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Facebook has urged users to enable phone number-based 2FA, but the numbers are used in a user lookup feature with no opt out and to target ads, sparking outcry — Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
USB Implementers Forum announces USB 4, which offers a maximum speed of 40 Gbps, double that of USB 3.2, and support for Thunderbolt 3 — Double the speed of USB 3.2 up to 40 Gbps — Hot on the heels of USB 3.2 receiving a confusing Gen 2x2 suffix, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Huawei is preparing to sue the US government for banning federal agencies from using the company's products — SHANGHAI — The Chinese electronics giant Huawei is preparing to sue the United States government for banning federal agencies from using the company's products, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Luminary, a subscription-based podcasting app, has just emerged from stealth with $100M in funding and shows from Conan O'Brien, Lena Dunham, and more — LOS ANGELES — Patti LuPone as a bebop-singing junkie nun in John Cameron Mitchell's musical follow-up to “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
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| Saqib Shah / Engadget: |
Messenger is the first Facebook app to get dark mode, now available on iOS and Android — Days after Facebook Messenger's dark mode was outed on Reddit, the social network has made the update official for iOS and Android. For now, you can only enable it by sending the crescent moon emoji in an existing chat thread or new message.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
W3C approves WebAuthn as the official web standard for password-free logins; WebAuthn is supported by Edge, Chrome, and Firefox, and is in Safari preview — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today declared that the Web Authentication API (WebAuthn) is now an official web standard.| Usama Jawad / Neowin: |
Google discloses a “high severity” security flaw in macOS kernel after privately reporting the flaw to Apple in November 2018; no patch available yet — Google's Project Zero team is well-known for its knack of finding security flaws in the company's own products as well as those manufactured by other firms.
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Agents and producers working on streaming projects for Apple complain about how involved and “intrusive” execs, including Tim Cook, have been, leading to delays — Apple's push into Hollywood is off to a rough start — thanks in part to “intrusive” tech executives, including Tim Cook, The Post has learned.
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
The Momo Challenge sensation has mostly reflected the moral panic of grown-ups, fearing what their kids are doing on the internet and how it affects them — The real “Momo Challenge” is the terror of parenting in the age of YouTube. Here's the truth of what we know.| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
IBM's cybersecurity team X-Force Red investigated five popular visitor management systems and found 19 zero-day vulnerabilities across the vendors' products — Automation is big business, but smart visitor systems can be as vulnerable to attacks as any other connected device.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest expands personalized shopping recommendations, makes tools, like Catalogs which allows merchants to upload their entire catalog, generally available — Pinterest today introduced a series of new tools to help merchants sell their products, including Catalogs …
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| Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
How Facebook's cryptocurrency may succeed: a blockchain for instantaneous international remittances which can be easily converted into mobile money like M-Pesa — If Bloomberg and the New York Times are to be believed, later this year Facebook will introduce a cryptocurrency which will allow WhatsApp users to send money instantly.
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