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The basic concept behind a docking station is simple. It’s a relatively small device that stays on your desk, connected to your monitor, keyboard, mouse, and whatever other devices you want to have connected in an instant. When you land at your desk, you connect the dock to your laptop (typically via a single cable) and have instant access to all your external peripherals through that singular connection. Also: The best 5 laptop cooling pads You can achieve a basic setup with one of our less expensive choices, or you can opt for a high-end solution that supports two displays and Thunderbolt 3/4 peripherals....

And yes, the report states that the promise of AI is now being borne out. We’re seeing it crop up, not only in the tools that business analysts use like BI but also the fact that in-database machine learning is becoming a checkbox feature, not to mention that Oracle, SAP, Salesforce and others are now routinely incorporating machine learning into enterprise applications. So we’re seeing fewer headlines about driverless cars and the world is not waiting for a self-driving Uber to pull up, to prove that AI is real....

Too many powerful people want humans to be paranoid. They want them to be suspicious. Sometimes, they even want them to wish and do each other harm. It’s A Gift. Or Is It? It was just another day. The sun was shining. The pretty blue birds were chirping. All seemed normal, at first. Then I looked toward my doorstep, where lurked a package. On it was a small sticker that carried perhaps five random letters and numbers, and a QR code....

The star of the show was the announcement of two scaled up M1 processors, the M1 Pro and M1 Max. Both have the same number of compute cores (eight performance cores, and two low-power cores). The Pro supports 32GB RAM, the Max supports 64GB. The Pro has a 16 core GPU, and the Max has a 32 core GPU. The Pro’s memory bandwidth is 200GB/sec, the Max has a whopping 400GB/sec....

Crusher is effectively a small slice of the Frontier system. Frontier will ultimately comprise more than 100 Cray Shasta cabinets, delivering 1.5 exaflops of performance. Crusher, meanwhile, is a 1.5 cabinet iteration of Frontier. It features 192 nodes connected by HPE’s Slingshot Interconnect, with each node containing one optimized 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processor and four AMD Instinct MI250X accelerators. Crusher occupies only 44 square feet of floor space. It’s 1/100th the size of the DoE’s 27-petaflop Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer, which was decommissioned in 2019, but it’s faster than the entire 4,352-square-foot system was....

But location is only one part of the puzzle when it comes to redesigning work. Professionals are not only wrangling for control over where they do their work, but when. And it seems the answer to that is increasingly “not on Fridays, please.” The four-day week presents something of a utopian vision of a world where a work-life balance is exactly that – a harmonious and (near) equal balance of working and not working....

According to Upwork’s most recent Future Workforce Report, 56% of companies that hire freelance workers hired freelancers at an increased rate within the last year. Companies are seeking out skilled independent workers to fill empty positions to compensate for the ongoing loss of talent, particularly in data science, accounting, and IT departments. Many companies are still feeling the burn of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on job trends. The ongoing tendency for workers to quit their jobs in search of better opportunities is persistent, and tech workers have proved particularly difficult to hire....

The $79.99 Hover Bar Duo is a product I’ve used since its initial launch to work on my iPad Pro when connected to an external monitor, even before iPadOS 16, added true support for connecting Apple’s tablet to a display. But one aspect about the mount I struggled with was deciding which base – there’s a clamp base for the edge of your desk or table and a weighted base that sits on a flat surface – to use and where....

So, when T-Mobile sent me their REVVL 6 Pro to review, I assumed, given it’s yet another Android phone targeting the bottom end of the cost spectrum, this phone would join the long list of “nice try” phones I’ve deemed not worthy of consumer dollars. I was pleasantly surprised. I do want to preface this by saying the REVVL 6 Pro is very much a budget device. Because of that, you cannot expect it to perform like, say, a Pixel 6 Pro....

“Ransomware continues to be lucrative, but financially motivated threat actors are not immune from geopolitical developments,” says a new report, compiled by Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), Mandiant (the cybersecurity firm that’s now a part of Google Cloud), and Google Trust & Safety. Also: Russian hackers’ lack of success against Ukraine shows that strong cyber defenses work “Lines are blurring between financially motivated and government-backed attackers in Eastern Europe,” the report says, “with threat actors changing their targeting to align with regional geopolitical interests, and government-backed attackers adopting some tactics and services associated with financially motivated actors....

