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  2. Overpayment scam - Wikipedia

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    An overpayment scam, also known as a refund scam, is a type of confidence trick designed to prey upon victims' good faith. In the most basic form, an overpayment scam consists of a scammer claiming, falsely, to have sent a victim an excess amount of money. The scammer then attempts to convince the victim to return the difference between the ...

  3. Fraudsters target small businesses with scams. Here are some ...

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    According to the Federal Trade Commission, small businesses should be on the lookout for phony invoices and unordered merchandise. Scammers send out fake invoices and hope businesses won't notice ...

  4. Windows 10 - Wikipedia

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    Shortly after the suit was reported on by the Seattle Times, Microsoft confirmed it was updating the GWX software once again to add more explicit options for opting out of a free Windows 10 upgrade; the final notification was a full-screen pop-up window notifying users of the impending end of the free upgrade offer, and contained "Remind me ...

  5. Memory management (operating systems) - Wikipedia

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    In operating systems, memory management is the function responsible for managing the computer's primary memory. [1] : 105–208. The memory management function keeps track of the status of each memory location, either allocated or free. It determines how memory is allocated among competing processes, deciding which gets memory, when they ...

  6. Memory management - Wikipedia

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    Memory management is a form of resource management applied to computer memory. The essential requirement of memory management is to provide ways to dynamically allocate portions of memory to programs at their request, and free it for reuse when no longer needed. This is critical to any advanced computer system where more than a single process ...

  7. Memory corruption - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Memory corruption occurs in a computer program when the contents of a memory location are modified due to programmatic behavior that exceeds the intention of the original programmer or program/language constructs; this is termed as violation of memory safety. The most likely causes of memory corruption are programming errors (software bugs).

  8. Memory safety - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Rust programming language implements a borrow checker to ensure memory safety, while C and C++ provide no memory safety guarantees. The substantial amount of software written in C and C++ has motivated the development of external static analysis tools like Coverity, which offers static memory analysis for C.

  9. Grammarly - Wikipedia

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    Grammarly is a Ukraine -founded [4] [5] [6] cloud -based [7] typing assistant, headquartered in San Francisco. [6] [8] [9] It reviews spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, engagement, and delivery mistakes in English texts, detects plagiarism, and suggests replacements for the identified errors. [10] It also allows users to customize their ...