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• The ultimate Windows 10 information hub: Everything you need in one place

  25-06-2020 23:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Looking for technical information about Windows 10 releases, new features, known issues, troubleshooting, and tech support? Start here.
  
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• Google releases Android 11 preview for Android TV

  25-06-2020 21:29 via zdnet.com
  
  The preview is for ADT-3 developer devices only, but it comes amid Google's efforts to wedge itself further into a market dominated by Roku and Amazon.
  
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• Grab 25 percent off Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac

  25-06-2020 21:28 via zdnet.com
  
  Parallels Desktop is 14 years old, and to celebrate you can now grab a massive 25 percent off a subscription or upgrade to the latest Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac.
  
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• Grab 25% off Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac

  25-06-2020 21:28 via zdnet.com
  
  Parallels Desktop is 14 years old, and to celebrate you can now grab a massive 25 percent off a subscription or upgrade to the latest Parallels Desktop 15 for Mac.
  
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• Apple adds support for encrypted DNS (DoH and DoT)

  25-06-2020 21:18 via zdnet.com
  
  Apple said this week that iOS 14 and macOS 11 will support the DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS protocols.
  
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• New York Blood Center Enterprise's response to COVID-19

  25-06-2020 21:15 via zdnet.com
  
  New York Blood Center (NYBCe), located in the epicenter of the pandemic, share their response to stabilization and reopening, as well as reflections and advice for delivering on mission today.
  
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• Chinese bank forced western companies to install malware-laced tax software

  25-06-2020 19:30 via zdnet.com
  
  GoldenSpy backdoor trojan found in a Chinese bank's official tax software, which the bank has been forcing western companies to install.
  
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• KPMG rolls out Power Platform-fueled assessment tools for workplace re-entry

  25-06-2020 18:31 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft's Power Platform, its set of low-code/no-code tools plus Power BI business-intelligence offering, is at the heart of a new KPMG framework for workplace re-entry.
  
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• $1.4 billion in COVID-19 stimulus checks went to dead people as federal agencies botch data sharing, says GAO

  25-06-2020 18:21 via zdnet.com
  
  According to the GAO​, 1.1 million payments went to dead people to reach that $1.4 billion tally, but the crux of the issue is data management across the US government.
  
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• Virgin Media broadband offline in London again

  25-06-2020 18:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Problems at Virgin Media left thousands of people without home broadband on Thursday morning.
  
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• Google product team rolls out API to advance AR

  25-06-2020 18:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Depth a major hurdle for augmented reality. Did Google engineers just clear it for developers?
  
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• Databricks moves MLflow to Linux Foundation, introduces Delta Engine

  25-06-2020 18:00 via zdnet.com
  
  MLflow, Databricks' Open Source MLOps framework, is leaving the nest. Meanwhile, Delta Engine puts some new spring into Spark SQL's step.
  
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• Intel aims to bring AI education to community colleges

  25-06-2020 17:35 via zdnet.com
  Intel's effort is notable since it is democratizing AI in the higher educational ranks.
  
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• AMD smashes 25x20 APU efficiency goals

  25-06-2020 17:20 via zdnet.com
  
  Back in 2014, AMD set a goal to improve laptop APU energy efficiency by 25-fold by 2020. It smashed those goals.
  
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• Huawei's £1bn research centre near Cambridge approved

  25-06-2020 16:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The decision comes as the government is finalising a review of Chinese film's role in 5G networks.
  
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• GitHub's new repository homepage design: Give us back the old version, say developers

  25-06-2020 15:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Developers on GitHub demand an option to revert back to the old user interface.
  
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• Sony Xperia 1 II review: Cinematic 4K screen, 5G and better battery life, but the price is high

  25-06-2020 15:24 via zdnet.com
  
  There's a lot to recommend the Xperia 1 II, including flagship-class features and sleek industrial design. It's Sony's best phone for some time, but price is likely to be the main issue.
  
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• Microsoft: Patch your Exchange servers, they're under attack

  25-06-2020 15:01 via zdnet.com
  
  What attacker needs to risk burning a zero-day flaw when targets leave critical Exchange bugs unpatched for months?
  
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• IBM offers open source notebooks for COVID-19 data analysis

  25-06-2020 15:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Using developer-friendly Jupyter notebooks, IBM has built a toolkit designed aggregate and clean up authoritative COVID-19 data.
  
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• Wirecard files for insolvency due to accounting scandal, arrest of ex-CEO

  25-06-2020 14:36 via zdnet.com
  
  The German payments provider has collapsed after $2.1 billion allegedly went missing - or simply did not ever exist.
  
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• Accenture tops Q3 earnings targets

  25-06-2020 14:30 via zdnet.com
  
  The tech services firm reported third fiscal quarter revenue of $11 billion.
  
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• Ford plans private 5G network to speed up electric vehicle manufacturing

  25-06-2020 14:23 via zdnet.com
  
  New private network will replace Wi-Fi and support electric car ambitions.
  
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• O2 sends surprise refund cheques after 15 years

  25-06-2020 14:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The mobile network sends small refunds to customers who were over-charged more than 10 years ago.
  
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• A Lange & Söhne unveils its new time zone watch

  25-06-2020 14:15
  
  The high-end watch brand has revamped one of its key timepieces with new features and a new movement
  
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• With Silicon Macs, Apple leaves the PC industry behind

  25-06-2020 14:07 via zdnet.com
  
  Sometimes it is hard to see the forest for the trees. Especially when the trees are the form of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices. With Apple Silicon Macs - Mr. Schiller, how about a shorter name? - some pundits are fretting about the platform's future. I'm not. Here's why.
  
