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Then and now, most MBA programs take two years to complete. However, this timeline varies depending on the program and other factors, such as if you choose to study online or in-person, or full time or part-time. You’ll need a bachelor’s degree to enter most graduate-level programs. To earn an MBA, most –– but not all –– schools require students to take either the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) or the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT)....

Musk has recently purchased 10,000 graphic processing units (GPUs) for Twitter, according to Business Insider sources. GPUs are used for generative AI projects because of their ability to process lots of data at the same time. This ability is crucial for machine learning models including generative AI, as they are trained on massive amounts of data. Therefore, the purchase directly points to a generative AI project on the horizon. Also: The best Twitter alternatives Business Insider’s sources also shared that Musk’s AI project involves a large language model (LLM), again signaling to a generative AI model of some form....

The enhancements include a new campus fabric management capability that should help enterprises handle the growing number of mobile and IoT devices on their networks. Juniper is also expanding the capabilities of the Marvis Virtual Network Assistant to offer more proactive problem remediation. Both updates are ultimately about improving the user experience, said Christian Gilby, Juniper’s Senior Director of Product Marketing for the AI-driven enterprise. “It’s about the user device experience, but it’s also about IT experience,” he told ZDNet....

It serves as an orchestration engine for all the containers arising across the application landscape, enabling them to run anywhere, anytime, without the need for heavy-handed IT support – or any support at all. At the same time, it is serving to shift the balance of power away from a cloud world dominated by a few mega tech providers. This has implications for both development and operations roles in enterprises....

Also: Best Windows 10 laptops: Top notebooks compared Windows 10X, which Microsoft officials recently acknowledged they had decided to drop, featured a centered taskbar and a fly-out Start menu. The icons on the screenshot of this build are transparent and Live Tiles are completely gone. Some have speculated that Microsoft could deliver some pieces of Windows 11 via the Feature Experience Pack – a mechanism Microsoft currently uses to deliver OS components and apps that can be updated independently from the base operating system....

To this end, the company has unveiled an innovative dual OLED-screen laptop, a powerful and elegant all-in-one (AIO) PC, and a cutting-edge Android tablet. Let’s take a look. Lenovo Yoga Book 9i Lenovo says the Yoga Book 9i is “the world’s first dual OLED-screen laptop”, and the second screen is no subsidiary display: this device has two 13.3-inch 2.8K 16:10 aspect ratio HDR OLED screens. Equipped with a 360-degree hinge, it can do the usual clamshell, tent, presentation, tablet thing, using either a virtual keyboard/touchpad on one of the screens or a separate Bluetooth keyboard, which frees up both displays....

The problem is a big one, the kind of logistical strain that lives in the seams of enterprises and doesn’t get much attention. Renewable energy utilities like solar and wind farms cover massive footprints and often exist in wild places where weeds and other vegetation grows naturally. Unchecked, that vegetation can cause massive infrastructure problems. But hiring people to take care of the weeds is both expensive and potentially perilous....

The vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) was publicly disclosed on December 9 and enables remote code execution and access to servers. What makes it such a major issue is Log4j is widely used in commonly deployed enterprise systems. In some cases, organisations may not even be aware that the Java logging library forms part of the applications they’re using, meaning they could be vulnerable without knowing it. Online attackers have been quick to take advantage of the vulnerability – also known as Log4Shell – as soon as they can....

On Wednesday, the company – recently rebranded from Facebook – said that the two new areas of research revolve around scraping bugs and scraped databases containing user information. Dan Gurfinkel, Security Engineering Manager, said that the inclusion of valid scraping bugs and exposed data sets in a bug bounty program are, to the firm’s knowledge, an “industry first.” Meta/Facebook has been involved in numerous incidents around user data scraping. The most well-known is the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the data of up to 87 million users was scraped and shared without their consent....

Based on a screen capture of the Azure status page from August 30 by BleepingComputer.com, it seems even more Azure services initially were impacted by the Ubuntu issue. While AKS and ACA are mentioned as being affected by the outage today, yesterday, the Azure Database for PostgreSQL, Azure Monitor, Azure Sentinel and the Azure VMware Solution also were affected, that screen shot indicates. Microsoft officials said the offending Ubuntu updates all have been removed until further investigation is completed....

