September, 2021

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The top keywords used in phishing email subject lines

Tech Republic Security

Some of these phrasings are standard day-to-day subject lines, but as one expert explained, "the attacker wants you to be moving too fast to stop and question if it's legitimate.

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Convert WQL Queries to SQL Queries using SCCM Trick

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Convert WQL Queries to SQL Queries using SCCM Trick appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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Tape backup as a defense vs. ransomware

Network World

Tape is definitely not the best choice for primary recovery, but it does have features that make it a credible option for restoring systems and data that have fallen victim to ransomware without having to pay the ransom. The cloud has many more upsides than tape as a recovery tool in general, but there are circumstances where tape should be seriously considerd, and ransomware recovery is one of them.

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Fred Hutch’s Trevor Bedford receives ‘genius grant’ for work on COVID and other viruses

GeekWire

Trevor Bedford, infectious disease scientist at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. (Photo used with permission from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation). In the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, as we desperately flailed for reliable information to comprehend what had previously been largely unimaginable, Seattle’s Trevor Bedford was a rare source of insight.

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Peak Performance: Continuous Testing & Evaluation of LLM-Based Applications

Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Leaked Facebook Docs Depict Kids as 'Untapped' Wealth

Gizmodo

The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday published the latest in its investigative series “ The Facebook Files ,” diving even deeper into the ubiquitous platform’s efforts to target and recruit young children. Read more.

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New Android Trojan malware has infected more than 10 million Android devices

TechSpot

Apple's been getting lazy in the iOS security department as of late, despite pouring fuel into the fiery iOS vs. Android debate by claiming the latter mobile OS has 47 times more malware due to being open to sideloading apps. That said, it's hard to argue against the fact that.

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Easiest Method to Create SQL Queries for SCCM without Opening SQL Management Studio

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Easiest Method to Create SQL Queries for SCCM without Opening SQL Management Studio appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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The Verge

A generation that grew up with Google is forcing professors to rethink their lesson plans Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help.

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Beam me up? TMZ says William Shatner will take Blue Origin suborbital space trip

GeekWire

The TMZ celebrity website says Star Trek captain William Shatner is due to fly on Blue Origin’s next crewed suborbital space trip. (Left Photo: Paramount; Right Photo: Blue Origin). The next crewed suborbital spaceflight planned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture — which could launch as early as next month — is due to carry Star Trek captain William Shatner, according to the TMZ celebrity news site.

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So Much Ice Has Melted, That the Earth’s Crust Is Shifting in Weird, New Ways

Gizmodo

Both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets—the world’s two largest bodies of ice—are melting at an alarming rate, causing major problems for local ecosystems and coastal communities alike. Now, in yet more evidence that the climate crisis is changing everything in bizarre and profound ways, new research suggests that… Read more.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.

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Samsung wants to 'copy and paste' a brain onto memory chips

TechSpot

Samsung's latest ambition is to take a new approach in developing chips that mimic the human brain function for self-learning tasks. Specifically, the company wants to do so by copying the real thing onto special silicon.

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Recently reported Microsoft zero-day gaining popularity with attackers, Kaspersky says

Tech Republic Security

A flaw in the MSHTML engine that lets an attacker use a malicious Office document to install malware is currently being used against the energy, industrial, banking, medical tech, and other sectors.

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3 Free SCCM Admin Tools for Advanced Troubleshooting

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post 3 Free SCCM Admin Tools for Advanced Troubleshooting appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos: ‘you cannot sue your way to the Moon’

The Verge

Elon Musk isn’t happy that fellow mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos keeps suing to stop SpaceX’s projects, and he shared a message for the Amazon founder during the 2021 Code Conference on Tuesday: “you cannot sue your way to the Moon, no matter how good your lawyers are.”. Musk was responding to a question from journalist Kara Swisher about how Bezos’ space company, Blue Origin, recently sued to block a contract NASA gave SpaceX to develop a lunar lander.

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20 Common Mistakes Made by Inexperienced Project Managers

You’ve read the PMBOK® Guide several times, taken the certification exam for project managers, passed, and you are now a PMP®. So why do you keep making rookie mistakes? This whitepaper shows 20 of the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make, issues that can cost significant time and money. It's a good starting point for understanding how and why many PMs get themsleves into trouble, and provides guidance on the types of issues that PMs need to understand.

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AI’s Islamophobia problem

Vox

Amanda Northrop/Vox. GPT-3 is a smart and poetic AI. It also says terrible things about Muslims. Imagine that you’re asked to finish this sentence: “Two Muslims walked into a …”. Which word would you add? “Bar,” maybe? It sounds like the start of a joke. But when Stanford researchers fed the unfinished sentence into GPT-3, an artificial intelligence system that generates text , the AI completed the sentence in distinctly unfunny ways.

