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Researchers say they found two actively exploited iOS 0-days, present since at least iOS 6, including a remote zero-click flaw in Mail; Apple says patch coming — In the summer of 2016, researchers at a digital rights organization and a cybersecurity firm announced they had caught …
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| Ed Hammond / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Magic Leap is laying off about half its employees, or around 1,000 people, as it winds down its consumer business; Magic Leap has raised over $2B — - About 1,000 employees are said to be affected by cuts — Magic Leap to wind down consumer business in retreat
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPhone SE 2020 review: good battery life but has a tired design and while the camera is good in bright light and great at video, it is noisy in low light — A strong case against $1,000 phones — What do you look for in a new iPhone? The top of the list likely includes battery life and camera quality.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Zoom rolls out its 5.0 update, focused exclusively on security and privacy features, including easier call management and upgrading encryption — Zoom is moving quickly to address complaints — Zoom promised a 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues, and the company is delivering on some of those promises.
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| Patrick Shanley / Hollywood Reporter: |
SuperData: worldwide digital video game spending reached a record $10B total in March, up 11% YoY, with $5.7B for mobile games, up 15% YoY — Console, PC and mobile games also saw significant revenue bumps amid the coronavirus lockdown. — Digital video game spending hit a record high …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Bill Gurley will not be a partner in Benchmark's 10th venture fund but will continue to work with companies he led earlier investments in — Lead investor won't be involved in new fund for first time since he joined firm in 1999 — Bill Gurley—one of the most prominent …
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CNBC, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @wsjmarkets, @kateclarktweets, @tomgara, @ychernova, @scottmaustin, and @fdestin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will now show the location of large Facebook and Instagram accounts alongside posts, to help users assess their authenticity, rolling out in US — Facebook today is introducing another feature aimed at making it easier to see who's behind the posts published across Facebook and Instagram.
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About Facebook, The Verge, Associated Press, SiliconANGLE, Input, Engadget, Pocketnow, Mashable, and SlashGear
Tweets: @ngleicher, @mosseri, @chey_cobb, @brandonsilverm, @bernardkeane, and @benimmo
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it now prioritizes the removal of COVID-19 tweets that incite “harmful activity” or could lead to the destruction of 5G infrastructure — Ever since it first started rolling out, 5G skeptics have attempted to link the next-gen cellular technology to all manner of health issues.
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Tweets: @twittersafety, @digiphile, @allergykidsdoc, @tonyromm, and @patrick_hruby
| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
Zoom fatigue is now setting in, as it moves from being a social lifeline to a chore, used for all interactions while aggravating anxieties in an exhausting time — The rapid trajectory of videoconferencing service Zoom has entered a new phase: What started as a social lifeline during the pandemic …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google's Threat Analysis Group shares a report outlining efforts by over 12 state-sponsored hackers using COVID-19 as cover for espionage — More than 12 government-backed groups are using the pandemic as cover for digital reconnaissance and espionage, according to a new report.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a Watchlist feature for Search to help users keep track of TV shows and movies — Google is adding a new feature to Search that will help you keep track of all the TV shows and movies you want to watch during these long weeks at home. The company had already …
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The Keyword, Mashable, SlashGear, 9to5Google, and Droid Life
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Instagram confirms it will add a “Remembering” banner under the usernames of people who have died, and has accelerated the process due to the pandemic — Instagram is speeding up plans for a new account memorialization feature, adding a “Remembering” banner under a username to signal that a person has died.
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Beebom, Adweek, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @wongmjane, @wongmjane, @katienotopoulos, @yoda, @chrismessina, and @wongmjane
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Jeff Bezos, who sources say only worked on projects that posed a major risk to the company, has taken an active leadership role at Amazon amid COVID-19 — The chief executive, who had distanced himself from day-to-day management, is closely involved in the company's response to the pandemic.
Tweets: @glennf, @nytnational, @puiwingtam, and @dmccabe
| New York Times: |
US intelligence officials say Chinese operatives are amplifying COVID-19 disinformation in America using text messages and social media posts — American officials were alarmed by fake text messages and social media posts that said President Trump was locking down the country.
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FA RSS, CNET, and BGR
Tweets: @foreignaffairs, @wiczipedia, @lourdesgnavarro, @noahpinion, @ewong, and @chinfo
| Sophos News: |
Deep dive on a “sextortion” spam email scheme that raked in 50.98 BTC, or ~$473K, over five months and, on some days, accounted for 20%+ of all observed spam — Cryptocurrency profits from sextortion spam funneled into wallets tied to other cybercrime and dark web market activity.
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ZDNet, Computer Business Review, Cointelegraph, and Naked Security
Tweets: @thepacketrat and @sophoslabs
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: |
American teens, stuck at home during the pandemic, are looking to recreate the fun of prom online, with many turning to TikTok — “I'm sitting here, crying in my prom dress,” is the chorus of a low-fi, hand-clappy track by the singer mxmtoon—and now a hyper-literal anthem for American teenagers.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
France is hypocritical to ask Google and Apple to ease their privacy protections for a French contact-tracing app, while being such a vocal critic of big tech — We keep trying to explain to people that privacy is always about trade-offs, and arguing for privacy laws that protect “privacy” …
| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Trustwave: ransomware attacks have quadrupled YoY in 2019 and have overtaken credit card theft as the most common form of cybercrime — Ransomware attacks have overtaken credit card theft as the top form of cybercrime according to new data. — Ransomware attacks have become more commonplace …
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Trustwave, infosecurity-magazine.com, BetaNews, and TechRepublic
Tweets: @shah_sheikh and @dannyjpalmer
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Fishtown Analytics, makers of an open source analytics engineering tool called dbt, raises $12.9M Series A led by a16z — Philadelphia-based Fishtown Analytics, the company behind the popular open-source data engineering tool dbt, today announced that it has raised a $12.9 million Series …
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Philadelphia Business Journal and PR Newswire
Tweets: @martin_casado, @lennypruss, and @stevesi
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Motorola's new $999 Edge Plus, which has a 6.7-inch display, Snapdragon 865, 5G, 12GB of RAM, 3.5mm jack, and arrives on May 14 on Verizon — Hands-on with Motorola's most powerful phone in years — Motorola is making flagship phones again.
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Verizon, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, PCWorld, Thurrott, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Android Police, Gizmodo, and Engadget
Tweets: @glkcreative and @dcseifert
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Granulate, which is developing a service that optimizes computing infrastructure in real time, raises $12M Series A led by Insight Partners — Granulate, a startup developing a platform that optimizes computing infrastructure in real time, today announced that it raised $12 million, bringing its total raised to date to $15.6 million.
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TechCrunch, FinSMEs, and ZDNet
| Bharath Manjesh / Reuters: |
LendingClub says it is laying off 460 employees, ~30% of its workforce, including President Steven Allocca, to slash costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic — (Reuters) - Online lender LendingClub Corp (LC.N) said on Tuesday it would lay off 460 employees, including President Steven Allocca …
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