In its announcement, Microsoft cited a recent Forrester report that shows C-level executives are prioritizing employee productivity. Workplace Analytics will provide in-work analysis to show how employees are behaving and how productive they are. Microsoft hopes to drive effectiveness in the workplace with important insights for organizations to assess. The service taps into Office 365 email and calendar metadata, such as to and from interactions and timestamps. Organizations can use the resulting data to see how employees spend their time....

Among the additions with the Chinese Mythology update is a new landscape with “Eastern” influences. Among the new features to find are ancient cities, dragons, and even giant pandas. The pack also arrives with 26 new skins for gamers to enjoy. Furthermore, a new game texture has been added to add vivid color to building blocks. Microsoft used noted composer Gareth Coker to create the original score for this Minecraft update....

Kubernetes clusters in Windows container work over Linux to help customers manage cloud services. Unit 42, the zero-day wing of Palo Alto Networks, says Siloscape was spotted by researchers in March. It was given its name because it focuses on trying to compromise Windows containers and then escape through the server silo. Threat actors access the command-and-control (C2) server through a .onion domain. On C2, attackers can manage Siloscape, including sending attack commands and extract data....

For those unfamiliar, EA Access works a lot like Netflix. You pay $4.99 a month and get unlimited access to a selection of EA titles. The total amount per year adds up to $29.99 – less than the amount of just one game. The catalog so far includes big titles like Star Wars: Battlefront, UFC 2, Mirrors Edge Catalyst and Skate 3. Members also get free trials of games and a 10% discount of digital purchases....

And with this latest Windows 10 feature update Microsoft updates the plain text editor Notepad with long-awaited features such as Notepad finally supports UNIX-style end of line (EOL) characters, Bing search engine integration, Improved find and replace with word-wrap tool, text zooming, line numbers and much more. Windows 10 version 1809 Notepad Features With the latest Windows 10 October 2018 update the old text editor, Notepad finally supports UNIX-style end of line (EOL) characters....

According to the Financial Times, Oracle has already held talks with ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok. Sources suggest the company is serious about acquiring the app. The report says the firm is working with investors in the United States who have previously invested in ByteDance. This could give Oracle an advantage despite many assuming Microsoft led the race to acquire TikTok. Donald Trump wants to remove the company from the United States....

Now it seems that the so-called Snapdragon 1000 will not be a jacked up mobile processor. Instead it could be a fully independent CPU for laptops. This would be an interesting development because it would mark Qualcomm’s first entry into the dedicated laptop market. The company has enjoyed enormous success in mobile. Indeed, Qualcomm is the name most think of when considering mobile processing. That’s because its Snapdragon chips power the majority of smartphones, from budget to flagship....

Clearly Samsung is not ready for a full launch and the technology is still in the pre-release development stage. Still, the company’s folding screens have come a long way since Project YOUM five years ago. Of course, the South Korean company has often led the way in terms of smartphone displays. The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge introduced folded curved screens to the masses four years ago. While it is easy to see the latest device as an evolution of the Edge screen, it is more like a seismic leap....

In a blog post this week, the team says the cybercriminal fingerprinting technique has uncovered two authors selling Windows local privilege escalation (LPE) exploits. Both are thought to have already sold exploits to Russian attacks groups. Check Point says fingerprinting was developed after a customer incident. Specifically, the team found a 64-bit executable during an attack on a client. Once the file was checked, researchers found it was hosting rare debug strings....

Perhaps the most important free tool exclusive in Ukraine is the ability to make free calls on Skype. Amid a full-scale invasion, millions of people are either displaced or travelling through the country to border nations. It is easy to lose communication with loved ones amid the turmoil, so free calls are something that may help. Furthermore, Microsoft says the Skype update now supports translation on calls from and to Ukrainian....

Smart App Control (SAC) is a new security ability that blocks apps that are potentially dangerous or untrusted for another reason. It is available through Windows Security in the App & Browser Control menu. SAC is off by default, so you will need to enable it. Furthermore, it only works on devices that have a clean install, and that Windows 11 preview build 22567 or newer. That means it will not work unless you re-install or reset Windows....

There are various reasons that can cause windows updates stuck while installing it may be system files get corrupted while the upgrade process, Windows installed an update bug, Security software causing the issue, windows update files not download or installed properly or may software compatibility causing windows updates stuck installing. Whatever the reason here some applicable solutions you may try to fix the issue and get windows updates installed correctly....

How to turn on Hello in Windows 10 In order to get the facial recognition system (Windows Hello) to work on your device, you have to complete the following steps: 1 How to turn on Hello in Windows 102 Windows Hello not working2.1 Install latest windows update2.2 Reset the Facial Recognition and Fingerprint Options2.3 Set Up Trusted Platform Module3 Tweak Windows Registry3.1 Update the Related Drivers3.2 Enable Biometrics in Group Policy Editor...

The best option is to go with NAS servers. However, the real confusion starts from here. There are two best NAS; Synology and Drobo. How can you choose the one that best fits your needs? Which one is best for data protection? Which one is easier when it comes to data recovery? Drobo RAID data recovery or Synology data recovery? Therefore, continue reading the article to solve your confusion....

It seems the $22bn was not upfront, no matter what, payment. Instead, it is an incremental project where the U.S. Army would pay that amount if all goes well. As all is not reportedly going well, the military is already looking to reduce the amount it will pay. Specifically, the Department of Defense is already considering putting $394 million of the contract “on hold”. A new report from The Register suggests it was never likely the contract would reach the full $22bn ceilings....

Developer axi0mX discovered the flaw and released it to aid the jailbreak community. Thankfully, the attack can not be triggered remotely, but it could be used as a tool to gain a degree of control over a phone that doesn’t belong to an attacker. As axi0mX mentions, though, the biggest interest may be to the jailbreaking community. Jailbreaking an iPhone refers to the practice of using a chain of exploits to let a user modify a device beyond what Apple intended....

Windows 11 minimum system requirement Before go ahead first check and make sure your PC meets the minimum system requirements to install the latest windows 11. 1 Windows 11 minimum system requirement2 How to Upgrade your Windows 10 PC to Windows 112.1 Windows update2.2 Windows 11 Installation assistant As per Microsoft official, to install windows 11 on your computer you need a 64-bit processor with at least two cores and 1GHz clock speed or faster....

Active Hours lets you specify a specific block of time every day when it is forbidden for your PC to restart and install updates. The feature only lets you block up to 12 hours per day, which means you can’t use Active Hours as a workaround to defeat Windows Update. How To Configure Active Hours On Windows 10 Setting Active Hours in Windows 10 is very easy. First click on Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update....

This should, in theory, reduce the message chaining that can lead to successful, widespread disinformation campaigns. Last year, the platform introduced the double arrow feature, which highlights messages that have been forwarded many times, and it’s to these the restrictions will be applied. In the process, though, Facebook’s platform could be limiting the spread of information that’s accurate and useful. Health advice, news and statistics, and event organization for frontline workers can all fall into this category....

1 How to Disable Prefetch on Windows 102 How to Disable Superfetch on Windows 10 What is Prefetch and Superfetch? Even when you’re not using them, Superfetch loads frequently used programs into memory to speed up startup. Prefetch is a similar feature which was introduced already with Windows XP that gathers data about programs to also help them start faster. To achieve this, the prefetch algorithm tries to anticipate when data most probably won´t be available in cache to directly load it from the respective drive....