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User comes to this support pilot fish complaining that his PC is acting strangely.

&It turns out he had gotten his computer so jammed up with spyware and Trojans that it was basically nonfunctional,& says fish. &We had to rebuild the computer from scratch.& They were able to recover much of userwork and files, but some were irretrievably damaged — or just plain gone .

Fish explains what happened and points out the probable infection vectors. And he explains that they had recovered as much as they could, but some stuff was simply gone for good. There would be no way to get anything more.

&Two days later, he called to ask when I&m going to bring him the rest of his missing files.&

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Oracle has added AI voice commands to its Digital Assistant, offering users an alternative way to interact with its various business apps. The company on Tuesday also announced that the bot will integrate with Microsoftwork stream collaboration platform, Teams.

OracleDigital Assistant was launched last year as an interface to its portfolio of enterprise software applications, which includes sales, marketing and human resource tools. The virtual assistant uses AI techniques such as machine learning and natural language processing and understanding to interpret user intent; itdesigned to automate processes such as expense approvals and meeting re-schedules.

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Facebook's plans to launch its own Libra cryptocurrency next year is getting resistance from France and Germany who have promised to block it and plan to create their own national cryptocurrencies.

Last week, the two nations said Libra could threaten the Euro's value and unlawfully privatize money. Last year, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country's central bank, announced a ban on the use of cryptocurrencies by any regulated financial entity because of risks associated with it.

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