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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft debuts Surface Studio 2, coming November 15 from $3,499, with 50% faster graphics and a 28" display that's 38% brighter than the first generation — - Meet the Microsoft Surface Studio 2: a big, beautiful, all-in-one PC that will be available on November 15th at a starting price of $3,499.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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Tweets: @surface, @tomwarren, @backlon, @tim_woodson, @cliftonmthomas, @thurrott, and @ow
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @jonnybelton, @pierce, @tomwarren, @ow, and @ow
| Guy Rosen / Facebook: |
Facebook says it has found no evidence “so far” that hackers accessed connected third-party apps and is building a dev tool to help log out affected users — We wanted to provide an update on the security attack that we announced that week. This was a serious issue and we worked fast …
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Tweets: @dpcireland, @skuranda, and @malwarejake
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Wi-Fi Alliance rebrands 802.11n as Wi-Fi 4, 802.11ac as Wi-Fi 5, and the upcoming 802.11ax as Wi-Fi 6 — Quick quiz: Which is better, 802.11n or 802.11ac? — The answer, if you're familiar with Wi-Fi standards coming from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is 802.11ac …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a redesign for its Assistant app on Android and iOS, including introducing larger visuals and controls for smart devices — Google today is launching a major visual redesign of its Assistant experience on phones. While the original vision of the Assistant focused mostly on voice …
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
In cease-and-desist letter, eBay alleges that ~50 Amazon sales representatives worldwide used eBay's messaging system to try and poach sellers from its platform — In a cease-and-desist letter, EBay alleges Amazon sales representatives sent more than 1,000 messages to sellers on its platform| David McCabe / Axios: |
US government to run first nationwide test of its wireless emergency alert system at 2:18PM ET today, with a message going to all US wireless users — Federal officials on Wednesday afternoon will run the first nationwide test of the wireless emergency alert system.
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Tweets: @mattmcgee, @fema, @wired, and @pinboard
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Amazon unveils Fire TV stick with 4K, Dolby Atmos, and HDR10+ support, with a new Alexa Voice Remote, for $50, available for preorder now, ships October 31 — After years of offering 4K playback on its higher-end Fire TV devices, Amazon is ready to bring that extra resolution to its most affordable hardware.| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Report: after years of steady decline, BitTorrent usage is once again growing, thanks to the fragmentation of streaming services with exclusive content — BitTorrent usage has bounced back because there's too many streaming services, and too much exclusive content.
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| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Report: blockchain and cryptocurrency-focused startups have raised nearly $3.9B through VC investments in the first three quarters of this year, up 280% YoY — As the crypto industry sees a decline in initial coin offerings (ICOs) amid regulatory concerns and major losses across token markets … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mobile travel booking app Hopper raises $100M Series D led by OMERS Ventures, sources says at a $780M valuation — Hopper — a mobile-only travel booking app cofounded by a former Expedia executive in Montreal, Canada that uses artificial intelligence to help you search for and book hotels and flights …
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PR Newswire, BetaKit, Bloomberg, tnooz, VentureBeat, Xconomy, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @mdudas. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces its Windows 10 October 2018 Update is rolling out today, the OS' sixth update so far — Microsoft today announced that the free Windows 10 October 2018 Update is rolling out today. For those keeping track, this update is Windows 10 build 17763 and will bring Windows 10 to version 1809.
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Tweets: @steve_msft and @officenews
| Zeynep Tufekci / New York Times: |
More worrisome than foreign interference in US elections is how tech companies feed and profit from deepening domestic political polarization — More worrisome than foreign interference in our elections is how our own tech and media companies feed and profit from our deepening domestic political polarization.
Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci. Tweets: @justinhendrix, @karaswisher, @zeynep, @aradwanski, @carnage4life, @frank_schaeffer, @marcacaputo, and @jwiechers
| Tim Fernholz / Quartz: |
GM and Honda partner to develop autonomous vehicles, with Honda investing $750M in GM's Cruise Automation subsidiary and contributing $2B towards development — Japan is bringing big money to self-driving car partnerships: General Motors has struck a new alliance with Honda to produce …
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Cruise, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, CNBC, Associated Press, Bloomberg, and New York Times
Tweets: @cruise, @binarybits, and @binarybits
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Marketplace introduces buyer and seller ratings and adds AI-based features to offer price range suggestions and auto-categorize items — Facebook is celebrating the two-year anniversary of its Craigslist competitor, Facebook Marketplace, with the launch of new features powered …
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Facebook, Digital Trends, Facebook Code, Android Police, Engadget, and ZDNet
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Report: online office suite Zoho's domains are being abused on a massive scale to exfiltrate data collected by malicious programs from compromised machines — The Indian online office suite is reportedly being abused on a massive scale to exfiltrate data from compromised machines.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Alphabet's Jigsaw introduces Intra, an Android security app that prevents DNS manipulation attacks often used by governments to censor the internet — When Jigsaw tested this privacy app with a few dozen political activists in Venezuela, the company wanted to keep the trial small.| Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
Publishers are wary of Apple News given the company's secretive culture, disdain for advertising and the fact that big traffic doesn't translate to more money — You can't blame publishers for being wary when a giant Silicon Valley tech platform comes to them promising big new audiences and (someday) a way to make money off them.| Sean Lyngaas / Cyberscoop: |
FireEye researchers identify North Korean hacking group APT38, which focuses almost exclusively on financial crimes and has tried to steal $1.1B so far — There is a distinct and aggressive group of hackers bent on financing the North Korean regime and responsible for millions of dollars …
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US-CERT, FireEye, Fortune, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News
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