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How to keep your motherboard clean and protected

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keep your motherboard clean and protectedA damaged motherboard likely means the end of your computer in most instances; therefore, folks must always take precautions to make sure the motherboard stays […]

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Job Application Script Automates The Boring Stuff With Python

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Job hunting can certainly require a good amount of hoop-jumping in today’s age. Even if you’re lucky enough to have your application read by an actual human, there’s no guarantee the person on the other end has much of an understanding about your skill set. Oftentimes, the entire procedure is futile from the start, and as a recent graduate, [harshibar] is well aware of the soul-crushing experience investing a lot of time in it can be. Well, as the saying goes: if you can’t beat them, join them — and if you can’t join them, automate the hell out of the application process.

As the final piece of a “5 Python Projects in 5 Days” challenge [harshibar] set for herself — which also spawned a “Tinder for Netflix” for the web development section of it — she essentially created a web-scraper that gathers job openings for a specific search term, and automatically sends an application to each and every one of them. Using Beautiful Soup to parse the scraped pages of a certain job portal, Selenium’s browser automation functionality to fill out the online application forms, she can get all her information into the form saving countless hours in comparison to the manual alternative. The program even hits the apply button.

While the quantity-over-quality approach may not be for everyone, there’s of course room for more filtering and being more selective about the job openings beforehand, which [harshibar] also addresses in her video about the project (embedded below). And while this won’t fix the application process itself, we can definitely see the satisfaction a beating-them-at-their-own-game might provide — plus, it can’t have a worse miss rate than your typical LinkedIn “recruiter”. Still, if you’re looking for a more systematic approach, have a look at [Lewin Day]’s view on the subject, he even has advice job hunting is still further down the road for you.

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TinyML is giving hardware new life

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Aluminum and iconography are no longer enough for a product to get noticed in the marketplace. Today, great products need to be useful and deliver an almost magical experience, something that becomes an extension of life. Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) is the latest embedded software technology that moves hardware into that almost magical realm, where machines can automatically learn and grow through use, like a primitive human brain.

Until now building machine learning (ML) algorithms for hardware meant complex mathematical modes based on sample data, known as “training data,” in order to make predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed to do so. And if this sounds complex and expensive to build, it is. On top of that, traditionally ML-related tasks were translated to the cloud, creating latency, consuming scarce power and putting machines at the mercy of connection speeds. Combined, these constraints made computing at the edge slower, more expensive and less predictable.

But thanks to recent advances, companies are turning to TinyML as the latest trend in building product intelligence. Arduino, the company best known for open-source hardware is making TinyML available for millions of developers. Together with Edge Impulse, they are turning the ubiquitous Arduino board into a powerful embedded ML platform, like the Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense and other 32-bit boards. With this partnership you can run powerful learning models based on artificial neural networks (ANN) reaching and sampling tiny sensors along with low-powered microcontrollers.

Over the past year great strides were made in making deep learning models smaller, faster and runnable on embedded hardware through projects like TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers, uTensor and Arm’s CMSIS-NN. But building a quality dataset, extracting the right features, training and deploying these models is still complicated. TinyML was the missing link between edge hardware and device intelligence now coming to fruition.

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Google’s ‘Sodar’ is an AR tool for social distancing

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Google has a new augmented reality tool that can help you follow social distancing rules when you do have to venture out of your home. It’s an experimental project called “Sodar” — introduced by the Experiments with Google account on Twitter — that c…

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Hear about RISC OS Direct in Wakefield on 2nd June

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Without setting a foot outside your own door! Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meetings routinely take place at the West Yorkshire Sports and Social Club – but those regular meetings have been put on hold by the current health crisis. However, the lockdown situation doesn’t necessarily mean meetings are prevented altogether, only that they […]

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How to add All Tasks and Disk Management to Control Panel in Windows 10

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If you often open the Control Panel to access various tools and options, then you can add All Tasks and Disk Management to it so […]

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Rehost or modernize existing applications and support modern cloud apps with Azure SQL

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Azure SQL is the family of SQL cloud databases providing flexible deployment options for a wide variety of application patterns and control requirements.

