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Apple acknowledges unresponsive or “sticky” key problem for some MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboards, launches free repair program — Apple today launched a new MacBook & MacBook Pro service program that it says covers a small percentage of users that might experience sticky, repeated characters or unresponsive keys.
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US Supreme Court rules that law enforcement officials need a warrant to get mobile-phone tower records that show someone's location over an extended period — Law enforcement officials need a warrant to get mobile-phone tower records that show someone's location over an extended period …
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| Reuters: |
Police say Uber's safety driver in a self-driving vehicle was streaming a Hulu show before the car hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona in March — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Police in Tempe, Arizona said evidence showed the “safety” driver behind the wheel of a self-driving Uber was distracted …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
California lawmakers introduce privacy bill supported by group behind Consumer Privacy Act, which will withdraw ballot initiative if bill is passed next week — LAWMAKERS IN CALIFORNIA have introduced a sweeping privacy bill to the state legislature that would give Californians unprecedented control … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook launches Messenger Kids app in Canada and Peru, the first markets outside the US, and makes the app available in Spanish and French — Facebook is expanding its controversial Messenger Kids app beyond the U.S. and into Canada and Peru, the company announced today.
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Reddit upgrades News tab, which surfaces content from subreddits frequently engaging with news, from alpha to beta and makes it available to most iOS users — People have come to Reddit for news since the site first launched back in 2005. In the decade-plus since then … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it is working on “time well spent” features; Android app shows features like time spent in the app, reminders for self-imposed limits, and more — Are you ready for some scary numbers? After months of Mark Zuckerberg talking about how “Protecting our community …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook has hired a team that will try to spot vulnerabilities in its systems before bad actors exploit them to prevent abuses like 2016 US elections debacle — Silicon Valley's giants are looking for future crises before they happen. — In an attempt to spot vulnerabilities in its system … | Wall Street Journal: |
bitFlyer, Japan's biggest crypto exchange, stops taking new clients after regulators found its anti-money laundering and security practices inadequate — Regulator orders bitFlyer and other cryptocurrency exchange operators to review business practices — TOKYO—Japan's biggest bitcoin exchange …
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Facebook confirms that 3% of apps using Facebook Analytics had their weekly summary reports sent to their app's testers, who may have been outsiders — Set the “days without a Facebook's privacy problem” counter to zero. This week, an alarmed developer contacted TechCrunch …
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After the acquisition, Twitter immediately shut down access to Smyte's API deserting its existing customers, who were using its anti-abuse and anti-fraud tools — Twitter today announced it was acquiring the “trust and safety as a service” startup Smyte to help it better address issues related …
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Inside the alleged heist of chip designs from US-based Micron by Taiwanese company UMC, which was hired by a Chinese company to help with memory chip factory — JINJIANG, China — With a dragnet closing in, engineers at a Taiwanese chip maker holding American secrets did their best to conceal a daring case of corporate espionage.
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