The Wayback Machine is an invaluable resource for anyone looking for a snapshot of web pages that may have been edited over time for various reasons. The project has archived some 588 billion web pages over a quarter of a century – as well as ancient computer games – and it now wants people to imagine what the internet will look like in 25 years time with what it is calling the Wayforward Machine....
iProVPN includes several features to provide bulletproof protection to your privacy and your sensitive personal information. There is military-grade AES 256-bit Encryption to scramble your data so third parties can’t get anywhere near it. You also have a kill switch to immediately cut your connection to the internet if there is any disruption to your VPN server connections. But iProVPN also makes your experience a top priority, so your VPN service does not slow down your connection speeds....
RackSpace captured some of this sentiment last year in its survey of 1,400 IT executives, which found that CX is a top strategic priority, above IT security/compliance, IT strategy, and digital transformation. The survey found many indirect impacts – six out of 10 managers (63%), for example, report they are using technology to drive automation efficiencies, and over half (51%) are using it to drive IoT and cloud native initiatives....
A new forecast published on Tuesday from analyst firm Gartner details how worldwide spending on IT services will grow in 2022. In particular, Gartner forecasts that the enterprise software segment – which includes the cloud market – will grow the most in IT spending at 11% year-over-year. The IT services segment – which includes consulting and management services – is expected to have the second-highest spending growth in 2022, reaching $1....
On July 21, the company announced that a universal decryption tool had been obtained “from a third party”. They were working with security company Emsisoft to help victims of the sprawling ransomware attack. On Monday, Kaseya released a statement denying rumors that they paid a ransom to REvil, the ransomware group that launched the attack. REvil initially released a ransom demand of $70 million but reportedly lowered it to $50 million before their entire operation went dark on July 13....
If you are a total novice, start with the “Learn Ethical Hacking From A-Z: Beginner to Expert Course.” It’ll teach you the easiest ways to hack computer systems, networks, web apps and a whole lot more. And, in case you weren’t aware, tech companies pay people to find bugs in their software. In “Bug Bounty: Web Track,” you’ll master the methods and techniques used to penetrate web systems and “Bug Bounty: Infrastructure Track” covers firewalls and infrastructure....
The headliner of Lenovo’s latest additions to its hybrid work portfolio is the ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4, which features 11th Gen Intel Core i9 H-Series vPro processors and includes Nvidia GeForce RTX laptop GPUs, up to 64GB DDR4 memory and solid-state drive support. On the connectivity front, ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 4 has optional 5G Wireless LAN. The laptop has a 16-inch edge-to-edge display up to 4K, an FHD webcam and a speaker system....
Of course, the biggest priority is for the presentation to be effective, but XSplit has you covered with the basics. You can make annotations quickly and easily to draw the attention of your viewers so that they focus on the things you want them to when you want them to. Plus, just a few simple clicks are necessary to choose and add specific applications or windows to your presentation without having to share all of your screens....
CADSA, which launches in the Spring 2022 semester, will offer master’s degrees in applied data science and hold racial equity and inclusive growth events. Howard University Provost and Chief Academic Officer Anthony Wutoh said the center will “use data science to answer some of the broader societal questions we believe Howard can significantly impact, including those around health care and economic disparities.” “Data science touches everything, and it’s going to continue to be increasingly impactful in everything that we do,” Wutoh said....
The Matterport Capture app, available for iOS and Android devices, works in a similar way, but is designed to provide a more precise and professional solution for business users in fields such as retail, real estate, and construction or architecture. The Capture app has been available for a few years, and Matterport also sells a number of specialised 3D cameras, as well as offering a Capture service with professional staff who can record scenes and locations for you....
I think I know that I can jaywalk in some countries, but not others. I think I know that oat milk in coffee tastes like yogurt in tea. And I think I know that younger generations are always ahead of older generations in knowing how the world should be. Younger generations see things to which older generations are blinkered – you know, things like the Earth may soon self-immolate, while older generations remain focused on their golf swings....
COPA announced the membership on Monday, saying that the addition of Meta is the biggest cryptocurrency patent commitment to date. COPA was created in 2020 and encourages crypto innovation by lowering the chance of patent litigation by building open-source environments to protect core technologies for all users. Meta will also be joining COPA’s board and will have to adhere to COPA’s patent pledge. The pledge states that a member may not “enforce its core cryptocurrency patents against anyone, except for defensive reasons, effectively making these patents freely available for all to use....
On February 17, Microsoft used Google’s circumventing of certain privacy settings on iPhones, iPads and Macs as a reason to tout IE’s superiority in terms of privacy protection. But on February 20, in a post to the IEBlog, Microsoft officials admitted that Google also skirted IE users’ privacy settings, as well. Dean Hachamovitch, Corporate Vice President of IE, blogged: In today’s blog post, Hachamovitch explained why IE also is vulnerable to Google’s cookie practices:...
Microsoft has already said the new Bing is “much more powerful” than OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 AI model behind ChatGPT. Public experimentation, however, quickly showed the chatbot feature was prone to unexpected outbursts, which prompted Microsoft to limit the number of “chat turns” to five per session to stop it becoming confused. In Depth: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers. Time is running out Now, Microsoft’s CVP of search and AI, Jordi Ribas, has shared some details about Prometheus – Microsoft’s proprietary model that meshes Bing with OpenAI’s GPT model to generate more relevant results in Bing – and how it went about building the new Bing....
Microsoft recently announced plans to enable users to run Azure SQL Managed Instance – a cloud version of SQL Server – on non-Azure clouds, and even on-premises. This Arc-enabled Azure SQL capability will be generally available and production-ready on July 30th, 2021.
Cooking requires a beautiful mixture of patience and imagination. Soccer requires a blissful mixture of coordination and determination. On the other hand, annoying your customers takes a dastardly concoction of heinous chilliness and sublime indifference. Currently, too many big tech companies are at it. For as long as I can recall, however, Microsoft has displayed a particular ability to annoy – nay, actively anger – its customers while appearing to be oblivious of their feelings....
Wiz said all PHP, Node, Ruby, and Python applications that were deployed using “Local Git” on a clean default application in Azure App Service since September 2017 are affected. They added that all PHP, Node, Ruby, and Python applications that were deployed in Azure App Service from September 2017 onward using any Git source – after a file was created or modified in the application container – were also affected....
In the Redmond giant’s latest round of patches, usually released on the second Tuesday of each month in what is known as Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed problems including remote code execution (RCE) exploits, privilege escalation flaws, spoofing issues, and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Products impacted by January 2022’s security update include Microsoft Exchange Server, the Office software line, Windows Defender, Windows Kernel, RDP, Cryptographic Services, Windows Certificate, and Microsoft Teams....
“Bringing VS Code to the browser is the realization of the original vision for the product. It is also the start of a completely new one. An ephemeral editor that is available to anyone with a browser and an internet connection is the foundation for a future where we can truly edit anything from anywhere,” Microsoft’s blog post concluded.
