This Week’s Links (weekly)

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Linked – We Just Got More Evidence Open Plan Offices Suck, According to Science

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These results surprised me, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. “Across both experiments, employees’ social interactions in person decreased by a crazy 70 percent, while emails saw an uptick by roughly 20 to 50 percent. So, instead of spending more time “collaborating” with co-workers in the sprawling new space…

Linked: Ransomware shame: More than half of business owners conceal cyber-breach
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Linked: Ransomware shame: More than half of business owners conceal cyber-breach

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I’ve been saying it for a little while now, but I think this really cements it for me, your data has already been breached somewhere. Whether you know your personal information was involved in a public breach, or you’ve somehow managed to avoid that thus far, there is still a whole bunch of ransomware and other breaches that we don’t know anything about:

Linked – Pocket’s Next Frontier: Solving The Internet’s Clickbait Problem
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Linked – Pocket’s Next Frontier: Solving The Internet’s Clickbait Problem

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“Gathering good reading material from around the internet is hard. You can’t trust your friends on Facebook. Twitter is too noisy. And even if you’re a master of RSS, you probably spend too much time sorting through filler. This is where Pocket hopes it can make a difference. For the last nine years, the company—originally…

Linked: Ransomware victims thought their backups were safe. They were wrong
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Linked: Ransomware victims thought their backups were safe. They were wrong

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The backup has to be offline, disconnected from the computer that gets infected. “Keeping a backup copy of vital data is a good way of reducing the damage of a ransomware attack: it allows companies to get systems up and running again without having to pay off the crooks. But that backup data isn’t much…

Digging Mozilla

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I downloaded Mozilla 1.2 Beta last night and there are two new features that are rocking my world right now. First the pop-up manager actually solves the problem I was having with surfing blogs and opening comment windows by letting me specify which sites are not allowed to do pop-ups, and leaving the pop-up comment…

Linked – Networking is a Waste of Time- Or Is It?
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Linked – Networking is a Waste of Time- Or Is It?

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This is a new acronym to me, but I think it does make sense: “Networking is about getting AIR. Networking can rejuvenate how you feel about your job or your job search the same way oxygen reenergizes your body. AIR is an acronym that stands for Advice (career advancement, job search, career-changing) Information (company, industry…

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