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| | | Microsoft's Multi-factor Authentication Service Goes Down for Second Week in a Row | | 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. | | Google Disables Some Gmail Smart Suggestions Because It Can’t Fix AI Gender Bias | | 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. | | Downloading the Newest Wi-Fi Protocols: 802.11ax and 802.11ay Explained | | Ars Technica | Wi-Fi protocols are more confusing than ever, so here's the TL;DR. | | Uber Hit With $1.2 Million Additional Fines for 2016 Data Breach | | 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. |
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| | | What Was the Windows Briefcase Used For, Anyway? | | 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. |
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| | | Learn More About Google Groups With Contacts Hovercards | | 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. | | Announcing Postmortems for Jira Ops | | Atlassian Blog | Atlassian announced postmortems for Jira Ops, available today, as the best way to learn and improve from every incident. | | Now Available: Dropbox Extensions Let You Work With the Tools of Your Choice | | 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. |
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