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Few technologies have moved from experimentation to boardroom mandate as quickly as AI. Across industries, leadership teams have embraced its broader potential, and boards, investors, and executives are already pushing organizations to adopt it across operational and security functions. Pentera’s AI Security and Exposure Report 2026 reflects that momentum: every CISO [email protected]

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Microsoft has finally fixed a known issue that was causing systems running Windows Server 2019 and 2022 to "unexpectedly" upgrade to Windows Server 2025. [...]

Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed

Britain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache.…

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Psst: Come close. I’ve got something to share with you, and I don’t want everyone around here to hear it.

Oh — hi! Sorry, I didn’t realize you were here. I was actually talking out loud to my phone just now, as one does, thanks to a nifty new air gesture I set up that activates my device’s voice search anytime I bring the thing close to my face.

Kinda wild, right? It is — and it’s also a massive efficiency-enhancer for those of us enlightened enough to be using Android. (Sorry, iPhone pals. But hey, Apple might give you a watered down version of something similar in another seven to 17 years, and it’s sure to be ~completely magical~. Hang tight!)

Usually, when we think about Android gestures, we think about the standard on-screen swipes and taps that help us navigate our devices — or maybe even the advanced maneuvers that make it even faster to fly around a phone like a total nerd wizard. Today, though, we’re gonna broaden our view of “gesture” to include a simple kind of physical movement that doesn’t even involve any direct device contact.

It’s a brilliantly easy way to interact with your Googley gizmo and open up new productivity-boosting possibilities — and, oh yes: It’s yet another fantastic feat you’d only be able to accomplish here in the land of Android.

[Oh, hey — love shortcuts? My free Android Shortcut Supercourse will teach you tons of advanced time-savers. Start here!]

Your Android air gesture advantage

All right — first things first: The wand we need for this fancy feat of ours is a splendidly useful Android power-user tool called MacroDroid.

MacroDroid is an advanced automation app that’s been appreciated by advanced Android phone owners for many a moon now. It can help you set up all sorts of experience-enhancing awesomeness, and the purpose we’re using for it today represents just a tiny fraction of its potential.

But it’s a good one. So to start, go grab the app, if you don’t already have it installed. It’s free with an optional premium upgrade that eliminates ads throughout its setup interface and enables some extra capabilities (which aren’t required for anything we’re about to go over). It doesn’t sell or share any sort of user data or require any disconcerting permissions.

Got it? Good. Now:

• Open up MacroDroid and make your way through its initial welcome screens.
• Once you see the app’s main menu screen, with a bunch of colorful boxes, flip the toggle in the upper-right corner into the on and active position to activate MacroDroid and get it up and running.
• Then, tap the first box in the list — the one that says “Add Macro.”

width="1024" height="1018" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px">That first box is the only one you need to mess with on the main MacroDroid menu screen.

JR Raphael, Foundry

• Now, in the red box labeled “Triggers,” tap the little plus symbol and then select “Sensors” followed by “Proximity Sensor.”
• Make sure “Near” is selected in the pop-up that appears and tap “OK.”
• Then, in the blue box labeled “Actions,” tap the little plus symbol and then select “Device Actions” followed by “Voice Search.”

At this point, your screen should look a little somethin’ like this:

Your Android air gesture recipe — almost ready to serve you.

JR Raphael, Foundry

And, guess what? Our work here is almost done! Give yourself a preemptive pat on the back for encouragement, and let’s wrap this bad boy up so you can start putting it to proper use:

• All that’s left now is give this macro we created a name by tapping the “Enter macro name” line at the tippity-top of the screen and typing in any title you like — “Raise,” “Raise for input,” “Herman T. Schmidthopper,” or anything at all, really. It doesn’t make much difference, and you’re the only one who’ll ever see it.
• Last but not least, with that out of the way, tap the left-facing arrow in the upper-left corner of the screen and confirm you want to save your creation.

You should then see it showing up and activated in the MacroDroid macro list:

Your custom Android air gesture is there and active. Excelsior!

JR Raphael, Foundry

And with that, take a deep breath: You did it! Look at you, you splendid little virtual sorcerer, you.

At this point, all that’s left is to test out your awe-inspiring new air gesture by raising your phone up close to your forehead, as if you’re about to whisper a saucy secret into its screen. (Don’t worry. I’m not listening.)

