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• Closing the books on a buggy year

  Posted on December 16, 2024 at 02:41 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  We’re closing the patching year with an AI-related bug that — fortunately — is not related to Copilot, Recall, or any other AI-related product released by Microsoft in the last few months.

  In fact, you may not have heard of it at all. Called Microsoft Muzic, it’s a research project in understanding music via deep learning and artificial intelligence. It also introduced a vulnerability into your computer if you installed it.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.51.0, 2024-12-16).

  Patch Watch CVE-2024-49063, CVE-2024-49112, CVE-2024-49117, CVE-2024-49138, Exchange, Google Workspace, Hyper-V, KB5002652, Newsletters, Outlook, Patch Lady Posts, TPM, Windows 11 24H2

• Welcome to Google Workspace

  Posted on October 6, 2020 at 10:54 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  I’ve almost completely switched over to Google G-Suite.

  Except, as of today, it’s known as Google Workspace.

  Google just announced the name change, gussied it up with a bunch of marketing gobbledygook, and a “new user experience.”

  Except, well, it mostly looks like the old user experience. Which I like just fine, thankyouverymuch. If you want to “dynamically create and collaborate on a document with guests in a Chat room,” I wish you well. But if you just want to knock out a doc or sheet, or even a slide deck, Google’s just fine, the same as it’s always been.

  Remember, Google doesn’t snoop on your G-Suite stuff:

  The data that G Suite organizations and users put into our systems is theirs, and we do not scan it for advertisements nor sell it to third parties.

  They scan emails and files for viruses and the like, but “Google does not collect, scan or use data in G Suite Core Services for advertising purposes.” It’s all in black and white, although the official policy pages haven’t been updated with the new “Google Workspace” name.

  Office Google Workspace