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The new lineup comprises a tower-sized model (P350 TWR), a slimmed-down desktop (P350 SFF), and what Lenovo calls “[t]he industry’s smallest workstation " (P350 Tiny) , all starting for less than $1,000. The big/little/littler approach to form factor attempts to cover the myriad roles workstations play in today’s business environment, from a traditional full-sized desktop for power users to systems that can fit anywhere they’re needed. Despite the wild variance in size, the ThinkStation P350 series shares a few things in common, such as Intel’s 11th-generation Core processors inside (up to Core i9 desktop chips along with Xeon W-1390 CPU options for the P350 TWR and SFF) and PCIe Gen 4 interfaces or faster storage and graphics support....

The new offering combines all of Lenovo’s previously existing as-a-service options under one umbrella. The TruScale brand previously covered Lenovo’s pay-for-what-you-use data center offering. The new option also wraps in Lenovo’s existing Device-as-a-Service solution (Lenovo DaaS). The new consumption-based offering is designed to accommodate new models of hybrid work that require more flexibility in terms of IT infrastructure and services. “We hear from CIOs every day that their organization’s technology needs are evolving every 12-18 months,” Ken Wong, president of Lenovo’s Solutions & Services Group, said in a statement....

Back in the day, when I went to COMDEX in Vegas with my company, most of the company executives would bet bonkers bucks at all the various tables. Me, I allowed myself to spend up to five dollars (in total, for the entire show) on the slots. Needless to say, I always came home five dollars lighter. My bosses couldn’t understand why I was so risk-averse when they reveled in the ups and downs of the cards....

The Rust programming language entering the Linux kernel has been coming for some time. At the 2020 Linux Plumbers Conference, developers started considering using the Rust language for new Linux inline code. Google, which supports Rust for developing Android – itself a Linux distro – began pushing for Rust in the Linux kernel in April 2021. As Wedson Almeida Filho of Google’s Android Team said at the time, “We feel that Rust is now ready to join C as a practical language for implementing the kernel....

This article will be one of those “Do as I say, not as I do” kinds of things. I do not necessarily fit the profile of a traditional consumer, and I take a lot more risks with our technology than other people do. Indeed, I do not recommend that anyone use beta software to run line-of-business functions or that you install beta code on personal devices unless you are prepared to deal with the consequences and side effects of when this software goes haywire....

The fact that reporting on return on investment is a good way to get attention does not seem to be lost on Chip Huyen. Huyen is a writer and computer scientist who works on infrastructure for real-time machine learning. She is the one who wrote the above introduction to her findings on real-time machine learning in order to crystallize the growing experience she and her colleagues are accumulating. Huyen has worked with the likes of Netflix, Nvidia, Primer and Snorkel AI before founding her own (stealth) startup....

European countries have responded to the invasion with economic sanctions, causing the Russian stock market to suffer and the value of the Russian rouble to plummet. Closer to home, carriers, too, are making their sentiments known. A number of major telecommunication companies are removing charges for customers who need to stay in contact with friends and family in Ukraine, and some are also making efforts on the ground – such as Orange, which is handing out prepaid SIM kits at border crossings....

Autowritepro’s strength lies in its multitude of tools and features. Its automated copywriting tools include an article generator and a rewriter tool powered by artificial intelligence. This program lets you generate over 800 words and rewrite content for different websites with a single click. Convert blog posts to podcasts using more than 400 voices with the text-to-speech converter. The platform includes research tools so that you can check for keyword density, plagiarism, broken links, backlinks and more....

As many as 64% of manufacturers globally already rely on AI to assist with day-to-day operations, the survey found. Additionally, 66% of manufacturers who use AI in their day-to-day operations report that their reliance on AI is increasing. The survey, conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of Google Cloud, polled 1,154 seniormanufacturing executives across seven countries in late October. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a large motivating factor for manufacturers adopting more digital technologies, the survey found: as many as 76% of respondents said they’ve turned to technologies like data and analytics, cloud and AI to respond to the crisis....

