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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
LinkedIn says CEO Jeff Weiner is stepping down in June after 11 years in the role, becoming executive chairman, to be replaced by SVP of Product Ryan Roslansky — After 11 steady years as the CEO of the professional networking company, Weiner is yielding the reins to deputy Ryan Roslansky.
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Tweets: @caseynewton, @danprimack, @jeffweiner, @danroth, @om, @jowens510, and @laurengoode
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft reorganizes its Windows software and hardware teams into one group, called Devices + Windows and led by Panos Panay, amid other reshuffling — It's reorg day in Microsoft's Experiences and Devices unit. Here's what's happening, including what's happening with Windows client and Surface.
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PCWorld, Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, The Verge, Thurrott, Business Insider, CNBC, Engadget, Neowin, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, and IT Management
Tweets: @maryjofoley and @zacbowden
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Spotify will buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, and plans to hire Simmons and his approximately 90 employees — The Ringer CEO Bill Simmons in 2015 | Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue of $2B, up 24% YoY; 271M total MAUs, up 31% YoY, as paying users rise 29% YoY to 124M; 16% of its MAUs engage with podcast content — Streaming music now accounts for more than 80% of all music consumption in key markets like the US, and one of the big leaders in the field is reaping some of the rewards.
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Spotify, Spotify, Reuters, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Engadget, VentureBeat, Windows Central, PYMNTS.com, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, and Fast Company
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds universal purchases for iOS and macOS apps to the Xcode 11.4 beta, letting developers bundle apps — The new Xcode 11.4 beta update, released today alongside the iOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4 and macOS Catalina 10.15.4 betas, includes support for universal purchases …
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases the first iOS 13.4 beta, which includes a “CarKey” API, making it possible to unlock, lock, and start a car with an iPhone or Watch — Apple today released the first beta version of iOS 13.4 for developers, and now 9to5Mac has found evidences to a new feature …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, AppleInsider, Macworld, VentureBeat, Gotta Be Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, and MacDailyNews
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Researchers discover a now patched vulnerability in Philips Hue smart light bulbs that could have let hackers infiltrate users' home or corporate networks — Might want to check if you've got firmware 1935144040 — Four years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack …
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Tweets: @benlovejoy and @xtrixcyclex
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it resolved an issue that caused Windows 10 Search, which is powered by Bing, to return blank results for several hours — Microsoft's Bing search was misbehaving in Windows 10 — Microsoft's built-in Windows search went down for many users for more than three hours today.
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Tweets: @chrisbhoffman, @tim_stevens, @maryjofoley, @tomwarren, and @reckless
| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Shadow's Iowa failure was a dangerous combination of techno-utopianism and laziness, which led to slapdash software engineering, procurement, and deployment — Democrats desperately need to win the internet to beat Trump. Their first big test was a massive failure. — Mr. Warzel is an opinion writer at large.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Chrome's ad blocker will expand to target disruptive video ads in August, including long pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads, and over-lays ads on video — Last year, Google made Chrome's standards-backed ad blocker fully available around the world. The Better Ads Standards today announced a …
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Chromium Blog, Marketing Land, Coalition for Better Ads, CNET, Yahoo Finance, ZDNet, XDA Developers, VentureBeat, Android Police, CNBC, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @brianjjackson
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Flaws in WhatsApp's macOS and Windows apps allowed remote access to files when a malicious link was clicked; the app, which uses Electron, has a patch available — Yet another Electron implementation of a “secure” app turns out not to be. — Facebook has issued a security advisory …
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Tweets: @muhd_uwais_, @weizmangal, and @bentasker
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI says YouTube served a cease-and-desist letter over photo scraping, following Twitter's letter in January — Google and YouTube have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that has been scraping billions …
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CBS News, The Verge, Engadget, Gizmodo, Techdirt, Input, OneZero, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @kashhill, @fabiochiusi, @jeffjohnroberts, and @evan_greer
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Lightning Labs, which wants to speed up bitcoin transactions, raises $10M Series A led by Craft Ventures and rolls out its first enterprise product — Elizabeth Stark stands out in the digital currency world. The 30-something entrepreneur is at ease among crypto's tribal subcultures …
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Lightning Labs⚡️, CoinDesk, CoinDesk, Messari Crypto, and BitcoinExchangeGuide. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple seems to have fixed a macOS Catalina bug, first reported in July, that caused snippets of encrypted emails sent via the Mail app to be stored unencrypted — The fix is apparently in macOS Catalina 10.15.3 — Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.3 last week, and the update apparently patched …
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MacRumors, Bob Gendler, 9to5Mac, and iDownloadBlog.com
| Janko Roettgers / protocol: |
Profile of Tom Conrad, a former Pandora and Snap executive who is now chief product officer at Quibi, as the streaming service gears up for launch — Tom Conrad is in charge of making a video service that gets people hooked. — Talk to Silicon Valley or Hollywood insiders about Quibi …
Tweets: @kerrymflynn
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Armis researchers find five serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's Discovery Protocol, affecting millions of enterprise products, including routers and desk phones — Five vulnerabilities in Cisco Discovery Protocol make it possible for a hacker to take over desk phones, routers, and more.
