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| In the context of the computer industry, a Tiger Team is a group of professionals (programmers or users) who volunteer or are hired to attempt physically penetrating a secure location, expose errors or security holes in new software, and/or try hacking into an organization’s computer network to test its security. | |
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| This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. - Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free
OpenAI is a billion-dollar effort to push AI as far as it will go. [Wired] - The secret signals that rule our transport networks
The vast network of global trade carried by trains, aircraft and ships creates a huge web of radio traffic. Two artists created an installation that reveals the enormity of this invisible chatter. [BBC] - New imaging technique brings Mars into focus
Drone-quality images of the Martian landscape from 24,000 kilometres above are now possible, thanks to a new imaging technique. [Cosmos] - Microsoft experiments with DNA storage: 1,000,000,000 TB in a gram
Reading and writing are a bit of a chore, but it keeps data safe for thousands of years. [ArsTechnica] - Apple's iTunes is 13 years old—and it's still awful
The iPod and the iPhone that followed it are renowned for their user-friendliness and innovation. Their companion software iTunes, however, has always been a frustrating piece of junk. [Quartz] | |
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| When you delete emails, tasks, calendar items, or notes in Outlook, they are moved to the Deleted Items folder. This folder is not emptied until you do it manually–at least by default. If you want, you can have Outlook empty this folder automatically when you exit the program. | |
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| OneDrive may primarily be a cloud syncing service, but even if you don’t use OneDrive as your primary cloud storage, it has one killer feature: with it, you can remotely access any file on your PC, even if that file is not in your OneDrive folders. | |
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| Windows can’t normally read Mac-formatted drives, and will offer to erase them instead. But third-party tools fill the gap and provide access to drives formatted with Apple’s HFS+ file system on Windows. This also allows you to restore Time Machine backups on Windows. | |
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| Plex Media Server is a user-friendly way to store all your movies, shows, and other media in one place–and make it accessible from any device, whether you’re at home or on-the-go. If you’re looking for a no-headache way to watch your movies anywhere, this is it. | |
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| Supervised Mode is intended for organizations, but you can enable it on your own iPhone or iPad. Supervised Mode gets you a few extra features like hiding included apps, and always-on VPNs. | |
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| Some companies think they’re increasing security by disabling your ability to paste into form fields, such as the password field. But in reality, all they’re doing is frustrating users–and probably decreasing security by blocking password managers. Here’s how to solve this annoyance in Chrome and Firefox. | |
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| After every Uber ride, you can rate your driver out of five stars based on how good or bad the ride was, but you may not know that Uber drivers also rate you as a passenger. Here’s how to view your Uber passenger rating. | |
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| You Apple ID password is a particularly important one, so it’s vital that you not only keep it very secret, but also change it from time to time–or at least as often as needed. | |
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| Have you ever turned on the Caps Lock key ACCIDENTALLY WHILE YOU'RE TYPING? Or turned off the Num Lock key unintentionally and then tried to use the number keypad? No worries. There's a setting in Windows that can notify you with a sound whenever you press one of these keys. | |
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| The Windows Registry offers a treasure trove of possible tweaks for your PC, but it’s a complicated structure to work in. You can make things a little easier by bookmarking your favorite locations. | |
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| Here's something you may not know: that HDTV that you love so much probably doesn't show the whole picture on its screen. In fact, up to five percent of the picture can get cut off around the edges—this is called overscan. It's old technology that's left over from the CRT (cathode ray tube) televisions of yesteryear. Here's why it existed in the first place, why it's still used today, and how to (hopefully) turn it off on your TV. | |
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