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| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft is building a Chromium-powered web browser that will replace Edge as the default browser on Windows 10 — Microsoft is throwing in the towel with Edge and is building a new web browser for Windows 10, this time powered by Chromium. — Microsoft's Edge web browser …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft open sources its most popular Windows UX frameworks and says the first preview of .NET Core 3.0 is now available — Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft debuts public preview of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac, with a new window layout, more space for coding, a new search experience, and more — At its Microsoft Connect(); 2018 virtual event today, Microsoft announced the initial public preview of Visual Studio 2019 — you can download it now for Windows and Mac.
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| Politico: |
Sources: officials at NRCC, the House GOP's campaign arm, had several months' worth of emails stolen in 2018 by what some think was a nation-state hacker — Republican leaders were not informed until POLITICO contacted committee officials about the incident.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
DuckDuckGo study finds that Google personalizes search results even when logged out or using the private browsing incognito mode — A study, albeit from competitor DuckDuckGo, finds that Google search results can vary significantly — The amount of personalization inherent in any one of Google's …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple discounts iPhone XR by up to $300 for trading in older iPhones, a rare step for new models; source: some marketing staff were reassigned to boost sales — - ‘Fire drill,’ trade-in deals come after signs of waning demand — Analysts look again for what's next beyond the iPhone
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| Adam D'Angelo / The Quora Blog: |
Quora says it discovered a data breach on Nov. 30 affecting about 100M users, exposing names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and other non-public content — We recently discovered that some user data was compromised as a result of unauthorized access to one of our systems by a malicious third party.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Following Verizon, AT&T says it too will sell an as-yet unannounced 5G Samsung handset in the first half of 2019 — Samsung announced yesterday that it's set to bring a 5G phone to market in the first half of next year, name-checking Verizon in the promise.
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| James Somers / New Yorker: |
Profile of Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, the only Google Senior Fellows, who joined the company in 1999 and have pair-programmed some of its key infrastructure — Coding together at the same computer, Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat changed the course of the company—and the Internet.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, promising up to 3x better AI performance than last gen, and its new under-display fingerprint reader using an ultrasonic sensor — This week, Qualcomm is hosting press and analysts on Maui for its annual Snapdragon Summit. Sadly, we're not there …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Fortnite-maker Epic Games announces a PC and Mac game store to rival Steam's, coming “soon”, with 88% of revenue going to developers, up from 70% on Steam — Fortnite-maker Epic Games is capping off their insanely successful 2018 with an even more ambitious product launch …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Flutter 1.0, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK, as Square announces two new Flutter SDKs for easy payments — At Flutter Live in London today, Google launched version 1.0 of Flutter, the company's open source mobile UI framework that helps developers build native interfaces for Android and iOS.| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full admin privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster; patched versions are available — There's now an invisible way to hack into the popular cloud container orchestration system Kubernetes.
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Red Hat, The New Stack, The Stack, access.redhat.com, BleepingComputer, The Register, SecurityWeek, and DEVCLASS
Tweets: @asheshbadani and @kennwhite
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Bose announces Frames, its AR glasses that use sound to relay information, available to preorder now for $199, shipping in January — More information about its AR platform is coming at SXSW — Bose has officially announced a consumer release of Frames, its augmented reality sunglasses …
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, Blackphone, and PGP Corp, has left his senior security role at Apple to take a job at the ACLU — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A senior Apple Inc security expert left for a much lower-paying job at the American Civil Liberties Union this week …
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9to5Mac and iPhone Hacks
| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
Razer Blade Stealth updated with a new design, Windows Hello, and an option for a 4K screen with discrete graphics; launching today with same $1,399 base price — The updated Blade Stealth might be a charmer — Razer is updating one of its most recognizable laptops, the 13.3-inch Blade Stealth, with a new chassis and specs.
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, BetaNews, Digital Trends, Windows Central, CNET, PCWorld, Engadget, and VentureBeat
| Edmund Lee / New York Times: |
Sources: Netflix paid $100M to license Friends exclusively in US from WarnerMedia in 2019, up from $30M, ahead of AT&T's plans for its streaming service in 2020 — Are Netflix and “Friends” on a break? — The answer is no — for now. Reruns of Joey's thespian trials …
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Quartz, Hollywood Reporter, Silicon Valley Business …, IGN, Business Insider, Vulture, and Variety. Tweets: @shiraovide
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a $27.5M Series B with investors including Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Monex Group — Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a Series B funding round that raised $27.5 million, the company said Tuesday.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
New York City adopts the nation's first pay floor for rideshare drivers, approving measures for a $26.51/hour gross pay floor, est. $17.22/hour after expenses — Today, New York's City's Taxi and Limousine Commission approved measures to enact minimum pay requirements for app-based for-hire vehicles (FHV) like Uber, Lyft, and Juno.| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft expands its US rural broadband initiative, aiming to operate in 25 states by the end of 2019 and reach 3M customers by July 2022 — Microsoft Corp., which last year announced a plan to bring broadband to 2 million people in the rural U.S., is boosting the program to reach another 1 million customers across more states.
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Microsoft on the Issues, Telecompetitor, Microsoft, Axios, Quartz, and On MSFT
| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
A look at how Facebook was used to organize and promote Yellow Vests protests in France, which became violent as over 280,000 took to the streets this weekend — I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old son, Louie, on the 300th episode of the Recode Decode podcast.
Tweets: @johnwilson, @karenkornbluh, @millie, @mims, and @mims
| Bloomberg: |
China announces 38 new penalties for intellectual property theft, starting this month, including bond issuance limitations — - 38 penalties include issuing bonds or other financing tools — Move follows Xi pledge to resolve U.S. concerns on practices| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft and Docker announce a new joint open-source project, the Cloud Native Application Bundle, that makes packaging and running cloud-native apps easier — Microsoft and Docker today announced a new joint open-source project, the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB) …
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