaaS supports AWS Transit Gateway, offering end-to-end protection for enterprise workloads sitting in AWS VPCs.

 

AWS Transit Gateway with CloudGuard IaaS:

 

1. Simplifies the interconnecting of VPCs at scale and offers built-in routing capabilities
2. Provides security auto scaling which enables you to receive just the right amount of throughput for you cloud environment, accompanying your growth
3. Is very easy to deploy using a CloudFormation template which is a part of the Check Point Cloud Security Blue Print

 

CloudGuard IaaS’ advanced security capabilities and highest performance are now available in leading public cloud marketplaces including Microsoft Azure, AWS , Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud.

 

The latest version of CloudGuard Iaas is also available in private cloud environments.

 

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Google workers support proposed U.S. laws to curb mandatory arbitration

Six Google employees on Thursday joined U.S. lawmakers to support bills that would ban mandatory arbitration in employment and consumer contracts, as the workers seek to build on recent success in getting the Alphabet Inc company to drop some arbitration provisions.

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