Microsoft today announced that fully featured DVR capability is coming to Xbox One. Users can schedule recordings and watch TV shows and programs at their convenience. From your Xbox One, you can stream recorded TV shows to other devices, either via the Xbox app on Windows 10, or through Xbox SmartGlass for iOS and Android. Even better, you can also download shows to your Windows 10 phone, PC or tablet so you can watch them anywhere. You can schedule recordings from OneGuide on your Xbox One console, the Xbox app on Windows 10 devices or with Xbox SmartGlass on iOS and Android devices. You can also add, review and edit your scheduled recordings from your PC, tablet or phone while you are away from home with ease.
With DVR for Over-the-Air TV, you’ll never miss a minute of your favorite TV shows, movies or sporting events when you want to play a game or need to step out. Once your Xbox One is set up for over-the-air TV*, it’s as easy as plugging a USB hard drive into your Xbox One console and recording your content. And by recording content to an external drive, there’s no impact on your gameplay activities or ability to save to the console.
This feature will be free and it will be coming in 2016.
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At the forefront of these business profitability products is Windows 10, experts will demonstrate how savvy organizations will use the end-user-enhancements in Windows 10 across Office 365 & Skype for Business to drive revenue.
System Administrator Appreciation Day, also known as Sysadmin Day, SysAdminDay, SAD or SAAD, is an annual event created by system administrator Ted Kekatos. The event exists to show appreciation for the work of sysadmins and other IT workers. It is celebrated on the last Friday in July.
We want all our system admins to know they are appreciated today and everyday!
The National Security Agency (NSA) has set a date to purge phone records collected during its bulk surveillance program.
"Analytic access" to the five years worth of records will end on 29 November, and they'll be destroyed three months later, it said in a statement released on Monday.
There are two reasons for the three-month lag:
1. The bulk telephony metadata has to be preserved until civil litigation regarding the program is resolved or until courts relieve NSA of such obligations. From the statement:
As soon as possible, NSA will destroy the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata upon expiration of its litigation preservation obligations.
2. Also, "solely for data integrity purposes" to verify the records produced under the new, targeted production authorized by the USA Freedom Act, the NSA will allow technical personnel to access the historical metadata for those additional three months.
For a while there, it didn't look like the NSA would ever let go of its death grip on the records.
"Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, well, at least for 180 days," US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) Judge Michael W. Mosman wrote last month, as he jauntily granted a six-month extension to the agency's bulk collection of phone metadata.
Earlier in June, there had been a standoff on Capitol Hill around the renewal of lapsed spying provisions of the Patriot Act: a standoff that was resolved with the passage of the Freedom Act, which resurrected the three spying-centric Patriot Act provisions that presidential candidate Senator Rand Paul single-handedly forced into retirement when those provisions expired at midnight on 1 June.
The FISC rationalized the six-month extension by saying that the enactment of the Freedom Act allowed for some "transition period" under which the NSA could continue its bulk data collection.
On the 29 November deadline, NSA analysts will be able to request restricted phone metadata from phone companies on an as-needed basis.
The statement put out by the government on Monday said that at the same time, access to previously collected records will cease.
As far as the NSA's legal obligation to preserve the data for ongoing litigation goes, the government didn't specify which cases it was referring to.
Such litigation likely includes cases brought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that have claimed that the bulk-surveillance program was unconstitutional and not statutorily authorized.
Student teams who are functioning on little sleep but plenty of excitement have come from all over the world to compete in this year’s Imagine Cup World Finals.
The annual technology competition officially kicked off Monday, when teams from 33 countries registered, posed for photos and practiced demonstrating the innovative projects that brought them to Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, as Imagine Cup World Finalists.
Microsoft employees gave teams suggestions on how to improve their presentations, and students got the chance to hear Microsoft Distinguished Engineer James Whittaker teach them about “the art of the pitch.”
There may finally be some good news in the war against spam. The overall percentage of spam among e-mail messages dropped to 49.7 percent last month, the lowest level since 2003 and the first time the figure has been below 50 percent in more than a decade, according to a new study by Symantec.
Symantec reported its findings in its "Symantec Intelligence Report" for the month of June. Enterprises in the mining sector had the highest spam rate, at 56.1 percent, according to the report. The manufacturing sector was a close second at 53.7 percent. The finance, real estate, and insurance sectors had the lowest of any industry, at 51.9 percent.
Spammers seemed to treat all businesses pretty much the same with regard to size, however. On average, companies experienced a spam rate of between 52 percent and 53 percent no matter the number of employees. The only outlier to this pattern was companies with 251-500 employees, which experienced a 53.2 percent spam rate.
Phishing Falling
Although it may have seemed as though attacks were on the rise last month with a number of high-profile hacks, phishing and malware-based attacks actually fell slightly in June, as one in 2,448 e-mails was a phishing attack, down from one in 1,865 in May. Manufacturing was once again the biggest target for spear-phishing attacks, as 22 percent of all such attacks were directed at manufacturing organizations. Nevertheless, that number is down from 41 percent the previous month.
Phishers also continued to concentrate their efforts on both the smallest and largest companies, with enterprises with 1 to 250 employees experiencing the most attacks, and companies with more than 2,501 employees in second place.
The number of vulnerabilities also declined in June, down to 526 reports from 579 in May. There was also one zero-day vulnerability reported last month, stemming from Adobe Flash Player, the same number as in May.
Not All Good News
Despite the good news, there were several troubling developments in Symantec’s report. There was a grand total of 57.6 million new malware variants reported in June, up from 44.5 million created in May and 29.2 million in April. The increase in malware variants may indicate that hackers are changing tactics, according to Symantec.
“This increase in activity lends more evidence to the idea that with the continued drops in e-mail-based malicious activity, attackers are simply moving to other areas of the threat landscape,” Ben Nahorney, cybersecurity threat analyst at Symantec, said in the report.
In addition to the increase in malware variants, ransomware attacks were up in June, with over 477,000 detected during the month. While still below the levels seen at the end of 2014, June represented the second month in a row that ransomware attacks increased since reaching a 12-month low in April. Crypto-ransomware was also up in June, reaching the highest levels since December.
On social media, meanwhile, hackers continued to rely primarily on manual sharing attacks, which require victims to propagate the scam by sharing content themselves. In the last 12 months, manual sharing attacks accounted for more than 80 percent of social media attacks.
Turn your PowerPoint presentations into interactive lessons with Office Mix
Every year, Microsoft welcomes some of the world’s most innovative educators and students from around the world at its annual E2 Summit to share best practices on how to use technology to enhance student learning. At this year’s summit, the Office Mix team got to meet Kelli Etheredge, director of Teaching and Learning Resources at St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Mobile, Alabama. Kelli shared the story of how St. Paul’s students used Office Mix to teach each other about human body systems in their 4th–grade science class.
The next thing she knew, the Office Mix team was interviewing the students and their teachers over Skype for Business to hear firsthand how they learned about Office Mix, how they created mixes for the first time, and more importantly, how it impacted—and improved—the students’ desire to learn and listen. Episode 1: 4th graders become teachers at St. Paul’s tells their story in a lightweight and visually appealing way thanks to Microsoft Sway.
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Nordstrom, a Seattle-based fashion retailer, is going all in on AWS by running its websites, mobile application, security management tools, ecommerce platform, internal development tools and recommendation engine on the AWS Cloud.
