Mick's IT Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I wanted to install Winget via PowerShell in an automated process. The first thing I did was to go to the Winget GitHub site and select the latest version of the Windows Package Manager. Under the latest version page, I clicked on the file with the extension of msixbundle and downloaded it to my machine. Now that it is on your machine, you can automate the installation with a PowerShell one-liner script where the PS1 file resides in the same directory as the Winget installer.

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Anoop

DECEMBER 20, 2021

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

There are so many things you could accomplish as an IT pro. Check out these stories from IT pros on what they’re proud of accomplishing in 2021.

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Tech Republic Cloud

DECEMBER 20, 2021

With iCloud increasingly storing vital information, an useful new iOS 15.2 feature lets you recover an account from a deceased friend or family member to preserve their digital legacy.

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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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Information Week

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Technology modernization poses challenges to IT leaders, but it’s possible to minimize disruption, prepare your workforce, and manage costs for optimal ROI.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Online consumers can do everything right and still become cyber victims. Learn about synthetic identity fraud and why "buyer beware" is not enough.

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Information Week

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Remote work and pent-up demand fueled a frenzied job market in 2021. IT pros sought higher salaries, and CIOs focused on retaining talent.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Meta has exposed and acted against entities that have been spying on people and organizations around the globe. Find out how the threat actors operate and learn what you can do to protect yourself.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Tom Brady rage quitting Microsoft Surface. After throwing a fourth-quarter interception to seal a 9-0 loss against the Saints on Sunday night, Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady managed to connect with a Microsoft Surface tablet, absolutely destroying it. The defeat was Brady’s first shutout in 15 years , according to CBS Sports. Brady joins an illustrious group of Surface abusers that include Aaron Rogers , Johnny Manziel , and former boss Bill “ I just can’t take it anymore” Belichick, to name ju

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Evidence of steppe mammoths, gigantic elk, brown bears, and other ice age animals have been pulled from an English quarry, in what experts are calling a significant discovery. Read more.

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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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

(Rec Room Image). Rec Room , the Seattle-based development studio behind the fast-growing VR application Rec Room , has raised $145 million in new funding, bringing its current valuation to $3.5 billion. This is Rec Room’s second round of funding in 2021, following a $100 million raise in March that officially catapulted the company into “unicorn” status as a privately-held startup valued at over $1 billion.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Let's take a closer look at the development studios behind some of our favorite games to determine what makes them tick, and how they have contributed and influenced the industry.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant in her office at City Hall in 2019. (GeekWire File Photo / Monica Nickelsburg). Amazon employees were among the top contributors to the campaign that helped Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, an outspoken critic of the company, defeat a recall effort. People who listed Amazon or Whole Foods as their employer contributed $11,149.24 to the Kshama Solidarity Campaign , the fourth-largest of any employee group, according to Seattle Ethics and Elections

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Social gaming platform Rec Room has raised $145M at a $3.5B valuation. That is just nine months after raising $100M at a $1.25B valuation. Read More.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you've made the jump to Windows 11, chances are you won't like some of the changes made to the Taskbar, Start Menu, and File Explorer. However you can fix many of these with a few tweaks and tools.

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Applying the benefits of blockchain technology can help address AI shortcomings and increase people's trust in AI-based applications. Read More.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

If you were saving up Ethereum for a set of Discreet Music NFTs, we’ve got bad news. In an interview with Crypto Syllabus (conducted by longtime tech critic Evgeny Morozov , of all people), Eno outed himself as a skeptic of cryptocurrency — and NFTs in particular. “NFTs seem to me just a way for artists to get a little piece of the action from global capitalism, our own cute little version of financialization,” Eno told Morozov.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Speaking in an interview with Nikkei Asia, Gelsinger reaffirmed that the issues consumers are facing when it comes to buying goods such as graphics cards, or anything with a chip in it, aren’t going to get better next year.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In April, Florida passed a bill that restricted cities and towns from banning fossil fuel use, a defensive piece of legislation similar to bills being pushed around the country by the natural gas industry. Now, the bill is doing exactly what its authors and industry interests intended: stopping cities from setting… Read more.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Some of Uplevel’s employees during a video conferencing call. The startup is 100% remote. (Uplevel Photo). Uplevel makes software tools to help engineering teams better measure how developers use their time and how they could best avoid burning out. Now the Seattle startup is taking a page from its own playbook and the products that it makes. Uplevel is planning to implement a four-day workweek to enhance the productivity and happiness of its employees, part of a trend that’s gaining

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Venture Beast

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A new Apache Log4j vulnerability and a major attack on a military body using Log4Shell have come to light as security teams work to patch. Read More.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2021

TikTok Kitchen will be a delivery-only brand. The service will operate out of existing restaurants as ghost kitchens, with VDC promising restaurateurs the ability to earn up to $500 or more in profit daily in exchange for use of their equipment and staff to cook for the brand.

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“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.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Tampa Bay quarterback Tom Brady winds up to toss a Microsoft Surface tablet on the sideline during a loss to the New Orleans Saints on Sunday night. (Twitter screengrab via ESPN). The Tampa Bay Buccaneers weren’t the only ones to get battered and beaten during a “Sunday Night Football” game this week. Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet was once again hit hard on the sidelines.

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Spotted by Tom’s Hardware, the audiophile-grade SSD was posted to the audiophilestyle forums by its developer alongside some marketing blurb. They claim it’s been designed from the ground up and co-developed with a controller manufacturer. The co-developer is unnamed, but the picture of the SSD shows it with a controller.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The laptop features an RGB keyboard. | Image: LG. LG has announced what it’s calling its “first gaming laptop,” the UltraGear 17G90Q. The 17-inch laptop is powered by a combination of an 11th Gen Intel Tiger Lake H CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q graphics card, and can be configured with up to 32GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. The company is no stranger to making laptops, but the focus of its previous models has generally been on office productivity rather than offering a top-of-the-line

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Having a ‘connected’ drive you’re likely keeping for backup isn’t ideal in terms of data security; however, the feature is certainly convenient for users who want access to their content across more devices and places. To that end, WD recently put out a security update, in which it ‘strongly’ encouraged.

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Tech Republic Security

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jack Wallen shows you how to restrict server users to a specific directory in Linux.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Alexandria Executive Chairman Joel Marcus. (Alexandria Real Estate Equities Photo). Alexandria Real Equities , a life sciences real estate developer, has bought a 5.2-acre property in Bellevue, Wash., for $77.5 million. The purchase was first reported by the Puget Sound Business Journal. Alexandria Executive Chairman and founder Joel Marcus declined to comment in response to a query from GeekWire.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Quidditch players from across the globe are ready to deliver a bludger to the name of the sport they so deeply love , thanks in part to You-Know-Who. No, not Voldemort, but J.K. Rowling, a woman now known for needlessly expressing transphobic views who created the sport for her Harry Potter book series. Read more.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Meta is taking legal action against the bad actors who allegedly impersonated Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram to conduct a phishing scam. The company claims that since 2019, the defendants created over 39,000 websites in an attempt to replicate Meta’s services, subsequently deceiving users and collecting their login information.

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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.