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| Chris Hall / Pocket-lint: |
Echo Sub, an Alexa-powered subwoofer, leaked via Amazon.co.uk, listed at £75, coming Oct. 11, can be paired with one or two Echo devices for stereo pairing — Amazon is adding a subwoofer to its Echo family, bringing the bassline to its Alexa-powered speakers.
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Android Authority, Thurrott.com, CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, Fortune, SlashGear, Firstpost, GeekWire, Neowin, Mashable, and AndroidHeadlines.com. Thanks:@stuartmiles
| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
A look at Facebook Dating, which launches today in Colombia as a test, and limits users to expressing interest in a maximum of 100 people per day — Does deeper data produce perfect matches? Facebook is finally ready to find out, starting today with a country-wide test in Colombia of its Dating feature.| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is considering a plan to open up to 3,000 Amazon Go cashierless stores by 2021 — - Rapid expansion would rank it among biggest convenience chains — Retailer is testing different formats for AmazonGo strategy — Amazon.com Inc. is considering a plan to open …
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CNBC, The Next Web, Bloomberg, Reuters, Digital Trends, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, MarketWatch, GeekWire, PYMNTS.com, Geek News Central, Firstpost, TechSpot, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, The Verge, CNET, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, Investor's Business Daily, Business Insider, Engadget, and AndroidHeadlines.com
Tweets: @austenallred, @tictoc, @dylanbyers, @okkevdwal, and @mdudas
| Noam Cohen / New Yorker: |
Reporter says Linus Torvalds' decision to temporarily step away from Linux maintenance came after he was asked a series of questions about his conduct — The e-mails of the celebrated programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language.| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
GoPro launches Hero 7 Black with live-streaming, super slow motion, smooth stabilization, and 4K video at 60 fps for $399, going on sale September 27 — With new cheaper options at $199 and $299 — Just a few hours after a last-minute leak, GoPro has officially announced the new Hero 7 line of cameras …
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The Verge, Engadget, Business Wire, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, and CNBC
| Suzanne Barlyn / Reuters: |
John Hancock, one of the largest life insurers in the US, will now only sell policies that track fitness and health data via wearable devices and smartphones — (Reuters) - John Hancock, one of the oldest and largest North American life insurers, will stop underwriting traditional life insurance …
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New York Times, 9to5Mac, Softpedia News, CNNMoney, CNBC, Quartz, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tweets: @mathewi, @codejake, and @katecrawford
| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at how Google decides on suggestions for Gmail's Smart Reply, which is being rolled out to its 1.4B accounts, and make up 10% of all Gmail responses — Google's automated email replies, which are being rolled to its 1.4 billion accounts, have baffled users with some peculiar suggestions| New York Times: |
Inside Facebook's election “War Room”, which will be the company's hub for safeguarding elections around the world — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Sandwiched between Building 20 and Building 21 in the heart of Facebook's campus, an approximately 25-foot by 35-foot conference room is under construction.
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @sarahfrier, @marshallk, @nytmedia, @patricktbrandt, @dctwining, @joshconstine, and @nytimesbusiness
| BBC: |
Equifax fined the maximum £500,000 by UK's Information Commissioner's Office for failing to protect the personal data of ~15M Britons in 2017 breach — Credit rating agency Equifax is to be fined £500,000 by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) after it failed to protect the personal data of 15 million Britons.
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Engadget, TechCrunch, ico.org.uk, CNET, ZDNet, Neowin, Fortune, and Inquirer
Tweets: @tim2040, @jce_pc, @jason_kint, and @profcarroll
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange Zaif says it was hacked and ~$60M worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoin, were stolen from exchange's hot wallets — Yet another Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange has been hacked with a loss of total 6.7 billion yen, or $60 million worth of cryptocurrency, including 6,000 bitcoin.
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Bloomberg, The Asahi Shimbun, CoinDesk, ZDNet, Coingeek, Bitcoinist.com, NewsBTC, TechRepublic, The Next Web, CoinSpeaker, CCN, CryptoGlobe, Bitsonline, Cointelegraph, and Hacked. Tweets: @edmundedgar
| Patrick McGeehan / New York Times: |
A remote corner of New York, which once attracted heavy industry, is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity — A region that once attracted heavy industry is coping with an influx of Bitcoin speculators, lured by an abundance of cheap electricity.
Tweets: @davecullen, @ryanvlastelica, @dannorberts, and @nickconfessore
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Google announces Cloud Memorystore for Redis leaves beta, vulnerability scanning for Container Registry, partnership with NEC Corp. to expand GCP in Japan — Google LLC is taking the opportunity to beef up its Google Cloud Platform as it visits Japan for its Cloud Next Tokyo '18 conference.
