Month: March 2024
How a Windows shake-up could position Microsoft to capitalize on AI PCs
After Windows and Surface chief Panos Panay departed Microsoft last year, the software giant quickly split his two divisions into two different teams. It was a move designed to push Windows engineers to focus on more web and AI features under Mikhail Parakhin, who was previously responsible for Bing and…
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Hackers are already attacking this Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, so patch now
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a new Microsoft Sharepoint Server vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, signaling that hackers have begun exploiting it in the wild. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-24955, and carries a severity score of 7.2. It is described as…
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Quordle today – hints and answers for Thursday, March 28 (game #794)
Quordle needs to be approached in a different way to Wordle. With four puzzles to solve in nine guesses, you can’t blindly throw letters at it and expect to win – you’ll stand a far better chance if you think strategically. That’s the case in Wordle too, of course, but…
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New York’s first offshore wind hub to be built with union labor
Labor groups inked a first-of-its-kind deal to support local hiring and union jobs with the developer of New York’s first offshore wind port. It’s an agreement for the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, envisioned as a crucial onshore staging area for some of America’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farms. The US…
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Amazon’s palm-scanning service now lets you sign up from your phone
Amazon now lets you sign up for its palm recognition service directly from your phone. It’s launching a new Amazon One app on iOS and Android you can use to take a photo of your palm and set up your account, allowing you to start scanning your palm at locations…
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The Magic Mouse could get a fascinating reboot, according to Apple’s new ideas
Apple has a real knack for designing great products, which makes the awkward choices evident in the Magic Mouse even more obvious. Yet Apple seems to be hard at work on ways to improve the device, and while we can’t say whether it will fix the upside-down charging fiasco, there…
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