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Sources: Chinese government has told state-run telecoms to block individuals' access to VPNs by February 1, 2018 — 2018 deadline to stop individuals from accessing global web — Tightening controls come amid Xi's goal of “cyber-sovereignty” — China's government has told telecommunications carriers … | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Ubuntu now available in the Windows Store, is designed to run in a sandbox inside Windows 10 and focused on running command line utilities like bash or SSH — Microsoft announced at its Build 2017 developer conference earlier this year that Ubuntu would be heading to the Windows Store …
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Microsoft announces Microsoft 365 subscriptions for businesses with Office and Windows combined — Microsoft is announcing Microsoft 365 today, a new way for businesses to purchase Office and Windows together. While the software giant has sold Office 365 and Windows 10 to businesses …
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Amazon has quietly rolled out free smart home consultation and $99 in-home product installation service in seven markets — The new service is aimed at educating customers about “the smart home” — and, naturally, about Alexa. — For 15 years, Best Buy's Geek Squad installation …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter lets you avoid trolls with new settings options to mute newly registered users, people you don't follow, and people who don't follow you — When trolls barge into people's notifications with offensive replies or user names, those legitimate users might not keep coming back to Twitter.
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PayPal confirms it sold X.com, a domain originally used for financial services firm co-founded by Elon Musk, back to Musk — X.com is one of the few single letter .com domain names, and I would argue that it is one of the most valuable domain names. The X.com domain name was originally … | Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Two-factor authentication is a mess, as companies offer various implementations, with SMS and email account recovery methods vulnerable to determined hackers — It was supposed to be a one-stop security fix. Now it's a mess — For years, two-factor authentication has been the most important advice … | Kim Hart / Axios: |
As expected, DHS delays effective date of startup visa “International Entrepreneur Rule”, which Trump administration has now signaled its intent to eliminate — The Department of Homeland Security has delayed the effective date of the International Entrepreneur Rule.| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF Gov't Data Requests 2017 report finds Adobe, Dropbox, Pinterest, Uber, Wickr, and WordPress best protect users; AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, T-Mobile fall short — Download the complete Who Has Your Back? 2017: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests report as a PDF. — Executive Summary| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Oculus drops Rift and Touch controller bundle price by $200 to $399 for the next 6 weeks, the second $200 price drop since March — The Oculus Rift and Touch controller bundle is $399 for the summer, months before Oculus' big fall event. — Facebook's Oculus Rift VR headset already got one price drop back in March.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK cybersecurity startup Darktrace raises $75M Series D led by Insight Venture Partners, at an $825M valuation — With cybercrime projected to reap some $6 trillion in damages by 2021, and businesses likely to invest around $1 trillion over the next five years to try to mitigate that …
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Microsoft unveils $10B Rural Airband Initiative to bring better broadband to 23.4M Americans, to start efforts in 12 states by offering seed money to local ISPs — In an event scheduled for Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Microsoft plans to propose using technology it helped develop as a cornerstone … Sponsor Posts
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