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Microsoft Is Giving Away A Free 100 Gift Card To Random Users

As noted by Wario64 on Twitter this week, Microsoft Store is sending emails to random users with up to $100 gift card with the subject title: “Here’s $100 to start your holiday shopping.” — Wario64 (@Wario64) November 10, 2021 “Had to dig it out of my archives. Would have never been the wiser,” one user responded in the Twitter thread. “Thanks for the heads up! Found it in my deleted folder, you the GOAT,” another user wrote.

Microsoft Rewards Coming Soon To Microsoft Search

In other words, if you have a work or school Microsoft 365 account, you will be able to earn Microsoft Rewards points when searching on Bing. As noted on the Microsoft 365 roadmap, this feature is currently marked as “in development” and scheduled for release for May CY2021. Given below is a full description of the feature: Microsoft Search: Earn Microsoft Rewards when using a work or school account Users in your organization will have the ability to earn Microsoft Rewards points when signed into select Microsoft 365 services (Microsoft Search in Bing) with their organizational (work or school) account.

Microsoft Windows Update Breaks Printing On Windows 11

However, after installing the Windows 10 KB5006670 and Windows 11 KB5006674 updates, Windows customers have started experiencing network printing issues. Upon installing these updates, users of both Windows 10 and Windows 11 have been unable to print on their network printers, and are experiencing the following errors when connecting to a remote printer shared on a Windows print server: 0x000006e4 (RPC_S_CANNOT_SUPPORT) 0x0000007c (ERROR_INVALID_LEVEL) 0x00000709 (ERROR_INVALID_PRINTER_NAME) The following Windows platforms are affected by the issue:

Nintendo Switch Oled Model To Go On Sale On October 8Th For 350

The new Nintendo Switch (OLED model) features a larger, vibrant 7-inch 720p OLED screen with vivid colors and crisp contrast. It also comes with an upgraded Nvidia chip that offers a TV output of 1080p image when connected to a TV. Further, the new Switch features a wide, adjustable stand for easy viewing in tabletop mode, a built-in wired LAN port to connect online when playing in TV mode, 64GB of internal storage (which is expandable up to 2TB via microSDHC or microSD cards), and enhanced audio from the system’s onboard speakers for handheld and tabletop play.

Robinhood Hacked Seven Million Customers Exposed Techworm

The company said in a blog post that an unauthorized third party had socially engineered a customer support employee by phone on November 3rd and obtained access to certain customer support systems. Major Breach of Data The unauthorized party was able to obtain a list of email addresses for approximately five million people, and full names for a different group of approximately two million people. This included thousands of phone numbers as well, which are of importance to hackers.

Russia Is Starting To Beat Ukraine At Electronic Warfare Say Analysts

EW plays a prominent role in the Russian Armed Forces, particularly in the army, and has been a largely invisible aspect of Russia’s war against Ukraine. EW is any action involving the use of the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum) or directed energy to control the spectrum, attack an enemy, or impede enemy assaults. It is used by militaries to target communications, radar, or other military and civilian assets, as well as to protect their forces.

Tesla To Recall 59 000 Vehicles Over A Software Glitch

The announcement was made by Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority or Kraftfahrtbundesamt (KBA) on June 29th on its website and first reported by regional broadcaster Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg on Saturday. The recall program impacts approximately 59,129 Model Y and Model 3 units around the world, which were produced in the year 2022. However, the KBA notice did not specify how many of the affected vehicles were registered in Germany. According to the agency, a software bug is causing the breakdown of e-call feature, which is preventing it from automatically contacting the first emergency responders like 911 in the U.

Twitter Is Looking To Revive The Defunct Video Looping Service Vine

Apparently, Twitter is looking to revive the microblogging site’s short-form video app, Vine so that it could take on popular Chinese short-video sensation, TikTok reports Axios citing multiple sources. Musk has asked Twitter engineers to work on a rebooted version of Vine so that it could be ready by the end of the year. Vine’s old code base, which hasn’t been changed or updated since the shutdown six years ago, has already been assigned to the engineers to be worked on, states the report.

U S Blacklists Dozens Of Chinese Firms Including Smic Dji And More

The Entity List includes Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (SMIC) and its subsidiaries, the world’s most popular drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co. and more than 60 other Chinese companies. According to the Commerce Department, the action against SMIC stems from China’s military-civil fusion (MCF) doctrine and evidence of activities between SMIC and entities of concern in the Chinese military-industrial complex. “We will not allow advanced U.S. technology to help build the military of an increasingly belligerent adversary.

Valve Unveils Its New Handheld Gaming Pc Steam Deck

The Steam Deck features a 7-inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1280 x 800px (16:10 aspect ratio), ambient light sensor, 60Hz refresh rate, and maximum brightness level of 400 nits. It is powered by a custom AMD APU, which according to Valve, is optimized for handheld gaming. It sports a Zen 2-based CPU (4-cores and 8-threads) + RDNA 2 GPU (8 compute units), which delivers more than enough performance to run the latest AAA games.