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| | | Android P — Pie! The Complete FAQ | | Computerworld | "Hey! Can you believe it?! After months of awkward puns about the pending 'Android P release,' we finally have an official name and number for Google's next great Android offering: Android 9, Pie," writes JR Raphael. "Google's Android 9 Pie release is full of fresh new features and flavors. This detailed (and delightfully crusty) FAQ has everything you need to know." | | Cracking the Passwords of Some WPA2 Wi-Fi Networks Just Got Easier | | The Register | The folks behind the password-cracking tool Hashcat claim they've found a new way to crack some wireless network passwords in far less time than previously needed. Jens Steube, creator of the open-source software, said the new technique, discovered by accident, would potentially allow someone to get all the information they need to brute force decrypt a Wi-Fi password, by snooping on a single data packet going over the air. | | AMD Unveils 'World Record Breaking' Intel-Beating 2nd-Generation Ryzen Threadripper Processors | | ZDNet | Starting today you can pre-order AMD's flagship Intel-beating 32-core, 64-thread 2nd-gen Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX from over 80 system integrators and retailers — but it will cost you! | | FCC Admits It Was Never Actually Hacked | | TechCrunch | The FCC has come clean on the fact that a purported hack of its comment system last year never actually took place, after a report from its inspector general found a lack of evidence supporting the idea. Chairman Ajit Pai blamed the former chief information officer and the Obama administration for providing “inaccurate information about this incident to me, my office, Congress, and the American people.” |
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| | | How to Save Images That Are in Microsoft Word and Google Doc Files | | MakeUseOf | We’ve all been there: Someone sends you a document with images and you need to save one of the images. You right-click an image, but there’s no way to save it to your computer. Luckily, whether you’re using Microsoft Office or Google Docs, there’s actually a nifty workaround that you can use to save any image in any document to your computer. | | 10 Magical Productivity Tips for Mac | | Computerworld | This collection of tips can help you get things done just a little faster than before. |
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| | | Surface Go vs. Chromebooks: Which Is Right for You? | | Laptop Mag | The $400 Microsoft Surface Go has arrived. Designed for students or as a secondary device, its low cost puts it in territory dominated by Chromebooks. Here is a look at how Microsoft's new Surface Go stacks up against Chromebooks, using the Asus laptop as a point of comparison, so you can decide which is right for you. |
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| | | New Insights into User Account Security with G Suite Admin Reports | | G Suite Updates | Google is adding new tools to help admins identify suspicious activity and see the impact of security policy changes. G Suite admins can use the reports to audit and set alerts for critical user actions including password changes, two-step verification enabling or disabling, and account recovery info changes (phone number, security questions, and recovery email). | | Dial into Hangouts Meet from Eight Additional Markets | | G Suite Updates | In October 2017, Google announced the rollout of international Hangouts Meet dial-in phone numbers for G Suite Enterprise domains. They've added this functionality for eight additional countries: Argentina (AR), Bulgaria (BG), El Salvador (SV), Georgia (GE), Iceland (IS), Malta (MT), Slovenia (SI), and Thailand (TH). | | Programmatically Manage Exports with the Google Vault API | | G Suite Updates | With this launch, you can use the Google Vault API to create an export, list exports, get an export, and delete an export. |
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