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The revelation was discovered by Twitter user Florian Beaubois, a Windows 11 user that also holds a Microsoft MVP certificate. In a tweet, Beaubois noted “Some people will go mad if Microsoft starts adding ads in explorer,” and showed an image he captured of a banner ad appearing at the top of a File Explorer window. The ad in question read “Write with confidence across documents, email, and the web with advanced writing suggestions from Microsoft Editor....

Completely new features in this build of Windows 11 include support for snap groups in the ALT+TAB command menu, the introduction of a quicker way to add and remove media servers in the File Explorer menu, and the latest portion of the company’s “ongoing effort to bring over settings from Control Panel into the Settings app.” This final feature update, which has really been ongoing since Windows 10, sees the option to uninstall a given third-party app, as well as the option to uninstall Microsoft’s own Windows updates being moved over to the new settings interface....

Also: Your MacBook Air needs this slim, lightweight hub The 8-in-1 dock features two USB-A (3.1 Gen 2), two USB-C (Thunderbolt 4), one Ethernet (2.5Gbps), one 3.5mm audio jack, and one security lock (Kensington compatible) on the rear, and USB-A (3.1 Gen 2) and USB-C (Thunderbolt 4) ports on the front. That means users can quickly plug in a flash drive, USB dongle, or smartphone without needing to crawl behind their workstations and risk pulling a muscle (just me?...

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (formerly Defender ATP), gives security teams visibility over unmanaged devices running on their networks. It’s a cloud-based security service that gives security teams incident response and investigation tools and lives as an instance in Azure. It’s distinct from Microsoft Defender antivirus that ships with Windows 10. Microsoft pushed the public preview of this unmanaged device capability to public preview in April, as ZDNet reported at the time....

Microsoft’s latest Teams updates as detailed in its August update should make video meetings more palatable for everyone and includes new features for presenters and participants. Live captions and live transcriptions in Teams are handy for multilingual global firms and anyone who needs to take notes during meetings. Teams now has “reporter mode” that positions content on a screen that’s shared with participants, such as a host’s slides, as a visual aid above the presenter’s shoulder, just like a news story would be presented....

Also: The best Surface PC: Which one is right for you? Microsoft officials have said that Windows 11 includes a number of the features that were meant to be part of Windows 10X. Microsoft just recently took the wraps off the third-generation Surface Go running Windows 11, but it starts at $400 (before volume discounts) again, minus the keyboard and pen. The Surface Laptop Go, a Surface Go with a real keyboard, also is fairly expensive and starts at $550....

It noted that Asia-Pacific saw malware and ransomware attacks at higher frequencies, clocking 1.6 and 1.7 times higher, respectively. than the global average. Citing numbers from its 2019 threat report, Microsoft said developing markets such as Indonesia, India, and Sri Lanka were most vulnerable to such threats that year. It added that cybercrime not only resulted in financial losses and brought down operations, but also posed risks to national security and eroded trust in digital economies....

Here’s how it works. OpenLens, under the MIT License, is as free as it’s always been in the full sense of open-source, free software. But, things get more complicated with Mirantis’s new Lens subscription versions, Lens Personal and Lens Pro. According to a blog post by Miska Kaipiainen, Mirantis’s VP of product engineering, the new Lens subscription model also has a revamped Lens Terms of Service Agreement. This covers the use of Lens Desktop and all related services....

The smart control set includes a garage door sensor and a hub. The sensor determines the current status of the garage door and communicates to the hub via Bluetooth. The hub is connected to Wi-Fi via your phone’s MyQ app, and works as a radio frequency (RF) remote control for the garage door. You can access the information from the MyQ app, then simply tap on “Close” from your phone....

In 1947, NASA’s predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), flew the Bell X-1 rocket plane at a rate faster than the speed of sound. Now, 75 years since the historic flight, NASA plans to do it again. Also: Artemis launch: NASA sets another date for its moon mission attempt The X-1 rocket’s flight was heard over the Mojave Desert in California when a sonic boom thundered across the high desert....

