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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Study: many iOS apps, including the Washington Post's, use “background app refresh” to send tracking info like location and IP address, even late at night — Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.
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MacRumors, Washington Post, Firstpost Tech, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Boing Boing, 9to5Mac, Tehrani.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Insanely Great Mac
Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @geoffreyfowler, @chey_cobb, @joshuatopolsky, @geoffreyfowler, @gcsventures, @ow, @caseynewton, @alexstamos, @geoffreyfowler, @thomasclaburn, @hshaban, @jeffjohnroberts, @bergmayer, @washingtonpost, @taylor_soper, @privacyproject, @maggienyt, @slugbiker, @alexstamos, @jszanchi, @om, @posttech, @geoffreyfowler, @benioff, @realhamed, @rycrist, @hodapp, @patjack, @markseibel, @stevekopack, @shiraovide, @karolcummins, @geoffreyfowler, and @susankelleher
| Apple: |
Apple launches new iPod touch with A10 Fusion chip, support for Group FaceTime, and a 256GB storage option, available to order now starting at $199 — Featuring Support for Group FaceTime and AR Experiences — Cupertino, California — Apple today introduced the new iPod touch with enhancements to power …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Facebook, Twitter suspend accounts related to a disinformation campaign that seemed to originate in Iran; messages targeted reporters, policymakers, dissidents — Facebook and Twitter each said on Tuesday they had disabled a sprawling disinformation campaign that appeared to originate in Iran …
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Facebook, Wired, FireEye, CyberScoop, SiliconANGLE, and Geek News Central
Tweets: @jordanschachtel, @tonyromm, @josh_emerson, @alexstamos, @wired, and @desideriodc
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Flipboard says hackers had access to its servers for 9+ months and stole some customers' info, including digital tokens linking profiles to 3rd-party services — Extent of the hack is unknown, but Flipboard said hackers had access to its systems for almost nine months.
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Flipboard, TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, Digital Trends, CNET, and Mashable
Tweets: @flipboard, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked screenshots reveal iOS 13's Dark Mode, new “Find My” app icon, and a redesigned Reminders app that helps you quickly sort by Scheduled, Flagged, more — Not a mockup, some information redacted to protect our sources — We're less than a week away from WWDC …
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| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Chat app Kik launches a crowdfunding campaign to support a likely court fight with SEC over its 2017 ICO, says it's spent $5M so far and pledges $5M more in BTC — Canada-based messaging app firm Kik has launched a crypto crowdfunding campaign to support a likely court battle with the U.S. Securities …
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| Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
LinkedIn acquires Drawbridge, a startup that helps companies with identity management using machine learning; Drawbridge has raised nearly $69M — LinkedIn just acquired its 22nd-known company: Drawbridge. The smaller company will integrate with LinkedIn's marketing services.
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Tweets: @alexrkonrad and @jake_abraham
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
HP unveils its revamped VR Backpack with an 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, an Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU, and swappable batteries, coming this summer for $3,300 — Does a VR headset still qualify as a standalone device if the computer powering the headset is strapped to your back rather than built into the goggles?
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| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Researcher finds about a million older Windows devices currently vulnerable to the wormable Remote Desktop flaw BlueKeep, amid spike in port scanning activity — Nearly one million devices are vulnerable to attacks involving the Windows vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep and it appears that hackers …
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Errata Security, The Register, The Hacker News, ZDNet, Security Affairs, and Threatpost
Tweets: @bad_packets, @bad_packets, @swiftonsecurity, @adam_k_levin, @bad_packets, and @johullrich
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Twitch temporarily disables the ability for new accounts to livestream after trolls streamed porn, illegal content, and hateful imagery on a section of the site — Citing safety as a main priority — Twitch has disabled the ability for new accounts to live stream following an attack …
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
eMarketer: Facebook users in the US spent an average of 38 minutes per day on the platform in 2018, down from 41 minutes per day in 2017 — If you've found yourself spending less time on Facebook over the last year, you're not alone. As the beleaguered company has battled scandal and tried to emphasize … | Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Intel unveils Honeycomb Glacier, a concept gaming laptop with a 15.6" 1080p primary screen and a 12.3" 1920x720 secondary screen lifted up by a double hinge — It's called the Honeycomb Glacier — If I'm being honest, the phrase “Honeycomb Glacier” makes me think of a frosty dessert … | New York Times: |
Chinese food delivery apps generated an estimated 1.6M tons of packaging waste in 2017, a ninefold jump from two years before, growing to ~2M tons in 2018 — The noodles and barbecue arrive within 30 minutes. The containers they come in could be around for hundreds of years thereafter.
