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Microsoft’s second round of layoffs: 2,100 jobs cut, Silicon Valley lab closed

Microsoft has made its next set of layoffs, continuing the downsizing announced in July. Some 2,100 jobs have been cut worldwide, with 747 of those in the company’s home state of Washington.

CEO Satya Nadella plans to shrink the company by about 18,000 people overall, with 12,500 of these coming from the 25,000 staff that came with the newly acquired Nokia handset business. In the first round of cuts in July, 13,000 jobs were lost. With today’s cuts, that leaves another 2,900 positions that Microsoft wants to eliminate.

One victim is Microsoft Research’s Silicon Valley lab, reports Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet. The lab, which focused on distributed computing and large-scale systems, will be closing on Friday. Microsoft has said that some researchers will be offered positions at other labs.

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August 2013 Patch Tuesday closed critical holes in Internet Explorer, Exchange, Windows

Eight security updates, three of which are rated critical, were released for this Patch Tuesday to address 23 vulnerabilities in Exchange, Internet Explorer and Windows. Microsoft recommends deploying MS13-059 and MS13-060 first.
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How to manage a closed source, high-risk project?

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This Q&A is part of a weekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 100+ Q&A sites.

abel is in the early stages of developing a closed-source financial app within a niche market. He is hiring his first employees, and he wants to take steps to ensure these new hires don’t steal the code and run away. “I foresee disabling USB drives and DVD writers on my development machines,” he writes. But will that be enough? Maybe a better question is: will that be too much?

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Apple exploring capacitive touch buttons to control a closed MacBook (Neil Hughes/AppleInsider)

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring capacitive touch buttons to control a closed MacBook  —  Apple could add the ability to control applications like iTunes while a notebook is closed via capacitive touch buttons added to the lid of future MacBooks.  —  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week disclosed …

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