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| | | | | Apple and Google's COVID-19 Tracker Isn't a Privacy Concern, but It Is a Game-changer | | Inc. | Apple and Google announced an interesting partnership. Both companies will build technology into their mobile operating systems that will allow for large-scale contact tracing. It's a pretty big deal for two reasons: The first is that the two companies are fierce rivals, but are working together to solve a problem that affects all of us. Second, it might actually work, since the two companies power almost all mobile devices worldwide. | | Future of Work = Golden Age of IT | | David Politis via LinkedIn | "Over the last couple of months we've all been forced to change the way we work. It's a completely new paradigm that many organizations were not ready for. It's proving to be the tipping point for SaaS adoption across the board. With all of these changes, IT is being challenged to enable and empower their teams to be productive and secure while working remotely. For anyone that didn't view IT as strategic before this...they will now," says BetterCloud's CEO David Politis. Check out his article for his thoughts on how this pandemic is changing IT forever. | | 6 Charts to Understand the Coronavirus Impact on IT | | CIO Dive | COVID-19 is changing tech executives' assumptions about the future, their ability to access talent and supplies, and spending priorities in key verticals. | | Microsoft Issues Patches for 4 Bugs Exploited as Zero-Day in the Wild | | The Hacker News | Microsoft released the latest batch of software security updates for all supported versions of its Windows operating systems and other products that patch a total of 113 new security vulnerabilities, 17 of which are critical and 96 rated important in severity. Most importantly, two of the security flaws have been reported as being publicly known at the time of release, and the four are being actively exploited in the wild by hackers. |
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