Motherboard | Do you want to stop criminals from getting into your Gmail or Facebook account? Are you worried about the cops spying on you? Motherboard has all the answers on how to protect yourself.

Computerworld | "Microsoft’s stumbling all over itself trying to get Win10 1809 released. Unless you need an updated Notepad, a clipboard that works almost as well as free add-ons, or a screenshooter that can’t even save in JPG format, wait for more shoes to drop," writes Woody Leonhard.

Wired | After a 14-month search, Amazon announced last week that it will open a pair of regional offices in two major metropolitan areas where it already has a presence: the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, a borough of New York, and Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington DC. Amazon’s search for a second headquarters garnered criticism from research groups, some lawmakers, and concerned citizens who worried that enormous sums of taxpayer money would be handed to one of the wealthiest corporations in the country without much public oversight.

ZDNet | A team of nine academics has revealed seven new CPU attacks. The seven impact AMD, ARM, and Intel CPUs to various degrees. Two of the seven new attacks are variations of the Meltdown attack, while the other five are variations on the original Spectre attack — two well-known attacks that have been revealed at the start of the year and found to impact CPUs models going back to 1995.

Pocket-lint | "Beyond chucking a couple of words into the main search box, do you really know how to get the best out of Google? We've done some research and put together a few tips on how to get Google to do even more of the work for you," write Dan Grabham and Libby Plummer.

How-To Geek | You can insert special characters in your documents and presentations without having to remember all those Alt-codes by using the easy-to-use character insertion tool. It offers a myriad of symbols, characters, languages, and more.

CIO | Global IT leaders from Clemson University, Bayer Crop Science, American Academy of Family Physicians, PayPal, Marist College, and TIAA share strategies for motivating teams and keeping employees energized.

How-To Geek | "'Windows as a Service' is failing. It’s obvious: Windows is not a service, and never was. It’s a desktop operating system, and it doesn’t need updates every six months. Even iOS and Android only get significant updates once per year," writes Chris Hoffman.

BetterCloud Monitor | Google is rolling out a few new exciting features: 1) an easier way to organize and create apps for your domain directly from the Admin console; 2) a new way to invite people to an ongoing Hangouts Meet meeting; 3) a new Activity dashboard icon in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drawings; 4) advanced password controls for increased security; and 5) new changes to the Google sign-in interface. In other news, Zendesk announced the launch of Zendesk Explore, analytics for businesses to measure the entire customer experience.