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Hackers hid backdoor in Avast-owned system cleanup tool CCleaner for Windows from August 15 to September 12; affected software was run by 2.27M users — Users of Avast-owned security application CCleaner for Windows have been advised to update their software immediately …
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Slack raises $250M, largely from Softbank's Vision Fund, valuing the firm at $5.1B, up from $3.8B at the time of its April 2016 round — Workplace messaging app Slack has been valued at $5.1bn in its latest fundraising, which drew $250m from investors as the weight of cash in private markets continues …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google debuts Tez, a mobile wallet and payments app for India launching today on iOS and Android, its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia — After several weeks of speculation and leaked details, today Google officially unveiled its first big foray into mobile payments in Asia.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of Satya Nadella, who has stopped infighting, restored morale, and under whom Microsoft's market value increased $250B+ in three and a half years — Microsoft's CEO has stopped infighting, restored morale, and created more than $250 billion in market value. All it took was focusing on what matters most.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
New study says Apple may be overselling its differential privacy protections in macOS and iOS; Apple disputes study's findings — FOR THE LAST year, Apple has touted a mathematical tool that it describes as a solution to a paradoxical problem: mining user data, while simultaneously protecting user privacy.| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
How a slowdown in Moore's Law led to the rise of specialized chips like FPGAs and GPUs for AI and other applications in computing — New technologies are testing the limits of computer semiconductors. To deal with that, researchers have gone looking for ideas from nature.| New York Times: |
Facebook and other tech giants are increasingly coming in conflict with governments around the world exerting greater control over the internet — On a muggy, late spring evening, Tuan Pham awoke to the police storming his house in Hanoi, Vietnam. — They marched him to a police station …
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| Dylan Byers / CNNMoney: |
Source: Facebook handed over data on Russian ad buys to special counsel Mueller under search warrant, including ad copies, targeting info, and account details — What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook — Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Interview about Face ID with Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi, who says no data from Face ID is sent to the cloud — Face ID is easily the most hot-button topic to come out of Apple's iPhone event this week, notch be damned. As people have parsed just how serious Apple is about it … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram now autoplays video sound once turned on until you close the app — Autoplay audio can be annoying or convenient depending on the situation. Luckily Instagram has found a happy medium between defaulting autoplay video sound on or off. — This weekend TechCrunch spotted …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Bing starts showing fact checking labels in search results — Following Google's lead earlier this year, Bing has added fact checking tags to search results. — A fact check label might now appear below results from Snopes, PolitFact, and other fact checking organizations …
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| JP Mangalindan / Yahoo! Finance: |
Facebook says Messenger now has 1.3B monthly active users, up from 1.2B in April, while Messenger Day has 70M daily active users — FB) users hate change — that's just a fact. — Back in 2014, many users became incensed when Facebook Messenger was spun out into a separate app people … Sponsor Posts
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