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Be wary of Mega Millions winner “giveaway” on social media

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:12:47 +0000

Twitter’s abuzz as a 20-year-old Mega Millions winner claims to be giving away free money for retweets and Amazon purchases. Is this for real?

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2018 Predictions – Democratization and Uberization Will Increase Use of Cloud-based DCIM

Credit to Author: Kim Povlsen| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:53:40 +0000

Around this time of year, the three most important words seem to be, what comes next? To answer this question, many of us rely on expert’s predictions. For those managing… Read more »

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Building Energy Management Systems For a Meaningful Purpose

Credit to Author: Employee Voices| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 03:57:23 +0000

Written by Guest Blogger, Debashish Chakraborty Building Energy Management Systems is a bold idea to better serve Schneider Electric‘s meaningful purpose. Digitization and visualization as two key pillars help us achieve our… Read more »

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Microsoft's mystifying Meltdown/Spectre patches for AMD processors

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 07:33:00 -0800

I’ve seen a lot of bizarre Microsoft patches-of-patches, but the new patches for AMD processors are in a world of their own. The security-only, manually downloadable patches appear to be Meltdown/Spectre patches for machines that were bricked by other bad patches, earlier this month, but they’ve arrived with no instructions — and a strange circular logic.

Last week, Microsoft released two patches, with these official titles:

  • KB 4073578: Unbootable state for AMD devices in Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
  • KB 4073576: Unbootable state for AMD devices in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2

The Win7 KB article says:

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