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• Time for a mid-year browser security check

  27-06-2022 18:24
  
  We’ve reached the mid-point of 2022 and when it comes to security, I feel like we’re not making much headway. I still see people report they’re getting scammed, ransomed, and attacked on a regular basis — and for many users the browser is becoming the most important part of whatever platform you use. So now is a good time to review your browsers, and any extensions you’ve installed to beef up security.Note, I said browsers —plural. While enterprises might wan
  
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• How Apple plans to dent reality in the next 12 months

  27-06-2022 17:13
  
  Apple updates hardware, software, and services every year and has never been too afraid to cannibalize an existing product range to make way for the new — the iPhone ate the iPod, after all. Now, we hear that Apple is preparing its late 2022/early 2023 product salvo, and, as expected, this may include AR glasses.What’s the story?
  Mark Gurman at Bloomberg condensed all the current Apple speculation in a recent post. In brief, upcoming arrivals include:To read this article in ful
  
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• Now open for entries: Best Places to Work in IT 2022

  27-06-2022 15:37
  
  Computerworld's Best Places to Work in IT is back for its 29th edition, and this time we are looking for great organizations from the US, UK, Sweden, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand. If you work for a brilliant employer of IT professionals, let us know. Over the past three years, the pandemic has re-shaped the workplace, and the ways in which employees engage with colleagues and employers. After a decade-long gestation, digital transformation became a day-to-day reality overnight. Crea
  
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• It isn't over yet. Skretting executive warns of further challenges ahead for aquaculture feed companies - IntraFish

  27-06-2022 15:22 via intrafish.com
  
  It isn't over yet. Skretting executive warns of further challenges ahead for aquaculture feed companies  IntraFish
  
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• Zendesk confirms cut-price $10.2B buyout

  27-06-2022 13:27
  
  Customer service software company Zendesk has announced it will be acquired for $10.2 billion by a group of investors led by private equity firm Hellman & Friedman and investment company Permira, as well as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and GIC, a sovereign wealth fund from Singapore.The acquisition caps a tumultuous year for the Californian company and comes just two weeks after announcing that it would remain a “public, independent company”.In
  
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• What’s coming in Windows 11 22H2

  27-06-2022 12:00
  
  Windows 11 version 22H2, the first feature update to Windows 11 since its introduction in October 2021, is expected to be officially released sometime this fall, likely in October. (The “22” stands for the year 2022, and “H2” means it’s being released in the second half of the year.) Microsoft has already issued a version of it to the Release Preview Channel of the Windows 11 Insider Program; Build 22621 is expected to be close to the final version, if not the fina
  
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• The great job hunt: 7 top job-search apps hit all-time highs

  27-06-2022 12:00
  
  The top seven job search engines have been hitting new monthly use rates since March, according to data from web-metrics provider Apptopia.After a period of ebb and flow, numbers have been climbing steadily for the past year, according to Apptopia’s latest data. Average daily active users for the month of June have so far grown 57% year-over-year.“What's super interesting to note is that no month this year has hit a record for monthly active users. This means that while the apps are
  
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