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| | | The 5 Biggest Announcements from the Google Pixel 3 Event | | The Verge | Months of leaks were finally confirmed at the Pixel 3 event yesterday in New York City where Google unveiled its newest flagship Android phone and a few new devices, including the Pixel Slate and Google Home Hub. Unlike a typical Google event, the company announced its new lineup at the top of the hour and made the products immediately available for preorder before the event even concluded. Here’s all the biggest news that was announced yesterday. | | Win10 Version 1809, Take Two: A Guide to the Builds and What They Break | | Computerworld | Yesterday Microsoft explained in full detail all four conditions that led to catastrophic data loss when installing the first release of Win10 version 1809. Here’s what you can expect from the second wave of releases, builds 17763.17 and 17763.55. | | Cloud Misconfiguration: The Security Threat Too Often Overlooked | | InfoWorld | "I’m seeing a lot of cloud configuration errors in the real world — and it’s scaring the hell out of me," writes David Linthicum. A survey of 300 IT professionals by Fugue, a cloud infrastructure security provider, reveals that most enterprises are vulnerable to security events caused by cloud misconfiguration, including data breaches and system downtime events. David's tip #2: "Use a third-party security tool that can look at configurations constantly... it provides a constant independent check and alerts you when things are misconfigured." (Psst, that's what BetterCloud does for SaaS. If you're a customer, contact your CSM to make sure you have policies in place to mitigate these risks.) | | 5 Best Practices to Boost Wi-Fi Performance | | Network World | Wi-Fi experts share best practices for establishing and maintaining optimal WLAN performance. |
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| | | Automate Your IT Management Workflows with These Tips and Tools | | Zapier Blog | "The growing importance of technology in the workplace isn't slowing its pace, and it will continue to place ever-greater demands on your team's time, attention, and productivity. Finding new ways to automate the tasks you're responsible for makes those demands more manageable. Consider these workflow automation ideas — along with some suggestions for tools that make adopting the ideas easier than ever," writes Ben Lang. | | 10 Tools to Make a Bootable USB From an ISO File | | MakeUseOf | "You’ll find a fair few ISO to USB tools out there, and they feature a range of tools for beginners and advanced users. Let’s take a look at the burn time, and the resources available to each software. For science!" writes Gavin Phillips. |
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| | | Alert Center for G Suite Generally Available to Help Identify Security Threats | | G Suite Updates | Google is making the alert center for G Suite generally available. The alert center provides a single, comprehensive view of essential security-related notifications, alerts, and actions across G Suite. The alert center was previously available in beta and helps G Suite organizations detect threats and take action to mitigate them. | | Easily Add Images and Charts from Other Files to Google Docs and Slides | | G Suite Updates | The Explore feature in Google Docs and Slides makes it simple to search for Google Drive files related to whatever you’re currently working on. With this launch, G Suite Basic, Business, and Enterprise users can view images and charts in those files — right from within the Explore panel — and insert them quickly and easily into their document or presentation. | | Find What You Need Faster With Automatic Image Text Recognition | | Dropbox Blog | Now, images and PDFs in Dropbox Professional, Business Advanced, and Enterprise accounts will be automatically and securely scanned, letting you search for text found within them. |
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