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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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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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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple's support document says the Pro Display XDR with the optional nano-texture glass can only be cleaned with a special Apple-provided cloth — Apple's new Pro Display XDR comes with an optional nano-texture glass, which is etched at the nanometer level to cut down on reflectivity and glare for a matte look.
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| 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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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
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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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| 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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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 … | 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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| 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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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.| 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 … | Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Glassdoor: Google and Facebook drop out of top 10 of US “best places to work” list, Google to 11, Facebook to 23; Microsoft only tech giant to jump in rankings — - Facebook fell 16 places, Google drops out of the Top 10 — Microsoft one of the only tech giants to jump in the rankings
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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, @stnwk, @vcsjones, and @rstephens
| 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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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
France's proposed copyright law weakens the already inadequate user protections from abusive infringement claims in EU's Copyright Directive — France was the most vocal supporter of the EU Copyright Directive's upload filters provisions (originally known as Article 13, but Article 17 in the final version).
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Intel releases its US pay disclosure report showing 26% of top tier earners, making at least $208K, are white men while less than 10% are black employees — New transparency shows familiar old divisions, with white and Asian men earning the most. The company says disclosure is a crucial step.
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