Patching vulnerabilities is useless
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Monday, 25 April 2022 11:56

Patching vulnerabilities is useless


The “Thoughts and Prayers” of the IT industry

Patching of vulnerabilities is the security industry's equivalent of sending “thoughts and prayers” to solve global catastrophes, according to a US security expert.

Activision Blizzard QA workers told to vote on unionisation
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You see what happens when you hassle workers and cover it up? You get "socialism"

Still embroiled in a sex and bullying scandal Activision Blizzard now faces the very real possibility that its workers might unionise to protect them from their bosses' antics.

Activision Blizzard accused over insider trading
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More trouble ahead for Kotick

The mates of senior Activision Blizzard executives mysteriously had a windfall after the company disclosed its sale to Microsoft.

Microsoft hits Russian military hackers
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Friday, 08 April 2022 12:54

Microsoft hits Russian military hackers


Apparently, they were attacking Ukrainian, European Union, and American targets

Software King of the World Microsoft, says that it has disrupted hacking attempts by Russian military spies conducting a special operation or two on Ukrainian, European Union, and American targets.

Nadella worried about Voles staying up late
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Go to bed it is past your bedtime

Software King of the World Microsoft Chief Executive Officer, Satya Nadella, is worried that his workers are staying up too late working.

Microsoft discovers that we are productive at 9PM
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Workers from home have three performance peaks rather than two 

Software King of the World, Microsoft has discovered that those working from home have three performance peaks rather than those who work in the office which only have one.

Microsoft supports ARM on Azure
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Tuesday, 05 April 2022 12:47

Microsoft supports ARM on Azure


Virtually

Microsoft has announced a preview of Arm support on Azure virtual machines thanks to its work with Ampere Computing.

Big Tech staff want their companies to do more for Ukraine
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A powerful lobby group

Staff working for big tech companies are providing their management with a powerful motivation to do more to isolate Tsar Putin and his chronies and do more for Ukraine.

UK bobbies arrest more of the Lapsus$ gang
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Seven people between the ages of 16 and 21

Inspector Gnasher of the Yard has fingered the collar of seven members of the Lapsus$ hacking group which targeted Samsung, Nvidia, Microsoft, and Okta.

Microsoft upgrades translation service with AI
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More to be lost in translation

For a while now there has been a myth that AI can operate good language translation services.