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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is rolling out native M1 support for many Microsoft 365 for Mac apps, iCloud account integration in Outlook, and updated collaboration capabilities — Microsoft's new ‘Universal’ Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps for Mac will work on both Apple's M1 Arm silicon and Intel processors.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, O'Grady's PowerPage, iMore, MacRumors, TechRadar, MSPoweruser, MakeUseOf, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @sushubh and @reneritchie
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 84 with native support for Apple M1 Macs, saying the browser launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive — Mozilla today released Firefox version 84 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip, touting …
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Mozilla, Engadget, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, MSPoweruser, Thurrott, XDA Developers, iClarified, Neowin, Appleosophy, Threatpost, The Mac Observer, GeekWire, TechRadar, and iClarified
Tweets: @mkennedy, @chrismessina, and @alternativeto
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
| Washington Post: |
SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public — The timing of the trades raises questions about whether major shareholders used inside information to avoid stark losses after the attack.
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Washington Post, ZDNet, and Slate
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft and industry partners seize key command and control domain used in SolarWinds hack — By seizing the domain, Microsoft and its partners hope to identify all victims, but are also preventing attackers from escalating intrusions in currently infected networks.| Periscope: |
Twitter says it will discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021, saying it's brought most of the core capabilities of Periscope into Twitter — Today, we're sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021.
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| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook is working on an AI tool called TLDR, which would summarize articles in bullet points and which was announced in an end-of-year, company-wide meeting — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them.
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Medianama, The Next Web, and Reuters
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook attacks Apple in full-page newspaper ads, claims upcoming iOS 14 changes around data gathering and targeted advertising are bad for small businesses — - Ads criticize Apple's plan to restrict some data gathering — Facebook placed ads in the NYT, WSJ and Washington Post| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook will shift its UK users into user agreements with its HQ in California, instead of its Irish unit, moving them out of reach of EU's privacy laws — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook is building a video product called Super that will let people pay content creators or celebrities to interact with them during a live broadcast — - New product ‘Super’ is still being tested at social network — Facebook is developing more video features during the pandemic
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Social Media Today, PYMNTS.com, and CNET
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Australian regulator sues Facebook for allegedly using its Onavo VPN app to spy on users for commercial purposes in 2016 and 2017 — Yet more trouble brewing for Facebook: Australia's Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is suing the tech giant over its use, in 2016 and 2017 …
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Tweets: @acccgovau, @joshbutler, and @martinsfp
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos expands Memories, adding new collage designs and 3D Cinematic photos that simulate depth in a scene by adding a smooth panning effect — Google Photos is rolling out a series of updates to its Memories feature, which surfaces your best photos from years past.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Neverware, which helps schools and enterprises resurrect old PCs with its Chromium-based CloudReady OS, gets acquired by Google, which invested in its Series B — Neverware lets you turn old PCs and Macs into Chromebook-esque devices through its CloudReady OS.
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cloudreadykb.neverware.com, ZDNet, Computerworld, XDA Developers, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, and Android Authority
Tweets: @neverware, @frankcatalano, @mishaalrahman, @kevinctofel, and @chromeunboxed. Thanks:@technacity
| The Verge: |
Google has restored service after a significant number of Gmail users saw “error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior” for a few hours — Stadia was experiencing issues, too — Google says that a “significant subset” of Gmail users ran into errors with the service Tuesday afternoon.
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNN, BleepingComputer, Chrome Unboxed, Forbes, phonearena.com, The Hill, CRN, 9to5Google, and Android Authority
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Facebook says people linked to France's military used fake accounts to meddle in African politics, tangling with similar efforts by Russia's IRA in some nations — It's the first time Facebook has identified people affiliated with a Western government for sanction
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About Facebook, cyber.fsi.stanford.edu, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, and Slashdot
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
EU proposes two bills governing tech giants, focused on illegal content and anticompetitive behavior, to empower regulators to levy large fines or break them up — Proposed bills would be the bloc's most ambitious internet laws since GDPR — European officials want new powers …
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, BBC, European Commission, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Ars Technica, European Commission, Politico, SecurityWeek, The Information, Financial Times, ZDNet, MacDailyNews, and The Logic
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Facebook and Twitter represent v1 of social networking, a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital and a lot more promising — It's a rather motley crew. One is a nurse, another a lawyer, a third an investment adviser. There are three programmers, a soldier, and a data scientist.
Tweets: @blaine, @rossgarber, @damanr, @blaine, @modestproposal1, and @stratechery
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon's cloud gaming service Luna is now available on Android for US users, with initial support on some Pixel, Samsung, and OnePlus devices running Chrome 86+ — It works on some Pixel, Samsung, and OnePlus devices — Amazon's cloud gaming service, Luna, is now available on Android, Amazon announced on Tuesday.
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9to5Google, Engadget, XDA Developers, Android Police, Pocket-lint, and Android Authority
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: a coalition of US states are expected to file antitrust lawsuit against Google as soon as Thursday, alleging it altered design of search to hurt rivals — A coalition of states is finishing an antitrust lawsuit against Google focused on its power in the online search market … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will allow ads targeting Georgia voters about the Jan. 5 runoffs, starting at 9am PT on Dec. 16, even as its broader political ad ban remains — Facebook said Tuesday it will begin letting advertisers run ads targeting Georgia voters about the state's Jan. 5 runoff elections …
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About Facebook, New York Times, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Mediaite, Politico, The Verge, The Hill, and Engadget
Tweets: @sarafischer, @craigsilverman, @rmac18, @hshaban, @mikeisaac, and @brooklynmarie
| Hirsh Chitkara / Protocol: |
Interview with Stanford comp lit professor Adrian Daub on the naiveté of undergrads eager to work in tech, “useless” VC Twitter, and challenges to SV narratives — In the early 2010s, professor Adrian Daub began noticing changes in some Stanford undergraduates that troubled him.
Tweets: @chrmanning, @toddwalker, @dancharvey, @issielapowsky, and @protocol
| Rest of World: |
Behind the rise of Japan's “poikatsu” influencers, who share tips on maximizing loyalty points, driven by generous rewards programs by apps like Line Pay — To attract reluctant consumers, Japanese fintech companies have used generous rewards programs. Now an unlikely subculture has emerged to take advantage.
Tweets: @restofworld, @anupkaphle, and @lmatsakis
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