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Boot Your Pi over USB

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Historically, booting a Raspberry Pi required an SD card. However, if you follow [tynick’s] instructions, you can get a Pi 4 to boot from the USB port. Combine it with a small solid state disk drive, and you’ll get great performance, according to his post.

The caveat is this depends on a beta bootloader and, of course, you’ll still have to boot from an SD card at least once to load that bootloader. If you were deploying something serious, you’d probably want to make sure the bootloader is suitable for your needs.

In fact, most of the work here is doing the prep work. You have to grab the new bootloader and flash it. You also have to make some changes to get the boot code to check the USB port. You also install the operating system image on the SSD just like you would an SD card.

After that, it is easy to copy the boot files to the USB drive and you are ready to go. This would be a great use for an old SSD if you pair it with a USB adapter.

According to the post, the SSD is about ten times faster than the SD card, so the performance boost is significant. Of course, some of this depends on the USB adapter, and [tynick] recommends a particular one that seems to work well.

The Pi 4 is already fast, especially with a 64-bit OS. If you don’t like the SSD bootloader, you can do a similar trick to boot from the network.

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HP’s latest monitors cut blue light levels to help you sleep

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How do you make monitors that stand out when the features are often interchangeable? Build in technology that helps after you shut them off, apparently. HP has unveiled a string of E-Series monitors that are billed as the first ergonomic display with…

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Arm goes off road… map: Cortex-X1 touted for phone, tablet, laptop processors needing Apple-level oomph

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Meanwhile, A78, Mali-G78 and Ethos-N78 announced, too

Arm today will unveil its Cortex-A78 CPU core, lined up for next-gen phones, tablets, and laptops, and go off roadmap with its Cortex-X1.…

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List of hidden Internal Page URLs in Microsoft Edge

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Internal Page URLs in Microsoft EdgeMicrosoft Edge is currently the rising star of Microsoft. If you are already using this Chromium-based browser then you might know that with newly added […]

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Microsoft Releases the Source Code You Wanted Almost 30 Years Ago

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In the late 1970s and early 1980s, if you had a personal computer there was a fair chance it either booted into some version of Microsoft Basic or you could load and run Basic. There were other versions, of course, especially for very small computers, but the gold standard for home computer Basic was Microsoft’s version, known then as GW-Basic. Now you can get the once-coveted Microsoft Basic source code for the 8086/8088 directly from Microsoft in the state you would have found it in 1983. They put up a read only GW-BASIC repository, presumably to stop a flood of feature requests for GPU acceleration.

You might wonder why they would do this? It is certainly educational, especially if you are interested in assembly language. For historical reasons, you might want to get a copy you could modify, too, for your latest retrocomputer project.

There are a few tidbits of interest. Some of the source is marked that it was translated. Apparently, Microsoft had a master implementation for some processor — real or imagined — and could translate from that code to 8088, Z-80, 6502, or any other processor they wanted to target.

From what we understand, GW-Basic was identical to IBM’s BASICA, but didn’t require certain IBM PC ROMs to operate. Of course, BASICA, itself, came from MBASIC, Microsoft’s CP/M language that originated with Altair Basic. A long lineage that influenced personal computers for many years. On a side note, there’s debate on what the GW stands for. Gee-Whiz is a popular vote, but it could stand for ‘Gates, William’, Greg Whitten (an early Microsoft employee), or Gates-Whitten. The source code doesn’t appear to answer that question.

We did enjoy the 1975 copyright message, though:

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ON THE PDP-10 FROM
FEBRUARY 9 TO APRIL 9 1975

BILL GATES WROTE A LOT OF STUFF.
PAUL ALLEN WROTE A LOT OF OTHER STUFF AND FAST CODE.
MONTE DAVIDOFF WROTE THE MATH PACKAGE (F4I.MAC).

It wasn’t long ago that Microsoft released some old versions of MSDOS. If you have the urge to write some Basic, you might pass on GW-Basic and try QB64, instead.

