Miscellaneous Tech News
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Intune Admin Templates and Security Baselines Now Available
IT pros using Microsoft Intune to manage devices got some polished tools from Microsoft this week.
Administrative templates for Microsoft Intune are now at the "general availability" commercial release stage for managing Windows 10 devices, Microsoft disclosed in a Thursday announcement. -
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Mayors around the country join forces to fight hacker ransoms
Twenty-two cities have been targeted in 2019 alone
Over 225 mayors across the US have backed a resolution to not pay ransoms to hackers, as reported by The New York Times.Maybe they should instead hire actual IT pros and just not get hacked in the first place. Cart before the horse people.
Yeah, they need to invest in better solutions and people. It's not an if situation, it's a when.
I saw a sign outside of our CIO's office a few days ago. I like it. It says something like this:
CEO: What if we invest in our people and they leave?
CIO: What if we don't invest in them and they stay?
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@dafyre said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Mayors around the country join forces to fight hacker ransoms
Twenty-two cities have been targeted in 2019 alone
Over 225 mayors across the US have backed a resolution to not pay ransoms to hackers, as reported by The New York Times.Maybe they should instead hire actual IT pros and just not get hacked in the first place. Cart before the horse people.
Yeah, they need to invest in better solutions and people. It's not an if situation, it's a when.
I saw a sign outside of our CIO's office a few days ago. I like it. It says something like this:
CEO: What if we invest in our people and they leave?
CIO: What if we don't invest in them and they stay?
Sadly, many won't get what it means.
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Microsoft Lists Some Organizational Obstacles to Eliminating Passwords
Organizations wanting a future without passwords will likely face some hurdles getting there, Microsoft admitted in an announcement this week.
Even Microsoft itself hasn't completely eliminated the use of passwords across its facilities. -
What is Silverblue?
Fedora Silverblue is becoming more and more popular inside and outside the Fedora world.
Silverblue is a codename for the new generation of the desktop operating system, previously known as Atomic Workstation. -
Firefox 68 available now in Fedora
Earlier this week, Mozilla released version 68 of the Firefox web browser.
Firefox is the default web browser in Fedora, and this update is now available in the official Fedora repositories. -
@mlnews already on it thanks to automatic Fedora updates.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews already on it thanks to automatic Fedora updates.
Already on it as well thanks to automatic FF updates on Windows.
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Facebook just released this new open source JavaScript engine
Facebook releases Hermes to improve app performance on low-end Android phones.
Facebook has released a new open source JavaScript engine, Hermes, to speed up start times for native Android apps built with Facebook's own React Native JavaScript framework. -
Office 365 declared illegal in German schools due to privacy risks
Microsoft's future in Germany is in question again.
This isn't the first time part of Germany has publicly broken up with Microsoft Office -
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Office 365 declared illegal in German schools due to privacy risks
Microsoft's future in Germany is in question again.
This isn't the first time part of Germany has publicly broken up with Microsoft OfficeThis is pretty huge.
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Ah, the title is hugely misleading. It is Hesse schools, which are in turn German, where it is illegal.
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Office 365 declared illegal in German schools due to privacy risks
Microsoft's future in Germany is in question again.
This isn't the first time part of Germany has publicly broken up with Microsoft OfficeThis is pretty huge.
Yeah, outlawing every major cloud provider from the country in school use. At least Germany publicly declares they want to monitor the data, whereas China wouldn't allow you into the country without being in their environment.
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@DustinB3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Office 365 declared illegal in German schools due to privacy risks
Microsoft's future in Germany is in question again.
This isn't the first time part of Germany has publicly broken up with Microsoft OfficeThis is pretty huge.
Yeah, outlawing every major cloud provider from the country in school use. At least Germany publicly declares they want to monitor the data, whereas China wouldn't allow you into the country without being in their environment.
It's actually probably pretty logical. Because the students are forced into the school, you are then forcing them to accept the terms of the cloud provider. That causes some pretty big issues.
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It matters that school is completely non-voluntary in Germany. Things like home schooling are totally out of the question.
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Who are they?
Division of Samsung. They are the company behind SmartOS and one of the biggest sponsors of the open source Solaris platforms, and ZFS.
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Microsoft to allow Alexa to integrate further into Windows 10
New changes coming later this year
Microsoft is opening up Windows 10 even further to third-party digital assistants. -
@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
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Who are they?
Division of Samsung. They are the company behind SmartOS and one of the biggest sponsors of the open source Solaris platforms, and ZFS.
Yikes... I just started liking ZFS, lol.