The images released by NASA include a “selfie” of JWST completing the “fine phasing” alignment of its 18 hexagonal mirrors to act as a single mirror, and images of a single star and the galaxies and stars behind it. “We have fully aligned and focused the telescope on a star, and the performance is beating specifications. We are excited about what this means for science,” NASA Goddard deputy optical telescope element manager for Webb said....

Arq Group, formerly Melbourne IT, was formed after it was sold for $35 million in February 2020, alongside the company’s Enterprise Services Division to an entity owned by Quadrant Private Equity and three members of the Enterprise Services Division management team, including its current Arq Group CEO Tristan Sternson. Under the acquisition plans, Arq will be bundled into NCS’ digital services arm, Next, which was set up internally two years ago to focus on digital, cloud, and platform services....

Representative Ha Tae-keung of the People Power Party, South Korea’s main opposition party, claimed 13 unauthorised IP addresses accessed the internal network of Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) on May 14. Some of the addresses could be traced back to Kimsuky, a North Korean cyber espionage group, Ha claimed. “If the state’s key technologies on nuclear energy have been leaked to North Korea, it could be the country’s biggest security breach, almost the same level as a hacking attack by the North into the defense ministry in 2016,” the lawmaker said....

NSA’s report ‘Cybersecurity Technical Report (CTR): Network Infrastructure Security Guidance’ is available freely for all network admins and CIOs to bolster their networks from state-sponsored and criminal cyberattacks. The report covers network design, device passwords and password management, remote logging and administration, security updates, key exchange algorithms, and important protocols such as Network Time Protocol, SSH, HTTP, and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). SEE: Cybersecurity: Let’s get tactical (ZDNet special report) The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is encouraging tech leaders to view the NSA document as part of its new push for all organizations in the US and elsewhere to raise defenses after the recent disk wiper malware targeting Ukrainian organizations....

In a press conference Wednesday, Huang told ZDNET that the two services will be “very long-term SaaS platforms for our company.” One service, Large Language Model Cloud Services, let’s a developer take a deep learning artificial intelligence program such as GPT-3 or Nvidia’s Megatron-Turing 530B, and tune it to particular applications, to make it specific for a task while reducing the effort a customer has to do. The second service, Omniverse Cloud Services, is an infrastructure-as-a-service offering by Nvidia that will let multiple parties collaborate on 3-D models and behavior....

Somehow, it’s invaded every form of behavior, in one way or another, and emerging from it seems an unlikely dream. I’ve been wondering, indeed, how the people who hold our systems together – IT professionals – managed to keep our systems together as everything seemed to crumble. This recurring thought invades my mind every time I hear of a new corporate hack – hullo, T-Mobile, your faces aren’t deep pink, they’re magenta, right?...

The Package Analysis Project is one of the software supply chain initiatives from the the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) that should help automate the process of identifying malicious packages distributed on popular package repositories, such as npm for JavaScript and PyPl for Python. It runs a dynamic analysis of all packages uploaded to popular open-source repositories. It aims to provide data about common types of malicious packages and inform those working on open-source software supply chain security about how best to improve it....

We’re not quite there yet, however. I’ve been playing with “GPT-2,” a program developed by the not-for-profit Silicon Valley company OpenAI. GPT-2 uses machine learning to automatically generate several paragraphs in a row of what seems like human writing. This is a fresh batch of code, released on Friday by OpenAI, and it’s more robust than what was first posted in February, when GPT-2 was announced. Unfortunately, this new code is not that much more impressive....

More specifically, the company is hiring computer programmers to create training data that will include lines of code, as well as explanations of the code written in natural language. Also: The best AI art generators: DALL-E 2 and alternatives OpenAI already has a ChatGPT model designed for translating natural language into code, called Codex. Before it was launched in 2021, Codex was trained on data scraped from GitHub, the code repository owned by Microsoft....

The report sent Opendoor shares surging by 21% in late trading. The report comes a week after competitor Zillow said it would close down its own operation of buying homes after failing to close sales with 90% of home buyers to whom it made offers. During a conference call Thursday evening, management was asked about Zillow’s highly publicized troubles, and whether Opendoor could have similar problems. CFO Carrie Ann Wheeler replied by stating, “We’re very good at this — this is core to what we do,” meaning, how to price homes and how to forecast trends in real estate....