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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Sources: Amazon-owned Ring gave its teams in Ukraine and the US unfiltered cloud access to unencrypted home security camera videos and live feeds — The “smart home” of the 21st century isn't just supposed to be a monument to convenience, we're told, but also to protection …
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| Fraser Brown / PC Gamer: |
After an outcry from Improbable, Unity says the recent change to its ToS won't affect Unity-based games using Improbable's SpatialOS cloud platform — Unity CTO Joachim Ante said Improbable's warning that SpatialOS could not longer be used with Unity was ‘incorrect.’
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Improbable and Epic Games partner to establish $25M fund to help devs transition away from Unity to “more open engines, services, and ecosystems”, after debacle — Unity found itself at the center of a controversy today, and now competitor Epic Games is turning up the heat.
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| Washington Post: |
AT&T and T-Mobile say they will stop selling customers' location data to 3rd-party service providers by March; Verizon says it's winding down sharing agreements — AT&T said Thursday it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say it is easy to find child porn images on Bing, which also actively suggests related keywords and images; Microsoft says it is working on fixes — A TechCrunch-commissioned report finds damning evidence — Illegal child exploitation imagery is easy to find on Microsoft's Bing search engine.
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| Bloomberg: |
Shareholder sues Alphabet's board of directors, claiming they breached fiduciary duty by covering up sexual misconduct by execs and giving Andy Rubin a payout — - Investor accuses Alphabet directors of abusing their power — Android creator allegedly got $90 million payout amid probe| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung plans to unveil a fully functional foldable screen phone and the 10th anniversary Galaxy S10 phone lineup on February 20 — Tech giant to also unveil its 10th anniversary flagship phones at events in San Francisco and London — SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. plans …
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @samsungmobile, @mgsiegler, and @mkbhd
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview that reserves ~7GB of disk space for updates, apps, and more to ensure critical OS functions always have space — Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview with improvements to disk space management, Reset this PC, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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Windows Blog, PC Gamer, Ars Technica, and The Register
| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Ford is shutting down Chariot, the startup it acquired in 2016 that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and in London — Chariot, the Ford-owned transportation startup that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and internationally in London, is shutting down.
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Chariot, The San Francisco Examiner, The Verge, GeekWire, TechCrunch, CNET, Bloomberg, and Axios
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Ahead of its expected IPO, Postmates has raised a $100M investment, which a source says values the company at $1.85B, up from $1.2B in September — Just in the nick of time. — The food delivery startup Postmates has raised a $100 million investment just before it plans to go public … | The Information: |
Sources say Amazon is developing a game streaming service, but it isn't likely to launch until next year at the earliest — Amazon is developing a service for streaming videogames over the internet, joining Microsoft, Google and other companies that are building similar offerings …
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Tweets: @boringstein, @jtoonkel, and @kmclaughlinsf
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IDC reports global PC shipments in Q4 were down 3.7% YoY, while Gartner estimates a 4.3% YoY decline, amid CPU shortages and the US-China trade war — IDC and Gartner market share stats illustrate how trade wars and CPU shortages hurt fourth quarter sales for PC makers.
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Gartner, SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, CNET, The Register, CRN, Forbes, MarketWatch, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, and MacRumors. Tweets: @shiraovide
| John Callaham / Android Authority: |
T-Mobile launches call verification tech that detects scammers spoofing local numbers and displays a “Caller Verified” label otherwise, on Samsung Galaxy Note 9 — If you own a smartphone, you have likely seen and answered calls that appear to come from your local area code, but are actually automated messages and scams.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
TiVo to launch Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV apps in Q2 and Q3, letting people watch live or recorded video on multiple TVs without buying a separate TiVo Mini — TiVo is launching apps for the Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV streaming devices later this year, letting people watch live or recorded video … | David Randall / Reuters: |
Analysts and fund managers speculate about how the Bezos divorce could affect Amazon, with the couple holding a roughly 16% ownership stake — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) shares see-sawed on Thursday as investors questioned how the impending divorce of company founder Jeff Bezos …
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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Tweets: @jeffbezos, @delrey, @tomgara, @ashleymayer, @rmac18, @mattyglesias, @silviakillings, @timjhanrahan, @rmac18, and @glennf
| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Researchers develop tool that can predict where Twitter users live with 92.5% accuracy using GPS data from geotagged tweets posted prior to April 2015 — AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP of researchers has developed an algorithmic tool that uses Twitter to automatically predict exactly where you live … | Wall Street Journal: |
A reconstruction of the cyberattack on the US power grid from 2016 to 2018, which targeted contractors and trade publications, and which the US blamed on Russia — A Wall Street Journal reconstruction of the worst known hack into the nation's power system reveals attacks on hundreds of small contractors
Tweets: @ericgeller and @amy_siskind
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Amazon's IMDb launches Freedive, an ad-supported streaming service offering movies and TV shows in the US; site now lists 130+ free movies and 29 shows — Amazon has extended its tentacles into the ad-supported VOD space — stocking IMDb with a back-catalog of dozens of movies and TV shows that are free to watch.
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CNET, TechCrunch, GeekWire, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, Polygon, and Android Police
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
US Secret Service memo warns that card thieves are avoiding detection while carrying multiple counterfeit cards by relying on the Fuze smart card — Street thieves who specialize in cashing out stolen credit and debit cards increasingly are hedging their chances of getting caught carrying … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Videolan says it expects VLC to surpass 3B downloads on Friday and that Airplay support is coming to the main VLC app, possibly arriving in about a month — Open source video player app VLC was mere hours away from surpassing 3 billion downloads Friday, and the Videolan team celebrated …
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Engadget, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, and The Verge. Thanks:@jank0
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