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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Dell unveils its fall line-up of Alexa-ready Inspiron, XPS, and Vostro laptops and 2-in-1s, updated with 8th Gen Intel Core processors — Dell revealed its new line-up of laptops, 2-in-1 laptop-tablet hybrids, and monitors with the latest components from Intel.
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VentureBeat, Engadget, Inquirer, Engadget, Windows Central, Digital Trends, SlashGear, AnandTech, AnandTech, Neowin, VentureBeat, and Neowin
| Rachel King / Fortune: |
Instagram introduces features for public figures: extra user details in profiles and account verification; 2FA apps will be supported in the coming weeks — Facebook often finds itself as the target these days when it comes to problems with security and privacy on social media.
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CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, Instagram, Digital Trends, Forbes, The Verge, TechCrunch, Social Media Today, Firstpost, The Hacker News, ZDNet, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, Pocket-lint, Android Police, SlashGear, Droid Life, TechSpot, CrackBerry.com, Android and Me, iPhone in Canada Blog, BleepingComputer, The Hill, MacRumors, MSPoweruser, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, 9to5Mac, MacStories, Engadget, CNBC, BuzzFeed News, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Wired, and Mashable
Tweets: @stevesi, @dianaelbasha, @mattnavarra, @caseynewton, @shannon_liao, @campuscodi, and @kevinroose
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to add AI-powered audio and video transcription, file recommendations, and content-sharing tools to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint later in 2018 — Microsoft is adding automated audio and video transcription, file recommendations and new content-sharing options to its OneDrive …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, The Verge, Thurrott.com, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central, Softpedia News, eWeek, TechSpot, PCWorld, SlashGear, Engadget, Neowin, On MSFT, MSPoweruser, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Ryan Felton / Jalopnik: |
Report: Waymo's autonomous vans struggle to smoothly perform rather mundane driving tasks, often slowing or stopping at odd times, risking fender benders — If the autonomous revolution ever arrives, it's almost certain that self-driving cars will drive with an over-abundance of caution …
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The Information, CNBC, Telegraph, Business Insider, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Republic, Mashable, BGR, Boing Boing, and SlashGear
Tweets: @amir, @brianmcc, @amir, @edelagrave, @joshuabrustein, @benedictevans, @mattrosoff, and @mattrosoff
| New York Times: |
Sources: 100+ Facebook employees form an online group to create space for ideological debate after an internal post challenging its “intolerant” liberal culture — SAN FRANCISCO — The post went up quietly on Facebook's internal message board last week.
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Tweets: @randyebarnett, @hotlinejosh, @kevinroose, @kateconger, and @nytimesbusiness
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Facebook says cross-posted tweets disappeared from users' profiles because Twitter deleted the Twitter app for Facebook; the deleted posts are now restored — A number of Facebook users were surprised Tuesday when some of their old posts disappeared — specifically, all the updates that had been cross-posted from Twitter.| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
New zero-day flaw found in Microsoft Windows task scheduler that can allow a local user to gain system privileges in Windows 10 — Updated: There is no known workaround for the security flaw. — Microsoft has quickly reacted to the disclosure of a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in the Windows operating system.
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US-CERT, TechSpot, Inquirer, BleepingComputer, DoublePulsar, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, CSO, Security Affairs, MSPoweruser, Windows Central, Windows Latest, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, Threatpost, Softpedia News, Neowin, The Register, and On MSFT. Tweets: @sandboxescaper
| The Information: |
Sources: Amazon is planning to launch a free, ad-supported video service for its ~48M Fire TV streaming video device users that is being developed by IMDb — Amazon.com is planning to launch a free, advertising-supported video service for the estimated 48 million people who use …
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The Next Web, Axios, Engadget, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Firstpost, Fortune, BGR, CNET, and Business Insider. Tweets: @cityofthetown
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel debuts Core U and Y series chips, which were codenamed Whiskey and Amber Lake, saying they improve battery life and connectivity with integrated Wi-Fi — Intel is rolling out six new processors in the new Whiskey Lake U-series and Amber Lake Y-series.| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase survey of 675 US students shows 18% own cryptocurrency, and 21 of the top 50 US universities offer a class on blockchain technology or cryptocurrency — University students are clamoring for more courses about cryptocurrency and blockchain technology.
