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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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Microsoft 365 Blog, TechRadar, iMore, MSPoweruser, MakeUseOf, iPhone in Canada Blog, OnMSFT.com, Wccftech, Neowin, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @reneritchie and @sushubh
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 84 with native support for Apple M1 Macs, saying the browser launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive — Mozilla today released Firefox version 84 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip, touting …
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Mozilla, Engadget, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, Thurrott, XDA Developers, MSPoweruser, Neowin, Appleosophy, Threatpost, The Mac Observer, GeekWire, iClarified, TechRadar, iClarified, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @mkennedy, @chrismessina, and @alternativeto
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
| Washington Post: |
SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public — The timing of the trades raises questions about whether major shareholders used inside information to avoid stark losses after the attack.
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Washington Post, ZDNet, Slate, and VICE
Tweets: @senblumenthal, @jasonhowell, @drewharwell, @mollywood, and @campuscodi
| 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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Microsoft Security, Washington Post, Security Affairs, Newsweek, BBC, Dark Reading, iTnews, SiliconANGLE, Federal Computer Week, infosecurity-magazine.com, CRN, Nextgov, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @msftsecintel, @chicagocyber, @campuscodi, and @ravivtamir
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft plans to forcibly block and isolate malware-infected versions of the SolarWinds Orion app via Microsoft Defender, starting on Wednesday — After only showing detection alerts, Microsoft moves to block trojanized SolarWinds apps from running, opening the door for some IT issues for some of its customers.
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Techdirt, ClearanceJobs, The Hacker News, SC Media, NPR, and Fox News
| Periscope: |
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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The Verge, Axios, help.twitter.com, Digital Trends, Variety, Newser, ZDNet, SlashGear, Social Media Today, Android Police, Mashable, Tubefilter, The Hill, iDownloadBlog.com, MakeUseOf, MacRumors, Neowin, CNN, Gizmodo, CNET, Reuters, AppleInsider, and New York Post
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook is working on an AI tool called TLDR, which would summarize articles in bullet points and which was announced in an end-of-year, company-wide meeting — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them.
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The Next Web, Medianama, and Reuters
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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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| 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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Tweets: @googlephotos, @askdes, @sapochat, and @dflieb
| 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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The Irish Times, Medianama, The Verge, Telegraph, Financial Times, BBC, and Slashdot
Tweets: @vilpponen, @paulnemitz, @razhael, @adrianweckler, and @martinsfp
| 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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| 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.
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cloudreadykb.neverware.com, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, Android Authority, Chrome Unboxed, MSPoweruser, and Android Police
Tweets: @neverware, @frankcatalano, @mishaalrahman, @kevinctofel, and @chromeunboxed. Thanks:@technacity
| 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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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, BleepingComputer, CRN, Forbes, The Hill, Chrome Unboxed, 9to5Google, CNN, Android Authority, phonearena.com, Towards AI, and ZDNet
Tweets: @chrismessina, @ediggs, @meganmorrone, @thegautamkamath, @tracyalloway, @trevorbattle, and @mslopatto
| 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 … | 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
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: a coalition of US states are expected to file antitrust lawsuit against Google as soon as Thursday, alleging it altered design of search to hurt rivals — A coalition of states is finishing an antitrust lawsuit against Google focused on its power in the online search market … | 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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9to5Google, Android Police, SlashGear, Android Authority, Engadget, and Pocket-lint
| 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.
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NextPit. Tweets: @msitarzewski, @max_mead, @disruptivedean, @mattrosoff, @aparanjape, @aparanjape, and @megancgraham. Thanks:@fintwitfb
| 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: @rossgarber, @blaine, @modestproposal1, @damanr, @blaine, and @stratechery
| Rest of World: |
Behind the rise of Japan's “poikatsu” influencers, who share tips on maximizing loyalty points, driven by generous rewards programs by apps like Line Pay — To attract reluctant consumers, Japanese fintech companies have used generous rewards programs. Now an unlikely subculture has emerged to take advantage.| Kathryn Dill / Wall Street Journal: |
Many students say they found virtual campus career fairs this year technically challenging, but less intimidating and more efficient than those held in-person — Screen-based meetings demand patience and new break-the-ice protocols, but you can wear gym shorts| Michael Waters / Modern Retail: |
A look at Walmart's Spotlight program which recruits employees to showcase the positive sides of Walmart on the individuals' social media accounts — When Lauren Castle started interning at Walmart in 2011, she didn't think she'd last more than a few months.
Tweets: @jimstengel and @caseyjohnston
| Lilah Burke / Inside Higher Ed: |
UT Austin has stopped using a ML-based system called GRADE to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in CS following backlash, seven years after first introducing it — U of Texas at Austin has stopped using a machine-learning system to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in computer science.
Tweets: @susanschorn, @microbiomdigest, and @hypervisible
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