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I Wish My Parents Would Ditch Windows (But They Never Will)
Summary Windows has become a service selling services, leading to weekly tech support calls. Troubleshooting Windows issues takes up too much time, despite my parents’ tech literacy. Switching to macOS may be the best solution despite price concerns re; budget laptops. Being the family on-call tech support guy can become a little draining at times, and usually when my parents…
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Bye bye NBN 25? ACCAN urges NBN Co to ditch 25Mbps services, make 50Mbps the new minimum
NBN Co is being urged to reconsider its focus on delivering faster top-end speeds, and expand its plans by raising speeds on its lowest tier, setting a new baseline of 50Mbps, according to a consultation paper. Responding to NBN Co’s latest consultation paper, the Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) remarks that the wholesaler is too focused on introducing faster…
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Ditch the Mouse: You Can Control Your Chromebook with Just Your Face
Google showcased an impressive Face Control AI feature at I/O 2024 that allowed users to control a computer using their head movements and facial gestures. Turns out, Google has introduced Face Control on Chromebooks with the recent version 132 update. I just tried it on my Chromebook, and to my surprise, it worked flawlessly from the get-go. You simply have…
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Google’s Pixel 9A looks destined to ditch the camera bar
There’ve already been renders of Google’s yet-to-be-announced Pixel 9A and one real-world sneak peek. Now we’re getting yet another look at an early prototype of Google’s next mid-range phone. X user fenibook has posted two shots of the phone, and it’s got the company’s usual markings that designate this as a still-under-development device. These latest images offer yet more proof…
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Want developers to build secure software? You need to ditch these two programming languages
The memory safety of programming languages has been a hot topic for a number of years in the development community. Popular, high-performance languages like C and C++ suffer from the same weakness, namely they are vulnerable to bugs associated with how they use memory, which threat actors can take advantage of. Common classes of memory safety vulnerabilities are buffer overflow,…
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Disney to ditch Slack after security breach, will move to Microsoft Teams – Computerworld
A group called “Nullbulge” published a 1.1 TB file containing data taken from Disney’s internal Slack archive in July. This included 44 million messages between Disney employees, 18,800 spreadsheets and at least 13,000 PDFs, according to a Wall Street Journal report earlier this month. Information posted publicly included details on Disney’s financial status and strategy, as well as personally identifiable information on some staffers…
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Apple’s rumored Mac Mini redesign may ditch the USB-A port
Apple’s next Mac Mini won’t have USB-A ports, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes in today’s Power On newsletter that the new desktops will start to hit Apple’s warehouses in September. The higher-end variant with an Apple M4 Pro chip will ship in October, he writes. The version with an M4 Pro will still cram a lot of ports,…
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