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| | | | | Capital One Fined $80 Million for 2019 Hack | | ZDNet | The US top banking regulator fined US bank Capital One with $80 million for failing to secure customer data while hosted in the cloud, a security lapse that led to the bank's massive 2019 security breach that exposed the personal information of more than 100 million Americans. | | Analyzing How Remote Work Has Reshaped Our Behaviors: A Data Deep Dive | | Tableau | We are now 100+ days since COVID-19 caused nationwide lockdowns. Since being thrust into remote work, the main question on people’s minds has been: “How will this change how people work moving forward?” This post, authored by Shaun Chaudhary, Director of Data & Analytics at BetterCloud, was originally published on the BetterCloud blog. | | Qualcomm Snapdragon Bugs Leave 40% Of World’s Smartphones Exposed To Spying Threat | | Forbes | Security researchers from Check Point have found an incredible 400 vulnerabilities within code sections of the Qualcomm Snapdragon digital signal processor (DSP) chip found in approximately 40% of the world's smartphones. | | Windows Apps Are Coming to Chrome OS via Parallels This Fall, No Internet Required | | Neowin | Today, Parallels expanded on that announcement, explaining that you'll be able to run a full Windows virtual machine on your Chrome OS PC, with no internet connection required. Also, being a virtualization solution, you're not dual-booting either. |
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| | | 7 Fixes for the “Windows Was Unable to Complete the Format” Error | | MakeUseOf | Trying to format a removable drive and seeing a “Windows was unable to complete the format” error? Whether you see this format error with a USB flash drive, SD card, or similar, we’ll show you what to do when Windows can’t format a drive. | | How to Fix a Slow Context Menu in Windows 10’s File Explorer | | How-To Geek | Windows 10’s context menu can slow down over time. Third-party programs often install context menu extensions, and badly coded ones can slow things down. Here’s how to fix context menus that open slowly, freeze, or hang when you right-click. |
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| | | Timelines and Tools for Transition From Classic to New Google Sites | | G Suite Updates | In 2017, Google announced that it would replace classic Sites with new Sites, and in 2019 it announced that domains will have until the end of 2021 to complete the transition. Now, it's providing a more detailed timeline, as well as new tools to help you and your users manage the transition. |
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