Proprietary Software and Security
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Microsoft employees are getting unlimited time off [Ed: This likely is connected to impending layoffs; Microsoft's longtime spinner, Tom Warren, spinning it for Microsoft's management]
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Rubenerd: Unlimited paid time off
Not to mention that removing liability on the company’s books translates to not being paid out if you leave.
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Salesforce Customers Not Swayed by Slack, Analysts Say
When Salesforce Inc. bought the messaging application Slack for $27.7 billion almost two years ago, it said the marriage would “transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world.” Corporate technology buyers so far aren’t impressed, analysts said.
The acquisition sought to capture the fast-growing market for communications and collaboration software during the Covid-19 pandemic, as employers sent workers home and shifted to remote systems.
Today, companies in the market for customer-relationship management software — Salesforce’s signature product — don’t appear to be swayed one way or another by the addition of messaging and collaboration features, said Liz Herbert, a vice president and principal analyst at information-technology research firm Forrester Research Inc.
“We don’t really see, when it comes to Slack, any pent up demand from Salesforce’s base for a tool like that,” Ms. Herbert said. “It really hasn’t become something compelling,” she said.
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International shipping incident - OSMC [Ed: Probably Microsoft Windows]
On 11th January Royal Mail announced that they had suffered from a cyber incident that has prevented them from exporting goods outside of the UK.
As Royal Mail are our primary shipping partner for B2C shipments, customers are affected.
We continue to receive information from Royal Mail but they have not stated when this will be resolved. As a result, we are unable to ship items internationally at this time.
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Frederik Braun : Origins, Sites and other Terminologies
In order to fully discuss security issues, their common root causes and useful prevention or mitigation techniques, you will need some common ground on the security model of the web. This, in turn, relies on various terms and techniques that will be presented in the next sections.
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Some APIs are governed by the notion of a Site, instead of an Origin. A Site is a combination of a scheme and a host's registerable domain.
Looking up the registerable domain of a hostname, is a quite literally a check which domain had to be registered (e.g., example.co.uk or is the registerable domain for www.example.co.uk as well as for mail.example.co.uk). This lookup is effectively, a way to include a host and all of its subdomains, but nothing above.
The idea of a Site is used in a variety of specs that want to allow related web pages to collude with each other for convenience or legacy support reasons. Among them are Storage Access API (3rd Party Cookie Access), WebAuthn and Federated Credential Management.