Hitting the Books: Lessons learned from gaming with the King of Sweden

I looked at the email in slight disbelief. (In my head it came with an appropriately elaborate font.) Dear Managing Director David Polfeldt, Would you be so kind as to give his Royal Majesty a… See original here: Hitting the Books: Lessons learned from gaming with the King of Sweden

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Windows 10: A guide to the updates

The launch of a major Windows 10 update isn’t the end of a process — it’s really just the beginning. As soon as one of Microsoft’s twice-yearly feature updates is released, the company… More here: Windows 10: A guide to the updates

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Judge rules FBI, NSA broke the law and court orders with data collection

If you were concerned that federal agents might play fast and loose with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act’s Section 702 while gathering data, your worries were well-founded. The… Excerpt from: Judge rules FBI, NSA broke the law and court orders with data collection

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Facebook blocks terminally ill French man from livestreaming his death

Facebook is dealing with a test of its policies barring live streams involving suicide and self-harm. The social media giant told the AFP (via The Verge) it would block terminally ill French man… See more here: Facebook blocks terminally ill French man from livestreaming his death

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Flashback Friday: Eh, I guess it could happen to anybody

It’s the mid-1970s, and this programmer pilot fish works for an IT service provider that supports several big insurance companies. “We ran a huge (at that time) mainframe and a nationwide… See the article here: Flashback Friday: Eh, I guess it could happen to anybody

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