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6 Ways AI Can Improve Content Creation

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Have you ever thought about how common artificial intelligence is? Or how close are we to all-powerful AI “supercomputers”? Gartnerreports that 37% of companies implemented AI in some form in 2019. So, there is a pretty good chance you’re already using AI without even knowing it. AI can be as simple as Gmail filters sorting your emails into different categories, or Amazon’s predictive recommendations popping up as you search. But what exactly is AI, and how can you use it to help improve your content creation?

In this article, we’ll dive into the world of AI and how it can improve content creation. If you’re interested in diving deeper into AI, check out Cloud Academy’s course, Building a Chatbot on Azure. You’ll learn how to automate content creation tasks by using chatbots to answer typical questions about specific products and services.

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What exactly is AI? 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is defined as the ability of a computer to emulate human intelligence processes through learning and automation. Modern AI-powered computers perform various tasks and assist us in almost every area of our lives. 

While there are still many misconceptions about AI, it’s important to understand that it’s not a threat to human employees. Oppositely, AI-powered technology can significantly improve your job as it proves to increase productivity and optimize processes.

As AI advances, computers are now able to perform many tasks, including the ability to: 

Impressive, right? Now that computers can talk to us and score higher than us in tests, there are also ways they can help us optimize business activities and improve content efforts. 

There are many ways you can use artificial intelligence to automate the content creation process. Major media and news outlets, like The Washington Post, Forbes, The Guardian, and Reuters, use the help of “the robot reporters” to speed up and automate content creation. 

In fact, it’s possible that some of the tools you’re using for your business, like a chatbot or a logo maker, are AI-powered. In this article, we’ll discover different ways you can incorporate AI to help your content creation. 

How to use AI to improve content creation

1. Automate small content initiatives with natural language generation

Artificial intelligence isn’t quite in a place where robots can write entire articles for your company’s blog. At least not yet. In the meantime, one way to use AI is by creating small data-specific content pieces, like tweets, news updates, and reports with the help of the natural language generation technology. 

Not really sure what natural language generation (NLG) is? Simply put, it’s when an algorithm translates complex data into human language. In its essence, NGL software automatically generates narratives to describe structured data in a matter of milliseconds. You can use NGL software to write product descriptions and tailor customer satisfaction reports. 

The Washington Post’s “robot reporter,” called Heliograf, is a great example. Heliograf is an automated storytelling technology that covers D.C.-area high school football games based on the data submitted by football coaches. This technology allows in-house journalists to focus on in-depth reporting of the “bigger” games while keeping the local community informed. 

2. Improve personalization efforts

Did you know that 74% of marketersreport an increase in customer engagement due to targeted personalization? The good news is that artificial intelligence can help your personalization and customer engagement, too. For example, you can employ AI-powered software to create personalized email marketing campaigns. They’ll manage subject line and email body personalization addressing recipients by their name or organization. AI can help your widely-distributed general email feel more personal, boosting customer engagement. 

Also, you can use AI to create highly-personalized apps. Under Armor’shealth tracking app, called “Record,” is a wonderful example. The app uses the AI-powered algorithm to create workout and nutrition recommendations based on your personal data. 

3. Evaluate social media content

Also, you can use AI to track the performance of your social media content. Many marketers develop their content distribution strategies based solely on customer demographics. You can take this approach to the next level using the AI-powered software. Instead of tracking demographics only, collect and analyze customer locations, behaviors, and values. That’ll help you create super-personalized and targeted content to improve your social media campaign. 

4. Get fresh topics and keywords

Thanks to artificial intelligence, there are now tools that can help your keyword research and topic generation. AI can give you precious insight into what your customers are really interested in. 

Many keyword research tools allow you to find keywords showing their search volume, number of results, organic competition, difficulty score, search demand, and other metrics. Using keyword research tools will speed up your writing process and help you create more customer-specific content. 

There are many blog post idea generators out there to help you develop and expand your topics. Answer the Publicis one of such tools. When you enter your keyword, let’s say “artificial intelligence,” you can see the most popular questions asked by real users. As simple as a few clicks, you get data and ideas to help you expand and develop your topic. 