Once the phone gets close enough, the proximity sensor should detect your closeness (ooh, baby…) — and you should see a prompt for your voice search show up on the screen.

The very first time that happens, you’ll probably have to tell it that you want this action to use Google — or whatever virtual assistant you prefer, if you’ve got others installed — for your voice search.

Then, every subsequent time you bring the phone close to your suspiciously shiny mug, it’ll instantly fire up your preferred voice input companion, and you can just yap away with whatever question or command you want.

width="800" height="825" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px">This is me bringing my phone close to my face. Can you feel my excitement?!

JR Raphael, Foundry

The interesting twist here is that recent signs suggest Samsung is developing a similar sort of setup for its future Galaxy gizmos — but there, it looks like the air gesture will be limited to letting you raise your phone to talk to Bixby, which obviously isn’t something anyone actually wants.

The beauty of this approach is that (a) you can use it this instant, on any Android device, no matter who made it — and (b) you’ve got complete control over how it works. You could play around with having a totally different kind of action launch when you move your phone close to your face, or you could even shake up the gesture itself to involve something else entirely (like, for instance, shaking) instead of the proximity move.

Here on Android, the power is squarely in your hands. And now, you know exactly how to embrace it.

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NAS dnes zvládá spoustu dalších úkolů, stačí doinstalovat patřičný balíček a službu nastavit. My se podíváme na dvě užitečné služby: vlastní cloud s bezpečným trezorem.

Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to address a record 169 security flaws across its product portfolio, including one vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild. Of these 169 vulnerabilities, 157 are rated Important, eight are rated Critical, three are rated Moderate, and one is rated Low in severity. Ninety-three of the flaws are Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Researchers who found the flaws scored beer money bounties and warn the problem is probably pervasive

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Six years ago, Microsoft pledged it would be carbon negative by 2030. It’s a worthy goal, and for several years the company was on track to meeting it.

Then generative AI came along and the world changed. Electric power demand from data centers will more than double between 2025 and 2030, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). “The US economy is set to consume more electricity in 2030 for processing data than for manufacturing all energy-intensive goods combined, including aluminum, steel, cement and chemicals,” the agency projects.

All this new electricity generation means much more carbon will be put into the atmosphere, exacerbating climate change. 

What does this mean for Microsoft’s pledge to be carbon negative within four years now? Just two months ago, the company claimed it was on track and had recently passed a major milestone in getting there by becoming carbon neutral. Detractors say nothing could be further from the truth — that it’s just smoke and mirrors, and the company has become a serious polluter and engine for accelerated climate change.

Who’s right? To find out, we’ll look at Microsoft’s claims, lay out what its opponents say, and finally, compare the company’s promises to what it’s actually done.

Microsoft’s rosy view

Microsoft claims not just that it’s on track to becoming a carbon-neutral company by 2030, but that 2025 marked an important turning point on the journey. The headline of the company’s blog post about it in February says it all: “A milestone achievement in our journey to carbon negative.”

From just that headline, you’d think the company was boasting it had reduced its carbon emissions drastically. That’s not the case. Microsoft wrote the post in such an oblique way that it’s tough to know just what it’s claiming. Specifically, the company claimed to have met “our aim to match 100% of our annual global electricity consumption with renewable energy.”

That’s a roundabout way of describing carbon offsets — paying other companies to generate renewable energy that don’t release carbon. In that way, Microsoft can say it’s offsetting its own carbon emissions. Eventually, it claims, by using offsets it will accomplish its goal of removing more carbon from the atmosphere than it’s putting into it by 2030.

Is Microsoft greenwashing?

Critics say Microsoft’s carbon emissions are skyrocketing, and carbon offsets are little more than greenwashing. The Stand.earth Research Group, which does investigative research about climate change, warns that a single new recently announced Microsoft AI data center in West Virginia will “unleash a 44% increase in the company’s annual emissions.” 

The group also says that when the facility reaches its full generating capacity in 2031, “Microsoft and co-located partners will emit 25.55 million metric tons of CO₂ per year, as much as putting nearly 6 million cars on the road.”

Keep in mind, that’s just a single facility. 

