Chase and Marriott Bonvoy announced Thursday that the Marriott Bonvoy Boundless card will now earn 3x points per dollar at grocery stores, gas stations, and restaurants, on the first $6,000 spent each year. Cardholders can also earn 3 Free Night Awards (valued up to 50,000 points each) after spending $3,000 on purchases in the first three months. In addition, earning Marriott Bonvoy Elite Status will be a bit faster; the card will now earn one Elite Night credit for every $5,000 spent with the card....

The Complete Cartoon Animator 4 Pro Windows Bundle gives you everything you need to start animating, with both tools and training in one bundle. But act fast, as this price drop will only be available through December 31st. To begin with, the bundle comes with Cartoon Animator 4 Pro. Formerly CrazyTalk Animator, one of TopTenReviews’ choices for Best 2D Animation Software, this package is designed to get beginners animating quickly....

While we saw a real-world demo of Matter implemented at IFA 2022, we still haven’t had a Matter product hit the market yet, so it has continued to sound more like dream than reality, until now. Matter is the new connectivity standard created by the CSA as an effort to tear down interoperability walls between manufacturers of the IoT.

It suddenly had an even more captive market, prepared to pay a little bit more just to get familiar food quickly. Soon, though, inflationary pressures loomed and prices accelerated. This is a little uncomfortable for a brand that has always claimed to represent value. But what can any fast-food purveyor do to make customers feel even a little better? How about making them believe that none of the bad stuff ever happened?...

“The one pattern that we’ve pulled out so far is that cloud’s positive impacts are for firms in outer regional Australia or remote Australia,” Productivity Commissioner Catherine de Fontenay said at the Economic Implications of the Digital Economy Conference on Wednesday. The pattern was found as part of a study conducted by the Productivity Commission into whether cloud technology is associated with higher firm turnover per worker and higher wages per worker....

I kept refining my skills throughout school, and when I was working on my MBA, I realized that I wanted to use my passion to start a business. I met with some friends who shared this same entrepreneurial mindset, and after a weekend of brainstorming, we decided to start a website security business geared towards filling the gap in security offerings for small businesses. Since then, SiteLock has grown to over 200 employees, with expectations to end the year around 300, and we protect more than 6 million websites worldwide....

Clegg has worked at Meta for over three years. Prior to joining Facebook as its global affairs vice president in 2018, Clegg had served as Britain’s deputy prime minister. Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a post on his personal Facebook page, said Clegg’s new role will see him lead Meta on all of its policy matters. It will also put him “at the level” of Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, the company’s chief operating officer....

Microsoft: The Number One Target Global technology colossus Microsoft — which overtook Facebook this year in terms of brand impersonation — continues to be a top target in 2022, with 11,041 unique phishing URLs attributed to it. The popularity of Microsoft 365’s suite of programs among small and medium-sized businesses means the tech giant is a prime target for phishers hoping to exploit Microsoft 365 customers. Microsoft 365 cloud-based applications (formerly Office 365) used by millions of people such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook are the most frequently impersonated by the phishing community, according to the report....

TechCrunch says its sources claim Microsoft paid between $80 million and $90 million for Oribi, which helps companies build and run customized analytics to measure the impact of their marketing strategies. One of Oribi’s key competitors is Google Analytics. Last year, Microsoft officials said that LinkedIn, which Microsoft bought in 2016 for $26.2 billion, is now a $10 billion business in its own right.

(A screenshot from the Microsoft Xbox website) I don’t think about what you’re wearing, and you don’t think about what I’m wearing either. It’s better that way. Microsoft, however, has a different idea. It wants you to be proud of what you’re wearing when you’re at your computer or console. Perhaps more importantly, the company wants you to be proud of Microsoft. What else can one conclude from perusing Microsoft’s new Hardwear Collection?...

Defender for Endpoint on Linux server gained endpoint detection and response (EDR) abilities a few months ago and now has extra capabilities for Azure Defender customers. It makes sense for Microsoft to develop security products for Linux, given that Linux distributions dominate virtual machine OSes on its Azure cloud. One key change is that Linux EDR detection and live response is now in public preview. The live response allows for in-depth investigations and quick threat containment by giving security teams forensic data, the ability to run scripts, share suspicious entities, and hunt for possible threats....

As it did when introducing the new Edge on macOS, Microsoft has been positioning Edge on Linux as more of an offering for IT pros and developers who want to test web sites than as a browser for “normal” users on those platforms. However, any user on any supported platform can use the new Edge. ZDNet’s resident Linux expert Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (somewhat surprisingly) gave the first test build for Edge for Linux a thumbs up....

According to the original leak, Microsoft officials were not intending to replace the legacy Win32 Outlook client with the new Outlook until some much later date. Microsoft currently has different versions of Outlook for Windows, Mac, the Web, iOS, and Android devices. The mobile versions are based on the Acompli technology it acquired. Microsoft refers to all of these variants as plain-old “Outlook.” The new One Outlook – which also is expected to be branded as “Outlook” once it’s available – will work on the Windows Desktop (Win32/UWP; Intel and Arm), on the Web, and the macOS Desktop....

This is something the newly-human Microsoft clearly understands. The company has been Twitter-emitting teases of potential pleasure in the days before Windows 11 is finally revealed on June 24. Also: Microsoft’s Windows 11 launch event: What to expect and how to watch And here, perhaps – one certainly hopes – is the last of the great Windows 11 teases, one that promises so much. The Windows Twitter account has released a little ad that gives Windows enthusiasts the belief that 11 will be a different sort of heaven....

In two blog posts published on Monday, Microsoft vice president Tom Burt, the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center said they have been tracking Nickel since 2016 and that a federal court in Virginia granted the company’s request to seize websites the group was using to attack organizations in the US and other countries. Burt explained that on December 2, the company filed lawsuits in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that would allow them to “cut off Nickel’s access to its victims and prevent the websites from being used to execute attacks....

So the Surface Studio 2 was due an update, and this duly arrived in October 2022 in the shape of the Surface Studio 2+. The new model retains the same industrial design as its predecessor, but now runs on an 11th-generation Core i7 processor for “up to 50 percent faster CPU performance”, adding a 30-series Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU for “double the graphics performance”, according to Microsoft. However, that ‘2+’ naming drops a heavy hint that nothing revolutionary has occurred here, although the $1,000 price hike from $3,499....

We extensively reviewed both apps to answer these questions. Here’s a summary of our findings: Overall, the choice between the two comes down to your requirements. Slack is the better option for small teams while Teams is well suited for larger organisations. Microsoft Teams and Slack have emerged as the two front runners in this category. Indeed, the competition between the two extends beyond software. Slack has actually filed an antitrust/competition case against Microsoft before the European Regulator for its bundling of Teams with other office apps....

Those on Optus and Vodafone that shifted carriers experienced 1.7 to 1.9 times the average time without signal before moving, while Telstra users that left had no “statistically significant difference” between switchers and those that stayed. Prior to leaving, users on Optus and Vodafone also had less time on the 4G network, while Telstra did not show a significant difference. “Most likely, mobile experience has a lower impact on Telstra leavers’ choice because of the extent of Telstra’s 4G network,” Opensignal said....

Here are some signs that could indicate your smartphone is infected by stalkerware: If you have spyware on your phone, you can get rid of it by deleting any suspicious apps, doing a thorough scan of your device with a strong antivirus program, or doing a full factory reset. If you’re looking for a good antivirus solution, we recommend Norton 360 for mobile. Get Norton 360 If you want to protect yourself against mobile spyware, here are a few key ways to keep your phone and data safe:...