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Computerworld First Look August 17, 2015 Donald Trump, zingers and all, emerges as sharp H-1B critic Businessman Donald Trump's plan for the H-1B visa would make it harder and more expensive for tech companies to replace U.S. workers with foreign help. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. How college CIOs brace for back-to-school (with video) 2. Microsoft waives Windows 10 'branches' for now 3. The cloud gets mobile apps moving 4. The 10 most powerful supercomputers on Earth 5. Free Windows 10 upgrade will have 'no financial impact' on Microsoft 6. Microsoft under fire for Windows 10 update FAIL 7. New earbuds give you super-hearing 8. Mozilla tests a true stealth mode for Firefox 9. Italian teen finds two zero-day vulnerabilities in OS X 10. AT&T's ties to NSA detailed in Snowden docs 11. 7 tips to get recruiters to look at your LinkedIn profile 12. INSIDER Millennials in the workplace: 3 tips for making a lasting hire and 5 ways to make them stay 13. Microsoft tests app that will read you the news White Paper: Level 3 Communications Driving Your Cloud Strategy with Private Network Solutions There is no understating the impact of security and network connectivity on today's cloud environments. Yes, clouds can scale, expedite processing, and reduce costs, but they also incur risks associated with multi-tenancy, availability, and access control. Learn More How college CIOs brace for back-to-school (with video) Enterprise IT stands to learn a lot from higher-ed CIOs, who are on the front lines in tackling demands for connectivity, service, security and innovation. READ MORE Microsoft waives Windows 10 'branches' for now Microsoft will not begin using Windows 10's multiple update tracks, or "branches," until later this year, analysts said, and in the interim will continue to push all updates to everyone at the same time. READ MORE The cloud gets mobile apps moving There's an increasing push behind enterprises using the cloud to accelerate and ease app development. READ MORE The 10 most powerful supercomputers on Earth 2015's first edition of the top500 list contains a new entrant but an old champion. READ MORE Free Windows 10 upgrade will have 'no financial impact' on Microsoft Letting consumers get the latest version of its operating system won't mean much in terms of the tech giant's finances. READ MORE Microsoft under fire for Windows 10 update FAIL The Microsoft Windows 10 problematic patch process gets renewed criticism. Thanks to a sequence of issues with post-RTM updates, the calls for Redmond to rethink its update strategy are getting louder and more urgent. The latest catalyst was last week's cumulative update, which caused problems for some -- chiefly constant reboots. READ MORE White Paper: VMTurbo, Inc. Demand-Driven Application Control: Assuring App Performance In this paper, we examine the evolution of enterprise applications, the data centers in which these applications reside and the increasing expectations of businesses and end-users on the Quality of Service (QoS) their applications deliver. Learn More New earbuds give you super-hearing Ready for hearable computing? Startups are rewriting all the rules for what earbuds can do. You heard it here first, folks. READ MORE Mozilla tests a true stealth mode for Firefox A new tool in prebeta is designed to block browser tracking across sites. READ MORE Italian teen finds two zero-day vulnerabilities in OS X The exploit he developed yields root access. READ MORE AT&T's ties to NSA detailed in Snowden docs A fresh analysis of documents disclosed by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden shows that AT&T has been a much closer partner for the National Security Agency's Internet spying activities than was known. READ MORE 7 tips to get recruiters to look at your LinkedIn profile LinkedIn profiles are a visual representation of your professional brand, but what makes a recruiter click on your LinkedIn profile over another? Here are a few simple tricks you can use to make sure you get noticed by recruiters and hiring managers. READ MORE INSIDER Millennials in the workplace: 3 tips for making a lasting hire and 5 ways to make them stay Millennials are known for job-hopping, making them risky hires. But it doesn't have to be that way. Here are 8 ways to cultivate a dedicated workforce. READ MORE Microsoft tests app that will read you the news NewsCast pulls in stories from around the Web and then uses text-to-speech tech to fill users in. READ MORE Webcast: Entrust, Inc. Entrust Datacard Leave outdated traditional two factor authentication in the past. Mobile authentication transforms a smartphone into a mobile smart credential. 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