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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Apple says all Mac, iOS devices affected by Meltdown and Spectre; Meltdown defense added in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2; Spectre patch for Safari coming within days — After more than a day of silence, Apple confirmed Thursday that the Mac, iPhone and iPad are all affected by the recently disclosed massive chip vulnerability.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Intel begins issuing patches to combat Spectre and Meltdown flaws, with plans to release updates for 90% of chips from past five years this week — Following up on yesterday's confirmation that security exploits can compromise computers with Intel processors, Intel today announced a timetable …
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| Billboard: |
Sources: Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August, a time believed to coincide with the full vesting of his Apple stock — His planned departure is likely timed to his shares fully vesting, sources tell Billboard. — Look for Jimmy Iovine to leave Apple Music in August.| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Sources: FCC Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance at CES after receiving death threats — The threats have intensified following an FCC vote to repeal net neutrality rules. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai canceled his scheduled appearance …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Mark Zuckerberg says his 2018 personal challenge will be addressing issues like interference by nation states, abuse, quality of time spent on platform — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's mission in 2018 is to fix Facebook's mounting issues from last year, including state interference and harassment on its platforms.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @kantrowitz, @rhhackett, @kottke, @bendwalsh, @econ_marshall, @jwherrman, @jillianiles, @buzzfeednews, and @ericnewcomer
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Kalanick plans to sell ~29% of his 10% Uber stake, worth about $1.4B, to SoftBank consortium after offering 50%, the maximum allowed for board members — Former Uber Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick, who has long boasted that he's never sold any shares … | Apple: |
App Store customers spent $300M worldwide on New Year's Day and spent over $890M in the week starting Dec. 24; developers earned $26.5B in 2017, up 30%+ YoY — New Year's Day Sets Record With $300 Million in Purchases — Cupertino, California — App Store customers around the world …
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Tweets: @_inside, @neilcybart, @scotttaylor, @benedictevans, and @benedictevans
| Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: |
Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen reportedly owns 5.19B XRP tokens and a 17% stake in the company, valued at ~$59.9B after 36,000% increase in XRP value — - With Ripple's XRP coin hitting a high of $3.84, the company's co-founder and executive chairman, Chris Larsen, is now worth about $59.9 billion on paper.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud announces Preemptible GPUs in beta at 50% discount, says they can only be used for 24 hours and may be shut down with no more than a 30-sec warning — Google Cloud today announced the launch of preemptible GPUs. Like Google's preemptible VMs (and AWS's comparable spot instances) …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Spotify says it has 70M paying subscribers, up from 60M in late July 2017, as the company prepares for an IPO — Spotify today announced on Twitter that it has hit a new milestone, with the streaming music service reaching a total of 70 million paid subscribers.
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9to5Mac, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Axios, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, and AppAdvice.com
Tweets: @spotify, @spotify, @shiraovide, @apollozac, and @alexeheath
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Apple quietly joined the Alliance for Open Media, focused on video compression tech, which counts Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook as members — For months, powerful companies including Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have been working to shrink online video sizes.
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9to5Mac, The Verge, MacRumors, iMore, iPhone Hacks, VentureBeat, FierceCable, AppleInsider, Engadget, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @stshank, @juberti, and @digitalreb
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Johnson Controls unveils $319 Cortana-powered thermostat called GLAS, which runs Windows 10 IoT Core; available now for preorder, ships in March — Beauty comes at a price — Microsoft has partnered with Johnson Controls to build a thermostat. The software giant first unveiled …
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PR Newswire, Windows Blog, ValueWalk, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, Mashable, CNET, and Engadget
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
TiVo's new cloud-based service lets TV providers add recommendations, voice control, more to set-top boxes; the service supports mobile and streaming devices — TiVo has launched its new streaming service that promises big things for both consumers and cable or streaming operators.| Rebecca Savransky / The Hill: |
White House says it has banned guests and employees from using personal cell phones in the West Wing, will only allow use of government-issued devices — The White House is going to start barring employees from using their personal cellphones at work, press secretary Sarah Sanders said early Thursday.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Canalys predicts worldwide smart speakers sales will reach 56.3M in 2018, with 38.4M sales in the US, outpacing AR, VR, and wearables — Amazon and Google were willing to lose money on smart speaker sales over the holidays by discounting their hardware in order to gain market share. The reason?
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Canalys, MacRumors, ZDNet, AppAdvice.com, and 9to5Mac
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