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• Salesforce launches Salesforce Anywhere, app that embeds collaboration, data across platforms

  25-06-2020 14:00 via zdnet.com
  
  According to Salesforce, Anywhere incorporates lessons from the Quip app to reinvent collaboration within Salesforce.
  
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• Puppet introduces beta of cloud-native, event-driven DevOps program: Relay

  25-06-2020 13:52 via zdnet.com
  
  The open-source wants to expand DevOps to cover cloud and containers with its newest program.
  
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• Google to pay for 'high quality' news in three countries

  25-06-2020 13:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Publications in three countries set to benefit amid row over free access to stories behind paywalls.
  
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• Phishing and cryptocurrency scams squashed as one million emails are reported to new anti-scam hotline

  25-06-2020 13:38 via zdnet.com
  
  'Vast number of frauds stopped' say police as people flag up dodgy emails.
  
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• Wirecard: Scandal-hit firm files for insolvency

  25-06-2020 13:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The once high-flying payments firm Wirecard files for insolvency after a €1.9bn accounting scandal.
  
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• 'It is stressful, it is frightening:' What it's like to be a victim of hacking and ransomware

  25-06-2020 13:06 via zdnet.com
  
  Being a victim of cybercrime can be about much more than just the financial losses.
  
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• Telehealth data breaches to worsen as adoption skyrockets

  25-06-2020 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The stakes are high, and a rush to market may inevitably lead to major errors like this one.
  
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• Inside the plan to track Covid-19 by analysing everyone’s poop

  25-06-2020 12:44
  
  The UK government is testing sewage to find early indications of where new coronavirus outbreaks might be taking place
  
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• Windows 10 on Apple's future Arm-based Macs? It's not an option via Boot Camp

  25-06-2020 12:34 via zdnet.com
  
  Only Windows 10 on Arm could run on Apple's future Arm-based Macs, but Microsoft's license doesn't permit it.
  
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• Coronavirus: Does anyone have a working contact-tracing app?

  25-06-2020 12:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Is Boris Johnson right to say that no country has a working contact-tracing app?
  
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• Office life will never be the same again. Here's what comes next

  25-06-2020 12:15 via zdnet.com
  
  Executives who might have been wary of flexible working in the past have now seen the benefits of home working. There's no going back to how things were before.
  
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• Is this a good time or a bad time to buy a new Mac? Or what about switching to Windows?

  25-06-2020 12:12 via zdnet.com
  
  Big changes are coming, but do you want to embrace them, or avoid them for as long as you can?
  
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• Coronavirus and a cashless society: We can't leave the most vulnerable behind

  25-06-2020 12:07 via zdnet.com
  
  Opinion: Going cashless might be convenient for many, but for others, it risks causing misery.
  
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• 'We're going into a tough period': For data center workers, the crisis is not over

  25-06-2020 11:32 via zdnet.com
  
  Data centers have supported the digital economy throughout the coronavirus pandemic, but their job doesn't end with the crisis.
  
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• Lucifer: Devilish malware that abuses critical vulnerabilities on Windows machines

  25-06-2020 10:31 via zdnet.com
  
  Researchers say the powerful malware has been “wreaking havoc” on Windows hosts.
  
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• FBI warns K12 schools of ransomware attacks via RDP

  25-06-2020 09:36 via zdnet.com
  
  The FBI has issued a security alert warning K12 schools of the "ransomware threat" during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
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• Perl will finally make the jump from Perl 5 to 7

  25-06-2020 08:21 via zdnet.com
  
  Version 6 skipped due to becoming Raku, with 7 to be Perl 5.32 with new defaults.
  
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• Queensland government commits AU$3.3 million to new Toowoomba agtech hub

  25-06-2020 07:44 via zdnet.com
  
  It'll serve as a space to build and test technologies such as drones and smart bots.
  
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• Services Australia CISO jumps ship to Telstra

  25-06-2020 07:38 via zdnet.com
  
  Narelle Devine will next month join the telco as its new Asia Pacific chief information security officer.
  
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• Tech has weaponised good old fashioned storytelling

  25-06-2020 07:00
  
  The tropes politicos rattle off are century-old. Social media made them dangerous
  
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• Australian government to move to Azure-based records management

  25-06-2020 04:12 via zdnet.com
  
  As part of the public service-wide program to modernise digital records management.
  
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• Panasonic unveils Toughbook A3 rugged tablet, productivity+ Android software suite

  25-06-2020 03:45 via zdnet.com
  
  The new 10.1-inch tablet offers durability features like dust, drop, and water resistance while running tools to make transitioning enterprises to rugged Android devices smoother.
  
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• Atlassian announces HQ site at new Sydney tech hub

  25-06-2020 02:50 via zdnet.com
  
  The existing Railway Square YHA accommodation site will be converted to house the new office.
  
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• WikiLeaks founder charged with conspiring with Anonymous and LulzSec hackers

  25-06-2020 01:47 via zdnet.com
  
  US Department of Justice claims Assange tried to recruit hackers to commit crimes on his behalf. One of the hackers was an FBI informant, said the FBI.
  
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• Britain's 'blindingly cool' engineering innovation

  25-06-2020 01:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Conceptual still-life photographer Ted Humble-Smith celebrates 50 years of world-beating technology.
  
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