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A clean installation of Windows 10 or Windows 11 may enable Bitlocker drive encryption automatically. The main system partition and all fixed drives will be encrypted in this case after the out-of-box experience. Bitlocker protects data on the PC against unauthorized access by encrypting partitions and drives. Microsoft calls this specific BitLocker feature device encryption: "Device encryption is a Windows feature that provides a simple way for some devices to enable BitLocker encryption automatically". Problem is, since the encryption process happens automatically in this case, users may not be aware of it. This can lead to issues, for instance when…

Deephaven Core v0.25 introduces major changes to modernize and standardize its date-time handling. The query libraries were originally written more than a decade ago. Over that time, Java's approach to date-time data has changed, so a rewrite was in order. v0.25 brings Deephaven up to speed with current standards.This rewrite is a breaking change. Your data is safe but many of your queries may need to be updated. A stable API is a high priority for Deephaven and our customers; we did not take this decision lightly. Instead of a series of small changes, we decided that one large change…

Research Published 29 August 2023 Authors Sven Gowal, Pushmeet Kohli New tool helps watermark and identify synthetic images created by ImagenAI-generated images are becoming more popular every day. But how can we better identify them, especially when they look so realistic?Today, in partnership with Google Cloud, we’re launching a beta version of SynthID, a tool for watermarking and identifying AI-generated images. This technology embeds a digital watermark directly into the pixels of an image, making it imperceptible to the human eye, but detectable for identification.SynthID is being released to a limited number of Vertex AI customers using Imagen, one of…

Google has announced that it is streamlining the process of setting up 2-Step Verification (2SV) for user accounts. Users can now enable 2SV without adding a phone number. Prior to this change, Google required users to provide their phone number, before they could set up a 2SV method. Now, when you go to your account settings and enroll into the verification method, you can skip the phone number if you want to use one of the other methods. While the article published by Google highlights the fact that this change will aid admins to enforce 2SV policies in their organizations,…