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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
LinkedIn says CEO Jeff Weiner is stepping down in June after 11 years in the role, becoming executive chairman, to be replaced by SVP of Product Ryan Roslansky — After 11 steady years as the CEO of the professional networking company, Weiner is yielding the reins to deputy Ryan Roslansky.
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LinkedIn, Thurrott, TechCrunch, LinkedIn Newsroom, Business Insider, CNBC, SiliconANGLE, Mercury News, GeekWire, CNN, Observer, Quartz, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and Adweek
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft reorganizes its Windows software and hardware teams into one group, called Devices + Windows and led by Panos Panay, amid other reshuffling — It's reorg day in Microsoft's Experiences and Devices unit. Here's what's happening, including what's happening with Windows client and Surface.
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Engadget, PCWorld, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, Windows Central, The Verge, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, Business Insider, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @jujodi, @jerrynixon, @maryjofoley, and @zacbowden
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds universal purchases for iOS and macOS apps to the Xcode 11.4 beta, letting developers bundle apps — The new Xcode 11.4 beta update, released today alongside the iOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4 and macOS Catalina 10.15.4 betas, includes support for universal purchases …
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Apple Developer, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Thurrott, The Verge, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat, CNET, Daring Fireball, TechSpot, Michael Tsai, Neowin, Bloomberg, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith, @cultofmac, @stroughtonsmith, @markgurman, and @stroughtonsmith
| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases the first iOS 13.4 beta, which includes a “CarKey” API, making it possible to unlock, lock, and start a car with an iPhone or Watch — Apple today released the first beta version of iOS 13.4 for developers, and now 9to5Mac has found evidences to a new feature …
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AppleInsider, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, MacRumors, Pocket-lint, Macworld, SlashGear, Neowin, VentureBeat, BGR, iPhone Hacks, Gotta Be Mobile, Wccftech, iDownloadBlog.com, and MacDailyNews
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Spotify will buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, and plans to hire Simmons and his approximately 90 employees — The Ringer CEO Bill Simmons in 2015 | Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year.
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Tweets: @billsimmons, @pitdesi, @samitsarkar, @marcoarment, @marcoarment, @pkafka, @neilcybart, @pkafka, @lucas_shaw, and @neilcybart
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue of $2B, up 24% YoY; 271M total MAUs, up 31% YoY, as paying users rise 29% YoY to 124M; 16% of its MAUs engage with podcast content — Streaming music now accounts for more than 80% of all music consumption in key markets like the US, and one of the big leaders in the field is reaping some of the rewards.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Chrome's ad blocker will expand to target disruptive video ads in August, including long pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads, and over-lays ads on video — Last year, Google made Chrome's standards-backed ad blocker fully available around the world. The Better Ads Standards today announced a …
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Chromium Blog, Coalition for Better Ads, Thurrott, The Verge, CNET, Input, Yahoo Finance, BGR, Neowin, CNBC, Android Central, ZDNet, XDA Developers, VentureBeat, Android Police, MSPoweruser, and MarTech Today
Tweets: @jbenton, @jbenton, and @brianjjackson
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it resolved an issue that caused Windows 10 Search, which is powered by Bing, to return blank results for several hours — Microsoft's Bing search was misbehaving in Windows 10 — Microsoft's built-in Windows search went down for many users for more than three hours today.
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Windows Central, Computerworld, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, CNET, Windows Latest, Gizmodo, OnMSFT.com, Computerworld, LaptopMag, CNET, Yahoo Finance, BBC, BetaNews, AskWoody, gHacks Technology News, PCWorld, Digital Trends, MSPoweruser, and Engadget
Tweets: @chrisbhoffman, @tomwarren, @tim_stevens, @reckless, and @maryjofoley
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Facebook says older versions of the WhatsApp desktop app, which uses Electron, let hackers access files on MacOS and Windows via a malicious link in messages — Yet another Electron implementation of a “secure” app turns out not to be. — Facebook has issued a security advisory for a flaw …
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Tweets: @muhd_uwais_, @bentasker, and @weizmangal
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
YouTube sends cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI over photo scraping after a similar move by Twitter; Facebook says it is reviewing Clearview AI practices — Google and YouTube have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that has been scraping billions …
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Tweets: @kashhill, @fabiochiusi, @jeffjohnroberts, and @evan_greer
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Researchers discover a now patched vulnerability in Philips Hue smart light bulbs that could have let hackers infiltrate users' home or corporate networks — Might want to check if you've got firmware 1935144040 — Four years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack …
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Check Point Software, AppleInsider, Input, Engadget, The Hacker News, Business Insider, HackRead, Gizmodo, GameSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, TechHive, Fast Company, Mashable, SecurityWeek, TechRepublic, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, BetaNews, CNET, and MacRumors
Tweets: @benlovejoy and @xtrixcyclex
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Lightning Labs, which wants to speed up bitcoin transactions, raises $10M Series A led by Craft Ventures and rolls out its first enterprise product — Elizabeth Stark stands out in the digital currency world. The 30-something entrepreneur is at ease among crypto's tribal subcultures …
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Lightning Labs⚡️, CoinDesk, Decrypt, blog.lightning.engineering, CoinDesk, Messari Crypto, The Market Refresh, The Daily Hodl, The Block, and Cryptocurrency News. Tweets: @starkness. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Janko Roettgers / protocol: |
Profile of Tom Conrad, a former Pandora and Snap executive who is now chief product officer at Quibi, as the streaming service gears up for launch — Tom Conrad is in charge of making a video service that gets people hooked. — Talk to Silicon Valley or Hollywood insiders about Quibi …
Tweets: @joshconstine and @kerrymflynn
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Armis researchers find five serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's Discovery Protocol, affecting millions of enterprise products, including routers and desk phones — Five vulnerabilities in Cisco Discovery Protocol make it possible for a hacker to take over desk phones, routers, and more.
