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Microsoft made a surprising move last year when it decided to rebuild its browser based on Chromium, the same foundation as Google Chrome. Now, that move has paid off big as Microsoft’s new Edge is now the second-most popular desktop browser. … Read more at .

Five related Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups operating in the interest of the Chinese government have systematically targeted Linux servers, Windows systems and mobile devices running Android while remaining undetected for nearly a decade. Read more at . Read also the related post at . Original source: .

Microsoft’s family of operating systems now scales from the smallest devices to hyperscale clouds. RTOS S an industrial-grade, real-time operating system for devices that fit somewhere between Arduino and Raspberry Pi, needing more than firmware but less than a full Azure Sphere-like Linux. Read more at InfoWorld.

TLS 1.3 is being around since 2018 and offering greater security that TLS 1.2, which (TLS 1.2 ) remains the de facto standard. However, there is a big push from US organizations for its widespread adoption, but it’s going to take time. Read more here.

Last week, Microsoft and Canonical (the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution) were scheduled to host a developer conference focused on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) at Microsoft’s Redmond campus. Ars was invited, and I had plane tickets in hand—but the physical conference was canceled at the last minute due to the coronavirus…. Read more here.

Cybercriminals are exploiting COVID-19 to launch cyberattacks. Passwords are one of the most vulnerable targets of attacks. Getting rid of passwords can improve security, lower costs and increase usability. Read more here.

This survey of 950 IT leaders was commissioned by Red Hat to better understand the unique role of enterprise open source. Respondents were unaware that Red Hat was the sponsor of this research. Read more here.

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The future of work is changing rapidly. Artificial intelligence is changing the workplace. Slowly it is displacing humans on manual tasks. More importantly, in the next decade, even some knowledge-based jobs will be replaced by innovation. This can leave people feeling unsettled. In today’s workplace, there’s a noticeable feeling of uncertainty. The reason for this unsettled feeling is that we are not all used to change. Read more here.

Business Needs Fewer Coders, More Software Developers.

There’s an oft-quoted line attributed to venture capitalist Marc Andreesen: “In the future, every company will become a software company.” One inference from this statement is that a wide variety of new software tools and apps will be suffused across every department as organizations become increasingly digital. The question is: Where will all this software come from? Read more here.