A year ago, Sustainability Magazine warned that even though Microsoft had made substantial investments in renewable energy and conservation, the company’s total carbon emissions had increased by more than 24%. Things have only gotten worse since then.

Many environmentalists don’t believe carbon offsets make up for the carbon emissions a company creates — they call all offsets greenwashing. David Keith, who is head of the Climate Systems Engineering initiative at the University of Chicago and lead author of a report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), put it bluntly: “I think all this voluntary stuff and companies claiming to be green is basically greenwashing crap.” 

The upshot

So who’s right? If Microsoft buys enough offsets by 2030, will the company really be carbon negative?

There’s an easy way to find out — look at what Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith promised in his 2020 blog post, “Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030.” In the post, he noted that merely buying offsets isn’t enough; Microsoft needs to completely switch to renewable power for the vast majority of its direct energy use, buying offsets only to make up for its much smaller indirect energy use, such as employee travel or the electricity its customers use when using Microsoft products.

Here’s what he promised: “By 2025, we will shift to 100% supply of renewable energy, meaning that we will have power purchase agreements for green energy contracted for 100% of carbon emitting electricity consumed by all our data centers, buildings, and campuses.”

That hasn’t happened. 

The company’s carbon emissions from its oil- and gas-powered data centers skyrocketed in the last few years, and they’re getting worse. By the company’s own definition, it is not now carbon neutral, won’t be carbon negative by 2030, and isn’t likely to get there — ever. 

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Nominations for the 2027 Best Places to Work in IT program are now open! Click HERE to nominate an organization today.

See our Best Places to Work in IT 2026 special report for the complete list of honorees, major trends from the most recent survey, and much more.

About the Best Places to Work in IT program

Computerworld conducts an annual survey to identify the best places to work for IT professionals. We invite readers, PR professionals and other interested parties to nominate companies they consider great employers for IT workers. You may nominate your own company. We then ask those nominated companies that meet our basic criteria to participate in our survey.

Once again, we are excited to extend this program, which has a 33-year history in the United States, to companies worldwide.

The employers in the Best Places list are evaluated by company size: Large companies have 5,000 or more employees; midsize have between 1,001 and 4,999 employees; and small companies employ from 100 to 1,000.

To be eligible, companies must have a minimum of 5 IT employees and a minimum of 100 total employees. We consider IT employees to be those IT workers who provide technology support and services to their own company — or to multiple companies through their work at an IT service provider. Workers who would *not* be included are administrative support staff for the IT department, staff who work in communications or PR for the technology department, IT contractors, or those staff whose primary role is in product development for outside sales.

Best Places to Work in IT is a global program. We ask that companies submit no more than one survey within any one country. If your company operates in multiple countries and you would like to submit a survey for your location only, please note this in the company name field (e.g., “Foundry North America” or “Foundry Germany”). If no location is specified in the company name, we will assume that the entry represents all locations worldwide.

In most cases, we prefer to have the parent company, rather than subsidiaries or affiliates, apply for the Best Places to Work in IT list. However, a subsidiary or affiliate may be eligible, providing that it stands out as a separate entity from the parent company, with separate business functions, IT leadership and so on. A subsidiary may also be eligible to apply separately if its parent company is a holding company. In those cases, the parent company and subsidiary may be able to apply separately. We encourage companies to complete the nomination form or contact us at [email protected], and our Best Places research team will evaluate the submissions on a case-by-case basis.

Questions about the Best Places to Work in IT program can be emailed to [email protected].

Frequently asked questions Survey requirements and eligibility Does my company have to be nominated to complete the survey?

No. Companies may participate even if they were not nominated. In lieu of a nomination, please send an email to [email protected] with the name and contact information (including email address) of the individual who should receive the company survey and other information; we’ll take care of the rest.

Does the Best Places to Work in IT list include public companies only?

No. The survey includes private as well as public companies.

What criteria must my company meet to participate?

To be considered for our Best Places to Work in IT list:

• Companies must have a minimum of 5 IT employees.
• Companies must have a minimum of 100 total employees worldwide.
• In most cases, we prefer to have the parent company, rather than subsidiaries or affiliates, apply for the Best Places to Work in IT list. However, a subsidiary or affiliate may be eligible, providing that it stands out as a separate entity from the parent company, with separate business functions, IT leadership and so on. A subsidiary may also be eligible to apply separately if its parent company is a holding company. In those cases, the parent company and subsidiary may be able to apply separately. We encourage companies to complete the nomination form or contact us at [email protected], and our Best Places research team will evaluate the submissions on a case-by-case basis.

