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| | | Adidas Website Hacked, Millions of US Customer Details Stolen | | PCMag | Sportswear maker Adidas announced a data breach yesterday evening, which the company says it impacted shoppers who used its US website. The company says it became aware of the breach on Tuesday, June 26, when it learned that an unauthorized party was claiming to have acquired the details of Adidas customers. So far, Adidas believes contact information, usernames, and encrypted passwords were taken for "a few million consumers." | | Linux Distro Hacked on Github, “All Code Considered Compromised” | | Naked Security | Data breaches are always bad news, and this one is peculiarly bad. Gentoo, a popular distribution of Linux, has had its GitHub repository hacked. Hacked, as in “totally pwned”, taken over, and modified; so far, no one seems to be sure quite how or why. | | Facebook Downplays “Ambient Audio” Tech That Can Eavesdrop on You | | Fast Company | Amid persistent rumors that Facebook is spying on you through your phone’s microphone—rumors that the company has denied since at least 2016 —reports emerged this week that the company has applied for a patent on technology that listens to “ambient audio” to detect what you’re watching on TV. Essentially, your phone or another device would detect, via Bluetooth or other signals, that it’s near your turned-on TV and would record short snippets of sound. | | Linux Apps on Chrome OS Coming to 18 More Chromebooks | | The Verge | Eighteen more Chromebooks are getting support for Linux apps on Chrome OS, with laptops based in Intel’s Apollo Lake architecture now able to run the applications, via XDA Developers. That list includes computers from Lenovo (Thinkpad 11e Chromebook), Acer (Chromebook Spin 11 and Chromebook 15), Asus (Chromebook Flip), and Dell (Dell Chromebook 11) — check the full list at XDA’s site to see if your machine is included. |
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| | | How to Indent Paragraphs in Google Docs | | How-To Geek | Indenting paragraphs in Google Docs requires access to the ruler, which you’ll only find in the full web version. For whatever reason, Google Docs does not make the ruler available in its mobile apps. Google Docs also doesn’t let you create indents by formatting styles. So if you want to create indents, you’ll need to use the full web version, and you’ll need to make the ruler visible. Here's how to do it. | | How to Easily Select a Block of Cells in Excel | | How-To Geek | There are several different methods for selecting a block of cells in Excel, or extending an existing selection with more cells. Let’s take a look at them. |
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| | | 4 Tips on Talking Tech to Senior Executives | | CIO | Have you ever tried to have a conversation around technology with a senior executive in your organization, and you can’t help but notice that their eyes have seemed to glaze over? Or, have you ever tried to introduce a new IT idea to your CEO and they look at you like you’re speaking Greek? |
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| | | The Trolls Among Us | | The New York Times Magazine | This is an old article from 2008, but it's a fascinating one nonetheless. It's a look inside the real lives of people who came early to intentionally provoking, confusing, and generally screwing with strangers online. |
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| | | Spend Less Time Searching with New Google Docs Features | | G Suite Updates | Google is making the Quick Access feature in Google Docs available to more G Suite users and is adding natural language search when you’re looking for documents. They hope these launches mean you spend less time searching for documents and more time working on them. |
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