Published on: 2025-04-19 09:10:00
The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, confirming reporting by MIT Technology Review. The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. The culling of the office leaves the State Department without a way to actively counter the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 10:08:14
Exclusive IBM, which employees wryly or ruefully say stands for I've Been Moved, is once again moving its employees. On Tuesday, Big Blue shared new rules on where it expects its US sales staff to work: At least three days a week at a client, a flagship office, or a sales hub. And the mainframe giant last week told all US Cloud employees, sales or otherwise, to return to the office at least three days per week at designated "strategic" locations. Several current and former IBM employees who h
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 23:30:01
Microsoft has reminded customers that Office 2016 and Office 2019 will reach the end of extended support six months from now, on October 14, 2025. Office 2019 reached the end of mainstream support in October 2023, while Office 2016 reached its end date three years earlier, in October 2020. "After that date, no further updates, security fixes, or technical support will be available for these versions of Office," the company said in a Microsoft 365 Admin Center update. "While the applications
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 23:23:45
Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Years before I started my Linux journey, I was an artist. It wasn't until much later that I realized another side of my multifaceted artistic self needed to write words. At first, I used paper and pen, but eventually, I migrated to a word processor. Also: My 6 must-have Linux apps for productivity, and why they make work easier In those early days, that was StarOffice, and with it, I began another journey that would continue throughout my life. I was an actor. The
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 12:25:26
The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a larger off
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The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from the Global Engagement Center (GEC), a larger off
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The Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (R/FIMI) Hub is a small office in the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy that tracks and counters foreign disinformation campaigns. In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from the Global Engagement Center, a larger office wi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 03:25:26
In shutting R/FIMI, the department’s controversial acting undersecretary, Darren Beattie, is delivering a major win to conservative critics who have alleged that it censors conservative voices. Created at the end of 2024, it was reorganized from the Global Engagement Center, a larger office with a similar mission that had long been criticized by conservatives who claimed that, despite its international mission, it was censoring American conservatives. In 2023, Elon Musk called the center the “wo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 07:26:31
A New Mexico man is facing federal charges for two separate incidents of alleged arson—one at an Albuquerque Tesla showroom and one at the New Mexico Republican Party’s office—according to a Monday press release from the Department of Justice. Jamison Wagner, 40, was charged with allegedly setting fire to a building or vehicle used in interstate commerce. The charge can apply to goods manufactured and sold in different states and the facilities that house them—like the Tesla showroom or the Rep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 03:57:22
Microsoft announced it will begin disabling all ActiveX controls in Windows versions of Microsoft 365 and Office 2024 applications later this month. Introduced almost three decades ago, in 1996, ActiveX is a legacy software framework enabling developers to create interactive objects embedded in Office documents. After this change rolls out, ActiveX will be blocked entirely and without notification in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio to reduce the risk of malware or unauthorized code executio
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 15:41:15
Microsoft warned Windows users of increased CPU usage when typing while using recent versions of the classic Outlook email client. The company acknowledged this issue following a wave of user reports on social media and various online platforms since early November, including Microsoft's community website. Those affected reported that disabling all spell-check options and add-ins did not resolve the CPU usage issues. In a new support document published this week, Microsoft now revealed that th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-29 18:46:04
If you want to avoid paying every month with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business is the way to go. StackSocial is currently offering a lifetime license for just $159, which is the absolute best deal in its history compared to its usual $249. See at StackSocial Unlike Microsoft 365, where you’ll pay more over time due to its subscription model, Office 2024 is a one-time, upfront purchase that allows you lifetime access to fundamental tools like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 12:00:17
In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals in his office. The year was 1966. Robert Taylor was the director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Processing Techniques Office. The agency was created in 1958 by President Eisenhower in response to the launch of Sputnik. So Taylor was in the Pentagon, a great place for acronyms
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 10:57:07
Microsoft has released an out-of-band Office update to fix a known issue that caused Word, Excel, and Outlook to crash after installing the KB5002700 security update for Office 2016. The company acknowledged these problems following user reports on social media that Office apps no longer open after applying the April 2025 security updates. "We're experiencing an issue on Windows 10 with Office 2016 where Word and Excel no longer open," one impacted Office user said. "Same behavior here: aft
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 03:14:29
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft appears to be working on new 3D icons for its Office suite. Reddit users have discovered the new icons in an email survey from Microsoft, reports Windows Central. The survey includes a brief look at the new icons, with Microsoft asking for feedback on its changes to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Office apps. The new Microsoft 365 app icons have a more 3D look an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-07 19:53:33
Threat actors are abusing SourceForge to distribute fake Microsoft add-ins that install malware on victims' computers to both mine and steal cryptocurrency. SourceForge.net is a legitimate software hosting and distribution platform that also supports version control, bug tracking, and dedicated forums/wikis, making it very popular among open-source project communities. Although its open project submission model gives plenty of margin for abuse, actually seeing malware distributed through it is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-08 21:29:16