Who should complete the survey?

An individual familiar with employment statistics, benefits, policies and programs of your IT department and your company should complete the survey. This could be a human resources representative, a CIO or corporate PR representative — or a team of all the above.

Survey contents and procedures What does the company survey ask?

Our online survey includes questions about companies’ benefits, training and development, IT salary changes, percent of IT employees promoted, IT turnover rates, and the percentage of women employees in management in IT departments. In addition, we will collect information about company culture, workplace modernization, and company growth.

Which employees are considered “IT workers” in this survey?

Answers to the survey should be based on those IT workers who provide technology support and services to their own company — or to multiple companies through their work at an IT service provider. Workers who wouldn’t be included are administrative support staff for the IT department, staff who work in communications or PR for the technology department, IT contractors, or those staff whose primary role is in product development for outside sales.

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You can’t leave a question blank if it is required. Many of the questions on the survey are required; the survey can’t be processed if they aren’t answered. Please answer to the best of your ability for questions with lists or options included. If any open-ended/text based questions aren’t applicable to your company, please indicate “NA” for “not applicable.” If there is a question you can’t answer fully given the format of the survey, you may briefly explain your answers in an addendum field that follows each survey section.

Companies that withhold information used to rank the finalists will have points deducted from their ranking. Answers that are left blank or have unexplained N/As will be assumed to be 0 (zero).

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Computerworld tries to avoid printing information that a company may consider competitive. The following information may appear publicly:

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 All other information will be used only in aggregate format or for ranking purposes, unless a featured organization explicitly grants permission.

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Can I get a copy of the survey to review before I go to the online survey and submit my company’s information?

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Best Places to Work in IT 2027 Company SurveyDownload Will Computerworld provide us with a copy of our submitted survey?

Upon request, Computerworld will email you a PDF of your company’s survey responses.

Is there an employee portion to the survey?

There is no longer an employee survey portion to the survey. Computerworld decided to make this change in the 2023 program to streamline the process for global participation and to enable companies with smaller IT departments to participate. In lieu of the employee survey portion of the program, Computerworld will be inviting a panel of judges consisting of industry experts to evaluate entries and confirm this year’s honorees.

List publication and notification When will the list of honorees be published?

The Best Places to Work in IT honorees will be announced in December 2026 on Computerworld.com.

When can I find out if my company is on the list?

Computerworld will notify companies that will be honored as a 2027 Best Place to Work in IT several weeks in advance of publication. Computerworld will provide honorees with an online press kit including a sample press release and other promotional information.

Is there a timeline to which I can refer for survey action items?

Below is the 2027 Best Places to Work in IT timeline.

April 15, 2026Nominations open for the 2026 Best Places to Work in IT. Nominated companies receive an email with a unique link to the Best Places company survey from Computerworld by the end of April. Thereafter, company surveys will be sent on a rolling basis.July 15, 2026DEADLINE: Completed Best Places company survey is due to Computerworld.October 2026
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Globalstar, a mobile satellite services (MSS) operator in which Apple has a 20% stake, on Tuesday announced a merger agreement with Amazon, which, pending regulatory approval, could soon bring direct to device services (D2D) services to Leo, the latter’s low Earth orbit satellite network.

The deal, worth an estimated $11.6 billion, is an indication that the so-called new space race, designed to integrate satellite communications into smart phones, is certainly not slowing down.

In addition to the merger, the two companies stated in a release that Amazon Leo (formerly known as Project Kuiper), which is scheduled to launch this year, will power satellite services for iPhone and Apple Watch, including Apple’s Emergency SOS satellite service.

As part of the agreement, the release said, “Amazon will acquire Globalstar’s existing satellite operations, infrastructure and assets, including MSS spectrum licenses with global authorizations.” Amazon also said it will deploy its own “next-generation D2D satellite system” in 2028.

