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What’s behind the N26 employee exodus?

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When Diana Styles joined N26 as chief people officer in September 2020, she had a big task ahead of her to improve employee wellbeing at the $9bn German fintech.

How a Russian cyberwar in Ukraine could ripple out globally

from MIT Technology Review

Russia has sent more than 100,000 soldiers to the nation's border with Ukraine, threatening a war unlike anything Europe has seen in decades. Though there hasn’t been any shooting yet, cyber operations are already underway.

What If We Just Stopped Being So Available?

from The Atlantic

At first, being reachable all the time felt good. To professionals who started using BlackBerries 20 years ago to conduct business on the go, it registered as a superpower.

Apple Silicon Macs will require signed code

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Although it will be a while before anyone other than select developers are writing code for Apple Silicon Macs, Apple has just revealed one important change which affects everyone who intends creating executable code to run on them: when Big Sur is asked to run ARM code, it requires it to be properl

When you don’t have permission to run an app on an M1 Mac

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One important difference between Intel and Apple Silicon Macs is that the latter can’t run unsigned code.

What the M1 and Apple Silicon mean for Mac security

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Apple's M1 chip has a number of significant benefits in terms of efficiency, battery life, and overall performance, but one area that has been overlooked by comparison is how the Apple Silicon switch affects computer security in terms of protection against malware and malicious attacks.