Tweets: @jmulvenon, @nytimes, @toda, @patrooocle, @adamminter, @chrisbrogan, @cathyerway, @nytimesbusiness, and @puiwingtam
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Leaked doc: Google has ~121K temporary and contract workers globally, compared with ~102K full-time staff, raising concerns about its growing reliance on them — SAN FRANCISCO — Mindy Cruz had an offer for a full-time position at another big tech company when she accepted a temporary job as a recruiter at Google in 2017.
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Tweets: @ainsleyoc, @daiwaka, @grahamstarr, @carnage4life, @alex, @nytimes, @anthonymobile, @businessinsider, @daiwaka, @daiwaka, @raitlhwane, and @stevesi
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
MacKenzie Bezos to give over half her $37B fortune to charity, joining the Giving Pledge with Brian Armstrong, Ben Delo, others; Jeff Bezos has not signed — MacKenzie Bezos, the world's third-richest woman following her divorce from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has signed the Giving Pledge …
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Giving Pledge, Wired, New York Times, Financial Times, NBC News, Axios, GeekWire, CryptoGlobe, TechSpot, BBC, Quartz, and Variety. Tweets: @kirstinestewart
| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
The rise of Chrome and its open source Chromium sibling, often used in new browser projects, raises concerns about Google's effective power over the web — - Once underdog, browser now labeled ‘spyware,’ ‘monopolist’ — Company accused of stalling approvals for rival browsers
Tweets: @gerritd, @gerritd, @samharrelson, @gerritd, @hannah_recht, and @mdudas
| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Valve's $999 Index VR headset a month before debut: excellent screen and tracking help reduce “VR swimminess”, but questions about software remain — For better and for worse (mostly better), there's never been a VR system like this.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
After a long tug of war, W3C says it will not publish future HTML and DOM standards, instead letting the WHATWG, a group of browser vendors, do so — W3C hands over development of HTML and DOM standards to browser vendors (WHATWG). — An industry group made up the four major browser vendors … | Joseph Marks / Washington Post: |
Experts say ransomware victims like Baltimore have not taken sufficient measures to protect against the EternalBlue exploit two years after it first leaked — THE KEY — Critics and defenders of the National Security Agency faced off this weekend over a New York Times report detailing …
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CyberSecPolitics, UPI, Komando.com, Errata Security, and BitcoinExchangeGuide
Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @ridt, @robertmlee, @beauwoods, @robertmlee, @dave_maynor, @erratarob, @ridt, and @erratarob
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
FireEye acquires Verodin, a startup that assesses the effectiveness of an organization's cybersecurity, for $250M; Verodin had raised $33M+, per Crunchbase — When FireEye reported its earnings last month, the outlook was a little light, so the security vendor decided to be proactive and make a big purchase.
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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, and Channel Futures
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Kik and Facebook, which are building their own blockchain tech, could finally make micropayments to access single articles behind paywalls a reality — It's a problem that's long flummoxed media outlets, and also one that's increasingly frustrating consumers: The inability to pay a small sum … | Kate Kaye / GeekWire: |
Portland to start a year-long pilot of Sidewalk Labs' Replica software, to get access to synthetic mobile location data that mirrors the population in aggregate — People in the Portland metro area with smartphones may not realize it, but they have digital clones.| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
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