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| | | | | WhatsApp: Let Us Share Your Data With Facebook or Else | | Engadget | In a surprise move, WhatsApp recently gave many of its users a difficult choice: they could either accept a revised privacy policy that explicit allowed the service to share information with parent company Facebook by February 8th, or decline and risk not being able to use the service at all. | | The IT Handbook to Choosing the Right SaaS App | | BetterCloud | Choosing a new SaaS tool means combing through lists of dozens (dozens!) of similar apps. It can be hard to tell which is the right one for your organization. There’s a lot more to consider than just “Does this get the job done?” Learn how to research apps, ask the right questions, and evaluate apps in a sustainable, scalable way. | | RedHat Is Acquiring Container Security Company StackRox | | TechCrunch | RedHat today announced that it’s acquiring container security startup StackRox. The companies did not share the purchase price. The acquisition fits nicely with RedHat OpenShift, its container platform, but the company says it will continue to support StackRox usage on other platforms including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. | | JetBrains Denies Involvement in the SolarWinds Supply-Chain Hack | | BleepingComputer | JetBrains' CEO, Maxim Shafirov, denied reports from multiple news outlets that the company played a role in the SolarWinds supply chain attack. JetBrains' products are used by over 9,000,000 developers from more than and 300,000 companies worldwide, including 95 Fortune 100 companies and 79 Fortune Global 100 companies. |
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| | | How to Convert WebP to JPEG, PNG, and Other Image Formats | | MakeUseOf | Are you having issues opening WebP images on your devices? Don’t worry, you can convert your WebP image to a more widely supported format like JPEG and PNG on any of your devices. This guide shows how you convert WebP images using Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android devices. | | How to Insert a Word File into a Different Word Document | | How-To Geek | If the content of another Microsoft Word document is relevant to the content in a Word doc you’re currently working on, you can embed or migrate the text of that document into your current document. Here’s how. |
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| | | Can You Set a PTR Record on Your Google Workspace Domain? | | SaaSOps Community | We all need a sanity check every now and again, right? The SaaSOps Community is confirming whether or not Google offers a PTR record to point directly to your domain. Check out the conversation by clicking the link above. |
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| | | Join a Meeting With New Options on the Google Meet Landing Page | | Google Workspace Updates | Google is changing the options for a more tailored experience when Google Workspace users join or start a meeting from meet.google.com. When you click “New meeting,” you’ll now see the following three options: Create a meeting for later, start an instant meeting, and schedule in Google Calendar. |
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