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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iOS 12 officially launches out of beta, with faster performance, Screen Time, smarter notifications, Memoji, Siri Shortcuts, improved privacy in Safari, more — Apple today officially released iOS 12, the latest operating system designed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. iOS 12 is available …
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| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
iOS 12 review: mostly incremental improvements to iOS 11 rather than breaking new ground, except for Siri Shortcuts, which is a productivity playground — We left last year's iOS 11 update with a palpable tension between two platforms. — On one hand, following a year of minor changes …
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, iMore, Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @viticci, @gartenberg, @reneritchie, and @twesterhuys
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Testing shows app launch times on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad Mini 2 improve between 7% and 27% after installing iOS 12 — Apple delivers on its promises and pushes back against “forced obsolescence.” — When we tested iOS 11 on the iPhone 5S, it was clear that it was slower … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Shopping launches personalized Explore channel, expands Stories tags after testing them since June, and lets brands add a shopping bag icon to Stories — Instagram is embracing its true identity as a mail-order catalog. The question will be how much power merchants will give Instagram …
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Instagram, The Verge, Recode, 9to5Mac, Engadget, CNBC, Digital Commerce 360, and Mashable. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Mobile social network Path, which Google reportedly tried to acquire for $100M and which was once raising money at a $500M valuation, is closing down on Oct. 18 — It's that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. — Following the shuttering …
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Tweets: @path, @mulligan, @buzzfeedben, @etherington, and @path
| Eugene Kim / CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon plans to release at least eight new Alexa-powered devices, including a microwave, an amplifier, and subwoofer, by the end of the year — - It reflects Amazon's ambition to make its Alexa voice assistant ubiquitous, especially in areas where people spend most of their time, like the home and car.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Current and former Apple execs including Eddy Cue, Tony Fadell, Greg Joswiak, and John Sculley recount anecdotes from their time at the Infinite Loop campus — Apple's old HQ holds stories of pizza ovens, iPhone secrets, baseball bats, and what happened to Steve Jobs' office.
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TidBITS, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @waltmossberg, @seldo, and @pschiller
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Cloudflare debuts IPFS Gateway, an easy way to access content from the P2P-driven InterPlanetary File System that does not require installing special software — Internet security provider Cloudflare is introducing a new product to help users more easily access the InterPlanetary File System …
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The Cloudflare Blog. Tweets: @ipfsbot, @letoams, @jgrahamc, and @musalbas. Thanks:@basedriana274
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researchers disclose 0-day flaw allowing remote code execution on security cameras running Nuuo software, say hundreds of thousands of devices may be affected — The previously unknown security flaw in Nuuo software is thought to impact hundreds of thousands of devices worldwide.
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Tenable, The Register, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, Cyberscoop, Threatpost, and Telegraph
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Stripe unveils Stripe Terminal, a new service for in-person payments with Warby Parker and Glossier as launch partners, will charge 2.7% plus 5¢ per transaction — The San Francisco-based company is introducing a new service for in-person payments. — For years, Stripe has been synonymous …
Tweets: @delrey
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook expands its bug bounty program to include third-party apps and services that involve improper exposure of Facebook user access tokens — FACEBOOK WAS A relatively early proponent of so-called bug bounties, paying out more than $6 million to security researchers who have spotted vulnerabilities …
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Facebook, Engadget, TechCrunch, ZDNet, VentureBeat, and Threatpost
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Getty Images partners with Amazon to provide images from its catalog of 200M digital pics for searches on the Echo Show and Echo Spot — On the heels of the Getty family regaining control of Getty Images, reportedly for about $3 billion, the company is announcing a move to expand use of its images to a wider set of eyeballs.
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Getty Images Press Room, Engadget, GeekWire, VentureBeat, The Verge, Neowin, and Fortune. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Mike Memoli / NBC News: |
Facebook debuts pilot program to expand its security tools and procedures, like 2FA and threat monitoring, for candidates and campaign staff ahead of midterms — The program is meant to identify patterns of malicious behavior earlier, making Facebook's reaction quicker.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Security researcher finds a new CSS-based attack that crashes and restarts iPhones after malicious HTML is rendered, like when a user visits a malicious link — Vulnerability most likely affects any iOS and macOS app that uses the WebKit rendering engine to display web pages. Apple is investigating.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Amazon adds a new section to its website called Amazon Storefronts, a retail hub exclusively for US SMBs, featuring 1M+ products from ~20K companies — Amazon would really like to convince you that it isn't putting small businesses out of work — Amazon is introducing a new section …
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Recode, ZDNet, CNET, US Day One Blog, KnowTechie, Vox, and GeekWire
| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Italian court sentences a man who sold hospitality businesses fake reviews on TripAdvisor to nine months in jail — Fake reviews are a blight on the Internet, but in many jurisdictions they are also illegal. For example, in the European Union, they've been outlawed for more than a decade.
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TripAdvisor, CBS News, Telegraph, Naked Security, Slashdot, and tnooz
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft Managed Desktop launches as a subscription service whereby Microsoft provisions, deploys and manages companies' Windows 10 devices — The rumors were true: Microsoft's MMD service, which officially starts rolling out today, is a subscription service via which Microsoft provisions …
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GeekWire, Petri, Ars Technica, Microsoft 365 Blog, and Thurrott.com
| Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff, to buy Time Magazine for $190M from Meredith Corp., expecting to close within 30 days — Benioffs won't have day-to-day operational role at Time Magazine — Time magazine will have a new home.
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New York Times, Meredith Corporation MediaRoom, Business Insider, CNNMoney, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Recode, NPR, Forbes, Adweek, GeekWire, TIME, Engadget, Vanity Fair, The Register, Silicon Republic, Axios, Mercury News, Silicon Valley Business …, Fortune, CNET, and Deadline
| Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle: |
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Tweets: @shalini, @shiraovide, @sfchronicle, @salesforcejobs, @benioff, @valaafshar, and @sfchronicle
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