5. Gather user-generated content

A new studyshows that 90% of consumers report that user-generated content holds more influence over their buying decisions than other forms of marketing. AI can help you gather brand-related content posted by your customers on social media. This became possible due to the visual recognition technology that can analyze images and identify your products. You can use this data not only for marketing but also to get a better perspective on what works for your audience and community. Additionally, it increases your brand visibility and online presence. 

6. Use chatbots to help your customers

AI-powered chatbots can help you communicate with your customers better and enable them to self-create branded content. The first part is pretty obvious. We all know how to use chatbotsfor navigating customers and acting as customer service reps. 

When it comes to user-generated content, chatbots can facilitate your customers to create more of it. For example, Whole Foods launchedan innovative chatbot for Facebook’s Messenger. Besides helping to navigate Whole Foods locations, the chatbot offers healthy and wholesome recipes. All you need to do is answer a series of questions (you can even use emojis to describe products) and let the chatbot do the rest. 

Alternatively, you can use chatbots to promote content sharing within your clients. Spotify’s chatbotis a great example of this strategy in real life. Subscribers can not only ask about their accounts and discover newly released music, but they can also choose songs their friends might be interested in. Then, they can easily share these recommendations with their friends within the platform. 

Final thoughts 

The rapid growth of AI-powered software is predicted to change content creation as it exists now. According to experts, AI will be able to complete any intellectual task humans can perform by the year of 2050.

But what can AI do now? AI-powered computes have learned to provide organizations with data, story templates, fresh blog ideas, and user-generated content. A combination of machine learning and customer data has the impact you need to take your content creation efforts to the next level. That’s why it is so important to analyze data at the first stages of your content creation process. Also, your content efforts can massively benefit from AI as it helps you create more personalized and targeted content. 

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KeyMapper configuration tool released

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Andrew Conroy has released a configuration tool for James Peacock’s KeyMapper module, allowing you to more easily set up your key mappings if you are either using a keyboard that doesn’t provide all of the keys you need, or if you want some keys to act as mouse buttons – particularly useful for some laptops, […]

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How to maintain good Cyber Hygiene

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How to maintain good cyber hygieneCybersecurity is emerging as a top concern for individuals and organizations across the world. To address this, Microsoft recently urged companies to conduct cybersecurity awareness […]

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Improving VDI Performance with MSIX App Attach

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MSIX is a new installer technology for Windows that first appeared in Windows 10 version 1809 and it was later backported to Windows 10 versions 1709 and 1803. It replaces Windows Installer (MSI) and the APPX packaging format previously used for Store apps.

MSIX works with all Win32, WPF, Windows Forms, and Universal Windows Platform (Store) applications. It provides modern features like robust updating, a managed security model with flexible capabilities, containerization, support for the Microsoft Store, enterprise management, and custom distribution models.

For more information on MSIX, see Improve Windows Enterprise Application Deployment Reliability and Security using MSIX and MSIX Core Coming to Windows 7 and 8.1 in December, Plus New Features on the Horizon on Petri.

MSIX App Attach borrows ideas from User Profile Disks and FSLogix Profile Containers

MSIX App Attach is a complimentary feature for Windows Server Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) that Microsoft has been working on since at least 2019. Currently in public preview, App Attach performs a function like User Profile Disk (UPD) and FSLogix Profile Containers, except for applications.

Both UPD and FSLogix Profile Containers store user profiles in a single.VHDX file that is mounted automatically when users log on to a remote desktop session. While there are other ways to store user profiles separately from the operating system, like roaming profiles, UPD and Profile Containers solve several problems associated with roaming profiles and folder redirection:

MSIX App Attach borrows the ideas behind UPD and Profile Containers and applies them to applications. Apps are stored in a central location in MSIX format and are then attached to the operating system as users log on to remote desktops.

When an application is attached to Windows, it looks and feels exactly like a locally installed app to the user and the operating system. If in the past RDS admins configured golden images containing sets of apps for users, App Attach splits apps and the OS so that apps can be deployed to users and maintained separately.

