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Oct- 2020 -19 October
Microsoft is Working on a Huge Office Apps Update for Windows 10
Similar to the Windows Insider program, Microsoft also allows users to become an “Office Insider”. By joining the Office Insider program, you can check out upcoming versions of Office apps for Windows 10, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. Microsoft is testing several new features for Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. In the latest preview update for Insiders, Microsoft has introduced a new theme setting for Office apps that will allow Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc to match Windows 10’s system settings. For example, Word will automatically switch to its native dark mode if you use Windows 10’s built-in dark…
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13 October
AWS Adds New S3 Security and Access Control Features
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made available three new S3 (Simple Storage Service) security and access control features: Object Ownership Bucket Owner Condition Copy API via Access Points Object Ownership Object Ownership is a permission that can be set when creating a new object within an S3 bucket, to enforce the transfer of new object ownership onto the bucket owner. “With the proper permissions in place, S3 already allows multiple AWS accounts to upload objects to the same bucket, with each account retaining ownership and control over the objects. This many-to-one upload model can be handy when using a bucket as…
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Sep- 2020 -2 September
AWS Launches its Bottlerocket Container Operating System into General Availability
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the general availability of Bottlerocket, an open-source Linux distribution it has developed specifically for running software containers. Popular Linux distributions are designed to run not only containers, which enable applications to be run in multiple computing environments, but also a range of other workloads. Because they support a large number of use cases, they have a large number of components that can be difficult to manage. When developing Bottlerocket, AWS left out many standard Linux components and kept only the ones necessary to run container-based workloads, creating an operating system that it says is both easier…
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2 September
Sabrent Crushes Samsung At Their Own Game: Builds World’s Fastest M.2 SSD
Samsung might just have revealed the long-awaited 980 Pro SSD and thereby, at last, delivering a PCI-Express 4.0 SSD, and while its specs don’t disappoint, it seems like the folks from Sabrent had a secret in their drawer: the Rocket 4 Plus. That definitely sets the stage for a pitched battle for the fastest SSDs. Indeed, the ever-so-popular Rocket NVMe 4.0 SSD is getting an update to the Rocket 4 Plus, which offers significantly higher read and write speeds. To be exact, it boasts sequential read speeds of up to 7000 MB/s and can write at up to 6850 MB/s,…
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2 September
Chinese Smartphone Brand Pre-Installs Malware to Steal Money and User Data
Chinese-made smartphones are known to offer good specs at affordable prices. There are brands like Xiaomi and Realme that cater to such needs especially in the budget range. Turns out one Chinese brand which offered even cheaper smartphones was actually stealing data and even money from users. The brand in question is Tecno that is offered by the company Transsion Holdings. The company has two more brands (Itel and Infinix) through which it offers entry-level budget phones. Tecno and Infinix are quite popular in India but another market where it’s hugely popular is Africa. And this is where the whole incident took…
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1 September
Attention AWS Customers: You Might be Running a Malicious Crypto Miner
Mitiga, an Israeli cybersecurity firm, is advising all customers of Amazon Web Services running certain types of programs to check that they haven’t been infected by a malicious Monero crypto miner. In an advisory note today, Migita said that anyone running EC2 instances based on Community AMIs (Amazon Machine Images) are vulnerable to attack by the crypto miner. Amazon Machine Images are virtual machines within Amazon’s cloud service, AWS. AWS lets people rent computational power from Amazon, which owns warehouses full of very powerful computers. EC2 allows AWS customers to publicly share AMIs with other users. A crypto miner running on AWS would…
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Aug- 2020 -27 August
You Can Do Everything in Pandas With SQL
Pandas is one of the most useful tools a data scientist can use. It provides several handy functionalities to extract information. Unfortunately, using Pandas requires data to be loaded into Data Frames, which aren’t great for handling massive quantities of data —quantities of data common at a company where you would need such data manipulation skills. If you were to download a complete, massive dataset — perhaps store it as a .csv file — you would need to spend at least several minutes waiting for the file to complete download and be converted into a DataFrame by Pandas. On top…
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21 August
Kali Linux 2020.3 Released: A New Shell and a Bluetooth Arsenal for NetHunter
Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2020.3, the latest iteration of the popular open source penetration testing platform. You can download it or upgrade to it. Kali Linux 2020.3 changes New features include: Kali NetHunter – Kali’s mobile pentesting platform/app – has been augmented with Bluetooth Arsenal, which combines a set of Bluetooth tools in the app with pre-configured workflows and use cases. “You can use your external adapter for reconnaissance, spoofing, listening to and injecting audio into various devices, including speakers, headsets, watches, or even cars,” Offensive Security explained Kali NetHunter now also supports Nokia 3.1 and Nokia 6.1 phones The team has…
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21 August
Google Brings Major Updates To Maps
Google Maps is to receive a big upgrade, including street-level data and more detailed terrain, thanks to nifty applications of Google’s computer vision smarts. Google is rolling out a handful of visual improvements to its popular Maps app that will help users make better sense of the area around them. Highly granular detail will be added to urban areas to help pedestrians — particularly those with specific accessibility requirements — traverse cities with greater ease and safety. Street-level data will soon display the shape and width of city streets to scale, as well as pinpoint the exact location of sidewalks,…
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20 August
Amazon Announces the General Availability of AWS Glue 2.0
AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy for customers to prepare and load their data for analytics. With AWS Glue, customers don’t have to provision or manage any resources and only pay for resources when the service is running. Since its general availability, Amazon updated the service with several features, such as support for stream ETL jobs earlier this year. A few months later, the service received a few updates and is now generally available as a significant new version. These updates include faster Spark ETL job start times, 1-minute minimum billing…