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• It's Now Easier to Remove Federal Employees with Disabilities - GovExec.com

  09-12-2022 19:00 via news.google.com
  It's Now Easier to Remove Federal Employees with Disabilities  GovExec.com
  
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• Apple sets a security challenge for 2023

  09-12-2022 18:18
  Given Apple's big moves this week to roll out new data protection tools for iMessage and allow users to encrypt more of their data in iCloud, it seems obvious that security is going to be a major Apple priority in the year ahead.Stamping out surveillance
  The Biden administration’s decision to blacklist the mercenary hackers at NSO Group was a welcome move, but it hasn’t stopped the "surveillance-as-a-service" industry. Instead, it's atomized it, which means we now have mor
  
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• Maybe you need a workstation instead of a PC

  09-12-2022 18:06
  I was at a meeting in New York this week with a major PC vendor, and one of the things the company’s sales data shows is that people who should be buying workstations — or even gaming machines — are buying mainstream Windows PCs instead. (The focus wasn’t on gaming, but on productivity and performance.)Given I’ve been covering PCs and workstations since the early 1990s, I want to explain the difference between the two and when you should consider one over the other
  
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• Airtable becomes latest company to announce layoffs, cutting 20% of its workforce

  09-12-2022 14:29
  Low-code platform Airtable has announced it would be laying off 254 employees across business development, engineering and other teams, around 20% of its workforce.In an internal email first seen by the layoff tracker Layoffs.fyi (which is built on Airtable), Airtable founder and CEO Howie Liu said the company will be evolving from a “bottoms-up adopted product” to “bringing connected apps to large enterprises.”To read this article in full, please click here
  
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• An Android shortcut secret

  09-12-2022 11:45
  Have I ever mentioned how much I love shortcuts?All right, maybe I have. (Maybe, erm, somewhere in the neighborhood of 7,942 times, come to think of it.) But oh, it be true. There's just something so impossibly satisfying about knowing you're increasing your efficiency and slicing soul-sucking seconds out of your day.And on Android, whoo boy, have we got some awesome opportunities for cutting out steps and achieving Mega-Nerd™ levels of efficiency obsession.Today, as your friendly neighbo
  
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• UK movers and shakers: New CIO and IT executive appointments - cio.com

  09-12-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
  UK movers and shakers: New CIO and IT executive appointments  cio.com
  
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