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The Tariffs are Here: Now What?

60 seconds after midnight US tariffs on thousands of Chinese products more than doubled. How is this going to affect your business? Costs are going to go up across the board. The supply chains of virtually every industry cross through ...

Big Box Tech Support Scams

Last week The Register reported on some big box stores taking advantage of tech-ignorant consumers.

Win10 Fall '18 Update "Ready"

Microsoft is re-announcing that the last major update to Windows 10 is ready for mass use.

Why do I always have to change my password?

We know, you're all tired of changing your passwords and hearing from IT that you've got to pick a new one you haven't used before every 30 nanoseconds. The reason might not be what you think.

Windows Update 1809: Just Don't

At JM Addington Technology Solutions & Kairos Digital Dynamics we're usually a tad bullish on Windows Updates: they're put out for good reason(s). However, Microsoft's latest "Feature Update" (read: a big one, the Fall Creators Update or 1809) has been plagued ...

The Easiest Cons

A university just paid $12m to a fraudster. Prevention would have been easy.

Fall Windows Update Stopped

Following "isolated" reports of users' files being completely erased during upgrades Microsoft announced a "pause" of the Windows 2018 Fall Update. Microsoft has gone so far as saying that if you have a copy of the upgrade already, you should delete ...

WiFi Gets New Name

Starting with the next generation of WiFi devices, WiFi will finally have a comprehensible naming scheme. In the past, different versions of wifi went by various letters, that were hard to keep track of even if you were in the industry. ...

Knox County Hacked

The News Sentinel is reporting that Knox County computer systems were breached the night of the primary. It was a two stage attack, complete with with a distraction. Here is the short version. First, the website to report election results ...

Hard Drive Quarterly Report

Consumer backup provider Backblaze has released their quarterly hard drive performance report. This report is always notable because it is the largest ongoing study across a variety of non-enterprise hard drives. In other words: it measures what matters. The #1 ...

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