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You can simply drag and drop or resize so many media sources, such as images, GIFs, videos, and even web pages. Skype calls can be added with just one click, and you can screen capture conference calls like Zoom, Teams, and more. XSplit Broadcaster, however, is far more than simply a screen recorder. Use In-Game HUD to manage everything from one monitor or projector mode for multiple displays. Any scene, including your active one, can be projected to another display....

Last night, at around 11 pm, my wife told me that Alexa was no longer able to switch off any Hue lights. There happen to be a pair in use in my main bedroom as bedside lamps. Sure enough, after investigating the issue, it turned out that Philips Hue’s cloud service and Alexa skill got disconnected from my system. After attempting to reset the skill and reconnect it to my Alexa, I saw this message: This is, of course, extremely frustrating when you’ve integrated all your lighting into a smart home system....

The 10 businesses will get six weeks of training from Meta about how to market their company on Instagram and Facebook as well as “$100,000 in ad credits and creative support.” The businesses will also be given access to a digital marketing skills certificate created by Meta. “The ten businesses I’ve nominated are dear to me because they embody determination, community, empathy, and empowerment. The success of Black-owned small businesses is key to wealth building in our community, which is why connecting Black owners to these opportunities is so important to me,” Ciara said....

It’s Samsung’s week at its Unpacked 2021 event where it unveiled the the Galaxy Z Fold 3 and Galaxy Z Flip 3, as well as the Galaxy Watch4, and the Galaxy Buds 2. Think of the Fold as a book-like device that can be a tablet, while the Flip, as the name suggests, is basically a flip phone shape, and Microsoft has explained how some of its key apps, including Microsoft Office, Teams and Outlook, will work with these new form factors....

This has become a popular thought ever since the pandemic struck and working from home became the new way of life. Many of the essences of management were tossed to the wind. Employees were left to their own devices and at least some felt liberated. Some managers reacted by spying on their employees. Others by plaintively crying that they were unable to manage because they didn’t have the resources or because they felt they’d simply lost their influence....

Microsoft’s chief people officer Kathleen Hogan announced the move in an email to US employees, detailing how it’s bringing a more “flexible model” to its vacation policy. So-called unlimited paid time off (UPTO) policies have become a popular tool to attract and keep talent in tech, finance, and other sectors facing staff shortages. According to The Verge, which viewed the memo, Microsoft is calling its policy “Discretionary Time Off”. Also: ‘Find something you’re passionate about....

Among the features slated to be part of Premium are: Meeting Guides: Meant to help users pick the right meeting experience (client call, brainstorm meeting, help desk support, etc.). IT admins will be able to customize and manage this feature, so that options will be preset for particular meeting types. Branding: Teams users can brand meeting experiences with custom logos, backgrounds for the Teams lobby and custom scenes for Together Mode....

The total patch count for the August 2022 Patch Tuesday Update actually includes 20 flaws in Edge that Microsoft had previously released fixes for, leaving 121 flaws affecting Windows, Office, Azure, .NET Core, Visual Studio and Exchange Server. The Zero Day Initiative noted that the volume of fixes released this month is “markedly higher” than what is normally expected in an August release. “It’s almost triple the size of last year’s August release, and it’s the second largest release this year,” the bug hunting group said....

It’s been just over a year since Microsoft announced it would drop support for IE on June 15, 2022. Since then, it has been persuading customers to move to Edge before June 15 and use ‘IE mode’ in Edge for legacy applications and websites that need it. IE mode will be supported until at least 2029. Microsoft has tried to prepare customers for this event for years. In 2019, before it declared the end date for IE, Microsoft execs declared IE 11 a “compatibility solution” that should not be used as the default browser....

Microsoft is leveraging the power of GPT-4 to launch a new, generative AI security product called Microsoft Security Copilot. Also: These experts are racing to protect AI from hackers The main idea is to use conversational AI to enhance the capabilities of security professionals, who are often overwhelmed by the sheer numbers and the sophistication of today’s attacks – partly because there are over 3 million unfilled jobs for IT security experts....