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Carpenters’ union halts work on Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook expansions in Seattle area

GeekWire

A construction project in Bellevue, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser). Construction work on several major tech company expansion projects, including those by Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook, slowed to a crawl today as the region largest carpenters’ union halted work over a wage dispute. At 11 a.m. Tuesday, 2,000 Northwest Carpenter Union members walked off the job and began picketing at four major job sites, including Microsoft expansions in Redmond and Sammamish; Google and A

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Google is using artificial intelligence to make information more useful

TechSpot

At its Search On event this week, Google revealed details about how it plans to use a technology it calls Multitask Unified Model (MUM), which should intelligently figure out what a user is searching for based on images and text, as well as give users more ways to search for.

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6 cybersecurity training best practices for SMBs

Tech Republic Security

Cybersecurity training is not the same across all companies; SMB training programs must be tailored according to size and security awareness. Here are an expert's cybersecurity training tips.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Remove Recently Added Apps from Start Menu using Intune

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post Remove Recently Added Apps from Start Menu using Intune appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Jitesh Kumar.

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Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud

The Verge

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Remember when gadget vendors Aukey, Mpow , RavPower , Vava, TaoTronics and Choetech started mysteriously disappearing from Amazon’s online storefront, and it turned out Amazon had intentionally yanked them while vaguely gesturing to the sanctity of its user reviews? Turns out they were just the tip of the iceberg.

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Cuba Becomes First Country to Vaccinate Young Kids Against Covid-19

Gizmodo

Cuba started vaccinating children as young as two years old against covid-19 this week, becoming the first country in the world to inoculate toddlers. At least 12 young kids have died from covid-19 in Cuba this year, while there were no infant deaths from the disease in that country during 2020, according to the Miami … Read more.

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Jeff Bezos commits $1 billion to conservation as Amazon destroys the world

Vox

Billionaire Jeff Bezos walks on the tarmac near the Blue Origin rocket that took him to space on July 20. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images. The former Amazon CEO said his recent trip to space further inspired him to protect the planet. Jeff Bezos is donating $1 billion of his $10 billion climate philanthropy pledge to protect biodiversity and carbon-saving forests in the Andes, the Congo Basin, and the tropical Pacific Ocean.

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Strategic CX: A Deep Dive into Voice of the Customer Insights for Clarity

Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO

The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.

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Microsoft remote work study: Average length of workweek has increased 10% during pandemic

GeekWire

GeekWire Illustration. A Microsoft study examining technology usage by its employees has revealed a decrease in cross-company communication , and sparked a lively discussion about the long-term impact of remote work on collaboration, productivity, and innovation. But the peer-reviewed study, published last week in the journal Nature Human Behaviour , includes another notable finding that could also resonate beyond Microsoft’s virtual walls: The length of the average workweek inside the com

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Enhancing cybersecurity skills for the entire workforce must be a priority for cyber-resilience

Tech Republic Security

Technology is not the only answer: An expert suggests improving the human cyber capacity of a company's workforce plus cybersecurity technology offers a better chance of being safe.

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New Method to Install SCCM Console Extensions

Anoop

Hello - Here is the new HTMD Blog Article for you. Enjoy reading it. Subscribe to YouTube Channel [link]. and Facebook Page to get the latest updates. [link]. Read More. The post New Method to Install SCCM Console Extensions appeared first on HTMD Blog #1 by Anoop C Nair.

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Apple’s next event will take place on September 14th

The Verge

A promo image for Apple’s next event. | Image: Apple. Apple’s next big fall event will take place on Tuesday, September 14th at 1PM ET, the company announced. The event, which carries the tagline “California streaming,” will be another virtual event broadcast from Apple Park. The company typically announces the year’s new iPhones at the fall event, and this year’s entry is expected to be called the iPhone 13.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Go Update Your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch Right Now

Gizmodo

The headline says it all, folks. Apple just released an emergency patch to a security flaw that let NSO Group’s horrifying Pegasus spyware infect a target’s Apple devices—including their iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. Read more.

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US judge rules only humans, not AI, can get patents

TechSpot

A court in Alexandria, Virginia, ruled that inventions can only be patented under the name of a "natural person." The decision was made against someone who tried to list two designs under the name of an AI as part of a broader project to gain worldwide recognition of AI-powered inventions.

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Study of Microsoft employees shows how remote work puts productivity and innovation at risk

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky discuss workplace trends in a webcast released Thursday morning , highlighting new research and product features from the company for remote and hybrid work. A new study finds that Microsoft’s companywide shift to remote work has hurt communication and collaboration among different business groups inside the company, threatening employee productivity and long-term innovation.

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Why you should avoid those fun social media "tell us about yourself" questions

Tech Republic Security

Social media is overflowing with quizzes, surveys and opportunities to tell the world about yourself. Learn why you should skip these to protect yourself and your identity.

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Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI

“Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI” is an extensive guide for integrating generative AI into product strategy and careers featuring over 150 real-world examples, 30 case studies, and 20+ frameworks, and endorsed by over 20 leading AI and product executives, inventors, entrepreneurs, and researchers.