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| | | Google One Is Now Open to All | | TechCrunch | A few months ago, Google announced Google One, its new subscription program for getting more Google Drive storage and other perks. Over the course of the last few weeks, Google slowly rolled existing Drive subscribers over to a Google One membership and starting today, new users (at least in the U.S., with other countries coming soon) can now sign up for a One subscription, too. | | 3 Sets of G Suite Security and Privacy Settings Every Admin Should Review | | TechRepublic | OK, we've talked about this topic so many times, we probably sound like a broken record. But this article addresses a very, very important topic: how IT admins configure security and privacy settings in G Suite. "A G Suite administrator may choose to make new G Suite documents findable by other people in the organization, instead of private by default. After this change, when you search Google Drive, your search results will show documents created by colleagues. Essentially, with this setting, each new document will be public — within the organization, not the world! — by default," writes Andy Wolber. | | Android 9 Pie Puts an End to Third-Party Call Recording Apps | | Android Police | Call recording is a bit of a thorny issue when it comes to privacy. There are also different rules in different places, making it hard for Google to implement a standard in Android without falling foul of the law in certain jurisdictions. Android's official call recording API was removed in Android 6.0 Marshmallow, so third-party app developers have had to be creative since then. As of Android 9 Pie, it looks like Google has put a stop to it altogether. | | Intel Foreshadow Exploits: How to Protect Yourself from Latest Chip Vulnerability | | TechRepublic | What are the Foreshadow/ L1TF exploits? Which chips are affected? Here's how to secure your systems. |
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| | | 6 Ways to Use Google Drive Bot’s Newest Features | | Several People Are Typing | Teams love collaborative tools like Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides for the ability to read and review without having to pass versions back and forth. But getting answers to your teammates is always a high priority. If you use Slack with Google Drive, you’re in luck: you can now reply directly to comments on all your Drive files without leaving Slack. | | Top Tips from Great Incident Response Teams | | Atlassian Blog | The Atlassian team caught up with three Statuspage customers to learn how their teams come together for awesome incident response. |
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| | | Check Out the Most Recent G Suite Launches | | G Suite Updates | Last year, Google introduced a new resource for admins: What’s new in G Suite? Don’t forget to visit the page regularly for a list of the most recent launches across G Suite. |
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