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Trend Micro apps including Dr. Unarchiver, the 12th most popular free app in Mac App Store, found to steal and upload sensitive info including browsing history — When you give an app access to your home directory on macOS, even if it's an app from the Mac App Store, you should think twice about doing it.
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The Eclectic Light Company, SiliconANGLE, iPhone Hacks, SlashGear, Digital Trends, and Malwarebytes Labs
Tweets: @privacyis1st and @i0n1c
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Profile of Lina Khan, whose antitrust argument, which says Amazon has far too much power, is making waves in Washington by reframing decades of antitrust law — With a single scholarly article, Lina Khan, 29, has reframed decades of monopoly law. — The dead books are on the top floor of Southern Methodist University's law library.
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
Alibaba announces Jack Ma will remain executive chairman for a year, and CEO Daniel Zhang will take over as chairman on September 10, 2019 — - Alibaba said on Monday that CEO Daniel Zhang will take over as chairman of the board in a year, succeeding current executive chairman Jack Ma.
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| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
Profile of Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang, who will succeed Jack Ma as Alibaba's chairman, and is best known for his roles as CEO of Taobao and president of Tmall.com — Among the 86,000 employees who work at Alibaba Group Holding, chief executive Daniel Zhang is not known as Daniel, or Mr. Zhang, or even boss.| BuzzFeed News: |
How WhatsApp's popularity in India has fundamentally changed communication norms, exacerbating misinformation sharing, as many only get news through the app — In July, residents of a rural Indian town saw rumors of child kidnappers on WhatsApp. Then they beat five strangers to death.
Tweets: @buzzfeedben, @buzzfeednews, @pranavdixit, and @rmac18
| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
As Apple readies new, bigger iPhones, Kantar says users with 6" and larger smartphone displays typically use 2X more apps than users with 5.5" screens — On Wednesday, the company will announce two new models with larger displays and an updated version of iPhone X with a faster processor| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
Apple has hired Liz Schimel, a former president of Condé Nast China, whose LinkedIn page lists a July start date and her Apple role as “head of news business” — Apple is beefing up the management of its Apple News product, with the recent hiring of veteran media executive Liz Schimel.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Skydio debuts a dev platform for its self-flying R1 drone, which is now mass-produced and priced at $2K, after R1 “Frontier Edition” debuted for $2,499 in April — Skydio launched their self-flying R1 drone a few months back, now the startup is launching a developer platform … | Aubrey Hruby / Financial Times: |
As internet penetration in Africa grows, US and Chinese tech giants are gearing up to fight for marketshare on the continent — The Trump administration has made a perceived global rivalry with China the centre of US foreign policy. This competitive stance has coloured the view …
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iAfrikan, CNNMoney, Engadget, Firstpost, and Reuters
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| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
California's governor signs a bill that replaces cash bail with an algorithmic system to calculate risk of flight or reoffending from October 2019 — Instead of leaving cash as collateral for freedom before a trial in court, those accused of crimes in California will be graded by an algorithm, starting in October 2019.| Diptendu Lahiri / Reuters: |
Connecticut-based financial software maker SS&C to acquire confidential data-sharing platform Intralinks for $1.5B — (Reuters) - Financial software company SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc said on Thursday it would buy data-sharing platform Intralinks Holdings Inc in a deal valued at $1.5 billion …
| Swapna Krishna / Engadget: |
Many fitness- and health-tracking apps and devices, including Apple Health and Watch, don't take pregnancy, or any other health condition, into account — I'm not a super fit person. I am considered a healthy weight, and I exercise simply because I enjoy eating and drinking whatever I want.
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