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Microsoft’s Right to Repair Research

Microsoft released a study they conducted about the repairability of their own devices.   This is after an October 2021 agreement to make its Surface devices…

Two legal uses of data that sound invasive

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) bought access to location data harvested from tens of millions of phones in the United States to…

Transparency in pay is becoming a trend

CompTIA has a new report, Workplace, and Learning Trends, citing that 73% of human resources professionals expect hiring to become even more challenging over the…

Tape backup.. on the rise?

In “of course, that’s still around” news, it was a record year for tape storage sales.  Yes, old-school tape backup.   According to an LTO sales report using…

Q1 numbers from Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon

Let’s hit a couple of earnings numbers.  Everyone made a lot of money. Microsoft posted double-digit growth – again – with revenue up 18 percent…

Microsoft’s built-in VPN in Edge

Microsoft is adding a free, built-in VPN to its Edge browser. Called” Edge Secure Network,” Microsoft is currently testing the Cloudflare-powered VPN service and says…