Screenshots are one of the easiest ways to capture the information we want to save. Finding them again, on the other hand, can often be time-consuming. Sometimes, we may not even remember all the reasons we wanted to save the information. Imagine how much more productive it would be personally, professionally, and educationally if we could organize screenshots and make notes on them. That’s exactly what you can do with the Markup Hero, and new users can get a two-year Superhero Pro Plan right now for only $39....

Today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella runs a much different company that has cloud services as the heart of the enterprise. Microsoft made $44 billion dollars in revenue in 2006. That will more than quadruple to over $198 billion in 2022. Also: Office Corporate VP Joe Belfiore to leave Microsoft after 32 years Reporting on all of Microsoft’s product changes, business changes, executive changes, and company culture changes during these years, Foley has arguably been the most reliable, the most consistent, and the most valuable source of information on Microsoft in the world....

These pronouncements follow in the wake of Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s high-profile commitment to the metaverse. What once seemed like a shiny distraction now defines the company’s future, with Zuckerberg committing tens of billions of dollars to build the metaverse. Other tech companies are piling in too, with Microsoft and chips specialist Qualcomm focusing on how they will develop hardware and applications for this space, and how their customers might benefit....

As the cost of the hardware – such as virtual and augmented reality headsets – begins to drop, he says, more businesses will start to explore how they can make the most of the metaverse. Like other industry experts, Jennings suggests the fact that major IT vendors – particularly Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta – are betting big on immersive experiences means it’s likely to gain significant traction soon: “That’s quite clearly where the world’s going,” he says....

Microsoft has refreshed the look and feel of the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint apps for Android and iOS. It’s also enabled mobile application management for devices that aren’t enrolled in Microsoft’s Intune mobile device management (MDM) platform, and enabled jailbreak detection for iOS. Previously, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint worked on devices that were enrolled using Intune mobile device management (MDM) only. SEE: Network security policy (TechRepublic Premium) Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a cloud-based service and distinct from Microsoft Defender antivirus....

Redmond still, though, harbors old habits that it finds very hard to shake. One of these is to nag Windows users until they pick up their PCs and toss them from great heights. Or, even worse, buy a Mac. The latest episode of Microsoft Is Poking Me Through The Windows involves a pop-up message that appears in Windows 10’s purpose-built notification center. It reads: “Microsoft recommends different browser settings. Want to change them?...

Search in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is now more than a tool to find files and apps, becoming a space where Microsoft can show graphical search highlights like anniversaries, special dates and related content to users. For the enterprise, it will also show work-related contacts and files. Microsoft rolled out search highlights to Windows 11 on the Windows Insiders Dev Channel in March (and later to Windows 10 testers, too)....

Loop needs some explanation because, while it’s an Office app, it’s also an app that Microsoft made to help people collaborate on projects using different Office apps. Microsoft introduced the app last year to offer users a canvas with portable components that stay in sync across apps. As such, Loop is a lightweight app with “components” that can operate across Teams, Outlook and OneNote. “Loop components are live and can be copied and pasted across Teams and Outlook – staying in sync in all the places they exist....

In the Redmond giant’s latest round of patches, usually released on the second Tuesday of each month in what is known as Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed problems including remote code execution (RCE) bugs, denial-of-service issues, privilege escalation, and memory corruption issues. In total, when it comes to severity, five of the vulnerabilities are considered critical and 45 are deemed important. Products impacted by June’s security update include Microsoft Office, ....

The Redmond giant’s latest round of patches, usually released on the second Tuesday of each month in what is known as Patch Tuesday, includes fixes for problems such as RCE vulnerabilities, information leaks, Elevation of Privilege (EoP), Use-After-Free issues, and out-of-bounds memory access. Products impacted by June’s security update include the Windows operating system, Microsoft Office, Hyper-V Server, Azure, and Windows Defender. In total, three vulnerabilities are critical, one is moderate, and the rest are considered important....

Defender for IoT is an agentless monitoring system for securing Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to enterprise IT networks, like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), printers, and smart TVs, as well as operational technology (OT) behind critical infrastructure. Microsoft Defender for IoT was launched in preview in late 2021 but was also formerly known as Azure Defender for IoT, which launched in public preview in 2020. Before that, it was called Azure Security Center for IoT....