Windows Virtual Desktop Applications Groups can be used to deploy apps to users without creating new OS images. And if you are using FSLogix Profile Containers as well, user profiles and apps can be managed completely separately from Windows.

Using MSIX App Attach

To use the public preview, you need to use a version of Windows 10 Enterprise on build 19041 or later. The MSIX Packaging Tool is also required if you don’t have an app already in MSIX format. Attaching and detaching apps is performed using PowerShell scripts. The scripts can be triggered manually or run automatically as startup, logon, logoff, and shutdown scripts.

There are four phases that are performed when using MSIX App Attach to deploy apps to remote desktops:

  1. Stage
  2. Register
  3. Deregister
  4. Destage

The staging phase mounts the required virtual hard disk to Windows. And the registering phase adds the app to Windows, so it appears as an installed application. The deregister and destage phases are for removing MSIX App Attach apps.

For more detailed instructions on using the MSIX App Attach (preview), see Microsoft’s website here.

MSIX App Attach is still in preview

MSIX App Attach was due to come out of preview along with the spring update release of Windows Virtual Desktop and Windows 10 version 2004. But at the time of writing, there’s no indication of whether it will be ready for production use by the end of May.

For more information on the spring update for Windows Virtual Desktop, check out Windows Virtual Desktop Now Backed by Azure Resource Manager on Petri.

MSIX App Attach improves VDI performance

Regardless of whether MSIX App Attach will be out of preview by the time Windows 10 version 2004 launches at the end of May, we can likely expect it to be generally available in 2020. And it comes at a good time. Along with other announcements from Microsoft, like improvements to how Teams audiovisuals are handled in WVD to improve performance, MSIX App Attach will help remote desktop users be more productive and IT departments better manage their virtual desktop infrastructures.

 

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Free VMware Learning Zone Access for the Next 6 Months

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Combat account takeovers and hijacking with reCAPTCHA Enterprise

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As more enterprises are requiring customers to create accounts to do things like access services or make a purchase, attackers have increased their focus on account takeovers. These attackers are highly motivated and can be extremely evasive when trying to avoid detection during campaigns. For example, bad actors often attempt to hide their activities by acting during normal traffic times to blend in with genuine customer activity. 

reCAPTCHA Enterprise can help protect your websites from fraudulent activity like this. Last week, we talked about how reCAPTCHA Enterprise can help keep your end users safe against a variety of attacks, including fraudulent transactions, scraping, synthetic accounts, and account takeovers. Today, we’re going to take a deeper look at how reCAPTCHA Enterprise can help you combat account takeovers and hijacking. 

Account takeover and hijacking basics

Account takeovers and hijacking are when a bad actor uses a stolen or leaked credential to login and take over a legitimate user’s account. Account takeovers happen when an attacker uses someone else’s login credentials, successfully gets into his or her account, and then starts to perform fraud, such as the transferring of money or gift card and purchase fraud. 

How do these bad actors obtain stolen credentials? There are a number of ways, but the easiest is simply to purchase them from the dark web or other sources. This can be done extremely inexpensively, and in the last several years, billions of account records have been leaked from breaches. With exponential growth anticipated for credentials available after a data breach, that number will only continue to increase. 

When a malicious actor has a large set of these stolen or purchased credentials, it’s not financially feasible for them to manually attempt to login to an account. So, they rely on automated credential stuffing attacks to login and verify the accounts before they manually perform fraud on the accounts. 

This process of validating stolen credentials typically requires three parts: 

  1. a list of potential credentials and accounts

  2. a distributed botnet (large swaths of infected “zombie” machines)

  3. some type of automation software or toolkit to orchestrate the attacking botnet 

Since these credentials have a long list of potential username and password combinations, attackers usually use a botnet to see which logins are correct. Botnets generally attack through proxy servers or ephemeral addresses that can be hard to blacklist or block, which also allows attackers to quickly change where the attacks are originating from. Determined attackers will pivot and attempt to evade detection as quickly as possible if they realize they’ve been noticed. 