Licensed spectrum seen as ‘key to the deal’

Roger Entner, analyst and founder of Recon Analytics, said of the deal, “Amazon just bought itself a big relationship with Apple, first and foremost. Globalstar is such an integral part of Apple on a global basis. This lays the foundation for when Leo comes online to expand and deepen that relationship.”

On a global basis, he said, that is ideal for all the iPhone customers around the world, and in addition, the acquisition represents a powerful counter move against Starlink, and its mobile, direct to device initiatives.

It is, added Entner, a smart move by Amazon, and with Apple being a major shareholder in Globalstar, the deal did not happen without its approval. “I see winners all around here, and it [also] puts a little bit of a damper on SpaceX and its IPO.”

Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, said, “Amazon is acquiring Globalstar primarily for its licensed spectrum, which is one of the hardest assets to secure in telecom, and rarely comes to market from the FCC.”

Globalstar, he pointed out, “has valuable L-band and S-band licenses, which are well-suited for direct to device connectivity and allow regular smartphones to connect to satellites without specialized hardware. That alone can compress Amazon’s timeline by several years.”

Bickley said the deal “also brings existing satellite operations, regulatory relationships, and experience, but this doesn’t materially close the gap with SpaceX. Starlink operates at a completely different scale, with full vertical integration, including its own launch capabilities.”

Anshel Sag, principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, described the merger announcement as something he has been “tracking for quite some time. This helps Amazon add more infrastructure and spectrum for satellite communications to Amazon Leo, and adds arguably one of the biggest customers in the industry, Apple. This also confirms the rumors that have been swirling for the last few months about Globalstar’s acquisition.”

Globalstar, he added,  is a “really interesting company, because Apple owns 20% of it through over $1 billion in investments over the last few years. The CEO, [Paul E. Jacobs] is also Qualcomm’s former CEO and the son of its founder. [He] came on board when Globalstar made a strategic investment in XCOM Global, a company working on XR and 5G technologies.”

Merger provides Apple with a healthy ROI

Globalstar is, said Sag, also in the process of modernizing its satellite constellation with Apple’s help, and prior to the acquisition, it was going to dedicate 85% of that new capacity to Apple.

With the acquisition, Sag noted, “Amazon is not only getting an industry brand name, but also arguably the world’s biggest customer, which has already signed a new agreement with Amazon to work together, likely in an even larger capacity with the combination of Globalstar and Amazon Leo’s assets.”

The $11.6 billion purchase price, said Sag,  also “gives Apple a great return on its investment, while beefing up its capabilities, and means that iPhones will work on both Amazon’s Leo network and SpaceX’s Starlink service.”

And while he does not believe that satellite will replace terrestrial networks in most cases, “air travel has proven to be one of the best use cases outside of the occasional rural user. Amazon’s Leo service also seems to prioritize enterprises and the AWS tie-in, which I believe will be a much better path to profitability and scale than selling directly to consumers.”

This acquisition, said Sag, “also appears to be on track for FCC approval, based on Brendan Carr’s statements about the desire for industry leadership in the United States. 6G also seems like it will heavily incorporate satellite communications into the standard, so I think this kind of consolidation might be good, but it does reduce competition to a certain degree.”

If that occurs, he pointed out, the deal will make Amazon Leo an even more capable competitor to SpaceX and could be seen as validation of SpaceX’s strategy, but it could also impact SpaceX’s upcoming IPO valuation.

Ultimately, said Sag, “consumers and businesses will want choice when it comes to satellite connectivity, whether it’s for broadband, IoT, or direct to device consumer connectivity. I suspect we’ll see more companies sign with Amazon Leo as its capabilities and spectrum expand. I also believe this might increase the need for more spectrum auctions, which I believe SpaceX has already been pushing for.”

And, said Info-Tech’s Bickley, Amazon is “betting on direct to device at scale, and if that works, the addressable market extends well beyond traditional satellite broadband. Globalstar’s relationship with Apple adds a potential entry point into that ecosystem.”

The challenge is execution, he said. Amazon is still constrained by third-party launch providers, and now has to integrate a legacy satellite network into Kuiper. Meanwhile, Starlink already has well over 10K satellites, is already profitable, and is continuously expanding its footprint.

Apple has not yet responded to a request for comment about the fate of its stake in Globalstar, but, as Entner pointed out, “20% of Globalstar is not 20% of Amazon.”