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Armis, Threatpost, Help Net Security, SDxCentral, SecurityWeek, CyberScoop, and ZDNet
| Tom Foremski / ZDNet: |
Although Google disclosed many financial metrics for the first time in Q4, it removed cost-per-click, which has steadily declined, and the number of paid clicks — Google makes less money per click every quarter. Now, we won't know how much less. Is there trouble ahead in online advertising?| Corey Kilgannon / New York Times: |
The NYPD is replacing officers' handwritten patrol memo books, a fixture since the 1800s, with an iPhone app starting February 17 — Officers' most-used item since the 1800s isn't the gun or handcuffs, but the handwritten activity log. Now an iPhone app is replacing it.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher details a backdoor in Huawei-owned HiSilicon chips used in millions of smart devices, including security cameras, that has been active since 2013 — Researcher said he did not notify HiSilicon due to a lack of trust in the hardware vendor to adequately fix the issue.
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Habr, Tom's Hardware, ExtremeTech, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @threatresearch, @axcheron, @cybergibbons, and @counternotions
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad agencies, and ad tech rivals of Google as its online ad tools become a focus of antitrust probe — Antitrust enforcers have reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad tech rivals and ad agencies
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CNET, Search Engine Land, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, and @keachhagey
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple seems to have fixed a macOS Catalina bug, first reported in July, that caused snippets of encrypted emails sent via the Mail app to be stored unencrypted — The fix is apparently in macOS Catalina 10.15.3 — Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.3 last week, and the update apparently patched …
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Bob Gendler, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Disney says Disney+ will roll out to Western Europe in March and India on March 29 through Hotstar; Disney plans to launch Hulu internationally as soon as 2021 — Hulu will finally expand outside of the U.S., likely as soon as next year. This tidbit of news was confirmed by Disney Chairman …
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, and Thurrott
Tweets: @thrmattbelloni, @trengriffin, @asharma, and @sizpatel
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Rockstar Games says co-founder Dan Houser is leaving in March, after taking a break since spring 2019; Houser co-founded Rockstar in 1998 with his brother Sam — He touched every franchise it worked on — Dan Houser, co-founder of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games, will leave the company in March.
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StreetInsider.com, TrueAchievements, Ars Technica, TechSpot, The Guardian, MCV/DEVELOP, VG247, Polygon, and Engadget
Tweets: @jasonschreier, @juliofortworth, @alexhern, @alexhern, @benjisales, and @gracecellis
| Norman Mayersohn / New York Times: |
A look at how cities like Los Angeles are using anonymous data gathered from electric scooters to inform policy and city planning — Analyzing digital streams of information from electric scooters and motor-assisted bicycles is helping solve travel congestion issues.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber gets a permit to test autonomous vehicles on California's public roads, nearly two years after a fatal crash in Arizona, but says it has no plans to do so — Uber Advanced Technologies Group has been issued a permit that would allow the company to put its autonomous vehicles …
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VentureBeat, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Input, VentureBeat, and VentureBeat
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
A look at the growing privacy industry, as hundreds of tech companies help enterprises and consumers navigate the California Consumer Privacy Act — Privacy-focused technology companies are offering a variety of services, from personal data scrubbing to business-focused software meant to help companies comply with the law.| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Shadow's Iowa failure was a dangerous combination of techno-utopianism and laziness, which led to slapdash software engineering, procurement, and deployment — Democrats desperately need to win the internet to beat Trump. Their first big test was a massive failure. — Mr. Warzel is an opinion writer at large.
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VICE, protocol, Vox, The Verge, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, protocol, Washington Post, The Intercept, New York Times, Politico, Quartz, Android Authority, Cointelegraph, FiveThirtyEight, Fortune, and Business Insider
Tweets: @shadowinchq, @dnvolz, @ebruenig, @alxthomp, @cwarzel, @cnbc, and @public_citizen
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Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Verge, and VICE
Tweets: @dnvolz, @rabble, @ronwyden, @shadowinchq, @shadowinchq, and @lhfang
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm beats Q1 expectations with revenue of $5.08B, up 5% YoY and net income of $925M, up 13% YoY; revenue from licensing division was $1.4B, up 38% YoY — The US chipmaker beat Q1 estimates as it begins to realize the benefits of the ramp to 5G — Qualcomm published better-than-expected …
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MarketWatch, TheStreet, and Qualcomm Investor Relations
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