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Apple has arguably bowed to the inevitable, announcing that it intends to go ahead with its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in June, but in an &entirely new online format.& And it promises that, as expected, the event will be &big.&

This is the right decision

No matter how much you may have been anticipating attending WWDC in San Jose this year, in your heart of hearts you know this is the correct decision as the coronavirus pandemic strikes deep into the heart of everybodyfamilies and communities.

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Mozilla on Tuesday shipped Firefox 74. Wait, didn't we just get a new Firefox a minute or two ago?

It may feel that way. Firefox 74 arrived just four weeks after its predecessor, continuing the faster release cadence promised last year.

The refreshed browser dropped support for the now-obsolete TLS 1.0 and 1.1 cryptographic protocols, blocked all add-on "side-loading" except that allowed by enterprise-managed group policy, and enabled support for a header element designed to safeguard against attacks based on the Meltdown and Spectre hardware-based vulnerabilities first revealed two years ago.

Mozilla's security engineers also patched a dozen vulnerabilities, half of them labeled "High," Mozilla's second-most-serious threat label. As usual, some of the flaws might be used by criminals.

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One of the keys to prosperity in business is efficiency. If you aren&t operating at your best, your chances of success are severely diminished. And this even extends to the IT department, which is why so many companies around the world use VMWarevSphere virtualization platform.

vSphere optimizes your existing computer infrastructure. Ita gross oversimplification, but it essentially allows you to run a large number of virtual machines using just one physical system. The end result is that you&ll end up paying less for equipment, use what you already have more efficiently, and significantly reduce or even eliminate downtime.

But, even simplified, that sounds pretty complicated. Need a crash course in how it works but would rather avoid expensive and time consuming classroom sessions? Then we recommend giving The VMWare vSpere 6.7 Fundamentals Prep Course, now only $29.99, a try on for size.

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