The big screen adaptation of video game mega-franchise Minecraft brought in $58 million on Friday, putting it on track for a $135 million opening weekend domestically — or potentially even more. That would give “A Minecraft Movie” the biggest opening of the year, beating out “Captain America: Brave New World” (which earned $88.8 million during its opening weekend in February) and providing a much-needed boost to the theatrical box office. Comscore recently estimated that the 2025 domestic box o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 09:29:16
The big screen adaptation of video game mega-franchise Minecraft brought in $58 million on Friday, putting it on-track for a $135 million opening weekend domestically — or potentially even more. That would give “A Minecraft Movie” the biggest opening of the year, beating out “Captain America: Brave New World” (which earned $88.8 million during its opening weekend in February) and providing a much-needed boost to the theatrical box office. ComScore recently estimated that 2025 domestic box offic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 07:23:04
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Fifty years ago today, Micro-Soft was founded by friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen. As the name implies, Microsoft was originally focused on microprocessors and software, and Gates and Allen created the company to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer. Founded on April 4th, 1975, Microsoft went on to strike a deal with IBM to provide software for its
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-20 07:10:08
There’s really no excuse for scraping by with third-party knockoff productivity apps anymore. Yeah, we remember when a licensed copy of Microsoft Office cost hundreds of dollars, and we also remember when the only alternatives were a monthly subscription payment to Microsoft or one of those “just as good as Microsoft at a fraction of the price” apps. (And, of course, they were nowhere near as good as Microsoft.) But now you can make one small $49 payment to StackSocial (down from $219) and get a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-21 19:45:14
ZDNET LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is seeing a serious uptick in downloads (as first reported by Computerworld ) with February's release of version 25.2. According to the Document Foundation, LibreOffice, which runs on Linux, MacOS, and Windows, now boasts around 200 million worldwide users. Document Foundation's Mike Saunders said that the exact number of total users is difficult to pinpoint, as the Foundation does not track users in order to maintain their pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-22 17:10:00
WTF?! Microsoft is rolling out a clever tweak to help Office apps launch faster on Windows. Dubbed "Startup Boost," this new feature quietly runs in the background as soon as you log in the operating system, preloading "performance enhancements" so apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint open more quickly when you need them. The announcement comes from the Microsoft 365 Message Center. The feature works by preloading parts of Office apps into memory after Windows startup and keeping them in a pau
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 03:48:47
Peacocking, - São Jorge Castle, Lisbon, Portugal – Photo by Andrew Spence Not being able to get together in person is a pure negative. Reed Hastings – Netflix Co-founder The corporate peacock is alive and well. Feathers fluffed. Chest puffed. Strutting across near-empty floors in a grand display of status and control. Not because it makes work better — but because it once did. As Workforce Futurist merges with Work3, it feels fitting to mark this moment with a short obituary of sorts — not f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 03:20:48
Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. That’s the highest download number since 2023. LibreOffice, which runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS, is a standalone desktop office productivity software that is free to use. Downloads have picked up since The Document Foundation, which manages its development, released version 25.2 last week. It has emerged as the most popular open-
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 23:25:37
ZDNET Those of you who regularly use Microsoft Office might want to try an upcoming new feature designed to speed up your favorite program. Rolling out in May, an option called Startup Boost will reduce the amount of time you have to wait for a Microsoft Office application to launch. The first volunteer for this mission will be Microsoft Word, with other applications in the Office suite joining via future updates. Popping up as a scheduled task, Startup Boost will be completely optional so you
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-25 23:11:37
A Texas UPS driver is accused of stealing a massive haul of luxury goods and tech items from the packages intended for local residents. A press release from the office of Cameron County District Attorney Luis V. Saenz says that 37-year-old Armando Garcia was recently taken into custody after police found over $200,000 of stolen packages at his home. Garcia had worked for the company for five years, which seems like roughly the amount of time it would take to steal that much stuff. The haul of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 07:00:19
In May, Microsoft plans to roll out a new Windows scheduled task that launches automatically to help Microsoft Office apps load faster. The company says the "Startup Boost" task will launch in the background on logon, with the roll-out to start in mid-May and worldwide general availability to be reached by late May 2025. On systems where it's toggled on, users will see new Office Startup Boost and Office Startup Boost Logon tasks in the Windows Task Scheduler, which will ensure that Office ap
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 11:08:38
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft is planning to improve the startup speed of its Office apps, starting with Word in May. The launch times of Office apps will improve thanks to a new scheduled task that will run silently when you boot your PC to make sure Word and eventually other Office apps open quickly. “We are introducing a new Startup Boost task from the Microsoft Office installer to optimize pe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-29 03:00:00
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy is The Verge’s smart home reviewer, and she’s mind-bogglingly impressive in the number of devices she covers. As she says, “On any given day, I can be evaluating anything from robot vacuums, smart locks, and lights, to smart chicken coops, smart ovens, and connected coffee makers.” Jennifer has been a journalist for her entire career, “starting at The Daily Telegraph in London, England, right out of university.” She’s been at The Verge since 2021; before that, she was a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-01 06:01:56
Remote work has radically changed our conception of "the office." The Pew Research Center estimates that 14% of all employed adults over 18, or roughly 22 million people, are currently working from home all the time. If you're a remote worker filing your taxes, however, you might not be eligible to claim the home office deduction. The home office deduction allows eligible taxpayers to reduce their tax obligation by writing off their workspace as a legitimate business expense. In most cases, the
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