Also: Apple Watch Series 7 gets a rare price cut: Get $120 off for Prime Day But at the end of each event, power users like myself were left asking, What about me? A selfish request, no doubt. But there’s a very small subset of niche iPad users who want to run multiple apps on the screen at the same time, and even use an external monitor to extend the desktop just like you would on a Mac....

Apple might not be to blame. According to Spotify, users have been reporting a high-drain battery bug for the latest version of the Spotify app on both iOS 14.8 and iOS 15. According to user reports, the battery drain bug can cause a 30-percentage point drop in battery life in an hour. That’s pretty severe. Here’s what a Spotify representative had to say: This was followed up by a later update: Thanks for your reports about battery drainage while updating from iOS 14....

Whether you’re eyeing the new best iPhones for a family member, significant other, or yourself, there’s no question that both the iPhone SE and iPhone 11 deliver exceptionally good value mobile experiences. If you’re trying to decide which of the two sub-$450 smartphones you should spend your hard-earned money on, we’ve listed the key reasons to buy one over the other below. Also: New iPhone models compared: Which one should you buy?...

Digital minister Taro Kono on Tuesday vowed to dismiss Japan’s laws that have entrenched floppy disks and CD-ROMs in the nation’s systems. In a tweet from his English Twitter account, Kono said he was declaring “war” on floppy disks as part of its digital transformation and enabling citizens to submit data online. Kono explained there were about 1,900 articles in Japan’s laws that require businesses to submit forms to the government on floppy disk....

“I think it’s going to be a lot bigger than that,” Ellison said before outlining his vision for the business. The ramped-up growth will rely on partnerships with key industries, he said – namely, logistics and financial services. Working in concert with banking and logistics, he said Oracle could add features like delivery tracking, invoicing, payments, and more directly into cloud ERP systems. Oracle, he said, will “soon bring an entirely new level of automation to B2B commerce,” creating new B2B procurement flows that resemble the ease of B2C digital transactions....

That sum amounts to about half of the £4.7bn the central government spent on on tech in 2019, according to a new report from the Cabinet Office that highlights the cost of maintaining legacy systems or ‘keeping the lights on’. “A recent analysis by government security indicates that almost 50% of current government IT spend (£2.3b out of a total central Government spend of £4.7bn in 2019) is dedicated to “keeping the lights on” activity on outdated legacy systems, with an estimated £13-22bn risk over the coming five years,” the report notes....

NTFS support in the kernel allows Linux users to attach external NTFS drives or boot Windows PCs into Linux for troubleshooting. Linux 5.15 also addressed the introduction of -Werror — a move endorsed by Torvalds to force developers to fix bugs earlier. It was intended to be a new default behavior for kernel builds that treated all compiler and configuration “warnings” as “errors” that must be fixed. -Werror however was met with opposition from kernel developers and led to Torvalds partially backtracking on the effort....

Jon Stine, executive director of the Open Voice Network, told ZDNet that the rapid growth of both the availability and adoption of voice assistance worldwide – and the future potential of voice as an interface and data source in an artificial intelligence-driven world – makes it important for certain standards to be communally developed. Devices and applications are increasingly incorporating voice activation and navigation functions. Mike Dolan, senior vice president at the Linux Foundation, said the network was a “proactive response to combating deep fakes in AI-based voice technology....

“We opened our HackDHS bug bounty program to find and patch Log4j-related vulnerabilities in our systems,” Easterly said. “Huge thanks to the researcher community taking part in this program. Log4j is a global threat and it’s great to have some of the world’s best helping us keep orgs safe.” On December 14, the Homeland Security Department announced the bug bounty program as a way to identify cybersecurity gaps and vulnerabilities in their systems....

At a time when inflation is at a staggering 9.1% and the average gas price in the US is $4.80, having a higher APY on consumer savings can go a long way. Passive income can be a great way to hedge against inflation and other economic stresses currently impacting many consumers. Goldman Sachs isn’t the only online bank to offer a higher-than-average APY on savings accounts. American Express has a high-yield savings account with an APY of 1....

