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Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider:
Lawsuit seeking class action status filed against Apple in California over MacBook and MacBook Pro butterfly mechanism keyboard failures  —  A class action lawsuit filed in federal court on Friday takes Apple to task over an allegedly flawed keyboard design deployed in MacBook models from 2015 …
Amy X. Wang / Rolling Stone:
Apple Music says it removed R. Kelly's music from featured playlists weeks ago, while Pandora currently does not promote the singer's music  —  Three streaming services have now removed the R&B singer's music from curated playlists  —  Spotify caused a mighty stir yesterday when it announced that …
Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com:
Researchers at Symantec say seven malicious apps they detected and reported to Google slipped back into the Play Store after changing their name  —  Security researchers are reporting that malicious Android apps they have detected and reported to Google the first time, have slipped back into the Play Store after changing their name.
Brett Bull / Variety:
A look at the $1.6B video streaming market in Japan, where Netflix and Amazon are using the power of original shows to take on Hulu and homegrown dTV  —  Since launching in Japan in 2015, Netflix has focused on providing high-quality and original content from both international and local sources.
Rich Woods / Neowin:
Ubuntu will soon be available for ARM64-powered Windows devices, a year after being made available for x64 devices in the Microsoft Store  —  It was this time last year that Microsoft announced that it was bringing Ubuntu to the Windows Store (now the Microsoft Store), along with other Linux distributions.
Tamara Chuang / Denver Post:
Denver-based startup Visible offers unlimited 5 Mbps data and voice plans at $40/mo on Verizon's network via an invite-only app, says it is funded by Verizon  —  Funded by Verizon, the startup is nearly half the cost of Verizon's similar plan  —  There's a new mobile service in town for Denverites.
Joseph Cox / Motherboard:
Hacker says he stole data from ZooPark hacking group, some say an Iran-linked APT, which ran a hacking campaign targeting Android devices across the Middle East  —  Earlier this month, Kaspersky published research on the so-called ZooPark group, which ran a hacking campaign towards Android devices across the Middle East.

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Committee to Protect Journalists:
After the building fire, Hong Kong summoned AFP, FT, NYT, AP, Bloomberg, and WSJ journalists, telling them to avoid “trouble making”, and arrested a commentator

Variety:
Netflix scores the most 2026 Golden Globe nominations, with 35 nominations across film and TV; Warner Bros. and HBO got a combined 31 nominations

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Jon Russell / TechCrunch:
Didi Chuxing to suspend Hitch, one of its carpooling services, for one week as it investigates the murder of a passenger allegedly by a driver
Alex Heath / Cheddar:
Sources: Facebook is exploring creation of its own cryptocurrency to facilitate payments among its users, but the plans will likely take years to materialize
Jennifer Valentino-Devries / New York Times:
Securus Technologies, service provider to law enforcement, can locate any US phone in seconds, some say without proper vetting of requests
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