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The Patch Deluge: AI & The Race To Save The World
Don’t worry, be happy! I was just trying to scare you with all that doom and gloom. The same AI systems that can find vulnerabilities can also fix them. The same AI tools that can write exploits can write patches. The same machine intelligence that helps attackers…
Thin And Light Notebooks Go Mainstream
By the end of the year there will finally be a dozen or more reasonably-priced ultrathin, ultralight notebooks on the market, mostly priced under a thousand dollars. Almost three…
WordPress Takes Over The Web
WordPress is everywhere. A few days ago, WordPress announced rather startling statistics: WordPress is now powering 14.7% of the top million websites in the world. 22 out of…
Sudden Decline In Fake Antivirus Malware
The world has made a bit of temporary progress against the bad guys. Almost every week during 2010 and the first six months of 2011, I cleaned malware off computers after it was…
Using Adobe SendNow And YouSendIt For Large File Attachments
It is increasingly necessary to send large file attachments by email. It continues to be a bad idea! It clogs up your mailbox and slows down your mail server and generates…
Customized Ribbons In Office 2010
Office 2007 introduced ribbons to replace menus in Word, Excel, and most of the other programs, much to the consternation of old-timers. Since then, Microsoft has adopted ribbons…
Free Windows 7 And Office 365 eBooks From Microsoft Press
Microsoft Press has two quite useful books for you to download, absolutely free. The books are in PDF format, fully searchable and easy to read onscreen. (Don’t print them. It…
Convert PDFs To Word Documents With Adobe ExportPDF
Adobe has created a web-based tool for converting PDFs to Word documents. It’s so inexpensive that you might find a reason to sign up. Adobe ExportPDF has a single function:…
Installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1
If Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is shown as an Important update, follow these steps to install it. Your computer will be tied up for 45 minutes. Restart your computer. Don’t start…
Outages Happen
On August 10, the main data center for Exchange Defender suffered a catastrophic power failure. Clients using the spam filtering service had their incoming and outgoing mail…
Microsoft’s Missing Small Business Servers
In April, with little fanfare, Microsoft released three new server products to manufacturing and to the hardware vendors: Small Business Server 2011 Essentials, Windows Home…
The Reality Of Switching From A PC To A Mac
Don’t underestimate how much you’ve learned about using Windows. Over the years I’ve been asked the same question frequently: “Should I switch to a Mac?” Not very much has…
Opt Out Of Being Used For LinkedIn Advertisements
[ Addendum 08/13 : after a day of harsh criticism, LinkedIn yanked the photos and names from their ads. There is still a checkmark that you might want to uncheck but it doesn’t…
Dell Upgrades Specs For New Ultralight Vostro V131
Dell has upgraded the specs for the new Vostro V131, the latest version of its standout ultra-thin, ultra-light 13.3” notebook. The styling is very similar to the Vostro V130…
GoDaddy, Slow WordPress Hosting, And Sexist Hunters
I have a story about web hosting. When you visit brucebnews.com, all the pages pop into place instantly. Do a search or click on a link and you’ll see the result right away….
Bruceb.com 2.0 And Shameless Self-Promotion
Exactly twenty years ago the World Wide Web opened to the public. Yesterday, crack web site designer Andrew Berls finished work on the refresh of www.bruceb.com. Those things…