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What’s on your desk, Kylie Robison?
Kylie Robison is The Verge’s senior reporter covering artificial intelligence. Previously, she worked at Fortune, where she covered Twitter; before that, she covered software developer culture (“a beat,” she says, “I made up and loved”) for Business Insider. “I’ve always been obsessed with technology in an extremely online way,” she adds, “and The Verge is filled with people who are…
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What’s on your desk, Kristen Radtke?
Kristen Radtke is The Verge’s creative director; she works with the art team to create the visuals for stories and custom features. “Before this,” she explains, “I was art director for the small arts and culture magazine The Believer, and in a previous life, I worked in independent book publishing.” We asked her to show us her home office, and…
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What’s on your desk, David Pierce?
David Pierce is The Verge’s editor-at-large. What is an editor-at-large? It means, he says, “well, nothing. I write stories and make podcasts, and I write a newsletter called Installer, but mostly, I spend a lot of time trying to convince people to like to-do list apps as much as I do.” We asked him to tell us a bit about…
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Will genAI kill the help desk and other IT jobs? – Computerworld
Organizations are using AI to automate a wide range of business process, including paying suppliers, invoicing, procurement, financial reporting, and optimizing facilities utilization, according to Duke University finance professor John Graham, academic director of the survey. “This is on top of companies using ChatGPT to generate creative ideas and to draft job descriptions, contracts, marketing plans, and press releases,” Graham…
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SolarWinds fixes hardcoded credentials flaw in Web Help Desk
SolarWinds has released a hotfix for a critical Web Help Desk vulnerability that allows attackers to log into unpatched systems using hardcoded credentials. Web Help Desk (WHD) is an IT help desk software widely used by government agencies, large corporations, and healthcare and education organizations to automate and streamline help desk management tasks. SolarWinds’ IT management products are used by over 300,000…
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SolarWinds urges customers to patch critical Web Help Desk flaw
SolarWinds has issued a warning to customers after the discovery of a critical vulnerability in the firm’s Web Help Desk solution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28986, is a Java deserialization vulnerability that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution, the company confirmed in an advisory last week. “SolarWinds Web Help Desk was found to be susceptible to a Java…
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Best Footrests for the Most Comfortable Desk Setup
The perfect footrest for your home office is ergonomically sound—to make sure it will fit you and your setup, you should be able to adjust its height and angle, and its width and depth should suit your foot’s length and foot placement preference. It should be easy to assemble and simple to use (if it’s slipping out from under you…
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