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Microsoft Outage Hit More Than Outlook: Even Its Cybersecurity Defenses Were Affected

Beyond email and productivity tools, Microsoft Corp. ‘s (NASDAQ:MSFT) latest outage disrupted several cybersecurity and data-protection functions. An incident report maintained by the University of Pennsylvania’s IT department, drawing from Microsoft’s service incident disclosures, lists disruptions across Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft Defender XDR and Microsoft Purview. The…

Microsoft Outage Hit More Than Outlook: Even Its Cybersecurity Defenses Were Affected

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Time Zones in Booking Automations for Businesses That Serve Several US States

A remote tutoring company in Denver books students in California and New York. A reminder set for "9 a.m." goes out at 9 a.m. Mountain time to everyone.

  • Store appointments as instant UTC times plus IANA zone name
  • Collect customer's zone at booking, either from address or by asking
  • Use tz database to handle daylight saving changes accurately

I published 109 Chinese surnames as open data — here are the awkward parts

Every few months someone asks me for a "list of Chinese surnames". The answer is always more annoying than it should be. The lists that exist fall into three camps.

  • Individual releases dataset of 109 Chinese surnames
  • Data includes 13 fields per record in JSON and CSV formats
  • Information covers ancestry, notable figures, and rank

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