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Google rolls out Chrome 79 adding security features like notifications for data breaches affecting users' passwords, new phishing prevention tools, tab freezing — Chrome 79 also ships with support for predictive phishing, for real-time Safe Browsing detections, and a built-in Password Checkup tool.
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Tweets: @sundarpichai, @kennwhite, @ericlaw, @campuscodi, and @laparisa
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook has fired a contractor who was bribed to reactivate banned ad accounts; messages show he agreed to a $5K upfront payment and a monthly retainer — A Facebook contractor was paid thousands of dollars in bribes by a shady affiliate marketer to reactivate ad accounts that had been banned due …
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SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, ZDNet, and Gizmodo
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases more pricing details for Mac Pro, now available to order: maxed-out 4TB model costs $50K+ and wheels are $400, delivering between December 19-27 — Apple's new Mac Pro became available for purchase today, giving us our first look at all of the available upgrade options and pricing tiers.
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook says it will not weaken end-to-end encryption, build backdoors into its messaging apps, in response to a letter from US AG and UK, Australian officials — Facebook said it would not weaken end-to-end encryption across its messaging apps, despite pressure from world governments …
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| Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel's partner shares chip giant's manufacturing process technology roadmap: 7nm EUV in 2021, then 5nm in 2023, 3nm in 2025, 2nm in 2027, and 1.4 nm in 2029 — One of the interesting disclosures here at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) has been around new and upcoming process node technologies.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft is bringing its first Office app to Linux with Microsoft Teams, now in public preview — Microsoft today launched Microsoft Teams for Linux in public preview. No, that's not a typo — Microsoft Teams is indeed the first Office app that the company has ported to Linux.
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| Reuters: |
How White House veterans helped the UAE build a surveillance unit in 9/11's wake that would go on to target activists and journalists as well as terrorists — In the years after 9/11, former U.S. counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke warned Congress that the country needed more expansive spying powers to prevent another catastrophe.| Kollen Post / Cointelegraph: |
DOJ arrests 3 men behind the BitClub Network cryptocurrency mining pool, says it was a Ponzi scheme which defrauded investors of $722M since 2014 — United States authorities in New Jersey have announced the arrest of three men who are accused of defrauding investors of over $722 million …
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Tweets: @el33th4xor, @whalepool, @alansilbert, and @scheplick
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases watchOS 6.1.1 and version 13.3 for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS, with updates to Screen Time, Apple News, support for physical security keys, and more — As expected, Apple today has released iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3, tvOS 13.3, and watchOS 6.1.1 to the public.
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Tweets: @simoahava, @mactrast, @rstephens, @stnwk, and @vcsjones
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google brings Android 10 to Android TV, with performance and security improvements, and unveils the ADT-3, a tiny full-fledged Android TV device for developers — Android 10 is also coming to Android TV today, but don't expect much — Today, Google is announcing that Android 10 is arriving on Android TV … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Card's interest-free iPhone installment plan goes live, now with 6% back on Apple purchases through December 31 — Apple is today launching a new feature for Apple Card which allows cardholders to purchase a new iPhone then pay it back over 24 months with no interest.
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Oracle to move its annual OpenWorld conference from SF to Las Vegas for at least three years, citing SF's high hotel rates; move estimated to cost SF $64M/year — - Oracle is moving its annual OpenWorld conference from San Francisco to Las Vegas and it signed a three-year agreement with the Caesars Forum for the move.
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| Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post: |
Researchers find Facebook's ad targeting tools, which charge less for ads to users already interested in the content, have worsened polarization in US politics — For the first time, researchers have demonstrated a skew in the delivery of political ads based on the content of those ads alone.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
North stops selling its Focals smart AR glasses 14 months after debuting them, says it plans to launch a sleeker version with 10x higher resolution in 2020 — North, an augmented reality (AR) wearables company backed by Amazon and Intel, has announced that it's pulling its current Focals smart glasses off …
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Tom's Hardware, In Focus - North, The Verge, TechSpot, BetaKit, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @focalsbynorth, @paulg, and @dcseifert
| Bloomberg: |
ByteDance has been testing Resso, a new music app, in India and Indonesia, but is yet to seal rights deals with the world's three largest music companies — - India and Indonesia are first to sample ByteDance's latest — Company looking to become less dependent on advertising income| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Interview with the co-founders of VC firm Pear, which has just announced $160M in new fundraising to focus on seed-stage startups — Pear, a six-year-old, Palo Alto, Calif.-based seed-stage firm whose bets on nascent startups are closely watched by early-stage investors … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Passport, a permitting, parking, ticketing management, and mobile payments platform for cities, office parks, and campuses raises $65M Series D — The big new round of funding for Passport's ticketing and parking management tech proves that software can even disrupt something as mundane and seemingly low-tech as the parking lot.
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FinSMEs, Crunchbase News, and PR Newswire
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
VSCO acquires video editing startup Rylo, which had raised ~$38M, reached a valuation of ~$120.25M, and was backed by Sequoia Capital, among others — The photo-sharing app behind the 2019 meme craze “VSCO girls” has acquired Rylo, a video editing startup founded by the original developer of Instagram's Hyperlapse.
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VSCO Press and Engadget
Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @byjoshg, @joeldflory, @kateclarktweets, and @vsco
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Magic Leap is renaming its AR headset from the Magic Leap One Creator Edition to the Magic Leap 1, as it pivots from consumers to business customers — The same headset, aimed at a different market — Magic Leap is pitching its headset to businesses with a new name.
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GamesIndustry.biz, Financial Times, and Light Reading
Tweets: @reckless, @alexeheath, @ldignan, @tomemrich, @yoda, @mcwm, @adamjanofsky, and @glenngabe
| Nick Greenhalgh / AmericanInno: |
CyberGRX, which provides cyber risk assessment and management tools to enterprises, raises $40M Series D led by ICONIQ Capital, bringing total raised to $100M — Denver-based CyberGRX, a global cyber risk exchange provider, announced Tuesday that it raised a $40 million Series D, bringing its total funding to $100 million.
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FinSMEs, Denver Business Journal, and Business Wire
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Iterable, which offers SMS, email, and app notification growth marketing services, raises $60M Series D led by Viking Global Investors — A startup that's built cross-channel growth marketing platform — used by businesses to capture customers across whatever digital media they happen to be using …
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Iterable, Business Insider, and San Francisco Business Journal. Tweets: @crv. Thanks:@ingridlunden
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