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A bare cupcake with no frosting sits next to a full spoonful of icing on an office desk, a visual pun on “icing, not the cake”

AI Is the Icing, Not the Cake

Barclays announced its third-quarter earnings on October 22. With them came plans to cut about 5,000 jobs - roughly 5% of its workforce - by the end of the year. About 1,000 were already gone by midyear. Most of the cuts (about 60%) are in support functions, including...

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Smartphone displaying an incoming call, representing an AI-generated voice-cloning scam impersonating a company executive

The Boss on the Phone Wasn’t the Boss

Paolo Molesini ran a private bank in Italy. Back in February, he got a WhatsApp message that looked exactly like it came from his boss. Then, a phone call from a lawyer, vouching for the whole thing. Neither one was a real person. He authorized €95 million in wire...

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Ransomware takedown concept: office door left ajar, representing the open entry points ransomware gangs exploit

What a Ransomware Takedown Can’t Fix

A ransomware takedown is a rare bit of good news in this business, so let's enjoy this one. At the end of September, police took over a gang's website, and anyone who visits it now gets a police seizure notice instead. What actually happened On September 30, police in...

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Aging desktop computer past its Windows 10 support deadline, representing rising ESU costs for businesses

The Windows 10 Bill just Went Up

A year ago, Windows 10 end of support kicked in — Microsoft stopped patching it. If your business skipped the upgrade and just... didn't do anything, you got away with it for twelve months. That grace period is about to get a lot more expensive. What's changing this...

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Organizing for the New Year? CEO Rick Snide Suggests Evernote

Organizing for the New Year? CEO Rick Snide Suggests Evernote

My absolute favorite app – Evernote! I discovered Evernote several years ago when the iPhone was first released. I downloaded it and played with it, but didn’t really get how valuable it was until six months ago when I integrated the Getting Things Done system with Evernote – more on that later. Now I use Evernote all day long and everywhere I go.

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