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Microsoft last week released Windows 10 1909, an oddball update that was far more rehash than refresh.
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Salesforce plans to expand its Einstein Voice Assistant capabilities, enabling customers to create their own custom &skills& as it seeks to broaden the appeal of voice interfaces in the workplace.
The company unveiled Einstein at last yearDreamforce conference, promising to enable sales staff to update customer records on its CRM platform using voice commands.
[ Related: How AI is changing office suites ]Its efforts are part of a wider push from numerous tech firms to popularize conversational voice interfaces for business apps, including AmazonAlexa for Business, MicrosoftCortana and OracleDigital Assistant. Analyst firm Gartnerforecast that 25% of digital workers will interact with virtual assistantson a daily basis within two years.
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News reports last week — subsequently confirmed by a Facebook executive's tweet — that the Facebook iOS app was videotaping users without notice should serve as a critical heads up to enterprise IT and security execs that mobile devices are every bit as risky as they feared.And a very different bug, planted by cyberthieves, presents even more frightening camera-spying issues with Android.
On the iOS issue, the confirmation tweet from Guy Rosen, who is Facebook's vice president of Integrity (go ahead and insert whatever joke you want about Facebook having a vice president of integrity; for me, it's way too easy a shot), said, "We recently discovered our iOS app incorrectly launched in landscape. In fixing that last week in v246, we inadvertently introduced a bug where the app partially navigates to the camera screen when a photo is tapped. We have no evidence of photos/videos uploaded due to this."
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Apple remains a highly secure choice for enterprise professionals, but security threats remain and the environment requires sophisticated endpoint management tools, according toBuild America Mutual (BAM) CTO David McIntyre.
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BAM, one of the leading U.S. municipal bond insurers, has insured more than $65 billion since its launch in 2012. It also has the rare distinction of being a fintech firm that is completely based on Macs.
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Itthe mid &70s this pilot fish is operating on IBM 370s for a financial clearinghouse in London, where Good Friday and Easter Monday are bank holidays. The systems use a CICS system logging to 3420 tape drives, the ones with the twin vacuum chambers, and when one drive on the backup system refuses to load tapes, Fish volunteers to come in with the engineers on Good Friday to work on it.
Fish has it all figured out: He&ll get some good overtime working on an easy fix, and he&ll still get a three-day weekend.
But comes the Monday holiday, and fish and colleagues are still working on that easy fix. They&ve replaced just about every part, some of which had to be flown in especially. Finally, one of the engineers has a bright idea. He replaces the light bulb that powers the fiber-optic sensor to pick up the metallic BoT (beginning of tape) marker. Problem solved.
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Gather 'round, kiddos — 'cause it's time for a story.
Once upon a time, Chrome was a lean, mean browsing machine. It was the scrappy lightweight kid in a block filled with clunky old blobs of blubber. People had never seen a browser so fast, so thoughtfully constructed! It stripped everything down to the essentials and made the act of browsing the web both pleasant and secure — qualities that were anything but standard back in that prehistoric era.
Chrome was "minimalist in the extreme," as The New York Times put it — with "extremely fast" page loads and a "snappy" user interface, in the words of Ars Technica. Its sandbox-centric setup and emphasis on supporting web-based applications made the program "the first true Web 2.0 browser," as some other tech website opined.
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