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| Amazon Employees Listen In to Your Conversations With Alexa | ZDNet | Amazon is using a team of human staff to eavesdrop on queries made to Amazon Alexa-enabled smart speakers in a bid to improve the voice assistant's accuracy, a new report suggests. | Microsoft: WinRAR Exploit Gives Attackers 'Full Control' of Windows PC | ZDNet | Microsoft has detailed a March attack on Windows customers in the satellite and communications sectors using "unusual, interesting techniques" that bear the hallmarks of APT group MuddyWater. | 5 Google G Suite Changes That Will Improve Your Life | PCWorld | At Google Next on Wednesday, Google debuted a number of upgrades to its suite of business apps, which have competed against Microsoft Office and its ecosystem for years. If you’re a Google G Suite user, here are five ways that G Suite will change for you. | Firefox Comes to Snapdragon-Powered Windows 10 PCs | Engadget | Always on, always connected PCs haven't exactly taken the world by storm yet, but app developers and software creators are steadily dialing up their support for these ultra-portable machines. Need proof? Just look at Mozilla: Yesterday, the company officially announced its first Firefox beta build for Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 PCs. |
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| How to Extract Files From a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 File on Linux | How-To Geek | Tar files are compressed archives. You’ll encounter them frequently while using a Linux distribution like Ubuntu or even while using the terminal on macOS. Here’s how to extract—or untar—the contents of a tar file, also known as a tarball. | How to Make Chrome Stop Offering to Save Credit Card Data | How-To Geek | Google Chrome lets you save credit card information for a quick and breezy checkout when purchasing something online. But if you never use this autofill feature and want Chrome to stop offering to save your data, here’s how to turn it off. |
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| Citrix Breach Underscores Password Perils | Dark Reading | Last month, attackers used a short list of passwords to knock on every digital door to find vulnerable systems in the vendor's network. The brute-force password attack can escape notice if companies don't connect related security events across the network. |
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| Summary: Next 2019 Announcements | G Suite Updates | Another day, another slew of G Suite updates from Google Next. Check out today's recap for everything you missed. | Confluence Cloud Reimagined: 15+ New Features (and Counting!) | Atlassian Blog Work Life | Atlassian is excited to share more than 15 new features that totally reimagine the content creation experience in Confluence Cloud. They include a brand new content editing experience, better organization, and a new acquisition. |
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