Author Archives: George Leopold

George Leopold

George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).

Russian Malware Targets Linux, US Warns

August 14th, 2020 (0)

The Russians are coming, again, this time with new malware targeting Linux systems, according to a U.S. advisory issued this week. The FBI and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) dispatched a cybersecurity advisory on Thursday (Aug. 13) describing ...

Op-Ed: Intel Confronts Its IBM Moment

August 14th, 2020 (0)

On July 28, 1993, IBM announced a staggering quarterly loss of over $8 billion, the second largest in corporate history after GM’s $21 billion the previous year. Louis V. Gerstner Jr., the newly installed chairman of the company wanted ...

Half of DevOps Teams Surveyed Pushing Vulnerable Code

August 13th, 2020 (0)

Organizations continuing to strive for secure application development are nevertheless succumbing to growing pressure to get distributed apps out the door. Those time pressures and the sheer velocity and complexity of enterprise IT are prompting some to consciously deploy ...

‘Open Season on Open Source,’ Supply Chain Survey Warns

August 12th, 2020 (0)

Open source software development is thriving despite the pandemic, with a new supply chain survey estimating a record 1.5 trillion downloads this year of open source components and containers. In its annual report on the state of the software ...

Low-Code Market is Flying High

August 12th, 2020 (0)

Low-code development platforms that automate application development using integrated tools, visual modeling and input from domain experts are making inroads in closing the gap between insatiable enterprise demand for apps and the ability of DevOps teams to keep up ...

US Chip Industry Launches Apprenticeships

August 11th, 2020 (0)

As efforts ramp up to revive U.S. chip manufacturing, the nation’s largest pure-play foundry services provider is teaming with an industry group to advance a workforce training program designed to bridge the electronics talent gap. SEMI, the industry group ...

‘Unified Platform’ Accelerates Air Force DevSecOps

August 11th, 2020 (0)

The U.S. military’s embrace of Silicon Valley-style agile software development now extends to quick turn-around programming required to respond to evolving cyber threats. Among the earliest attempts to break through the byzantine and wasteful Defense Department procurement maze is ...

IT Spending Remains Steady Despite Pandemic

August 10th, 2020 (0)

Market forecasters continue to crunch the numbers to determine precisely how the pandemic will shape IT spending during a period of unprecedented uncertainty. Moreover, the need to adapt in the face of COVID-19 is also seen as driving cloud- ...

CAD Shift to the Cloud Quickens

August 10th, 2020 (0)

Graphics-intensive design and manufacturing workloads continue to migrate steadily to the cloud, making it easier for engineers, designers and architects to share and improve product development and manufacturing. Among the earliest examples were graphics-heavy applications based on Linux and ...

Huawei Disputes U.S.-Backed Open 5G Push

August 7th, 2020 (0)

Huawei Technologies, the 5G leader, is pushing back on concerted efforts to forge an alternative radio access network for the next generation of wireless technologies. Western technology companies with a huge stake in the 5G rollout have coalesced around ...