Python is one of the easiest to learn of all the programming languages. It’s even taught to middle school kids. Yet, Python engineers are paid well, with average annual salaries starting at almost $80,000. Total novices can get a full working knowledge of it from “Learning Python 3 Programming for the Absolute Beginner 2022.” Students love this course; they’ve rated it 4.8 out of 5 stars. Instructor Lee Assam has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a master’s degree in Computer Science....

Start with the crowd favorite “Are You Privacy Savvy? Privacy 101 for Online Life,” rated 4.7 out of 5 stars by former students. Instructor Christine Aykac leads this course, and she has more than 25 years of experience in project delivery. It gives her the background to provide practical solutions to the complex technical and business challenges that organizations encounter during their digital transformation journey. “Are You Privacy Savvy? Privacy 101 for Online Life” introduces you to the Privacy Act and teaches you precisely what is considered personal information in the legislation, what you or your company should collect, what you can use and how to protect it in a way that complies while doing so....

For the period ending 31 December 2020, the Australian arm of the South Korean tech company recorded revenue just shy of AU$944 million, up from the AU$860 million it achieved last year. Noting its primary activity consisted of importing and supplying retailers with household electronic appliances, IT equipment, and mobile phones, LG Electronics Australia took just over AU$1 billion from customers, a boost from the AU$950 million last year. Meanwhile, payments to suppliers and employees came in at roughly the same amount....

This isn’t as big a transition as it may seem. C89 still has almost universal support. Because any C compiler is backward compatible with earlier versions, you won’t have any trouble compiling or running a C89 program. So, a C11 compliant compiler won’t have any trouble with any C89 legacy code. So why bother? The change being made doesn’t include useful features that appear in newer versions. The situation came to Torvald’s attention when, in order to patch a potential security problem with the kernel’s linked-list primitive speculative-execution functions, another problem was revealed in the patch....

How long is long enough? According to Microsoft’s studies, each machine needs to be powered on and continuously connected to the internet for at least two hours for quality and feature updates to install via the Windows Update service. Otherwise it’s “very unlikely” a machine will install updates once they’re released by Microsoft. “What we found is that devices that don’t meet a certain amount of connected time are very unlikely to successfully update,” David Guyers, a Microsoft principal program manager of the Windows Update service, says in a blogpost....

Somehow, though, we just never find the time. Ambitions drive us. Work overwhelms us. And time messes with our minds. How, then, have we changed during the two years of the pandemic? Have we stopped to consider a little? Or has the painful awkwardness – for some – of working from home caused us to work more and smell far fewer roses? Helpfully, Microsoft has been intensely researching what’s happening to our heads and souls....

While Microsoft’s Black Friday event was initially modest in scope, it’s rolled into Cyber Monday with many more deals, not only on its Surface devices, but also on Windows PCs that Microsoft’s online store is selling from its hardware partners. Though a couple of items from our Black Friday coverage are now out of stock, here are several other sales that make up for them. More Cyber Monday 2020 deals Here are some additional Microsoft Store Cyber Monday 2020 deals worth checking out:...

In the Redmond giant’s latest round of patches, usually released on the second Tuesday of each month in what is known as Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has fixed problems including remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, privilege escalation bugs, spoofing issues, information leaks, and policy bypass exploits. Products impacted by February’s security update include the Windows Kernel, Hyper-V, Microsoft Outlook and Office, Azure Data Explorer, and Microsoft SharePoint. The single zero-day vulnerability, now patched by Microsoft, is CVE-2022-21989....

Microsoft in 2018 tried to bring tabbed File Explorer to Windows 10 but a year later it was swept away when Sets was abandoned. Things looks set to change soon for mainstream Windows 11 users with Microsoft now rolling out tabbed File Explorer to Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev Channel with preview build 22579. “To help you work across multiple locations at the same time, the title bar of File Explorer now has tabs,” Microsoft says in its Windows Insider Blog....

For $599, you’re getting an impressive Surface experience based on the specifications. The Surface Laptop Go 2 comes with Intel’s 11th Generation Core i5 processor, 4GB of memory and 128GB of storage. You can double the memory or storage to 8GB or 256GB, respectively. Pricing for a configuration with 8GB of memory and 128GB of storage is $699, while 8GB of memory and 256GB of storage tops out at $799....

