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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Interview with Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi on porting iOS apps to Mac, how the hardware will remain distinct, and more — NEAR THE END of yesterday's WWDC keynote, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, acknowledged that people … | Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
At WWDC, Apple takes aim at Facebook with new Safari tracking protections, tools to limit app usage, and enhanced social media tools in iMessages and FaceTime — The iPhone maker is improving its media-sharing capabilities while limiting the social-media company's ability to harvest data
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NewCo Shift, 9to5Mac, Vanity Fair, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, BBC, Slashdot, Axios, Bloomberg, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, CNBC, and TechCrunch
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Israel-based DNA testing service MyHeritage discloses security breach, says account info for 92M+ users exposed, including email addresses and hashed passwords — On Monday MyHeritage announced a security researcher had uncovered tens of millions of account details for recent customers, including email addresses and hashed passwords.
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MyHeritage Blog, The Verge, TechCrunch, Fast Company, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, The Hill, Ars Technica, Krebs on Security, Engadget, The Next Web, Boing Boing, CNET, HackRead, Security Affairs, Washington Post, Tom's Guide, CSO, Digital Trends, Business Insider, STAT, Fortune, The Hacker News, Axios, and ZDNet
Tweets: @briankrebs, @seldo, @tiffanycli, @jason_koebler, @davezatz, and @mims
| Wall Street Journal: |
Behind the long-running dispute between Facebook and WhatsApp's founders about monetizing WhatsApp with ads, which led them to leave with $1.3B on the table — After a long dispute over how to produce more revenue with ads and data, the messaging app's creators are walking away leaving about $1.3 billion on the table
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Slate, CNET, Fast Company, The Outline, Business Insider, Axios, and CNBC
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tests Lip Sync Live feature to compete with musical.ly and says users can now upload videos with copyrighted music — Facebook users will no longer have their uploaded videos with copyrighted background music taken down thanks to a slew of deals with all the major record labels plus many indies.
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Facebook, The Verge, Engadget, Music Industry Blog, Fortune, CNET, CNBC, Gizmodo, and BetaNews. Thanks:@joshconstine
| New York Times: |
Facebook has had data-sharing partnerships with Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo, and TCL since at least 2010 and will wind down the Huawei deal by the end of the week — Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant …
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Wall Street Journal, Axios, Los Angeles Times, CNET, Gizmodo, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, TechCrunch, South China Morning Post, Motherboard, Mashable, Boing Boing, Nextgov, MSPoweruser, Mercury News, HackRead, Wired, Geek.com, Fast Company, Adweek, and Naked Security
Tweets: @dseetharaman, @markwarner, @pekingmike, @stevekopack, @nytimes, @timobrien, and @tonyromm
| Steven Aquino / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Live Listen is coming to AirPods with iOS 12 update, allowing iPhones to be used as a directional mic and audio relayed to a user's AirPods — Apple has one hardware-specific feature planned that wasn't announced at Monday's WWDC keynote. In iOS 12, users will be able to use Live Listen … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces four pre-tested white box PC form factors manufactured by Wistron, Compal, and Quanta as part of its Alexa for PCs ecosystem — Amazon is making it easier for PC manufacturers to integrate Alexa into PCs. The retailer today announced four new pre-tested …
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Amazon Developer Services, Voicebot, and The Verge
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: ZTE signs preliminary agreement to lift US ban on buying from US suppliers; ZTE to pay $1B fine and have $400M held in escrow for future violations — (Reuters) - ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) has signed an agreement in principle that would lift a U.S. Commerce Department ban on buying from U.S. suppliers …
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XDA Developers, Android Authority, BGR, SlashGear, Gizchina.com, Android Police, The Hill, Android and Me, Android Central, and Android Beat. Tweets: @reutersbiz
| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Instagram may soon allow posted videos to be up to an hour long, has talked with content creators and publishers about producing long-form videos — Feature to allow videos of up to an hour in length — Instagram, which allows users to post photos and brief glimpses … | Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researchers disclose Zip Slip, a critical vulnerability that impacts many open source code libraries that handle archived files; thousands of projects affected — Security researchers have disclosed today details about a critical vulnerability impacting open source coding libraries that handle archived files.
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Snyk Blog, GitHub, SiliconANGLE, GitHub, Security Affairs, and The Hacker News
| CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon's Grand Challenge team, led by Google Glass creator Babak Parviz, has added 50+ staff since 2014, focused on health efforts like cancer research — - Amazon's Grand Challenge team, led by Google Glass creator Babak Parviz, consists of former Google X engineers and founders of various health start-ups.| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS now fully supports Kubernetes with the general release of Amazon EKS, following other cloud vendors, after announcing the service last year at AWS re:Invent — Amazon Web Services was the last of the major cloud vendors to go all-in with the Kubernetes container-orchestration project …
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AWS News Blog, ZDNet, and The New Stack
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: GitHub, acquired by Microsoft, also talked with Google about an acquisition; Amazon, Atlassian, and Tencent made acquisition inquiries in recent years — - GitHub agreed to sell to Microsoft on Monday for $7.5 billion, but was also talking to Google about a deal in recent weeks.| Axios: |
Source: GV to lead ~$250M round in scooter startup Lime; each scooter gets used 8-12 times/day, and the startup has told investors users have taken 4.2M rides — Lime, a San Francisco-based bike and scooter-sharing startup, is raising around $250 million in new funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Axios has learned.| Pranav Dar / Analytics Vidhya: |
UC Berkeley open sources the world's largest autonomous driving dataset containing 100K video sequences across various US locations — - UC Berkeley has open sourced the world's largest and most diverse self-driving dataset — It contains 100,000 video sequences, each approximately 40 seconds long and in 720p quality
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple reports that Podcasts now hosts more than 555K active shows, up from 525K in April, and Stuff You Should Know is the first show to pass 500M downloads — Beyond Watch compatibility, podcasting didn't get a lot of love as Apple blew through announcements at a frenetic pace during its two-hour-plus keynote yesterday.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and 9to5Mac
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Europe's top court rules that administrators of fan pages on Facebook are jointly responsible with Facebook for the processing of users' data — An interesting ruling by Europe's top court could have some major implications for data mining tech giants like Facebook and Google …
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| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Asus announces ZenBook Pro 15 with ScreenPad, a 5.5-inch touchpad with FHD display that can run its own apps; price and availability TBD — Remember Razer's Switchblade UI? Remember Windows SideShow? If you ever dreamt of a computer with its own secondary display, then ASUS' New ZenBook Pro is the device for you.
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CNET, PCWorld, Pocketnow, The Verge, BGR, Digital Trends, Liliputing, Neowin, ASUS Press Room, Windows Central, Softpedia News, The Register, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Laptop Mag, and AnandTech. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Comparison between Google's Digital Wellbeing initiative, announced at I/O, and Apple's Screen Time, which both aim to reduce phone usage — Two similar but subtly different perspectives on managing our time on our phones — Developer conference season is coming to an end with Apple's WWDC this week …
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BuzzFeed, Android Authority, Houston Chronicle, ZDNet, KTLA, and Cult of Mac
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