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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: FTC and DOJ have reached an agreement to divvy up antitrust oversight of Google and Amazon, putting Amazon under FTC's watch and Google under DOJ's — Antitrust regulators have divvied up oversight of Amazon and Google, putting Amazon under the watch of the Federal Trade Commission and Google under the Justice Department.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and a number of other services are down in parts of US and Europe because of a major Google Cloud service outage — YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and a number of other web services are suffering from outages in the US today.
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| New York Times: |
Boeing changed 737 Max's anti-stall software, which initially relied on two types of sensors, to rely on just one in the last version, without disclosing to FAA — SEATTLE — The fatal flaws with Boeing's 737 Max can be traced to a breakdown late in the plane's development, when test pilots …
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| Adam Engst / TidBITS: |
Apple's Dark Mode, despite marketing claims, is at odds with the science of human visual perception and affects productivity by making it harder to read text — Dark Mode is the marquee feature of macOS 10.14 Mojave. Apple even gives it the top spot on the macOS product page, saying:
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Beam Dental, which uses brushing stats collected by its connected toothbrush to lower dental insurance premiums, raises $55M Series D — When was your last dental checkup? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than a third of U.S. adults haven't sat in a dentist's chair within the past 12 months.
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| Benjamin Herold / Education Week: |
US schools are hastily adopting programs for monitoring students' social media activity to improve safety, often with little regard for effectiveness or privacy — Last December, early on a Sunday morning, Amanda Lafrenais tweeted about her cats. — “I would die for you,” the 31-year old comic book artist from Clute, Texas wrote.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple has removed all content from its iTunes pages on Facebook and Instagram — More evidence has emerged to suggest that Apple is beginning to move away from its iTunes brand after over 18 years of use. — As noted on Reddit, Apple has abruptly removed all social media content …
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| Saagar Enjeti / The Hill: |
On Friday, US began requiring most visa applicants to provide information on their use of social media; the policy was announced in March 2018 — The Trump administration will implement a new policy Friday asking most applicants for U.S. visas to provide information on their use of social media …
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| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
Former Facebook execs, who are mostly just expressing remorse now, should speak out more forcefully and use their Facebook riches to promote reform there — The Facebook co-founder has made enemies—very rich enemies—of many of his former partners, who are now speaking out.
Tweets: @vanityfair, @buzz, @marycypsy, and @jessefelder
| Financial Times: |
CFTC says it is in very early talks with Facebook to understand if its upcoming cryptocurrency falls under the US regulator's jurisdiction — Facebook has begun talks with the top US derivatives regulator over its plans for a digital currency, in a sign of how the world's largest social media platform …
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| South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Foxconn has stopped several production lines for Huawei phones in recent days as the Chinese device maker reduced orders for new phones — Huawei is now closely observing and evaluating the situation, Honor president Zhao Ming said at Shanghai event 'Too early to say whether …
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TechCrunch, Business Insider, Patently Apple, Engadget, Softpedia News, Gizchina, Android Police, Engadget, 9to5Google, South China Morning Post, Pocketnow, Science, and Forbes. Thanks:@chuakongho
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researcher outlines how he discovered and exploited the now-patched KeySteal flaw in macOS to access and decrypt keychain passwords without admin privileges — IN EARLY FEBRUARY, an 18-year-old German security researcher named Linus Henze demonstrated a macOS attack that would allow … Sponsor Posts
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