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Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for 2019, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera, and the successor to the iPhone XR with a dual-camera — Three new iPhone models planned for 2019, including one with a triple rear camera — Apple Inc. AAPL .32% is planning to release three …
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| Washington Post: |
AT&T and T-Mobile say they will stop selling customers' location data to 3rd-party service providers by March; Verizon says it's winding down sharing agreements — AT&T said Thursday it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week …
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US government websites including NASA's and the DOJ's are inaccessible to public after 80+ expired TLS certificates were not renewed due to government shutdown — Over 80 government websites are down after TLS certificates and there's nobody on hand to renew them.| Bloomberg: |
Shareholder sues Alphabet's board of directors, claiming they breached fiduciary duty by covering up sexual misconduct by execs and giving Andy Rubin a payout — - Investor accuses Alphabet directors of abusing their power — Android creator allegedly got $90 million payout amid probe
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BBC, Google Walkout For Real Change, VentureBeat, The Verge, Reuters, CNBC, Washington Post, Wired, Gizmodo, Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, Android Central, Superior Court …, Fortune, Android Authority, CNN, Boing Boing, Silicon Valley Business …, Beyond Search, CNET, 9to5Google, Engadget, Droid Life, Axios, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Telegraph, BuzzFeed News, and Recode
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
The resumes of 202M+ Chinese users, with personal data including home addresses and mobile numbers, were exposed online on an unsecured MongoDB database server — Data appears to have originated from a data scraping app that collected resumes from Chinese job portals.
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South China Morning Post, TechCrunch, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, and CyberScoop. Tweets: @vboykis
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IDC reports global PC shipments in Q4 were down 3.7% YoY, while Gartner estimates a 4.3% YoY decline, amid CPU shortages and the US-China trade war — IDC and Gartner market share stats illustrate how trade wars and CPU shortages hurt fourth quarter sales for PC makers.
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Gartner, Thurrott, Inquirer, Business Wire, MacRumors, IT PRO, Pandaily, Softpedia News, CRN, Forbes, MarketWatch, The Register, VentureBeat, and 9to5Mac
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| Fraser Brown / PC Gamer: |
After an outcry from Improbable, Unity says the recent change to its ToS won't affect Unity-based games using Improbable's SpatialOS cloud platform — Unity CTO Joachim Ante said Improbable's warning that SpatialOS could not longer be used with Unity was ‘incorrect.’| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Some Twitter users in China, of which there are 3.2M, face detention and threats in Beijing's broad and punitive new censorship push — SHANGHAI — One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened another's family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation.
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Tweets: @kongtsunggan, @nytimesbusiness, and @astroehlein
| Vanessa Gera / Associated Press: |
Poland has searched the Warsaw offices of Huawei and Orange, arrested a Chinese manager at Huawei and charged him with espionage on behalf of China — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Internal Security Agency has charged a Chinese manager at tech giant Huawei in Poland and one of its own former officers …
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Tweets: @luoshanji, @ebkania, @kevinslaten, @notesfrompoland, @oskargie, and @ap
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview that reserves ~7GB of disk space for updates, apps, and more to ensure critical OS functions always have space — Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview with improvements to disk space management, Reset this PC, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Sources: Amazon-owned Ring gave its teams in Ukraine and the US unfiltered cloud access to unencrypted home security camera videos and live feeds — The “smart home” of the 21st century isn't just supposed to be a monument to convenience, we're told, but also to protection …
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Tweets: @samfbiddle, @samfbiddle, @shiraovide, @cybergibbons, @mathewi, @dinabass, @daveyalba, @reneritchie, @chaensaw, @itsnicolenguyen, @mims, @samfbiddle, @johnwilson, and @samfbiddle
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Sources say Amazon is developing a game streaming service, but it isn't likely to launch until next year at the earliest — Amazon is developing a service for streaming videogames over the internet, joining Microsoft, Google and other companies that are building similar offerings …
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The Verge, Inquirer, Business Insider, TechCrunch, CNBC, The Next Web, Neowin, TechSpot, VG247, GameSpot, BGR, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Gizmodo, InvestorPlace, MSPoweruser, SlashGear, CNET, and GeekWire
Tweets: @boringstein, @kmclaughlinsf, and @jtoonkel
| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Slack is planning to go public through a direct listing, likely to debut in the second quarter — Messaging company, recently valued at $7 billion, aims to debut in the second quarter — Slack Technologies Inc. is planning to go public through a direct listing … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Videolan says it expects VLC to surpass 3B downloads on Friday and that Airplay support is coming to the main VLC app, possibly arriving in about a month — Open source video player app VLC was mere hours away from surpassing 3 billion downloads Friday, and the Videolan team celebrated …
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VentureBeat, The Verge, The Next Web, The Mac Observer, Neowin, ValueWalk, MSPoweruser, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, Firstpost, BGR, SlashGear, Engadget, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@jank0
| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Ford is shutting down Chariot, the startup it acquired in 2016 that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and in London — Chariot, the Ford-owned transportation startup that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and internationally in London, is shutting down.
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Chariot, The Verge, The San Francisco Examiner, Digital Trends, Engadget, TechCrunch, and CNET
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Munich court rules that Amazon's Dash buttons do not provide consumers with sufficient information about a purchase in breach of consumer e-commerce rules — Amazon's Dash buttons have been found to breach consumer ecommerce rules in Germany. — The push-to-order gizmos were debuted by Amazon in 2015 … | Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Survey: 41% of Americans somewhat or strongly support AI development, 82% want AI carefully managed, universities and US military most trusted to build AI — In 2018, several high-profile controversies involving AI served as a wake-up call for technologists, policymakers, and the public.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
TiVo to launch Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV apps in Q2 and Q3, letting people watch live or recorded video on multiple TVs without buying a separate TiVo Mini — TiVo is launching apps for the Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV streaming devices later this year, letting people watch live or recorded video … | Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Ahead of its expected IPO, Postmates has raised a $100M investment, which a source says values the company at $1.85B, up from $1.2B in September — Just in the nick of time. — The food delivery startup Postmates has raised a $100 million investment just before it plans to go public … Sponsor Posts
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