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The four-day week sounds great – but we need the private sector on board for it to work
There’s something rather frustrating about hailing the success of four-day week trials knowing full well that you’ll probably never experience it. The reality is that flexible working practices such as these simply might not work in certain industries – and there’s nothing wrong with that. But for those who can secure better working arrangements, we should still be pushing our…
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MA tax preparer and accountant pays ransom after hackers steal private info of 70K clients
Massachusetts accounting firm Bookkeeping & Business Services (BBS) this week confirmed it notified 70,168 people about a December 2023 data breach that compromised clients’ private medical and tax information. What info was compromised depends on whether the victim is a medical billing client or tax preparation client. For tax preparation clients, the breached info can include: Name Social Security number…
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Signal introduces convenient “call links” for private group chats
The Signal messenger application has announced a set of new features aimed at making private group chats more convenient and easier for people to join. The highlight feature announced is “call links,” which allow users to create and share links with other Signal users without needing to create a group chat. The links can be created from the new “calls”…
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Take-Two is selling its indie games label Private Division
Take-Two did not disclose the buyer of Private Division or how much they paid. In an emailed statement to The Verge, Take-Two spokesperson Alan Lewis wrote: We recently made the strategic decision to sell our Private Division label to focus our resources on growing our core and mobile businesses for the long-term. As part of this transaction, the buyer purchased…
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Anime Battle Arena (ABA) Private Server Codes (November 2024)
Those in love with Roblox anime games already know about Anime Battle Arena. And while the game doesn’t have a code system for now, you still can grind it out and level up quickly. But with so many players out there griefing, finding solo space is a nightmare. Thankfully, the developers know this and have private servers for it. Join…
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Apple is offering rewards of up to $1 million to find critical flaws in its private AI cloud systems
Apple is offering a $1 million (£770,000) bounty for flaws that could be used by hackers to run code in Private Cloud Compute (PCC), the cloud system used to power advanced AI features that can’t run on device. Bug bounty programs are a popular way for technology companies to incentivise security researchers to seek out vulnerabilities in their code, offering…
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How to use the new Private Space feature in Android 15
While there aren’t a lot of new features in Android 15, it does offer some useful additions for your phone — and one of the most interesting is called “Private Space.” Think of it as a separate app vault that locks away specified apps on your Android device. Of course, the main lockscreen already stops other people from accessing your…
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Apple creates Private Cloud Compute VM to let researchers find bugs
Apple created a Virtual Research Environment to allow public access to testing the security of its Private Cloud Compute system, and released the source code for some “key components” to help researchers analyze the privacy and safety features on the architecture. The company also seeks to improve the system’s security and has expanded its security bounty program to include rewards…
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Where next for private cloud networks?
However you define “private cloud” or segment the analysis, it’s on the up. Although organizations are moving away from owning their own on premises infrastructure in their own data centers, they’re not guaranteed to choose the public cloud as they might have in the early cloud boom years. So says Terry Storrar, managing director at Leaseweb, who tells ITPro that…
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How to switch your Instagram account from public to private
Anyone who has followed a social network knows that sometimes the most innocuous post can attract unpleasant responses, especially on apps like Instagram, where your content — whether video, image, or text — can be out there for anyone to see. There are any number of reasons you might want to set your account to private, even if only temporarily.…
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