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| | | Microsoft Azure Now Lets You Have a Server All to Yourself | | TechCrunch | Microsoft announced the preview launch of Azure Dedicated Host, a new cloud service that will allow you to run your virtual machines on single-tenant physical services. That means you’re not sharing any resources on that server with anybody else and you’ll get full control over everything that’s running on that machine. | | How To Address Security Concerns for CIOs Running a SaaS Infrastructure | | Crumbs From the Cloud Blog | Our friends at Cloudbakers wrote about us and debunked a few SaaS myths too! For example, do you assume that moving to SaaS platforms requires a significant investment in monitoring and custom API scripts in order to secure your business systems? Most people do. Let Cloudbakers tell you about BetterCloud's solution that allows you to securely reduce that level of investment. | | Apple’s AirDrop and Password Sharing Features Can Leak iPhone Numbers | | Ars Technica | Apple makes it easy for people to locate lost iPhones, share Wi-Fi passwords, and use AirDrop to send files to other nearby devices. A recently published report demonstrates how snoops can capitalize on these features to scoop up a wealth of potentially sensitive data that in some cases includes phone numbers. | | Windows 10 Is Getting a macOS-like cloud OS Restore Feature | | The Verge | Microsoft is planning to improve the way you reset or refresh a Windows 10 PC. The company has revealed it’s testing a new “cloud download” feature for resetting Windows 10 when hardware fails or the OS needs reinstalling. While the feature isn’t available for public testing just yet, it will appear on devices when you boot a machine in a failed state. |
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| | | How to Protect Yourself from Online Scams Including Ransomware and More | | PC World | Protecting yourself from online scams is a fact of life now. According to the FBI’s 2018 Internet Crime Report, Internet scams from 2014 through 2018 cost consumers $7.45 billion. Read about remedies to common online scams and what you can do to protect yourself. | | How to Quickly and Easily Copy Formatting in Google Docs | | How-To Geek | Should you need to use the same style across different parts of your document, Google Docs lets you copy formatting from text, cells, or an object with the Paint Format tool. Here’s how to copy and paste formatting in Docs. |
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