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| 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 … | 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, MacRumors, iMore, TechRadar.com, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET, Macworld, Wccftech, Neowin, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, MacDailyNews, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @jasonogrady
| 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, Associated Press, TechCrunch, LinkedIn Newsroom, CNBC, Reuters, GeekWire, Observer, Business Insider, Neowin, Quartz, PYMNTS.com, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Adweek, Mercury News, MSPoweruser, and Thurrott
Tweets: @caseynewton, @danprimack, @jeffweiner, @danroth, @om, @julien, @seanlinehan, @jowens510, and @laurengoode
| 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, Business Insider, PCWorld, CNBC, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, Thurrott, The Verge, and OnMSFT.com
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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 overlays 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, Neowin, SlashGear, Tom's Guide, Adweek, Engadget, ZDNet, Search Engine Journal, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, Thurrott, Android Central, MarTech Today, CNET, XDA Developers, The Verge, BGR, Android Police, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @jbenton, @niemanlab, @getadblock, @jbenton, @brianjjackson, and @cnada
| 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 — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year. — Spotify is making yet another big-budget purchase aimed at getting …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
YouTube and Facebook send cease-and-desist letters to Clearview AI over photo scraping after a similar move by Twitter in January — Google , YouTube and Facebook have sent a cease-and-desist letters to Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that has been scraping billions of photos off …
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CBS News, BuzzFeed News, Engadget, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, Tubefilter, The Next Web, Input, and Gizmodo
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Brave browser report: 198 local UK Council websites are using real-time bidding advertising, which is the subject of a number of data protection complaints — On the same day that a data ethics advisor to the UK government has urged action to regulate online targeting a study conducted …
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The Guardian, Brave Browser, The Register, Yorkshire Evening Post, BBC, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @johnnyryan, @johnnyryan, @joiningdots, @privacyint, @rankingrights, @ianclucas, @openrightsgroup, @vikc, and @profcarroll
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches Brand Voice, a fully managed service within Amazon Polly for letting brands work with Amazon's engineers to build custom text-to-speech voices — If Amazon has its way, companies will soon tap Amazon Web Services (AWS) en masse to create voices tailored to their brands.
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Amazon Web Services, The Verge, MediaPost, B&TB&T, SpokeDaily, and Geek.com
Tweets: @drewharwell and @hypervisible
| 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 … | 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?| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
After layoffs at 23andMe, Ancestry says it is laying off 6%, citing slowdown across entire DNA testing category, now that most of early adopters have enrolled — - Ancestry, following 23andMe, made the decision to lay off some employees. It confirmed to CNBC that the cuts affected 6% of its workforce.
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @chrissyfarr, @hidrees, @emilylmullin, @jakejakeny, and @joemckendrick. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| The Guardian: |
Dutch court rules that a surveillance system used to detect welfare fraud violates human rights; called SyRI, it used a secret algorithm to run risk modeling — Government told to halt use of AI to detect fraud in decision hailed by privacy campaigners — A Dutch court has ordered … | 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, Input, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Hacker News, Business Insider, GameSpot, HackRead, Mashable, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, and TechRepublic
Tweets: @benlovejoy, @xtrixcyclex, @troyhunt, @tobi, and @migueldeicaza
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Twilio announces Q4 revenue of $331.2M, up 62% YoY, 2019 total revenue of $1.13B, up 75% YoY, ends Q4 with 179K+ active customer accounts; forecasts loss in Q1 — Twilio is posting strong revenue growth but its earnings outlook for the first quarter and fiscal 2020 fall short of expectations.
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Business Wire and SiliconANGLE
| 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, SDxCentral, Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, CyberScoop, and ZDNet. Tweets: @ashk4n
| Robert Heaton: |
Software engineer finds that Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application opened on a user's computer and send the data to Google Analytics — Chapter 1: The discovery — I have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one:| 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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ZDNet, CNET, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, OnMSFT.com, AskWoody, LaptopMag, Computerworld, Digital Trends, CNET, Yahoo Finance, Engadget, and PCWorld
Tweets: @backlon, @chrisbhoffman, @tomwarren, @tim_stevens, @reckless, and @maryjofoley
| 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: @protocol, @kerrymflynn, and @joshconstine
| 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.
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Gizmodo, AppleInsider, Engadget, MacRumors, TechSpot, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @caseynewton and @chillmage
| 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 … | 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, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, and MacRumors
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Child safety experts from 102 countries urge Facebook to halt plans for encrypted messaging across its apps until it addresses child exploitation concerns — Nearly 130 charities and academics around the world have urged Mark Zuckerberg to halt plans to introduce encrypted messaging across Facebook's trio …
Tweets: @mike_salter and @fttechnews
| Naomi Nix / Bloomberg: |
Documents show the CIA plans to hire multiple companies for lucrative cloud computing contracts offering an opportunity for Amazon's rivals — - Government posts draft requirements for new cloud contracts — Program builds on $600 million deal awarded to Amazon in 2013Sponsor Posts
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