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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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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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| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
Google employees believe the company is still working on Dragonfly, after finding recent code changes associated with the censored search engine and more — Google employees have carried out their own investigation into the company's plan to launch a censored search engine for China …
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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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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Google's 2018 pay equity analysis found that it was underpaying more men than women among software engineers, and it paid $9.7M in adjustments to 10K+ Googlers — SAN FRANCISCO — When Google conducted a study recently to determine whether the company was underpaying women and members of minority groups … | 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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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.| 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.| 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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Google announces Chromebook App Hub, an online resource for educators and administrators to learn about Chromebook apps for schools — Google's efforts to infiltrate the lucrative education sphere appear to be on track, with the company recently revealing some fresh numbers to demonstrate …
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| 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.| 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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Facebook is looking to launch enterprise edition versions of its Oculus Go and Oculus Quest virtual reality headsets this year, according to a job listing — Facebook is looking to launch enterprise edition versions of its Oculus Go and Oculus Quest virtual reality (VR) headsets this year … | Gabriel Sherman / Vanity Fair: |
Source: Jeff Bezos' security chief is preparing a 90-page investigative report that alleges The Enquirer published exposé to curry favor with Saudi investors — “At the end of this, we're all going to look really, really bad,” says Michael Sanchez. — Improbably, given all that's happened, they're still together.
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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.| 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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For the first time since at least Q1 2016, “Hardware” is not the most in-demand hiring category at Apple, being eclipsed by “Software and Services” — Apple ($NASDAQ:AAPL) started as a hardware company. Its first product was a kit: a box of hardware that customers had to assemble on their own.Sponsor Posts
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