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| | | Microsoft’s Deep Sea Data Center Is Now Operational | | Engadget | Data centers are hot, noisy, and usually inefficiently located. Microsoft's solution? Put them at the bottom of the sea. Following initial prototype testing, the company's years-long Project Natick is finally delivering Microsoft's vision of sustainable, prepackaged, and rapidly deployed data centers that operate from the seafloor. Yup. Underwater. | | AMD Tops Intel with Its 32-Core Threadripper 2, Which Will Ship This Year | | PCWorld | AMD just did Intel one better at Computex. Intel wowed the Taipei crowds on Tuesday with a 28-core Core chip, which the company promised by the end of the year. One day later, yesterday, AMD announced Threadripper 2—and at 32 cores and 64 threads, it will easily top what Intel promised. | | Google’s Mark Risher Tells Us Why Everything We Know About Passwords Is Wrong | | The Verge | Google’s Mark Risher explains why the conventional wisdom about choosing your password is wrong and about the expanding number of threats faced by platforms like Gmail as they work to protect users from phishing attacks and spammers. Conventional wisdom about choosing longer, more complicated passwords is getting less effective over time. Meanwhile, the people behind phishing attacks are getting much better. | | VPNFilter Malware Infecting 500,000 Devices Is Worse Than We Thought | | Ars Technica | Two weeks ago, officials in the private and public sectors warned that hackers working for the Russian government infected more than 500,000 consumer-grade routers in 54 countries with malware that could be used for a range of nefarious purposes. Now, researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team say additional analysis shows that the malware is more powerful than originally thought and runs on a much broader base of models, many from previously unaffected manufacturers. |
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| | | 10 Google Sheets Tips & Tricks To Start Using Today | | Medium | Google Sheets is rich with hidden tips and tricks that can not only speed up your workflow, but also add some oomph to the way you present data. And if you happen to use Google Sheets on a regular basis, you’re bound to appreciate some of the tips and tricks listed here. | | 11 Tips for Improving Productivity Using OneNote | | Medium | OneNote allows you to capture just about anything. Type notes, record audio, create a quick sketch, add pictures, videos, and any other document. Then organize everything into notebooks, sections, and pages. OneNote can be as structured or as unstructured as you want it to be. Here are 11 ways you can use OneNote to improve your productivity. |
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| | | 10 Highlights for IT Leaders: Mary Meeker’s Internet Report | | The Enterprisers Project | Each spring, Mary Meeker delivers her highly-anticipated internet trends report. Only one problem: It’s too thick for mere mortals to digest. This year’s report clocks in at 294 slides. The Enterprisers Project has culled 10 highlights of particular interest for CIOs and other IT pros from Meeker’s report. Let’s dig in. |
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