Now AI-powered Bing will have a new home – on the Windows 11 taskbar. On Monday, Microsoft announced that it is taking “a major step forward adding to the incredible breadth and ease of use of the Windows PC” by introducing a typable Windows search box, placing the capabilities of the new Bing front and center in the taskbar. Also: What is ChatGPT and why does it matter? Here’s everything you need to know If you are among the one million users given early access to the new Bing, all you have to do to experience the Windows integration is install the latest Windows 11 update....

The updated app is the latest effort by Microsoft to reshape its software for the Windows 11 platform. Announced a month ago, the new Notepad app – a simple text editor – is designed to fit the latest version of Windows. Notepad gets rounded corners that mesh with the opaque overlays the company is using these days for homegrown apps over the Windows interface. The headline feature, however, is support for dark mode, which has become a standard for apps on mobile and desktop for people who work in the dark....

Kevin Gallo, Corporate Vice President of the Windows Developer Platform, tweeted about the 1.0 release, noting “Windows App SDK 1.0 Stable release is live! The WinAppSDK is focused on empowering developers to build the most productive apps on Windows and we’re looking forward to your feedback!” Also: Windows 10 is a security disaster waiting to happen Microsoft is counting on the Windows App SDK to help the company undo some of its past mistakes created by its “Universal Apps/One Windows platform strategy,” which relied on UWP to supplant Win32 and for developers to do some heavy lifting to bring their existing apps to that platform....

Walkie Talkie was first made available as a preview on iOS and Android in July. Microsoft’s research has found 88% of organizations employ frontline workers for whom mobile communication is vital to response and emergency tasks. Among this category of workers, Microsoft has claimed – as reported by ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley – that it has seen 400% growth in monthly active users since the pandemic began in March 2020....

You’ve spent so much time thinking about it that you’ve hardly been able to focus on a single Zoom call. I mean, Teams call. Your family is ignoring you and your dog once even tried to feed you. I bring you good news. Microsoft understands how excited you are at witnessing the next edition of the software that has become your most useful limb, Windows. Windows 11 is allegedly to be unveiled on June 24 and, frankly, that’s just too many days, isn’t it?...

The finding was part of a larger report on wash trading and money laundering in the NFT industry. The research only captures trades made in Ethereum and Wrapped Ethereum, excluding a significant amount of wash trading activity. Chainalysis said they tracked a minimum $44.2 billion worth of cryptocurrency sent to NFT-related smart contracts last year, up from just $106 million in 2020. But alongside that large increase in legitimate NFT business, Chainalysis said it did find actors wash trading to artificially increase the value of NFTs and money laundering through the purchase of NFTs....

HMD Global is also expanding its range of Nokia-branded earbuds and headphones, and creating a new services-focused division to capitalise on growth that, the company says, will see services subscriptions hit one million during the first half of 2022. SEE: Best cheap 5G phone 2022: No need to pay flagship prices for quality devices The company has already covered off the US market at CES with five new phones, one of them a 5G device, and launched two new mid-range G-series phones, the G21 and G11, whose key selling points include (claimed) three-day battery life....

Astrophysicist David Spergel – president of the Simons Foundation in New York City and previously the chair of the Princeton University astrophysics department – will lead the team. The most prominent member involved is former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who commanded the International Space Station during multiple missions and served as the pilot of Space Shuttle Discovery for the third Hubble Servicing Mission. The study is effectively a preliminary look into UAPs and will focus on finding valuable data – the team will look at data collected by government entities, commercial data, academic findings, and any other publicly available information to determine what’s relevant....

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said in a statement that there are more than 800 pieces of software created by the organization that have helped operations both on Earth and on missions to the Moon and Mars. NASA is sharing the programs through its Technology Transfer program which is run by the Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA noted that it was important for American taxpayers to benefit from technologies developed by and for NASA....

The selected participants across the world come from different backgrounds and locations, including five international space agencies, an academic institution, nine commercial companies, a nonprofit, and two private citizens, according to NASA. Also: What is Artemis? Everything you need to know about NASA’s new moon mission The 18 volunteers were able to participate by responding to a “Request for Information” released by NASA in August on a no-exchange-of-funds basis. “We received dozens of calls from antenna owners and operators around the world asking, ‘How can we get involved?...