Account takeover and hijacking attacks have been on the rise over the last years, and they are very costly to the organizations that are targeted. According to a study by Javelin Strategy & Research, billions of dollars are spent each year cleaning up and containing the stolen accounts to try to combat fraudulent activity. 

How reCAPTCHA can help

Due to the growing sophistication of attacks, it has become increasingly difficult for security teams to manage the line between letting valid customers in and keeping out fraudulent attackers and bots. reCAPTCHA Enterprise is here to help. 

reCAPTCHA Enterprise is a frictionless fraud detection service that leverages our experience from more than a decade of defending the internet with reCAPTCHA and data for our network of four million sites. A simple JavaScript snippet enables reCAPTCHA Enterprise to verify that requests on your webpages are coming from real humans. This is done through behavioral analysis that uses site-specific training and models. reCAPTCHA Enterprise will detect malicious requests and give you actionable insights to help protect your enterprise. 

reCAPTCHA Enterprise gives you the granularity and flexibility to help protect your webpages in the way that makes the most sense to your business. Our enterprise API provides risk scores for an interaction with your site. With 1.0 being a likely good interaction and 0.0 likely being an abusive one, you can decide which action to take based on that score. This means there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to managing your risk, you can have different levels of protection for different web pages. For example, a suspected fraudulent request on a login page could force a two-factor authorization challenge, while you could just block the request on a less valuable webpage.

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Using reCAPTCHA Enterprise, you can train your site specific model by sending reCAPTCHA IDs back to Google labeled as false positives or false negatives. SDKs are available for both iOS and Android to provide the same controls for your mobile applications. 

The danger of bot-led account takeover and hijacking attacks are on the rise, costing organizations large amounts of money and consuming the time of valuable internal resources in security, legal, and fraud teams. reCAPTCHA Enterprise can help detect these botnets and give you the insights you need to block the requests while allowing real users into your website and their account.

To learn more about how you can help protect your enterprise from account takeovers and hijacking, visit our documentation. To get started with reCAPTCHA today, contact sales.

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Microsoft is Finally Building a Native Package Manager in Windows

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If you read the headline and thought that this was some sort of an elaborate joke, this is not a drill. After years of developers asking Microsoft to build a package manager into Windows, those requests are finally being answered.

Announced at Build 2020, the company is releasing a preview of the Windows Package Manager. For those not familiar, a packet manager makes it easier to automate the process of getting software on to your machine using a CLI (command-line interface).

Starting today, you can use Windows Packet Manager which is being hosted on GitHub. In addition, the company is also making the tool open source which means that it is easy to contribute applications to the manager if you find that a feature is missing.

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Windows Packet Manager being used to install VSCode

With this release, you can install any application that has a valid manifest, including local applications. You can also search for available packages and display information about it the package with the following commands: install, search, show. And there are other basic features including adding third-party repositories and the ability to help with manifest creation and validation (hash and validate).

If you want to try it out today, you can head over to the GitHub for the client, if you are on any of the Insider rings, you may already have it, and the last option is to email winget-feedback@microsoft.com with your MSA.

One of the reasons that Microsoft decided not to contribute to other solutions is security. The company says that they are automatically checking each manifest with SmartScreen, static analysis, SHA256 hash validation, and a few other processes to help keep malicious software out of its repository.

As for support, every version of Windows 10 released after 1709 can use the new tool. The company says Windows Package Manager will be delivered with the Desktop App Installer when it ships version 1.0.

One other feature is that in the near future, the new tool will be able to grab applications from the Windows Store. The company isn’t saying anything yet about the future of the store but simply that this tool will work with that repository at a later date.

Considering how long we have waited for a native package manager in Windows, this may be one of the biggest announcements for IT Pros at Build. And knowing that you can start using it today, while other announcements are significant, this release has an immediate impact for anyone who is managing a Windows environment.

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How to map useful commands to your keyboard on Windows 11 or Windows 10

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map useful commandsDid you know you can map useful commands to your keyboard? Follow this guide to learn how.