The Verge | Months of leaks were finally confirmed at the Pixel 3 event last week in New York City where Google unveiled its newest flagship Android phone and a few new devices, including the Pixel Slate and Google Home Hub. Unlike a typical Google event, the company announced its new lineup at the top of the hour and made the products immediately available for preorder before the event even concluded. Here’s all the biggest news that was announced.

TechCrunch | Oh boy. "Google is about to have its Cambridge Analytica moment. A security bug allowed third-party developers to access Google+ user profile data since 2015 until Google discovered and patched it in March, but decided not to inform the world. When a user gave permission to an app to access their public profile data, the bug also let those developers pull their and their friends’ non-public profile fields. 496,951 users’ full names, email addresses, birth dates, gender, profile photos, places lived, occupation and relationship status were potentially exposed, though Google says it has no evidence the data was misused by the 438 apps that could have had access," writes Josh Constine.

Computerworld | Last week Microsoft explained in full detail all four conditions that led to catastrophic data loss when installing the first release of Win10 version 1809. Here’s what you can expect from the second wave of releases, builds 17763.17 and 17763.55.

BetterCloud Monitor | We just hosted Altitude, our annual customer summit, in Denver, Colorado. It was our best customer summit yet (!), with over 140 IT and security professionals attending. Thirty speakers from all over the country gave insights and tips on security automation, SaaS management efficiency, and the future of IT and technology. Missed it? No worries. Here are six key takeaways from the conference.

Business Insider | "After the Wall Street Journal revealed that Google accidentally exposed the private information of hundreds of thousands of Google+ users over the period of three years, you might not feel so comfortable having a Google+ account anymore, even though Google plans to shut down the service," writes Sean Wolfe. "There's an easy way to check if you're signed up — and delete your account."

Harvard Business Review | The HBR team has selected ten of the most useful Excel functions that are especially easy to learn (approximately 2 hours total) and which can make a material difference to productivity.

CIO | IT certifications can verify your knowledge in different skillsets, boost your pay, and set you apart from other entry-level candidates. Here are 10 entry-level certifications worth pursuing.

The Atlantic | Tricking people out of sensitive information online is far too easy.

BetterCloud Monitor | Last week brought a handful of exciting G Suite updates, including real-time captions when you present in Google Slides. You can also now get Google sign-in prompts on all of your phones and manage your Jamboard fleet directly from the Admin console. Plus, Google is making the alert center for G Suite generally available. In BetterCloud news, we are excited to introduce On-Demand Workflows. No more waiting for an event to trigger a Workflow in BetterCloud. You can now run any Workflow on demand and take action immediately. In other news, Dropbox introduced automatic image text recognition, and Atlassian has partnered with Zoom.