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| How to Find Out If Your Facebook Data Was Stolen by Cambridge Analytica | | Gizmodo | Roughly 87 million people had their Facebook data stolen by the political research firm Cambridge Analytica. How can you find out if your Facebook information was compromised? A notification will appear at the top of your Facebook newsfeed, along with a new button for changing your privacy settings. Even if your information wasn’t swallowed up by Cambridge Analytica, it’s probably a good time to change your settings anyway. | | Relive the 1990s on Windows 10 with the Newly Open Sourced File Manager | | Ars Technica | Back in the early prehistory of desktop computing, we didn't have Explorer for managing our files in Windows. We had File Manager. Well, get ready to feel nostalgic: Microsoft has released the source code of its venerable file management application under the MIT open source license. With this, you can build and run File Manager even on your brand new Windows 10 machine. | | Don’t Give Away Historic Details About Yourself | | Krebs on Security | Social media sites are littered with seemingly innocuous little quizzes, games, and surveys urging people to reminisce about specific topics, such as “What was your first job,” or “What was your first car?” The problem with participating in these informal surveys is that in doing so you may be inadvertently giving away the answers to “secret questions” that can be used to unlock access to a host of your online identities and accounts. | | Adobe CIO: How IT Automation Became a Team Eye-Opener | | The Enterprisers Project | "When you mention automation, everyone thinks 'job loss.' The reality for our team: Automation let us focus on the future, experiment, and hone new skills," writes Cynthia Stoddard, CIO of Adobe. "IT automation has freed up time and resources so our team can focus on bigger and better things." | | | | | | How to Find Google Drive, Dropbox in the iPad Files App | | Laptop Mag | With the iPad's Files app, you can finally see all of your cloud storage files in one place. The Files app ties in with Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box and others to keep everything convenient. It looks kind of like the Finder in macOS. Here's how to tie your cloud storage into the Files app on your iPad. | | How to Fill Text Color With an Image in Microsoft PowerPoint | | MakeUseOf | PowerPoint can be a serious graphics tool if you unleash its power. There are enough options that can help you create the perfect presentation. One of the ways is to combine text with the right images—or even better, insert a picture inside a block of text to “color” it using the image. | | |
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