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| New Details Emerge on Severe Processor Flaw Affecting Windows, macOS, and Linux | | The Verge | New details have emerged on how severe and far reaching the vulnerability truly is. Two critical vulnerabilities—dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre”—affect nearly every device made in the past 20 years. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to compromise the privileged memory of a processor by exploiting the way processes run in parallel. The result, one researcher said, is that "an attacker might be able to steal any data on the system.” | | Google Is About to Force You to Use Its New Calendar Design | | TechCrunch | Last October, Google announced a redesigned look and feel for Google Calendar on the desktop. Not everybody loves the design, but soon your opinion won’t matter because Google is about to upgrade your Calendar to the new design anyway. The refreshed Calendar also includes new features for making conference room bookings easier and allows you to apply rich formatting to Calendar invites. | | Wait, The iMac Pro Might Actually Be User-Upgradeable | | Gizmodo | The CPU, RAM, and SSD all appear to be user replaceable, provided you’re ready to dig into the guts of your $5,000-plus machine. If that’s true, it’s a pretty big deal. | | | | | | Turn Last Year's Google Calendar Into an Annual Report | | Lifehacker | You’ll get graphs of your busiest weekdays and months, typical meeting size, and other data. You’ll also get a detailed list of whom you spent the most scheduled time with—provided that you made a joint calendar event. | | 34 Tools That Let You Make the Most of Your MacOS | | TNW | "What is your favorite MacOS menu bar app?" Community members on Ask Product Hunt recommended over 100 different products, and here are some of their favorites on this list. | | |
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