Medical billing and coding is in demand and has been projected to grow. Explore your career options with a certificate or diploma program or associate degree. What is a medical biller and coder? Medical billing and coding are two distinct jobs with some overlap. Skilled medical billers and coders may perform one or both roles. Essentially, medical coders are responsible for transcribing codes for claims processing. Medical billers file claims and keep record of insurance reimbursement....

Meta said it will now “remove Pages, Groups and accounts representing military-controlled businesses.” The company made a similar statement earlier this year when the military staged a coup and removed democratically-elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi. “This builds on our existing ban on these entities advertising on Facebook, which was announced in February, and the various enforcement actions we’ve taken since then which are outlined below,” said Rafael Frankel, director of policy for Meta in APAC-Emerging Countries, referencing this Meta newsroom post....

Former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who now is in charge of global affairs at Meta, told reporters that Facebook does not want to outright ban any content, instead of hoping to provide context or other information for users. “I can also confirm we are demoting content from Facebook pages and Instagram accounts from Russian state-controlled media outlets and is making it harder to find across our platforms. We’ve also begun to demote posts with links to Russian state-controlled media websites on Facebook....

To counter these scammers, Microsoft has enlisted its Digital Crimes Unit to tackle the infrastructure they use. Just like other businesses, BEC scammers have moved to the cloud to run operations, but Microsoft claims its investigators have disrupted one large BEC group that was using major cloud providers. While ransomware is grabbing headlines, BEC remains the single most expensive cybercrime problem for American business. The FBI recently reported that Americans lost over $4....

Microsoft Vice President of OS Security and Enterprise David Weston tweeted about the new Windows security option on March 27. The feature will be enabled by default on Windows 10 in S Mode, as well as on devices that have the Memory Integrity Core Isolation feature, which relies on virtualization-based security. (This Core Isolation Memory Integrity feature also is known as Hypervisor-protected Code Integrity or HVCI). More details are available in this Microsoft article about recommended driver block rules....

The first set of features began rolling out to mainstream users in September, but a second set of features wouldn’t arrive until October or November. On Oct. 18, Microsoft made this second grouping of Windows 11 22H2 features available via its regularly scheduled non-security, optional preview (aka “Week C”) releases. Officials reiterated that mainstream users would get these missing Windows 11 22H2 features on Nov. 8, as part of Patch Tuesday....

On June 30, Jonathan Bar Or, a member of Microsoft’s 365 Defender Research Team, revealed the vulnerabilities, which were patched prior to public disclosure. Bar Or said that the trio of bugs impacted DGN-2200v1 series routers – running firmware prior to v1.0.0.60 – which “opened the gates for attackers to roam untethered through an entire organization.” Microsoft’s security team discovered the vulnerabilities after noting strange behavior in the router’s management port....

But next month, developers will be able to start developing their own Loop components by using existing Adaptive Cards or building new ones. Adaptive Cards are an open card exchange format enabling developers to exchange UI content in a common and consistent way. Officials said Zoho is using Adaptive Card-based Loop components inside Teams and Outlook. Other developers can try this out in a private preview starting in June. Teams developers also can upgrade to the Teams JS SDK v2 and App Manifest v1....

The password attacks focussed on critical infrastructure companies operating in the Persian Gulf and were carried out by a group Microsoft is tracking as DEV-0343 – most likely a new group from Iran. The ‘DEV’ tag indicates that the group is not a confirmed state-sponsored attack group, but it could become one eventually. SEE: BYOD security warning: You can’t do everything securely with just personal devices The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) said it had observed DEV-0343 “conducting extensive password spraying against more than 250 Office 365 tenants, with a focus on US and Israeli defense technology companies, Persian Gulf ports of entry, or global maritime transportation companies with business presence in the Middle East....

Once it was clear no new Macs were coming at least until the fall, I could go ahead with my plan. Now, of course, everyone’s computer fleet is going to be different, but seeing how one such upgrade is planned out may give you some ideas for your own transition. My wife and I work from home, and since we rely on our technology as force multipliers, we have a lot of it....