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Bitlocker has always been more trouble than it was worth.

Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi and a bit of braininess Your laptop probably isn't as secure as you thought.

Microsoft will stop old Windows product keys from activating new Windows installs Windows 7 and 8 keys still seem to work for now, but that may be ending.

Prebuilt PCs have problems -- how to avoid getting scammed | Digital Trends Prebuilt PCs have some merits, but I'm never going to buy one again. Here's why I would choose to build my own PC each and every time.

New laptops for clients, always fun!

Samsung is #1

Major SSD Brands Ranked Worst To Best (And Which Ones To Avoid) - SlashGear If you're looking for a new blazing-fast SSD for your PC or PlayStation 5, you can't go wrong with these seven top brands.

How to Disable Windows Web Search and Speed Up Your PC Stop the OS from pulling up web results when you just want files and apps.

Things we have never done ... a benefit of almost 40 years of experience in the IT business, from the very first IBM PC.

You've probably committed at least one of the 11 sins of PC building How not to build a gaming PC.

HDDs typically failed in under 3 years in Backblaze study of 17,155 failed drives Seagate still stands out.

Integral started it's internet operations in 1997, hosting websites wiith a single T1 internet connection and moving up to 4 T1's before going to a T3.

30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.

New BIOS updates attempt to keep Ryzen 7000X3D processors from frying themselves Motherboard-maker MSI says damage may be "caused by abnormal voltage issues."

10 Mistakes Beginners Make When Building PCs Building your first PC can be daunting. You watched all kinds of tutorials and read all kinds of guides, but for some reason, you worry you might still mess things up somehow. Here are the most common mistakes beginners make, so you can avoid them when you actually start building.

Hall of Shame:
(Left Photo): this 9th generation Dell PC only lasted 3.5 years before we had to replace it (Right Photo) with one of our systems. Ours typically last 10 years or more.

Users fume after My Cloud network breach locks them out of their data The compromise allowed hackers to steal data, raising the specter of ransomware.

Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society, says chip-maker Nvidia Tech chief says the development of chatbots is a more worthwhile use of processing power than crypto mining

This is not a surprise. Cloud hosting prices are very high vs running your own on premise systems, and variable costs based on load and demand can greatly increase your costs.

Cloud vs on-prem: SaaS vendor 37signals bails out of the public cloud 37signals CTO claims dumping IaaS cloud services in favor of buying servers can save millions of US dollars per year for the right type of organization.

HDD average life span misses 3-year mark in study of 2,007 defective drives Data recovery firm blames SMR and size, following limited analysis.

The 3 Laws of Data Protection:

1. Data can be created but not destroyed.
2. Data always increases.
3. Totally secure data is not accessible or usable.

(Copyright) 2023 Sun Kwok, Integral Corporation

Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control? How much data is a Windows operating system sending to online servers? According to a recent video from The PC Security Channel (TPCSC), the most up-to-date version...

We built this PC 14 years ago, and it is still running strong today.

Intel Core2 Q8300, 4GB RAM, 80GB SSD

LastPass finally admits: Those crooks who got in? They did steal your password vaults, after all… The crooks now know who you are, where you live, which computers are yours, where you go online… and they got those password vaults, too.

The FBI is worried about a wave of cyber crime against America's small businesses Small businesses are increasingly being targeted by hackers, with FBI data from 2021 criminal hacks showing nearly $7 billion in losses.

This is an awesome article on the development and creator of Network Time Protocol - the method by which millions of devices keep up to date on the time and synchronize with each other. From individual computers, servers, GPS, Google, Netflix, and so much more, this seemingly simple concept of Universal Time is what enables everything to work together, from our financial systems to our spaceships.

The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?

A cyberattack hits the Los Angeles School District, raising alarm across the country The ransomware attack on the country's second-largest school district sounded alarms across the country, from urgent talks with the White House and the National Security Council.

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President Sun Kwok won the top prize and dominated an IT Jeopardy competition against other industry IT professionals and experts at the ChannelPro IT Conference today. Plus May the Fourth fun with Darth and Chewie!

Cloud Backup provider StorageCraft Permanently loses customer data Posted by a user on Reddit Just got a call from StorageCraft. Cloud data is permanently LOST. Following up on my post from a week or