Microsoft Corp.’s new Windows 11, coming later this year, is fairly similar to its well-received predecessor Windows 10—good news for users who don’t want to relearn the operating system from scratch, as they had to do with some previous incarnations. But it will come with one significant, visible difference: the […]
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App State professor awarded ADVANCE grant to foster gender equity in information technology
BOONE, N.C. — A persistent gap exists between the number of men and women in the information technology (IT) field: At colleges and universities across the U.S., only 28% of IT faculty are women, according to the Association for Information Systems (AIS). Dr. Lakshmi S. Iyer, acting associate dean of […]
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Sorry, Microsoft says you can’t cheat to install Windows 11 on unsupported PCs
Microsoft unveiled Windows 11 a few weeks ago, causing an unexpected controversy right after the announcement. It turned out that not all computers that can run Windows 10 will support Windows 11. Microsoft has precise hardware requirements in place. A software tool will tell you whether your PC can handle […]
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Wayne County commissioners hear about hot jail, county food code
RICHMOND, Ind. — Computer problems resulted in heated conditions inside the Wayne County Jail. Wayne County’s commissioners heard a report Wednesday from Sheriff Randy Retter and Steve Higinbotham, the county’s director of facilities and development, during their weekly meeting. A temporary solution had the temperature back within a couple of degrees […]
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New bank-fraud malware called Vultur infects thousands of devices
Recently detected Android malware, some spread through the Google Play Store, uses a novel way to supercharge the harvesting of login credentials from more than 100 banking and cryptocurrency applications. The malware, which researchers from Amsterdam-based security firm ThreatFabric are calling Vultur, is among the first Android threats to record a […]