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| | | | | Paying Ransomware Demands Could Land You in Hot Water With the Feds | Ars Technica | Treasury Department officials made that guidance official in an advisory published on Thursday. It warns that payments made to specific entities or to any entity in certain countries—specifically, those with a designated “sanctions nexus”—could subject the payer to financial penalties levied by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC.
| | Is Your SSD Failing? Microsoft Is Testing a Windows 10 Feature That Will Tell You | | PCWorld | Microsoft is testing a new feature for Windows 10 that will alert you if your SSD drive is failing. Microsoft is also testing an update to Your Phone that will allow it to work with multiple devices. Both features arrived as part of Windows 10 Insider Build 20226 for the Dev Channel, Microsoft’s laboratory for future features. | | Gmail Mistakenly Removed the Button That Lets You Triage Loads of Emails at Once | | The Verge | You might sometimes rely on Gmail’s “Select all conversations that match this search” option to read, archive, or delete hundreds or thousands of messages at once. Except we can’t do that anymore, and neither can a number of angry Gmail users we’ve spotted. | | GitHub Adds Code Scanning for Automatic Security-Hole Searches | | Gizmodo | The code scanner is relatively simple in function. GitHub and its community have already added 2,000+ queries to automatically scan code in real-time and notify a developer that they’ve missed a known security hole before an individual’s contributions are merged with a broader project. |
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| | | How to Merge Two macOS Accounts Into One | | Macworld | If you have two macOS accounts on a single machine and want to merge them into one, macOS doesn’t offer a simple way to carry this out, but it’s nevertheless not very difficult. While you can mess around with file and folder permissions, our suggestion is to archive and delete the unwanted account. | | How to See Which Programs Are Using All Your Memory on Windows | | How-To Geek | If your Windows PC feels mysteriously sluggish or refuses to load more programs, it may have run out of working memory. When that happens, PCs often fall back to using virtual memory, which can be much slower. Here’s how to see which programs are eating up all your memory. |
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| | | Changes to History On/Off Setting in Google Chat | | G Suite Updates | Beginning October 8, Google is making two changes to the history on/off setting in Google Chat. It's moving the history on/off setting from the compose box to the conversation settings. It has also updated the look and feel of the setting to make it easier to visually tell if you have history set to on or off |
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