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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
A large number of mostly late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro users are reporting that upgrading to macOS Big Sur is bricking their computers — A large number of late 2013 and mid 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro owners are reporting that the macOS Big Sur update is bricking their machines.| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
It's hard to believe Craig Federighi's claim that Apple wasn't “remotely considering” touch for Macs, given Big Sur's large controls and iOS apps coming to Macs — Reviews of new Apple Silicon Macs are not out yet. They're likely to be good. But one small disappointment lingers …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Parler, which is backed by Rebekah Mercer, has doubled its user base to 10M in a week, but unlike Facebook and Twitter, leaves moderation to users — The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech; surge in users since the election
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| Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog: |
Apple responds to privacy concerns over checking macOS apps' Developer ID certs over OCSP, ceases logging IP addresses, will launch encrypted protocol in 2021 — Following privacy concerns from Mac users after Apple's Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server went down … | Phil Vachon / Security Embedded: |
A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency — On November 12, 2020 Apple released macOS Big Sur. In the hours after the release went live, somewhere in Apple's infrastructure …
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| Financial Times: |
Max Schrems' campaign group noyb files complaints with German and Spanish regulators, claims Apple breaks EU law by enabling iPhone users to be tracked via IDFA — Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities — Apple is breaking EU law …
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| Max Weinbach / Android Police: |
Sources leak specs for Samsung Galaxy S21 series: the S21 Ultra will have a 108MP main camera sensor, and 3x optical and 10x “super” optical telephoto sensors — The Galaxy S21 launch is just a few months out, which means it's a great time for leaks.
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| Barry Collins / Forbes: |
A year after promising to create a way for people to memorialize accounts of deceased users, Twitter has yet to launch such a system — When Twitter threatened to automatically close inactive accounts, it sparked a furious response from users who feared the accounts of their dead friends and family were about to disappear forever.| Michael Cogley / Telegraph: |
Filing: Snap UK had revenue of $653M in 2019, up from $403.7M YoY, but losses grew to $435M, and will borrow up to $500M from Snap over the next five years — The tech giant posted losses of $453m in 2019 but will tap up its US parent for up to $500m over the next five years
Tweets: @sam_l_shead
| Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
Results uploaded to Geekbench show that Apple Silicon M1 scores higher than every previous Mac in the single core benchmark, even when the M1 is emulating x86 — The first native benchmarks of Apple's M1 chip appeared on the Geekbench site last week showing impressive native performance.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Sales readiness service MindTickle raises $100M in a round of debt and equity led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2; source: MindTickle is now valued at ~$500M — MindTickle, a startup that is helping hundreds of small and large firms improve their sales through its eponymous sales readiness platform …
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Researchers: flaws in Bumble exposed info of ~95M Bumble users, including Facebook data of some, and it took over 200 days after being notified to fix the bug — Bumble prides itself on being one of the more ethically-minded dating apps. But is it doing enough to protect the private data of its 95 million users?Sponsor Posts
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