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| | | Flaws in 4G and 5G Allow Snooping on Calls, Pinpointing Device Location | | CNET | Newly discovered security flaws in the 4G and the emerging 5G cellular networks can be used to intercept phone calls and track the location of mobile devices, researchers say. | | Ransomware Has Been Abandoned in Favor of Cryptojacking Attacks Against the Enterprise | | ZDNet | Ransomware is falling in popularity as cyberattackers look for other ways to earn a criminal living out of compromising enterprise companies, with cryptojacking now capturing the interest of these individuals worldwide. | | Google Expands AI-Powered Grammar Checker in Docs to All G Suite Users | | The Verge | Google announced that its artificial intelligence-powered grammar checker will now be a native feature in Google Docs for all users of G Suite. The grammar checker, which Google announced last July, is powered by machine translation, which is the same subset of AI tools that enable software’s natural language processing capabilities and the ability to translate text from one language into another. | | Supermicro Hardware Weaknesses Let Researchers Backdoor an IBM Cloud Server | | Ars Technica | More than five years have passed since researchers warned of the serious security risks that a widely used administrative tool poses to servers used for some of the most sensitive and mission-critical computing. Now, new research shows how baseboard management controllers, as the embedded hardware is called, threaten premium cloud services from IBM and possibly other providers. |
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| | | Slack Essentials: Organize Your Work and Conversations | | Several People Are Typing | A guide to the spaces inside of your Slack workspace and how to create channels that foster collaboration. | | How to Multitask on the Linux Terminal With Screen | | MakeUseOf | If you’re a Linux user, you’re going to have to get started with the Linux terminal at some point. Some terminal commands might be popular, others obscure, but in many cases, it’s easier to run a command through a terminal window than through a GUI. But what happens if you need to run several commands at once? GNU Screen makes terminal multitasking like this easy. |
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| | | Building An AI-First Organization | | Forbes | Digital technology is fundamentally transforming the way we interact. People, machines, data, and processes are becoming increasingly connected, and the result is an explosion of information that can be used to understand customer needs. Yet the sheer volume of data required to get us where we need to go has exceeded the scale of our human capacity to process it. Enter artificial intelligence. |
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| | | G Suite Quick Access Side Panel in Drive | | G Suite Updates | You can now access the side panel while using Drive on the web. That means you can access Calendar, Keep, and Task while using Drive, Gmail, Calendar, or Editor products (Docs, Sheets, and Slides). | | Spelling and Grammar Improvements in Docs for Enterprise | | G Suite Updates | Earlier this year Google introduced a BETA for new grammar suggestions in Google Docs. Now they're making this feature available for G Suite Basic, Business, and Enterprise users. The new features enhance existing spell check functions and highlight possible grammatical errors in your text. |
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