“I managed to negotiate a new deal, where I would work two weeks per month in Brussels, and two weeks from Poland,” the ethical hacker says. “And after a year, we re-negotiated it to one week in Brussels and three remotely, renting a co-working space. And when COVID-19 came, I started to work fully from home.” The way Dros works is through what in Poland has become known as the Business-to-Business (B2B) contract, which has become steadily more popular over the past few years in the country....

As far as coding languages go, Python is one of the most relevant. That’s because it’s used for many different applications, from app development and data science to cybersecurity. Want to learn Python at home without investing thousands in school tuition? Then the 2023 Premium Python Programming Mega Certification Bundle, offered to readers for just $40, is a great alternative. This convenient web-based training package is one of the easiest ways for beginners to learn how to code with Python....

For companies who have made the switch, the results have mostly been positive, with business leaders reporting increases in productivity, boosted employee morale, fewer resignations, and less absenteeism. This is prompting more companies to explore whether a shorter working week can work for them, too. This includes Uplevel, an engineering insights company that trialed a four-day workweek in January 2022. Employees at the Seattle-based company caught wind of the results on ongoing four-day week trials in the US and elsewhere and shared them with Uplevel CEO, Joe Levy, at a company barbeque....

“What we’re saying is this era of technological exceptionalism has got to end,” Inman Grant said on a panel at the World Economic Forum on Monday. “We’ve got food safety standards, we’ve got consumer protection laws, we need the companies assessing their risks and then building the potential protections in as a forethought, rather than an afterthought … embedding those digital seatbelts and erecting those digital guardrails.” As the world hurtles towards a future that could include augmented reality, metaverses, and other different realities, Inman Grant said such experiences could be supercharged, and that also includes when users are harmed in such environments....

Cybersecurity researchers at Agari planted thousands of credentials – that were made to look like they belonged to real users, but were in fact of under the control of the researchers – onto websites and forums popular for dumping stolen usernames and passwords. The false credentials – seeded over the course of six months – were designed to look like compromised logins for well-known cloud software applications. SEE: Network security policy (TechRepublic Premium) Researchers found that the accounts are actively accessed within hours of the login credentials being posted online on phishing websites and forums....

That search ended when I found Tot. Tot is a simple-to-use app that lets you collect notes and text on macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and WatchOS devices. It offers a single window for interacting with your notes, both dark and light modes, iCloud sync, markdown support, and shortcuts support. Also: The best note-taking apps for iPad To be fair, I’m only using Tot on macOS, as I do not own or use any of Apple’s mobile devices (beyond a MacBook Pro)....

The fixes come in the Windows 11 Insider preview build number 22463 to the Dev Channel, the bleeding-edge branch of Windows 11 that includes features not necessarily included in the version of Windows 11 set to be released on October 5. But Microsoft will want to ensure that bug fixes do make it to the October 5 release. That makes this Dev Channel build a very important one from Microsoft, and includes a ton of fixes that address major problems with Windows 11....

Though this monitor wouldn’t be the greatest choice for gaming, LG includes Dynamic Action Sync in this monitor so you can get reduced input lag and increased response rate. In addition to the Dynamic Action Sync, the Black Stabilized helps you see more of what’s lost in the shadows on your game so you won’t get bombarded by your enemies. With a monitor this big, the amount of work you can do on it increases drastically, not just because of the size, but because of reader mode on the monitor reducing blue light, creating less strain on your eyes....

Microsoft put out an alert after observing an active campaign targeting Office 365 organizations with convincing emails and several techniques to bypass phishing detection, including an Office 365 phishing page, Google cloud web app hosting, and a compromised SharePoint site that urges victims to type in their credentials. SEE: Network security policy (TechRepublic Premium) “An active phishing campaign is using a crafty combination of legitimate-looking original sender email addresses, spoofed display sender addresses that contain the target usernames and domains, and display names that mimic legitimate services to try and slip through email filters,” the Microsoft Security Intelligence team said in an update....

Under ‘Privacy & security’ within the Windows 11 Settings app, Windows 11 will soon start showing recent activity from apps that have accessed the microphone or other sensitive data such as location in the past week. The report includes the time and date the app last accessed the device. The new feature was highlighted last week on Twitter by Dave Weston, Microsoft’s vice president for enterprise and OS security who noted: “New Windows 11 Privacy Auditing features allow you to see history of sensitive device access like the Microphone....