2.5 Admins 183: Unbootable Quantum Toothbrushes

Why it’s not a great idea to install Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, quantum computing hype has been replaced by AI, toothbrushes can’t be part of a botnet, Google has killed cached search results, and testing your backups.

 

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Windows 11 24H2 goes from “unsupported” to “unbootable” on some older PCs

Investors threw 50% less money at quantum sector last year

Viral news story of botnet with 3 million toothbrushes was too good to be true

Google has killed cached results in search

 

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