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A new Microsoft Store: What does it mean for you and your business? A lot, actually

Microsoft is launching a new version of its Store with Windows 11. There are lots of changes for consumers and businesses.
The haptic Surface pen can help you get a more accurate grip

Haptics used to mean vibrating your phone instead of having it ring when a call came in. But smaller, more controllable tech put sophisticated kinesthetic feedback in something as small as a pen.
Cloudflare Is Taking a Shot at Email Security


The internet infrastructure company wants to protect your inbox from targeted threats, starting with the launch of two new tools.
Our Favorite Smart Pens for Writing Digital Notes

These handy tools combine the ease of jotting notes by hand with the power of saving them digitally.
Even the CIA and NSA Use Ad Blockers to Stay Safe Online


Plus: The ransomware scourge continues, a massive botnet gets wounded, and more of the week’s top security news.
How phishing-as-a-service operations pose a threat to organizations

Attackers can easily buy, deploy and scale phishing campaigns to steal credentials and other sensitive data, says Microsoft.
New Microsoft analytics tools help identify and understand trends without compromising privacy

Developed to help policy-makers research human trafficking, these techniques for synthetic privacy, casual inference and visualizing complex graph statistics could be useful for many other problems.
The iOS 15 Privacy Settings You Should Change Right Now


Apple’s latest software update has a bunch of new security features. Here’s how to put them to use.