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From Dingle Bingle Hill to Bergen-Op-Zoom, Nanaimo B.C.'s ... (Globalnews.ca)

A new exhibit of the names is now on display at the Nanaimo Museum, put together by a group of history students at Vancouver Island University.

Rollwagen said the young girl was also often squirming in her car seat going up the road to the old Green Mountain Ski Lodge that used to be on Mount Benson. So that’s when Ney decided on the unusual name, she added. “I still don’t know where Dingle Bingle Hill comes from.” Rollwagen said the project has received a lot of attention and it’s an important part of Nanaimo’s history.

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Zoom launches global investment arm (ARNnet)

Zoom has launched Zoom Ventures, a global investment arm focused at driving innovation in the video communications platform's ecosystem.

In return, Zoom Ventures will seek customary information rights, pro rata rights and notice rights to monitor and optimise its investment portfolio, while not taking any board seats. Zoom claims that it will offer “more than a one-time capital investment”, with the general minimum it is looking to invest being US$250,000 and not to take on more than 20 per cent of a given round. According to the company, Zoom Ventures will focus on early to growth stage companies that offer solutions align with its core video platform and adjacent products.

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MTRs on Android to support Direct Guest Join for Zoom (AV Magazine)

Direct Guest Join will initially be available on Poly devices and some Yealink devices with others to follow, as the Android version of MTR gains a feature ...

Direct guest join enables Teams Room users to skip the process of entering a meeting ID and passcode every time they join a Zoom call. Microsoft has announced that Teams Rooms on Android will support the ability to join Zoom meetings. As a result of the partnership with Zoom, users who have Direct Guest Join enabled through settings will be able to schedule a new Zoom meeting or forward an existing Zoom meeting to the Teams Room on Android. The meeting will appear on the calendar and will be available to join from there.

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You Need to Update Google Android, Chrome, Windows, iOS, and ... (WIRED)

Google patches 36 Android vulnerabilities, Cisco fixes three high-severity issues, and VMWare closes two “serious” flaws.

Mozilla fixed the issues in another update, Firefox 100.0.2, Firefox ESR 91.9.1, Firefox for Android 100.3, and Thunderbird 91.9.1. Click those update buttons. The update won’t install automatically—you need to download it from Microsoft's update catalog. It impacted people using the client and server Windows platforms and systems running all Windows versions, including Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. Issues in the Kernel are as bad as it gets, so it’s worth checking and updating your devices right away. The issues fixed in May’s Patch Tuesday were important, but there were soon problems for some Microsoft users, who reported authentication failures after installing the latest updates. The flaw in Apple AVD, labeled CVE-2022-22675, could allow an app to execute code with Kernel privileges.

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