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Aug 10, 2022

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Earlier this summer, Microsoft released new emojis for their platforms. If you're a corporate slave staring at Teams all day, there is a palette of these smiling faces to inject some humanity into yo...

Microsoft Paid Me $400 to Use Bing. They'll Pay You, Too!

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May 28, 2022

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Microsoft's Bing search engine launched in 2009 and has been a distant number two to mighty Google. One might say that Google is the Microsoft of search engines and Microsoft is the Apple...well, if...

Microsoft Paid Me $400 to Use Bing. They'll Pay You, Too!

Cloud Providers Prepare to Pull the Plug on Putin

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Mar 08, 2022

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Major cloud services companies such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle may cut off Russia's access to cloud services in days to come. Already, Amazon has suspended new service signups. This is...

Cloud Providers Prepare to Pull the Plug on Putin

Github Entertains During Its Outage

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Feb 22, 2022

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By the time you read this, the issue my be fixed, but today when I went to install Joplin, I was greeted by this amusing picture. Apparently, Joplin is hosted on GitHub and they're having an issue tod...

Microsoft Acquires Activision

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Jan 19, 2022

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News broke after market close yesterday that Microsoft is acquiring Activision Blizzard. The acquisition puts many gaming franchises into Microsoft's hands, including Call of Duty, Warcraft/StarCraft,...

DigitalOcean Shares Plunge 9% on High Volume

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Jan 15, 2022

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DigitalOcean (NYSE:DOCN) shares dropped 9% today. Volume was more than double normal. It's been a rough season for DO. Shares today traded for as cheap as $59/share - well off the stock's highs abov...

DigitalOcean Shares Plunge 9% on High Volume

Microsoft Shrugged Off 2.4Tbps DDoS Attack

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Nov 07, 2021

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Microsoft reported recently that it had fended off a 2.4Tbps DDoS attack in August. The attack - launched from 70,000 sources in Asia and the US - was the second biggest attack on record, eclipsed on...

Microsoft Shrugged Off 2.4Tbps DDoS Attack

AMD's Server Market Share Hits New High at 16%

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Sep 23, 2021

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According to market research group Omdia, AMD has surged to a historically high server market share of 16%. "In the server CPU market, AMD scored its best-ever quarter from a market share and sales pe...

AMD's Server Market Share Hits New High at 16%

Microsoft Says Passwords are Passé

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Sep 18, 2021

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Are passwords a dying breed? In a blog post published September 15, Microsoft Vice President of Security, Compliance, and Identity Vasu Jakkal entitled "The passwordless future is here for your Micros...

Microsoft Azure's CosmosDB Accidentally Left Wide Open

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Aug 27, 2021

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Microsoft revealed Thursday that some customers' CosmosDB databases in Azure were accidentally left wide open. A security researcher named Wiz discovered that it could access keys that unlocked thousa...

Microsoft Azure's CosmosDB Accidentally Left Wide Open

Microsoft Raising Fees for Office 365

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Aug 20, 2021

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Microsoft announced that they are raising prices for Office 365 subscriptions. The price increase is between 10% and 16%, depending on product. This is the first price increase since Office 365 launc...

SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

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Aug 19, 2021

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Spamhaus's 2021 Q2 Botnet Threat Update has been released and it's interesting reading. Overall, there has been a reduction in observed command and control (C&C) systems. However, at regional and...

SpamHaus Botnet Report Highlights Some LowEnd Providers

Microsoft Azure is the World's Largest Cloud

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Aug 16, 2021

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According to recent data, Microsoft Azure is the world's largest public cloud with $17.7 billion in quarterly revenue. Amazon AWS trails not far behind at $13.3 billion. The top five (which also inc...

Microsoft Azure is the World's Largest Cloud

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