Invitations that require only an email address and no need to sign up, sign in or install Teams to participate in a meeting. Google Calendar integration (coming “soon”) in addition to Outlook Calendar integrationMeeting tools like meeting lobby, virtual backgrounds, Together mode, live closed captions, and live reactions New small-business group-chat template (coming “soon”) to desktop and web Microsoft is making Teams Essentials available for purchase directly from Microsoft and also through several of the company’s cloud partners....

According to the original leak, Microsoft officials were not intending to replace the legacy Win32 Outlook client with the new Outlook until some much later date. I’ve reached out to Microsoft to see if I can get a comment (or no comment) about Monarch’s status. No word back yet. Update: Not too surprisingly, a company spokesperson said the company had no comment.

Dynamics 365 Connected Store, a service for making retail spaces more efficient, is now going to be known as Dynamics 365 Connected Spaces. There’s a new bundle Microsoft has dubbed the “Microsoft 365 Customer Experienced Platform,” which brings together existing Dynamics 365 Marketing, Customer Insights and Microsoft Advertising services. And by adding first-party voice services to Dynamics 365 Customer Service platform, Microsoft now has something it’s billing as an all-in-one digital contact center....

The PrintNightmare flaw is a major security risk for enterprises, where print spoolers are used on Windows machines. Microsoft considered it serious enough to rush out a patch last week, before its usual Patch Tuesday update. SEE: Best printers for your home office The PrintNightmare bug is being tracked as CVE-2021-1675 and CVE-2021-34527. One of them is a remote code execution flaw and the other is a local privilege escalation flaw....

With features spanning group video and audio meetings, chats and messaging, Teams has become a big app that heavily consumes CPU and graphics as well as energy. For the past year, Microsoft has been working “Teams 2.0”, which has included moving from the Angular to React HTML/JavaScript frameworks, and switching from Electron for building the Teams desktop app for Mac and Windows to WebView2, a part of Chromium Edge for embedding web code in a native app....

Microsoft’s April 2020 update for Teams was largely about automating controls and settings to make using its app easier when on calls and meetings. In January, Microsoft announced a “high fidelity mode” in Teams that allowed users to control when not to suppress music if it was actually what the user wanted another user to hear. The machine learning (ML) noise-suppression feature considers all non-speech signals picked up by a mic to be noise, which is handy for those joining a meeting from a cafe, but not desired for a situation like a guitar lesson....

I also have a very powerful 2018 i7 Mac mini, which is my main desktop video editing machine and a 2015 i5 laptop. Both are able to run current software, so I’m sticking with them (although the laptop is going to my wife) for as long as they’re supported. I generally like to run my production Macs about half an OS generation behind, just because it usually takes half a year or so until the growing pains of the new release are overcome with bug fix updates....

Whether through password sharing or sloppy password habits, many people still leave their personal and professional accounts vulnerable, and it is a huge risk for companies and home users alike. Is it OK to use your browser’s built-in password management tools? New York, NY-based digital identity firm Beyond Identity spoke with 1,015 people in the US to learn more about their password-making strategies and how they generally conduct themselves in regards to online safety....

Huawei’s term for this confluence of devices and software-plus-services is the Super Device – a ‘better together’ concept akin to that of the superorganism in biology. In its pre-MWC briefings, Huawei highlighted examples of screen sharing and drag-and-drop file transfer involving phones, PCs, tablets and monitors in mainstream productivity, collaboration and creative scenarios. Huawei’s Super Device update for its PCs launched on 27 February with the latest version of its PC Manager software....

“You know, I’m ready for it. I’m tired of doing my dishes and laundry,” Jeff Cardenas, CEO of Apptronik, tells ZDNET. Austin-based robotics company Apptronik is working with NASA to create a 5-foot 8-inch, 160-pound, general-purpose humanoid robot named Apollo. The robot is being designed to assist with tasks in space, the commercial sector – and, most interestingly, the home. Apollo will be equipped to carry out a range of tasks in different environments with the mission of shouldering burdens that humans simply don’t need or want to do....