Gizmodo | Facebook has been prompting some users registering for the first time to hand over the passwords to their email accounts, the Daily Beast reported on Tuesday—a practice that blares right past questionable and into “beyond sketchy” territory, security consultant Jake Williams told the Beast.

Computerworld | The first Tuesday of the month—“A” week in Microsoft’s infamous bafflegab—usually brings a healthy dose of non-security Office patches. This Tuesday was no exception. But there are two big differences. First, there’s no official list of the patches. Second, many of the patches appear to be re-releases of patches that originally appeared in March.

Android Police | Gboard has a long history at Google with its root in the AOSP keyboard that's still standard with pure Android builds. In contrast to that, Gboard adds a whole bunch of features, making typing on your phone a rich experience: You get a number of themes to choose from, advanced text correction, emojis, GIFs, web search within the keyboard, a better integration of voice typing, and the option to sync your dictionary across devices. The latter option, however, has disappeared for many users. Android Police is investigating and has a few theories.

Engadget | Verizon has flipped the switch on the first parts of its 5G mobile network a week ahead of schedule. The service is live in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis, just in time for the March Madness Final Four in the latter city this weekend.

How-To Geek | This tutorial will show you how to use Linux filesystem events (notify) to get notified every time a file appears in a directory. You could use these as triggers to automate common tasks on your system.

How-To Geek | At best, it’s irritating to get an email that contains unreadable characters. At worst, it can prevent you from reading the mail at all. Sometimes, changing the encoding in Outlook shows those missing characters and lets you read the message. Here’s how to do it.

Forbes | With each new hire comes a learning curve—no new employee knows all the inner workings of your company. What is the best way to support new tech team members, and why does that specific method work so well? To help you accelerate the new employee learning curve, 13 members of Forbes Technology Council share their thoughts.

Ars Technica | "Ethical hackers" tried to disclose problems to a casino software company—it got messy.

G Suite Updates | As part of the migration from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Meet that Google announced last year, G Suite admins can now turn off classic Hangouts video calling for your organization. This means that all video calls in your organization will use Meet and any classic Hangouts video calls saved in Google Calendar will be removed.

G Suite Updates | Google is making support and learning resources easier to find in several G Suite apps. They’re doing this by adding a new quick-access button to some products and changing the Help menu options in others.