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PowerToys bring fun tweaks to Windows 10 and 11
Friday FOSS Fest Microsoft's collection of Power Toys for the current versions of Windows has some nifty little helpers, and Power Run may be comfortingly familiar if you're more used to macOS. Far back in the lost aeons of the very late 20th century, Microsoft started offering a handy little set of tools for Windows
Italy tweaks bank tax to give lenders option to boost reserves
Italy will revisit a contested windfall tax on banks by giving lenders the option to boost their reserve buffers instead of paying the levy, government documents seen by Reuters showed.Last month, Rome dealt a surprise blow to its lenders by imposing a one-off 40% tax on income derived from higher interest rates, after reprimanding banks
USPSTF Tweaks Statin Recommendations in New Draft Guidance
Given the expansive contemporary role of statins for primary cardiovascular (CVD) prevention, the language in the new US Preventive Services Task Force draft guidance on their use in that setting may seem conservative. Even so, the proposed recommendations, open to public comment until March 21, take more recent data into account but don't substantially vary from…
10 simple tweaks that will make your Mac safer and smarter
If you’ve just got a new Mac, you’ve obviously already started using it to surf the web. But before you get too far along, you should make a few simple tweaks to your Mac’s settings to make it more comfortable and familiar, not to mention safer. Here are 10 quick settings to change on a…
Tweaks to U.S. Christmas Trees Could Help Them Survive Climate Change
Mounting pressure from extreme weather events and lethal diseases—both exacerbated by climate change—threatens to assail U.S. Christmas tree–growing regions and slash production. To help defend these cherished trees and the farms that raise them, researchers are mapping conifer genomes and exploiting the natural characteristics of species that grow outside the U.S. to identify and breed…