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| | | | | Apple Announces ‘One More Thing’ Event for November 10th | | The Verge | Apple has announced a “One More Thing” event for November 10th, which will presumably see the company announce its first Arm-based Macs that run on Apple Silicon chips instead of the Intel processors the company has used since 2005. The language here is particularly notable: the “One More Thing” phrase has long been used by Apple — particularly by former CEO Steve Jobs — in keynotes for significant product announcements. | | Altitude 2020 Recap: We Discovered a Whole Lot Last Week | | BetterCloud Monitor | This year, nearly 1000 attendees from around the world joined us for a week full of exciting community announcements, product releases, and interviews with some of the most influential leaders in the industry. If you weren’t able to join us last week, we’ll go over some of the highlights here. | | Maze, a Notorious Ransomware Group, Says It’s Shutting Down | | TechCrunch | One of the most active and notorious data-stealing ransomware groups, Maze, says it is “officially closed.” The announcement came as a waffling statement, riddled with spelling mistakes, and published on its website on the dark web, which for the past year has published vast troves of stolen internal documents and files from the companies it targeted. | | Chrome Will Soon Have Its Own Dedicated Certificate Root Store | | ZDNet | Google has announced plans to run its own certificate root program/store for Chrome, in a major architectural shift for the company's web browser program. A "root program" or a "root store" is a list of root certificates that operating systems and applications use to verify the identity of a software program during its installation routine. |
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| | | Here’s How to Fix What’s Sapping Your Team’s Energy | | Fast Company | A thoughtful leader’s job is to identify the unique sources of stress in our organizations. With a clear set of actions, you can change the game for a lot of people, yielding winning and engaged mindsets. Here’s a list of five prominent workplace stressors and some practices to deal with them. | | How to Hide Most Used Apps in the Start Menu on Windows 10 | | How-To Geek | While using Windows 10, you might see a list of “Most Used” apps in your Start menu. Whether you’d like to simplify to Start menu or conceal the list due to privacy concerns, hiding the most used apps list is easy. Here’s how to do it. |
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| | | Google for Education Transformation Reports Window Open, Availability Expanded Worldwide | | Google Workspace Updates | Google for Education transformation reports are now available for K-12 G Suite for Education and G Suite Enterprise for Education customers worldwide, at no additional cost. Note that transformation reports are only available in English at this time. | | Replace Your Background in Google Meet | | Google Workspace Updates | You can now replace your background with an image in Google Meet. You can either use Google’s hand-picked images, which include office spaces, landscapes, and abstract backgrounds, or upload your own image. |
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