ZDNet | Talk about bad timing. Just over a week after a global problem with its multi-factor authentication (MFA) service plagued a number of users, another Microsoft MFA outage is impacting a number of customers. Many, but not all, of the customers reporting problems seem to be U.S.-based.

TNW | Google has blocked Gmail’s Smart Compose AI tool from suggesting gender-based pronouns. Google’s AI was showing worrying signs that it was biased. Gmail product manager Paul Lambert told Reuters that a problem was discovered in January when a company researcher typed “I am meeting an investor next week,” and Smart Compose suggested “Do you want to meet him?” instead of “her” when attempting to auto-complete the question.

Ars Technica | Wi-Fi protocols are more confusing than ever, so here's the TL;DR.

Dark Reading | UK and Dutch authorities have fined Uber a total of $1.7 million in fines for exposing customers' personal information in its 2016 data breach. The latest financial fallout for Uber comes in the wake of September's $148 million settlement with the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia for violating data breach reporting laws in its cover-up of the epic hack that affected 57 million U.S. users.

MakeUseOf | Here are three scripts that let you build a document from user prompts, import Google Analytics into a Google Doc report, and create a document from a Google Sheet file.

Trello Blog | From "frog eating" to the Pomodoro technique, there are six commons productivity tricks that everyone from remote workers to Olympic athletes rely on for success.

TechTarget | Have you ensured your disaster recovery planning is comprehensive and able to be understood by everyone involved? TechTarget's guidelines will help set you on the right path.

How-To Geek | The Windows Briefcase was introduced in Windows 95 and was the Dropbox of its day. It’s still part of Windows 7, but was deprecated in Windows 8 and is no longer part of Windows 10.

G Suite Updates | Contacts hovercards provide lots of useful information about the people within your organization. Google is adding more information to these hovercards when the contact itself is a group.

Atlassian Blog | Atlassian announced postmortems for Jira Ops, available today, as the best way to learn and improve from every incident.

Dropbox Blog | Extensions let you use the tools you already love while keeping everything organized, in sync, and in one place — Dropbox. Just like the right-click menu in Windows Explorer or macOS Finder, Extensions let you open files from dropbox.com in the web-based app of your choice. Starting today, you’ll see an “Open with” menu next to popular file types like PDFs, DWGs, Word docs, videos, and images.