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TechCrunch, Google Cloud, ReadITQuik, ZDNet, SearchCloudSecurity, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and TechCrunch
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Overview of the most popular attack vectors against IoT devices and which are most often compromised: MikroTik devices top the list, followed by TP-Link — Cybercriminals' interest in IoT devices continues to grow: in H1 2018 we picked up three times as many malware samples attacking smart devices as in the whole of 2017.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
MariaDB announces an investment from cloud computing company ServiceNow, and that it has acquired Clustrix, a scale-out database and drop-in MySQL replacement — MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clusterix … | Alyza Sebenius / Bloomberg: |
Report says illicit cryptocurrency mining has surged 459% in 2018 YoY and that the spike is tied to the 2017 US government leak of hacking tool EternalBlue — - Cyber Threat Alliance releases report on cryptocurrency mining — Illicit cryptocurrency mining surged 459 percent in 2018
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Cyber Threat Alliance, SiliconANGLE, Bitsonline, NewsBTC, CryptoSlate, and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @business
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Strategy Analytics: in Q2, Google Home Mini led with 20% smart speaker marketshare on 2.3M shipments, and Amazon Echo Dot had 18% market share with 2.2M shipped — Amazon's Echo Dot may have been a bestseller on Prime Day, but Google's Home Mini device is now the top-selling smart speaker worldwide …
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Business Wire, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Firstpost, iPhone Hacks, and ZDNet
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researcher shares flaw, reported to Western Digital in April 2017, that bypasses admin password for WD's My Cloud NAS drives; WD says fix coming in a few weeks — A security researcher has published details of a vulnerability in a popular cloud storage drive after the company failed to issue security patches for over a year.
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Inquirer, Securify, The Register, TechSpot, Naked Security, Western Digital Corporate Blog, BleepingComputer, Security Affairs, and The Register
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @svblxyz, and @gossithedog
| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Counterpoint Research: in Q2, Apple sold 43% of all $400+ phones and 88% of $800+ phones globally, and took 62% of global handset profits — Apple's iPhone earnings were over 3.6 times that of Samsung and over three times the profits of the top four brands in China, as the company sold 43 percent of all “premium” phones globally.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Threat researcher: hackers stole customer credit cards in a month-long data breach at online retailer Newegg, between August 14 and September 18 — Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. — Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer's payments page …
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Volexity, RiskIQ, PCWorld, The Verge, Android Police, Inquirer, The Tech Report, SiliconANGLE, PaymentsSource, Flashpoint, SecurityWeek, BetaNews, Security Affairs, The Register, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, InvestorPlace, Gizmodo, Neowin, The Hacker News, AppleInsider, Engadget, BleepingComputer, KnowTechie, PC Gamer, CNET, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Motherboard, ZDNet, and Cyberscoop
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @zackwhittaker
| Anna Baydakova / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase hires Brian Brooks, former Fannie Mae executive VP and general counsel, as its chief legal officer — Crypto exchange Coinbase has hired a new chief legal officer in its ongoing push to grow its leadership team. — Brian Brooks, a former executive vice president …
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The Coinbase Blog, Fortune, TechCrunch, CoinSpeaker, American Banker, Cointelegraph, and Reuters. Tweets: @macroscope17
| Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal: |
Crypto pioneer David Chaum is unveiling Elixxir, a platform that promises to improve on bitcoin's speed by processing thousands of transactions a second — A new platform, called Elixxir, promises to improve on bitcoin's speed by processing thousands of transactions a second
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| Sam Kim / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is planning to curtail growth in memory chip output next year to keep supplies tight and keep prices high, amid an expected slowing in demand — - Biggest memory chip maker is said to prepare for slowdown — Samsung is world's biggest maker of NAND, DRAM memory
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| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
Multiple publisher sources claim Google Ad Manager has been down for several weeks; Google confirms issues but says the problem had been global for only 3 days — Publishers have struggled to get visibility on who is buying their inventory for the last two weeks, due to what many claim to be an unusually long Google Ad Manager outage.| Kelly Weill / The Daily Beast: |
Cody Wilson, 3D printed gun advocate, charged with a second degree felony count of sexual assault of a child — The far-right figure allegedly met a teen on SugarDaddyMeet.com, where he told her he was a ‘big deal.’ — The founder of a an alt-right crowdfunding site and a 3-D gun-printing company …
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Austin American-Statesman, KVUE-TV, The State of Texas, The Verge, TechCrunch, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, The Register, Vox, New York Times, Ars Technica, Mashable, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, and Slate
Tweets: @girlsreallyrule and @loisbeckett
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple Watch Series 4 review: beautiful screen, great battery life, and health-tracking features, but Siri is unreliable, and there is no always-on screen option — The screen steals the show — The greatest Apple product comeback story of the past few years has, without a doubt, been the Apple Watch.
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Tweets: @backlon, @steven_aquino, @jreinermd, @nytimesbusiness, @daniel_rubino, @nicholas_bagley, @puiwingtam, and @dangraziano
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