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IT decision-makers must better understand the modern workers they’re supporting in order to make them more productive and better aligned with corporate objectives.

Usually, receiving an email from an AOL(s AOL) email address with a cryptic subject like “Hi” or “Fw: news” wouldn’t be too much of a concern, but you might want to not click on those links: there are multiple reports out Monday that old AOL accounts have been compromised and are sending out phishing spam.

Affected users are airing their complaints on the #aolhacked hashtag on Twitter. One user is complaining that phishing emails were sent to every single one of his 2,200 contacts. Some are simply seeing the phishing emails from others and tweeting about it. There are twousers who are complaining that changing passwords and security questions are not stopping the rivers of spam coming from their accounts. Several affected users are longtime AOL subscribers with decades-old accounts.

I’ve received a few of the emails in question, and they generally look like this with a few different permutations:

From:XXXXXXXXXXX@aol.com
Date: Sun, Apr…

Apple is celebrating Earth Day this week by shining a spotlight on its clean energy and carbon footprint reduction initiatives. While Apple has been working on having 100 percent of its data centers run on renewables for a couple years, the company on Monday is showing off an environmentally-themed video narrated by CEO Tim Cook, accompanied by some awesome solar photos on Apple.com, and a long feature in Wired on its clean power projects.

Why now (beyond the somewhat contrived Earth Day event)? When I published this investigative piece last November on Apple’s solar projects, it was difficult to get information from Apple on the projects. Now about a half year later, Apple is ready to talk.

Apple’s solar farm in North Carolina

One of the reasons for Apple’s new willingness to talk is that many of Apple’s clean power projects are now far beyond the experimental phase. I

Tilmen from Nintendomination has got his hands on a copy of dungeon crawling adventure Conception 2 for the Nintendo 3DS. The game see’s players take control of a student at a high school that doubles as a training facility for demon hunters. Conception 2 was released on April 15th in North America and May in Europe.