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Critical updates for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio drive September's Patch Tuesday

15-09-2023 21:40

Microsoft released 59 updates in its September Patch Tuesday release, with critical patches for Microsoft Office and Visual Studio, and continued the trend of including non-Microsoft applications in its update cycle. (Notepad++ is a notable addition, with Autodesk returning with a revised bulletin.) We've made "Patch Now" recommendations for Microsoft development platforms (Visual Studio) and Microsoft Word.Unfortunately, updates for Microsoft Exchange Server have also returned, requiring

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Low-code platform provider Airtable enacts new round of layoffs

15-09-2023 18:27

Low-code software company Airtable announced its second round of job cuts in nine months, laying off around 237 people, or approximately 27% of the company.The cuts are part of a plan to focus the company on winning large enterprise clients and getting spending under control, CEO Howie Liu told Forbes, which first reported the layoffs. They follow job cuts made by the company in December 2022 that saw 254 people laid off.To read this article in full, please click here

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iPhone 12: Fade away, and radiate?

15-09-2023 17:40

What’s up with the iPhone radiation story? On the eve of Apple’s big iPhone 15 reveal, France demanded the company remove iPhone 12 from sale in that country because it said the product radiates too much.Now that demand seems to be spreading across Europe.What’s happening here?The story so far
ANFR, the French agency that regulates these things, claims that certain iPhone 12 models emit unacceptable levels of electromagnetic radiation. The regulator subsequently ordered Apple

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Amazon deploys generative AI to write sales listings

15-09-2023 13:48

Amazon has launched a new generative AI tool that creates copy listings for users selling items on the company’s e-commerce platform.Designed to simplify the selling process, the new tool reduces the need for sellers to enter many pieces of specific product data when generating product descriptions. Instead, users can now enter a brief description of the product they are listing for sale – Amazon said this can be a few words or sentences – and the tool will generate the necess

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5 steps to a lean, clean Windows machine

15-09-2023 12:00

These days, a relatively clean and uncomplicated Windows 10 or 11 system disk might be home to more than 250,000 files and 90,000 folders. A more complex, application-heavy system disk might contain between half a million and a million files. My Windows 11 production PC has over 970K files and 275K folders, for example. That’s a lot of stuff!Indeed, all those files need not necessarily be kept around. That’s why it’s a good idea to practice regular disk hygiene. This is exactl

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