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| Daniel Oberhaus / Motherboard: |
Two cryptographers have run a blockchain timestamping hash once a week in the New York Times classified section since 1995 — This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record”. — The first time I heard about blockchains was at a party where a friend of mine spent the night talking … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google says it's rebranding Tez, its payments app for India, as Google Pay, will expand it to cover micro-loans and add Tez features to Google Pay worldwide — Google launched its Tez paymen app in India a year ago, and now the company is giving the service major push into retail as it prepares …
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Tweets: @jasuja, @jasuja, and @techcrunch
| Sarah Jeong / The Verge: |
An excerpt from Sarah Jeong's book “The Internet of Garbage”, which discusses online harassment as a threat to the useful functions of the internet — Today, The Verge is publishing an interim edition of Sarah Jeong's The Internet of Garbage, a book she first published in 2015 but has since gone out of print.
Tweets: @reckless, @tressiemcphd, @yurivictor, @attackerman, @presenteric, and @posty
| Ellen Pao / Wired: |
CEOs of social media companies should not hide behind “naiveté” and “free speech” as an excuse for letting fake news and harassment flourish on their platforms — IT'S NOT OFTEN you hear some of the richest, most powerful men in the world described as naive, but it's becoming pretty commonplace.
Tweets: @wired, @ilvestoomas, and @wired
| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
Trump accuses Google of rigging its search results to suppress positive news about him and tweets the situation “will be addressed” — President Trump's first tweet of the day, sent at 5:24am local time, has accused Google of rigging search results against conservatives.
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CNET, BetaNews, Search Engine Roundtable, Slate, CNNMoney, New York Post, SiliconANGLE, BGR, Search Engine Journal, Wall Street Journal, Popular Science, Motherboard, Silicon Republic, Wired, KTLA, The Guardian, LarrysWorld.com, Politico, Observer, Pocketnow, Techdirt, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Hill, Business Insider, ZDNet, Investor's Business Daily, Business Insider, Breitbart, The Verge, Japan Times, PYMNTS.com, South China Morning Post, Boing Boing, Business Insider, Houston Chronicle, Newco Shift, NBC Bay Area, Washington Post, ABC News, Axios, and Hit & Run
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @reuters, @ronwyden, @danprimack, and @tedlieu
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Acer launches detachable OJO 500 Windows Mixed Reality headset with built-in speakers, shipping November starting at $399 — Acer announced its latest Windows Mixed Reality headset during a packed press conference at the annual IFA event in Berlin this morning.
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Engadget, Digital Trends, The Verge, and SlashGear
| Kris Holt / Engadget: |
FCC to fund rural broadband for more than 700,000 homes and businesses, with more than half getting access to download speeds of 100Mbps or more — As part of its efforts to make broadband more available in rural areas, the Federal Communications Commission announced that the Connect America Fund Phase II …
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Federal Communications …, GOOD4UTAH, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, WTRF-TV, Lincoln Journal Star, USA Today, and FierceWireless. Tweets: @ajitpaifcc
| Reuters: |
Investigation: apparent global Iranian influence project bigger than previously known; Facebook says it has taken down more accounts linked to Iran — LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An apparent Iranian influence operation targeting internet users worldwide is significantly bigger than previously identified …
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CNET, 9to5Mac, and Axios
Tweets: @jazmineulloa, @darlin, @bing_chris, @weberwest, @bing_chris, @bing_chris, and @bing_chris
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Box Q2: revenues of $148.2M, up 20.6% YoY, 11 deals worth $500K+, up from 8 in year-ago quarter, and 87K+ business customers, up from 85K+ in year-ago quarter — - Box beat expectations for its fiscal second quarter, and guidance was within or near the range of analysts' expectations.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Yahoo's Oath has been pitching advertisers on a service that analyzes its 200M+ Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail inboxes; source says practice began 10+ years ago — Web giant analyzes more than 200 million inboxes for clues about what products people might buy—a practice much of Silicon Valley has declared off-limits
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BetaNews, The Next Web, Boing Boing, Mashable, Fast Company, The Verge, The Verge, TechCrunch, SlashGear, TechSpot, and CNET
Tweets: @jason_kint, @mmasnick, and @wsj
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google updates its Duo video chat app with support for iPads and Android tablets, two years after launching the service — Google's video chat app, Duo, has finally made its way to tablets. With its latest update, the app is able to work on both iPads and Android tablets.
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