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Archaeologists working in the depths of Kateřinská Cave have made a series of remarkable discoveries that challenge our understanding of ancient human activity in Central Europe. Recent excavations ...

I'm currently trying to get a few Powershell scripts to run via Intune to Windows 11 Pro laptops. The Powershell scripts run fine when tested via local Powershell but Intune doesn't seem to do ...

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The stars of 'The Handmaid's Tale' collaborated in a new way, as actress and director, on the genre-bender debuting at Toronto, which offers retro entertainment: "People need a little bit of a break." ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...