Image credit: Ed Bott/ZDNet Hand it to Microsoft, the normally stiff-necked company got representatives of the press to line up and wait eagerly for a product announcement. Two new Surface tablets were shown, albeit briefly, and left some definite impressions. What little I saw of the new tablets from afar made it clear that Microsoft made them for me. Colleague Ed Bott attended the Microsoft unveiling and has some wonderfully detailed impressions of the new Surface tablets....

SDSM works by removing Just-In-Time compilation from the V8 processing pipeline, which will reduce the attack surface that can be used to hack into Edge’s systems, as Bleeping Computer (where I first saw the SDSM information) explains. In addition to disabling the JIT, SDSM enables “new security mitigations” to make Edge a more secure browser. “JavaScript plays a key role in any browser story. JITs exist for a reason, and that is to optimize JavaScript performance,” the Microsoft browser researchers noted in their August 4 blog post about SDSM....

I love AirTags. But they can be abused. Or, more specifically, they can be used to abuse people. AirTags are small and can easily be tucked into a bag, coat pocket, or car by people with bad intentions. And Apple knows this. Apple has taken a few steps to keep users safe. iPhones running the latest iOS software will warn users if a tag that’s not registered to them is traveling with them....

The program, which initially received AU$8 million in funding, was established last year as part of efforts to reduce shark attacks and protect marine life along the state’s beaches. Touted as the world’s largest suite of shark management tools and technologies, Deputy Premier John Barilaro said the increased funding would see more shark-spotting drones, shark-management-alert-in-real-time (SMART) drumlines, and VR4G listening stations be used to monitor beaches. In terms of numbers, this will result in 170 SMART drumlines being deployed in nearly every coastal council area, shark-spotting drones being sent out to 50 beaches, and the number of VR4G shark listening stations in operation increasing to 37....

In a blog post well worth your time, entitled This shouldn’t have happened, Ormandy found that if NSS was made to create an ASN.1 signature bigger than the maximum 16384 bits it expected, overwriting of memory would occur. “What happens if you just … make a signature that’s bigger than that? Well, it turns out the answer is memory corruption. Yes, really,” Ormandy wrote. “The untrusted signature is simply copied into this fixed-sized buffer, overwriting adjacent members with arbitrary attacker-controlled data....

The latest ranking, covering the privacy features of 21 popular video call apps, found that three of the most popular apps are also platforms that Mozilla researchers said had lackluster privacy features: Facebook Messenger, WeChat and Houseparty. Slack was also criticized by Mozilla for not allowing users to block certain contacts. Signal and Threema were both cited as “outstanding” from a privacy perspective, but only Signal is free. Threema costs $2....

The exercise equipment maker saw its star rise dramatically during the pandemic on the backs of individuals looking for an alternative to in-person classes and gyms. The surging demand led to a peak valuation of around $50 billion. However, as the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic’s peak faded, so too did Peloton’s valuation, which now sits closer to $10 billion. The company itself pointed to the reopening of gyms as one of the main reasons for negative movement in its recent quarterly financial releases....

NASA’s DART probe – a.k.a. the Double Asteroid Redirection Test – was taking aim at Dimorphos, a smaller “egg-shaped” asteroid orbiting its much larger companion Didymos. Neither posed a threat to Earth, but NASA used DART to demonstrate that striking Dimorphos was a viable mitigation technique should it discover a similar body on an Earthbound trajectory. As NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said, this international collaboration “turned science fiction into science fact, demonstrating one way to protect Earth....

The acquisition comes less than a year after NetApp acquired Spot (now Spot by NetApp), a CloudOps provider that automates and optimizes workloads running in public cloud environments. Lye said Data Mechanics’ staff and IP will be integrated with the Spot by NetApp team and portfolio to accelerate the development of NetApp’s recently announced Spot Wave storage package, which simplifies, optimizes and automates Spark workloads running in public clouds.