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| Danny O'Brien / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
China is now projecting its Internet power abroad using state-sponsored DDoS attacks, malware, client-side filtering and surveillance, economic sanctions, more — Those outside the People's Republic of China (PRC) are accustomed to thinking of the Internet censorship practices of the Chinese state …
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Tim Cook's claim in an internal email that the banned app in Hong Kong “was being used maliciously to target individual officers for violence” doesn't add up — I've seen a copy of Cook's company-wide memo, and the copy reproduced here is accurate.
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Hands-on with leaked Google's Pixelbook Go laptop: 8GB-16GB RAM, 64GB-256GB storage, 13.3-inch Full HD/4K display, 3.5mm headphone jack, and 2MP camera — We told you everything there is to know about the Pixelbook Go last month, but now we've got the goods.| Charles Duhigg / New Yorker: |
A deep dive into Amazon's enormous growth over the past decade as it tries to maintain its lean management culture and prepares to fend off regulators — Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Twitter releases new Catalyst app for macOS Catalina, now available to download in the Mac App Store — The most notable Catalyst app yet — Twitter's stop-start history of Mac development entered a new era today with the release of yet another all-new app.
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| Kareem Anderson / OnMSFT.com: |
Mixer co-founder Matt Salsamendi leaves the platform after last week's departure of co-founder James Boehm; VP for Xbox Live and Mixer Mike Ybarra has also left — Despite snagging gaming headliner Ninja to the platform, Mixer is arguably in the midst of a representative evolution …
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| Martin Shelton / Freedom of the Press: |
G Suite's lack of end-to-end encryption means US agencies could force Google to hand over unreleased reporting, even unpublished info about journalistic sources — If you work in a newsroom, there's a good chance you work with colleagues on Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and more.| Elizabeth Montalbano / Threatpost: |
Researchers identify zero-day vulnerability in iTunes for Windows, now patched, that was exploited by attackers to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware — Bad actors are actively targeting a vulnerability in the Windows version of Apple iTunes to deliver BitPaymer/iEncrypt ransomware.| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Uber buys grocery delivery startup Cornershop, which operates in Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Canada; Mexico blocked Walmart's acquisition of Cornershop in June — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has acquired a majority stake in the grocery delivery start-up Cornershop for an undisclosed sum …
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Tweets: @dkhos, @miguelpaz, and @mikeisaac
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
The Essential Gem's unveiling resurfaces allegations against Andy Rubin, making clear that it's becoming hard to disassociate products from their makers — The Essential Gem's unveiling makes clear that it's becoming harder to disassociate new products from the people making them.
Tweets: @shiraovide, @bjacobel, @rmac18, @saraashleyo, @whatthebit, and @waltmossberg
| CNBC: |
SAP CEO Bill McDermott steps down after over nine years, will be an adviser until year end; board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein appointed co-CEOs — SAP said on Thursday that Bill McDermott is stepping down as CEO after more than nine years running the German software company.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Standard Cognition, an AI-powered checkout company, buys DeepMagic, an autonomous retail kiosk startup, to better compete with Amazon Go — Valued at $535 million, autonomous retail startup Standard Cognition has emerged as a soon-to-be tech giant and the best hope for merchants to compete with Amazon Go.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook launches PyTorch 1.3, the latest version of its open-source deep learning library with quantization and support for use of Google Cloud TPUs — Facebook today released the latest version of its deep learning library PyTorch with quantization and Google Cloud TPU support for speedier training of machine learning models.
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