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Twitter says it will discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021, saying it's brought most of the core capabilities of Periscope into Twitter — Today, we're sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is rolling out native M1 support for many Microsoft 365 for Mac apps, iCloud account integration in Outlook, and updated collaboration capabilities — Microsoft's new ‘Universal’ Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps for Mac will work on both Apple's M1 Arm silicon and Intel processors.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft and industry partners seize key command and control domain used in SolarWinds hack — By seizing the domain, Microsoft and its partners hope to identify all victims, but are also preventing attackers from escalating intrusions in currently infected networks.
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Tweets: @msftsecintel, @chicagocyber, @ravivtamir, and @campuscodi
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
EU proposes two bills governing tech giants, focused on illegal content and anticompetitive behavior, to empower regulators to levy large fines or break them up — Proposed bills would be the bloc's most ambitious internet laws since GDPR — European officials want new powers …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook is building a video product called Super that will let people pay content creators or celebrities to interact with them during a live broadcast — - New product ‘Super’ is still being tested at social network — Facebook is developing more video features during the pandemic
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Neverware, which helps schools and enterprises resurrect old PCs with its Chromium-based CloudReady OS, gets acquired by Google, which invested in its Series B — Neverware lets you turn old PCs and Macs into Chromebook-esque devices through its CloudReady OS.| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook will shift its UK users into user agreements with its HQ in California, instead of its Irish unit, moving them out of reach of EU's privacy laws — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters …
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Tweets: @vilpponen, @razhael, and @martinsfp
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: Apple plans to produce up to 96M iPhones for H1 2021, a nearly 30% YoY increase, and is also working on a new Apple TV for next year — Robust orders come as smartphone industry faces severe parts shortages — TAIPEI — Apple plans to produce up to 96 million iPhones for the first half of 2021 … | Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Facebook says people linked to France's military used fake accounts to meddle in African politics, tangling with similar efforts by Russia's IRA in some nations — It's the first time Facebook has identified people affiliated with a Western government for sanction
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches CloudShell, a fully featured web-based shell, based on Amazon Linux 2, for command-line access to AWS — AWS today launched CloudShell, a new, fully featured web-based shell environment, based on Amazon Linux 2, for developers who want to be able to use some of their favorite command-line tools …
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| The Verge: |
Google has restored service after a significant number of Gmail users saw “error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior” for a few hours — Stadia was experiencing issues, too — Google says that a “significant subset” of Gmail users ran into errors with the service Tuesday afternoon.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will allow ads targeting Georgia voters about the Jan. 5 runoffs, starting at 9am PT on Dec. 16, even as its broader political ad ban remains — Facebook said Tuesday it will begin letting advertisers run ads targeting Georgia voters about the state's Jan. 5 runoff elections …
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Tweets: @sarafischer, @craigsilverman, @rmac18, @hshaban, @mikeisaac, and @brooklynmarie
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
The ad industry is bracing for Apple's privacy-focused IDFA changes and attempting to adapt with new targeting methods — - Apple is making a huge change to settings on users' iPhones in the name of privacy, and it will fundamentally change mobile advertising on those devices.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission fines Twitter €450K for failing to promptly declare and document a data breach, in the DPC's 1st cross-border GDPR decision — Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) has issued Twitter with a fine of €450,000 (~$547k) for failing …
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Tweets: @twittercomms, @maxschrems, @sicarswell, @moonalice, and @maxschrems
| Bloomberg: |
Twitter says it has signed a multiyear deal to use AWS to power Twitter timelines, shifting away from its own infrastructure — - Deal may help speed service in certain parts of the world — Twitter also relies on its own data centers and Google's cloud
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Tweets: @joshuaseattle, @hpc_guru, @sub8u, @wongmjane, @skimbrel, @raehodge, @_msw_, and @base10
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Volexity researchers say they noticed SolarWinds hackers bypass MFA protections at a think tank previously but were subsequently undetected for several years — Hackers who hit SolarWinds compromised a think tank three separate times. — The hackers behind the supply chain attack …
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Reuters, Volexity, Wall Street Journal, Vox, Bloomberg, The Hill, Dark Reading, FedScoop, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @vinodsparrow, @alexstamos, @rklau, @ericgeller, @profwoodward, and @campuscodi
| Reuters: |
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Tweets: @dnvolz, @carlbildt, @politico, @vermontgmg, @dnvolz, and @robertmlee
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Facebook and Twitter represent v1 of social networking, a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital and a lot more promising — It's a rather motley crew. One is a nurse, another a lawyer, a third an investment adviser. There are three programmers, a soldier, and a data scientist.
Tweets: @stratechery
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands Community Guidelines to strengthen its existing policies in areas like harassment, self-harm, and violence, and unveils new well-being features — TikTok this morning announced a new set of Community Guidelines that aim to strengthen its existing policies in areas like harassment …
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TikTok, The Verge, Engadget, MobileSyrup, TikTok, and MakeUseOf. Tweets: @lanceulanoff. Thanks:@jamiefavazza
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon's cloud gaming service Luna is now available on Android for US users, with initial support on some Pixel, Samsung, and OnePlus devices running Chrome 86+ — It works on some Pixel, Samsung, and OnePlus devices — Amazon's cloud gaming service, Luna, is now available on Android, Amazon announced on Tuesday.
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| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
GoDaddy buys payments processor Poynt for $320M to expand its commerce and payments services offerings; Poynt's chief executive will join GoDaddy — The Web hosting firm said Poynt's technology will let it offer businesses a “complete suite of commerce and payment services”; Poynt CEO Bedier will run a newly created commerce division.
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GoDaddy Inc., PYMNTS.com, TheDomains.com, and PaymentsSource
| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Alloy, a Reid Hoffman-backed political data startup for Democrats, imploded after four senior employees, who had all complained about a colleague, were fired — Alloy was once seen as Democrats' next great hope. But chaos awaited. — Just two weeks after Election Day …
Tweets: @juliarosen, @teddyschleifer, @teddyschleifer, @tbonier, and @teddyschleifer
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos expands Memories, adding new collage designs and 3D Cinematic photos that simulate depth in a scene by adding a smooth panning effect — Google Photos is rolling out a series of updates to its Memories feature, which surfaces your best photos from years past.
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The Verge, CNET, Ausdroid, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, PetaPixel, Neowin, Android Police, Engadget, Android Authority, and Droid Life
Tweets: @googlephotos, @askdes, @sapochat, and @dflieb
| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton says TikTok banned him without warning, thinks it was after pressure from TikTok stars, with whom he's feuded; TikTok denies this — The celebrity blogger was banned from TikTok on Saturday in a move he said was influenced by the app's biggest stars.Sponsor Posts
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