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| | | A Hacker Has Dumped Nearly One Billion User Records Over the Past Two Months | | ZDNet | A hacker named Gnosticplayers has stolen over 932 million user records from 44 companies. | | Product Tip: Profile Cleanup | | BetterCloud Monitor | Last week’s product tip covers one of our most popular on-demand workflows: profile cleanup. You can finally solve an age-old IT challenge: keeping user profile information consistent across applications. | | Mark Zuckerberg Used Your Facebook Data as 'Bargaining Chip' Against Rivals, Report Says | | CNET | Facebook reportedly used its massive trove of user data as leverage in deals it struck with outside companies—granting access to some partners and denying it to competitors and rival apps. | | How to Keep Alexa, Cortana, Siri, Google Assistant, and Bixby from Recording You | | VentureBeat | At their best, voice assistants from the likes of Microsoft, Apple, Google, Samsung, and Amazon empower us to be more productive. But they’re also recording the commands we utter for posterity (and in some cases human review), which predictably doesn’t sit right with everyone. Fortunately, most assistants can be switched off, disabled, or otherwise fettered in a few simple steps. Here’s a guide to doing just that, and to deleting any voice snippets they managed to record in the meantime. |
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| | | How to Uninstall Programs on Windows 10 the Fast Way | | MakeUseOf | You can delete Windows 10 programs using the operating system’s built-in tools—but sometimes those tools aren’t powerful enough. In addition to the native tools, there are “automagic” program removal options, malware removal apps, and more. | | How to Kill Unresponsive Programs Without the Task Manager | | MakeUseOf | It’s frustrating when Windows programs crash. Everyone has clicked on something in an app only to have the window gloss over and show the dreaded Not Responding text. Your first move to force-close frozen programs might be to open the Task Manager, which is fine. However, if you’d like to force-close in Windows even faster, you can create a shortcut to instantly kill any unresponsive programs. MakeUseOf will show you this and other methods to force-close easily. |
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| | | SaaS Updates: April 15 - April 19 | | BetterCloud Monitor | G Suite updates from last week are here to make your life a little easier. Read all about the new and exciting updates, which include a solution to prevent double-booked rooms, a time-saving scheduling feature, and improved organization in Team Drives. |
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