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What Went Wrong This Year?
In the fast-paced world of innovation, every breakthrough carries the risk of missteps, miscalculations, or under-delivering promises. The biggest tech story of 2024 — the CrowdStrike outage that affected businesses and consumers nationwide — was also one of the year’s most notable failures. But the CrowdStrike story is more than just a tale of failure — it’s also a testament…
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Nearly all of the top US banks were impacted by third party breaches last year
Virtually all of the top 100 US banks were hit by third party data breaches last year, including every one of the top ten. Research from SecurityScorecard found 97% of firms reported third-party breaches across the year, although only 6% of vendors were compromised. A similar number also suffered fourth-party breaches, traced back to just 2% of vendors. Ryan Sherstobitoff,…
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Steam Replay 2024 is Here: Check Your Year in Review
2024’s “Review Your Year” feature on Steam is back, and it’s just as exciting as ever. As another year of gaming draws to a close, Steam’s annual recap offers a detailed look at your gaming journey. From your total playtime and achievements to the friends you’ve made, this personalized review reveals everything about your gaming habits. If you also want…
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How to restore AM/PM and year for time and date in Taskbar on Windows 11
To restore AM/PM and year in the Taskbar, open Settings > Time & language > Date & time, click the “Show time and date in the System tray” setting, and disable the “Show abbreviated time and date” option. On Windows 11, missing parts of the time and date in the Taskbar is not a bug. It’s the new format for the clock. However, there’s an option…
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Data center water consumption is skyrocketing, but Microsoft thinks it has a solution – the company’s new closed-loop cooling system consumes zero water and could save millions of liters per year
Microsoft has revealed more information on its new data center design that promises to consume zero water for cooling purposes. In August, the firm unveiled the new design that leverages a chip-level liquid cooling solution that can provide precise temperature control without water evaporation. A new blog post authored by Steve Solomon, VP of datacenter infrastructure engineering at Microsoft, said…
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The Suicide Squad game’s final season is coming less than a year after launch
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League only came out in February, but the game’s final season, which starts tomorrow, is going to be its last. Season 4 Episode 7 launches on Tuesday, and Episode 8, which is set to release on January 14th, 2025, will “serve as the last seasonal Episode for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League,” developer Rocksteady announced…
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2025 in tech: What’s coming for the industry next year
There’s a lot we don’t know about what’s coming for tech in 2025. AI could save the world, or ruin it, or do pretty much nothing interesting at all. A new US president could change priorities and policies on antitrust fights and privacy rules. Will TikTok get banned? Will the fediverse take off? Will it be the year of Matter?…
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Microsoft Surface rumors point to a big Copilot Plus refresh next year
Microsoft’s first Copilot AI-ready Surface laptop arrived earlier this year, and now Windows Central reports that the rest of the lineup is due for a refresh in 2025. According to the report, we can expect new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop computers — and we’ve already seen a possible prototype pop up in October — with Intel Lunar Lake chips, that will be…
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Xbox’s Year in Review is Back for 2024
We’re fast approaching the end of the year. It’s December, the very last month of 2024, which means that many apps and services are creating year-end summaries of all your recent activity. This also includes your Xbox, of course. Xbox’s Year in Review has just come back for another year, in the style of Spotify Wrapped and other similar year-end…
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2025 will be a bad year for remote work – Computerworld
Why CEOs like back-to-office mandates CEOs (like Musk, Ramaswamy, and, for that matter, Trump) typically favor remote work for themselves, but oppose it for their employees. These leaders have both good reasons and bad for opposing remote work. Among the good reasons, they believe that in-person collaboration generates more and better ideas than remote collaboration. While this may be true,…
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