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Apple says it will stop selling iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 in its 15 retail stores across Germany after Qualcomm was granted an injunction by a Munich court — - Last week, a Chinese court ordered an injunction against Apple over an alleged patent violation filed by chipmaker Qualcomm.
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DOJ charges two alleged members of China's state sponsored hacking unit APT10 with stealing data from at least 45 US tech companies and government agencies — - They are accused of stealing information from at least 45 U.S. tech companies and government agencies.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: state-sponsored Chinese hackers breached networks of HPE and IBM, then used access to hack into their clients' computers in campaign called Cloudhopper — - Hackers working on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security breached the networks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co and IBM … | BBC: |
UK's Gatwick airport was shut down on Wednesday and Thursday after drones were seen flying over the runway; about 760 flights were due to fly on Thursday — Tens of thousands of passengers have been disrupted by drones flying over one of the UK's busiest airports.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Slack is deactivating accounts it says are linked to Iran to comply with US sanctions without warning the users — ‘They are either incompetent at OFAC interpretation or racist’ — This morning, many Slack users with ties to Iran discovered their accounts had been abruptly deactivated.
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| Arno Schuetze / Reuters: |
Amazon gives a German Alexa user, who requested his personal data under GDPR, access to 1,700 audio files of another user; Amazon says it was due to human error — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A user of Amazon's (AMZN.O) Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings …
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| Loup Ventures: |
Voice assistant test involving 800 commands shows Google Assistant answered 88% correctly, Siri got 75% right, Alexa got 73%, and Cortana got 63% — We recently tested four smart speakers by asking Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and Cortana 800 questions each.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Ime Archibong / Facebook: |
Facebook confirms Spotify, Netflix, Dropbox, and RBC had read/write/delete access for messaging integrations, says it was experimental and ended three years ago — In the past day, we've been accused of disclosing people's private messages to partners without their knowledge.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Earnin, which develops a money management platform for workers, raises $125M Series C from DST Global, a16z, and others and says it has 1M+ downloads — Before Ram Palaniappan founded Earnin, he developed a system for employees at a payments company called UniRush, where he spent eight years as president.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
NGO report finds WhatsApp groups spreading child pornography; WhatsApp says it recently banned 130K accounts for violating policies against child exploitation — Facebook fails to provide enough moderators — WhatsApp chat groups are being used to spread illegal child pornography, cloaked by the app's end-to-end encryption.
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Sources: blockchain incubator ConsenSys, which helps ~36 startups, will spin some of them off; source speculates layoffs will be between 600 and 700 — As many as 50 to 60 percent of the company's employees could be let go — Layoffs are coming to ConsenSys, the Ethereum-focused startup incubator … | Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Corel, which makes products like CorelDraw and WordPerfect, says it is acquiring virtualization company Parallels for an undisclosed sum — Popular virtualization software company Parallels has been acquired by Corel. The creative software veteran who has produced Corel Draw and Painter Pro …
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| Charlie Hall / Polygon: |
Microsoft says Xbox All Access, its subscription program to buy an Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, and Xbox Live, will end on Dec. 31, return in a revised format in 2019 — Microsoft promises program will be ‘expanding’ soon — This summer, Microsoft unveiled a novel new subscription program called Xbox All Access.| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
FBI has seized the domains of 15 high-profile DDoS-for-hire websites, including downtime.org and deacon.pro, and charged 3 men in US with operating the sites — The FBI has seized the domains of 15 several high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) websites, after a co-ordinated effort … | Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Uber says it will bring its self-driving cars back on the road on Thursday in Pittsburgh, nine months after a fatal crash — Uber took its self-driving cars off the road last March, after a fatal accident, the first known pedestrian death caused by a vehicle in full autonomous mode.
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Twitter closes down 11%+ after investor group Citron Research calls it “the Harvey Weinstein of Social Media” following Amnesty International report — - Shares of social media company Twitter down 11.3 percent at $29.22; set for its biggest one-day percent fall in nearly five months
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify settles the $1.6B copyright lawsuit by music publisher Wixen, which represents artists like Tom Petty, Missy Elliot, Stevie Nicks, and Neil Young — Spotify has settled the $1.6 billion lawsuit filed by music publisher Wixen Music Publishing in December 2017.| Virginia Hughes / BuzzFeed News: |
In a 99-page letter to the FTC, 22 child advocacy groups call for an investigation into Google's alleged misrepresentation of some kids apps as safe — Google is marketing apps to kids that share personal data with third parties, show manipulative ads, and are rife with creepy images … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga says it will buy 80% of Helsinki-based Small Giant Games for $560M in a deal expected to close Jan. 1; will buy remaining 20% over the next three years — Zynga has agreed to acquire the Helsinki-based mobile game maker Small Giant Games, the creator of the hit title Empires & Puzzles.
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TechCrunch, Tech.eu, Reuters, eqtventures, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, Zynga Inc., and Pocket Gamer.biz
Tweets: @business and @jowens510
| BuzzFeed News: |
Investigation finds Chinese censors are now allowing criticism of Trump and the US on WeChat, as the US-China trade war heats up — Negative articles and comments about Trump were censored on the Chinese internet as recently as this summer. But now the floodgates appear to be open.
Tweets: @craigsilverman, @craigsilverman, @randejong, @craigsilverman, and @lisatozzi
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