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Equifax discovered major breach in March but says it's unrelated to recently disclosed hack affecting 143M people; source says both involve the same intruders — New timeline could have implications for executive stock sales — The company is the subject of multiple investigations
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Sources: DoJ has opened a criminal investigation into three Equifax executives' stock sales that occurred days after the historic data breach was discovered — U.S. attorney in Atlanta said to lead probe alongside SEC — Managers unaware of breach when they sold stock, company said
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| Cory Doctorow / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF says it's resigning from W3C after the standards org voted for browser DRM, a move hostile to archiving, accessibility, security research, more — In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS says that beginning October 2, it will start charging EC2 customers by the second, not hour; competitors Azure and Google Cloud charge by the minute — Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services on Monday said that on Oct. 2 it will start charging its customers by the second for use …
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
iPhone 8 and 8 Plus review: great cameras, improved software, and first-rate performance in a familiar design, great for those not ready to forgo home button — It's no secret that smartphones have tended to get sleeker and less obtrusive over time. Screens are growing, but bezels are shrinking.
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| Lauren Gensler / Forbes: |
Gift card marketplace Raise raises $60M Series C from Accel, PayPal, and others, will focus on building a mobile wallet for gift cards — Raise, which lets consumers buy and sell gift cards online, has raised $60 million in its pursuit to become a mobile payments company.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple File System will be limited to Macs with only flash storage in the initial release of High Sierra, which means it won't work on iMacs with Fusion Drives — When macOS High Sierra is released to the public next week, the new Apple File System (APFS) feature will be limited to Macs … | Ryan Lau / Hacker Noon: |
iOS 11 has many cases of inconsistent UI design, possibly due to new elements like Large Title and Search Bar with which Apple engineers may be unfamiliar — Few days ago, Apple had their fall special event at Steve Jobs Theater located inside Apple Park, unveiling the all screen iPhone X … | Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Keybase launches alpha version of Teams, an open source and end-to-end encrypted Slack-like tool for collaboration amongst groups — Chris Coyne and Max Krohn are going for the hat trick. — The two entrepreneurs, who are co-founders of the literature summary site SparkNotes and dating service OkCupid …
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keybase.io, MacRumors, Business Insider, The Next Web, and TechCrunch
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| SamMobile: |
Samsung rolls out update to let Galaxy S8, S8+, and Note8 owners disable the Bixby button but still does not let the button be remapped to another purpose — The dedicated Bixby button on the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ didn't really serve any meaningful purpose until last month when Bixby Voice was rolled out globally.
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Tech Times, PCWorld, The Verge, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Fone Arena, Android Authority, BGR, Ars Technica, International Business Times, TechCrunch, Engadget, PhoneDog.com, Business Insider, Android and Me, The Verge, 9to5Google, TalkAndroid.com, Neowin, Tom's Guide, Mashable, Phandroid, Digital Trends, BetaNews, and Softpedia News. Tweets: @vladsavov
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Former Facebook and Snap ad exec Sriram Krishnan announces he is joining Twitter as senior director of product — Krishnan, who previously worked on ad tech, is trying something new. — Twitter has hired Sriram Krishnan, a former ad tech executive from Facebook and Snap, but he won't be working on ads.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Job offers and documents show Roku's doubling down on voice, with a smart speaker as a possible outcome — Streaming video device maker Roku has been working on advancing voice control while also ramping up its own audio efforts, according to a number of new job offers posted by the company … Sponsor Posts
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