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Microsoft Teams is now available on Linux as a public preview, the first time an Office 365 application has been brought to the open source operating system.
A native Linux client has been one of the most requested Teams features on MicrosoftUser Voice forum; plans to introduce were announced at the companyIgnite conference last month. The app will feature all of the core Teams capabilities available in Windows and MacOS versions.
Native Linux packagescan be downloaded in .deb and.rpm formats.
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Advertising has become too personal.
Modern systems learn too much about your personal life, tastes and aspirations, and while this is manna from heaven for advertisers, itan invasion of privacy for many. And Apple is changing the equation.
Intelligent Tracking Prevention
Apple has built a technology that reduces the quantity of data advertisers can harvest from your online life. It is called Intelligent Tracking Prevention andThe Information tells us that since the technology debuted in 2017:
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Patch Tuesday in December rarely brings anything worthwhile— everybodyon vacation, or wants to be on vacation— and this monthno exception. We got patches for 36 separately identified security holes and two new advisories, full of sound and fury but covering very little.
The one &exploited& security hole—CVE-2019-1458 Win32k Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability— shouldn&t cause any heartburn. Microsoft says:
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Are Chromebooks on their way to becoming mainstream computers in the enterprise?
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This pilot fish wakes up around 1:30 a.m. to go to the bathroom and checks his work cellphone. Lo and behold, there are a lot of emails about a very important filesystem thatfull. This filesystem contains all the user home directories for an entire facility, and according to the emails, even though several people had deleted large numbers of big files they no longer needed, the filesystem filled up again, and rather quickly.
Although the emails stopped around 10 p.m., fish knows hegoing to have a rowdy mob of incensed users clamoring at his cubicle in the morning, so he gets dressed and goes to work, arriving at about 2:45 a.m. This particular filesystem lives on a network that cannot be accessible from the internet.
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Three-quarters of companies implementing IoT have already adopted blockchain or plan to use it by the end of 2020, an indicator of the growing connection between the two, according to a survey of 500 U.S. companies by Gartner.
While the marriage between the two technologies has been expected to be crucial for industry digital transformation, the adoption rate is happening at a &much faster pace than expected,& Gartner said.
&Among the blockchain adopters, 86% are implementing the two technologies together in various projects,& Avivah Litan, a Gartner vice president and report author, wrote in a blog. She called IoT integration "a sweet spot" for blockchain, the much-hyped distributed ledger technology.
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