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Samsung Galaxy Fold review: awkward as a phone and has many issues, in addition to screen breaking, like “jelly scroll” where one side scrolls faster than other — The future is still very fragile — This is going to be a weird review. — It'll be weird because …
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Sources: macOS 10.15 to get Siri Shortcuts support for Marzipan apps, Screen Time, and a new Apple ID management panel — Apple is working on bringing the Mac and iOS closer together with the introduction of macOS 10.15 and iOS 13. Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, and more are expected …
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Report: FBI is investigating a ransomware attack that took The Weather Channel off the air for 90 minutes amid severe weather in southeast US — Down for more than an hour — The Weather Channel was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, briefly taking a live TV program off the air, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
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Sources: FTC probe into Facebook's privacy practices is also looking at past statements by Zuckerberg and weighing whether to seek oversight of his leadership — Federal regulators investigating Facebook for mishandling its users' personal information have set their sights on the company's chief executive … | Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
CDN provider Fastly files for an IPO, says it had $144M in revenue, up 38% YoY, and a net loss of $31M in 2018; Fastly raised a total of $219M in VC funding — Morning Markets: A dorky edition of this column focused on the Fastly S-1 filing. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins pleads guilty to entering a conspiracy to distribute the Kronos malware, aiding and abetting its distribution — WannaCry hero faces up to ten years in a US prison. — Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, the British security researcher known for stopping …
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Tencent wins approval from its regional regulator to sell Nintendo Switch in China, the first key step for the console to enter the world's largest games market — BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - China's Tencent has won a key approval to start selling the Nintendo Switch in the country …
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Facebook's subtle disclosure about storing millions of Instagram passwords in plain text before a holiday weekend shows it has mastered the art of the news dump — San Francisco (CNN Business)On the Thursday before a major holiday weekend, and an hour before the much-anticipated Mueller report … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
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Emtek announces it will shut down BBM for consumers on May 31, but BlackBerry's enterprise-grade service, BBM Enterprise, will become available to individuals — Consumer BBM users encouraged to switch to BBM Enterprise — Back in 2016, BlackBerry announced a new partnership …
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| Tom Huddleston Jr / CNBC: |
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan, an immigrant from China who was denied a US visa eight times, is now a billionaire after his company debuted on Nasdaq — When Eric Yuan was in his early 20s, he heard a speech from then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates about the promise of the internet …
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| David Yanofsky / Quartz: |
Scribd took down multiple copies of the Mueller Report, which is in the public domain, claiming that its algorithms identified it as a copyrighted work — A convenient feature of nearly all documents created by the US government is that they have no copyright.| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
36 days after Christchurch, variations of raw attack footage like short modified clips and screen recordings of the video playing can still be found on Facebook — The videos on Facebook and Instagram show sections of the raw Christchurch attack footage, and variations continue to thwart Facebook's moderators and technology.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: 3.2M+ Indian card records posted for sale online in 2018; India expected to surpass the UK in 2019, taking second place for stolen cards, behind the US — Prices for stolen Indian payment cards has also gone up by 150% in 2018 to around $17/card. — Due to a booming cybercrime scene … Sponsor Posts
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