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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Spotify says it will launch a subscription later this year called HiFi that will offer “CD-quality, lossless audio”; Spotify currently tops out at 320kbps audio — Your turn, Apple Music — Spotify is going hi-fi. Well, “HiFi.” It's taken longer than competitors like Tidal …
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| Sami Fathi / MacRumors: |
Gartner: in Q4 2020, Apple sold 80M new iPhones globally, overtaking Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor, increasing its market share by ~15% — Apple overtook Samsung to become the largest smartphone vendor worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2020, a feat not achieved by Apple since 2016 …
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| Alex Barker / Financial Times: |
Microsoft partners with EU publishing lobbyists to push for payment for news content amid Australia's effort to force Facebook and Google to share their revenue — Seattle-based company aligns with press industry and exploits rivals' difficulties — Microsoft has joined forces …
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| VICE: |
Researchers say a change in iOS 14.5 beta, which improves how iOS handles pointers, makes sandbox escapes and “0-click” attacks much harder to pull off — Multiple exploit developers tell Motherboard an upcoming change in iOS could make zero-click exploits harder to pull off.
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| Jimmy Jenkins / KJZZ: |
Whistleblowers: Arizona's inmate management software has been unable to interpret sentencing laws since 2019, leaving hundreds eligible for release incarcerated — According to Arizona Department of Corrections whistleblowers, hundreds of incarcerated people who should be eligible for release …
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| The Verge: |
Epic will give Fortnite and Rocket League players who have bought loot boxes ~$8 worth of credits and set aside $26M+ for claims to settle a class action suit — The class action settlement also provides an additional $26 million in benefits — Epic Games will give Fortnite players 1,000 V-Bucks …
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| Sean Highkin / Bleacher Report: |
NBA Top Shot, a marketplace for NBA video highlights, says it has 50K+ users and sales of $60M+ since Oct.; its owner Dapper Labs reportedly just raised $250M — In the third quarter of a regular-season game against the Houston Rockets last February, LeBron James broke away … | Anton Troianovski / New York Times: |
Russian officials are trying to lure people onto social networks tied to the government, in an attempt to keep dissent from going viral at moments of crisis — The Kremlin has constructed an entire infrastructure of repression but has not displaced Western apps. Instead, it is turning to outright intimidation.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Huawei unveils the foldable Mate X2 with an exterior 6.5" screen and interior 8" screen, both with 90Hz refresh rates, available in China from $2,785 — Announced today for release in China — Huawei has announced the Mate X2, its first all-new foldable device since 2019's Mate X …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Filings: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook made up the biggest sources of Biden campaign contributions among corporate employees, who gave $15.1M+ — Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Facebook made up biggest source of donations to Democrat among corporate employees| Jason Cipriani / ZDNet: |
Samsung extends security updates for Galaxy phones released in 2019 or later from three years to a “minimum of four” — Previously, Samsung only guaranteed security updates for 3 years. — Samsung on Monday announced that it's extending the amount of time it will provide security updates …
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| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Source: Aviatrix, a provider of multi-cloud native networking software, raises $75M Series D led by General Catalyst, valuing the startup at $700M+ — A startup that helps companies avoid networking foul-ups when they run applications in the cloud is grabbing attention from investors.| Bloomberg: |
Clubhouse says it has added security safeguards and banned a user after some Clubhouse audio and metadata was found on a third-party website — - The app's creators had been warned user data was vulnerable — An unidentified user streamed audio chats to their own website
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| Malcolm Owen / AppleInsider: |
Apple says it has revoked certificates for dev accounts used by the creator of the “Silver Sparrow” malware, effectively preventing new Macs from being infected — Following the discovery of a new and unusual malware that had the potential to attack Macs running on Apple Silicon …
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