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| | | | | Google Chrome 88 Released With No Flash Support, Bringing an End to an Era | | ZDNet | Google has released Chrome 88 today, permanently removing support for Adobe Flash Player and bringing an end to an internet era. Flash reached its official end of life (EoL) on December 31, 2020, when Adobe officially stopped supporting the software. On January 12, Adobe also began blocking content from playing inside Flash, as part of its final nail in the coffin. | | What If Chat Overtakes Email in the Workplace? | | BetterCloud Monitor | A lot of folks here at BetterCloud will tell you that I’ve been thinking about this question for months. So to ring in 2021, I’m going to take pen to paper and explore how close Slack is coming to beating email. I’ll also share what I’ve learned from some experts across the company who have helped me understand what it would mean for IT if a chat application made email redundant. | | At CES, a New Era of Hardware Addresses the Work-From-Home Shift | | CIO | Work from home has reshaped the IT attack surface, so cyber thieves and nation states are retooling in hopes of finding and exploiting new vulnerabilities. Which means that CIOs need to shore up their defenses across the IT ecosystem. Including, of course, hackers’ favorite portal into the enterprise: client PCs. | | Otter.ai’s New Chrome Extension Can Transcribe Google Meet Calls In Real Time | | The Verge | You can now use automated transcription service Otter.ai to transcribe and provide closed captions for Google Meet calls with the help of a new Chrome extension. Meetings will be transcribed in real time, and transcripts will be saved right to your Otter account so you can access and share them later. |
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| | | 5 Zoom Apps to Make Video Calls Better and More Productive | | MakeUseOf | The Covid-19 pandemic necessitated that everyone in the world get familiar with a new software: Zoom. Zoom calls are a regular part of professional and personal life now, so it's time to learn how to make them better. There are free apps to eliminate background noises, record and transcribe videos, and anonymously chat with other participants in a meeting. All of them will only make Zoom better. | | Beware This Text String That Can Crash Windows and 'Corrupt' Your Drive | | Lifehacker | Hackers are exploiting a strange bug that lets a simple text string ‘corrupt’ your Windows 10 or Windows XP computer’s hard drive if you extract a ZIP file, open a specific folder, or even click on a Windows shortcut. The hacker adds the text string to a folder’s location, and the moment you open it, bam—hard drive issues. Or so you might assume when you see a “restart to repair hard drive errors” warning appear in Windows 10. |
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| | | SaaS Updates Summary: January 18 - 22 | | BetterCloud Monitor | Google's giving users even more flexibility over how their apps look. Neat, right? Last week, we got the ability to resize the Chat and Room Sections features in Gmail. Plus, offline support for Google Calendar (finally!). Read about these updates and more in the links. |
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