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Armis, Threatpost, CyberScoop, ZDNet, SDxCentral, and SecurityWeek
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad agencies, and ad tech rivals of Google as its online ad tools become a focus of antitrust probe — Antitrust enforcers have reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad tech rivals and ad agencies
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Search Engine Land, WebProNews, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, and @keachhagey
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
A look at the wave of hundreds of tech companies helping enterprises comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act — Privacy-focused technology companies are offering a variety of services, from personal data scrubbing to business-focused software meant to help companies comply with the law.
Tweets: @privacyproject and @michellemanafy
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Disney says Disney+ will roll out to Western Europe in March and India on March 29 through Hotstar; Disney plans to launch Hulu internationally as soon as 2021 — Hulu will finally expand outside of the U.S., likely as soon as next year. This tidbit of news was confirmed by Disney Chairman …
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TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Thurrott, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @asharma, @thrmattbelloni, @trengriffin, and @sizpatel
| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Rockstar Games says co-founder Dan Houser is leaving in March, after taking a break since spring 2019; Houser co-founded Rockstar in 1998 with his brother Sam — He touched every franchise it worked on — Dan Houser, co-founder of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games, will leave the company in March.
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Washington Post, VentureBeat, StreetInsider.com, Ars Technica, BBC, The Guardian, Engadget, IGN, TrueAchievements, VG247, MCV/DEVELOP, TechSpot, Kotaku, and Polygon
Tweets: @jasonschreier, @juliofortworth, @alexhern, @alexhern, @benjisales, and @gracecellis
| Chris Stobing / PCMag: |
Apple Pro Display XDR review: exceptional color accuracy, sturdy build, competitive price among reference-grade pro monitors, expensive Pro Stand but worth it — - Exceptional color accuracy. — DisplayHDR 1600 looks incredible. — High contrast ratio. — Sturdy build.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amid coronavirus fears, ZTE cancels its MWC 2020 press conference; LG Electronics says it is withdrawing from exhibiting and participating in the Barcelona expo — The second big company to cancel its MWC appearance — LG Electronics, the division of LG Corporation responsible for mobile phones …
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LG Newsroom, BBC, zte.com.cn, Bloomberg, Mashable, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, BGR, Axios, Android Central, TalkAndroid.com, TechSpot, and XDA Developers
Tweets: @keithdyer, @lguk, @andyboxall, @saschasegan, @tomwarren, @dcseifert, and @tomwarren
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber gets a permit to test autonomous vehicles on California's public roads, nearly two years after a fatal crash in Arizona, but says it has no plans to do so — Uber Advanced Technologies Group has been issued a permit that would allow the company to put its autonomous vehicles …
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BBC, Reuters, VentureBeat, Yahoo Finance, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Mashable, and Seeking Alpha
| Corey Kilgannon / New York Times: |
The NYPD is replacing officers' handwritten patrol memo books, a fixture since the 1800s, with an iPhone app starting February 17 — Officers' most-used item since the 1800s isn't the gun or handcuffs, but the handwritten activity log. Now an iPhone app is replacing it.
Tweets: @caseynewton and @chillmage
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