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The Easiest Cons
A university just paid $12m to a fraudster. Prevention would have been easy. […]
HBR: New Jobs from Automation
An article in HBR argues that AI/automation will increase worker earnings & invent new jobs. Our take: they aren't wrong but this is also glass [...]
Magic Screen Blocking Glasses
These glasses block the light emitted from phones/computers/tvs. From Wired.
15 Minutes
There is nothing more valuable that any of us have than time. 15 minutes can be a lot, it can also be life changing, for [...]
Fall Windows Update Stopped
Following “isolated” reports of users’ files being completely erased during upgrades Microsoft announced a “pause” of the Windows 2018 Fall Update. Microsoft has gone so far [...]
WiFi Gets New Name
Starting with the next generation of WiFi devices, WiFi will finally have a comprehensible naming scheme. In the past, different versions of wifi went by [...]
Old Computer Donations
A local residential Knoxville IT firm is leading an effort to collect used but working computers to give to the recently and near homeless. "Techies [...]
Knox County Hacked
The News Sentinel is reporting that Knox County computer systems were breached the night of the primary. It was a two stage attack, complete with [...]
Hard Drive Quarterly Report
Consumer backup provider Backblaze has released their quarterly hard drive performance report. This report is always notable because it is the largest ongoing study across [...]
Technology & Business Impact
At JM Addington we’re all about making existing businesses better at what they do. […]
Managed Services Tools Price Increase
Prices for managed services providers are increasing – that ultimately means higher prices for their customers. […]
Atlanta Ransomeware Recovery: $2.6m
ZDNet reports that Atlanta budgeted approximately $2.6 million to recover from their ransomeware incident earlier this year. This is a small figure as far as [...]
855-785-2511 Scam
This afternoon one of our technicians was chatting with a legitimate support rep from a well-known vendor. The support rep correctly said that he could [...]
Amazon Delivers to Your Car
Amazon just announced an expansion of their Amazon Key program, they will now deliver to your car, assuming that you car is compatible. Currently, compatible 2015 [...]
SunTrust Data Breach
SunTrust Bank quietly announced Friday, April 20th, 2018 that a former employee was working with a "criminal third party" and may have passed along information from [...]