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[Editor's Note: We'll be off the rest of the week for the July 4th holiday. The Monitor newsletter will be back in your inbox next week!] | | | Windows 10’s Next Big Update Won’t Feel Big at All | | The Verge | Microsoft has released the first few details of the upcoming 19H2 update for Windows 10, the operating system’s second major feature update of the year. | | Ten Years Later, Malware Authors Are Still Abusing 'Heaven's Gate' Technique | | ZDNet | More than ten years after it was first detailed in a hacker e-zine (online magazine), malware strains are still successfully using the "Heaven's Gate" technique to avoid antivirus detection, even today. | | Security Flaws in a Popular Smart Home Hub Let Hackers Unlock Front Doors | | TechCrunch | When is a smart home not so smart? When it can be hacked. That’s exactly what security researchers Chase Dardaman and Jason Wheeler did with one of the Zipato smart hubs. In new research published Tuesday and shared with TechCrunch, Dardaman and Wheeler found three security flaws which, when chained together, could be abused to open a front door with a smart lock. | | Microsoft Teases Windows 1.0, and We Don't Know Why | | CNET | When Microsoft releases a new version of Windows, it's a big deal. But on Monday, the company teased the release of Windows 1.0. It seems to be clever marketing—for something. |
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| | | Office 365 vs. G Suite: Which Has Better Management Tools? | | Computerworld | Users don't directly see these capabilities, but they are core to managing your productivity and collaboration platform. (Free registration required to read.) | | Here’s How to Delete or Deactivate Your Facebook Account | | The Next Web | Although deleting your Facebook account sounds simple enough, it’s actually deceptively hard. Social media platforms make money off you, so the last thing they want is for you to stop your incessant scrolling and sharing. The Next Web has produced an easy, step-by-step guide on how to delete your Facebook profile so you can get out from under them for good—or just enough time to give you a break before you dive back in. |
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