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Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for 2019, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera, and the successor to the iPhone XR with a dual-camera — Three new iPhone models planned for 2019, including one with a triple rear camera — Apple Inc. AAPL .32% is planning to release three …
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AT&T and T-Mobile say they will stop selling customers' location data to 3rd-party service providers by March; Verizon says it's winding down sharing agreements — AT&T said Thursday it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US government websites including NASA's and the DOJ's are inaccessible to public after 80+ expired TLS certificates were not renewed due to government shutdown — Over 80 government websites are down after TLS certificates and there's nobody on hand to renew them.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
The resumes of 202M+ Chinese users, with personal data including home addresses and mobile numbers, were exposed online on an unsecured MongoDB database server — Data appears to have originated from a data scraping app that collected resumes from Chinese job portals.
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Shareholder sues Alphabet's board of directors, claiming they breached fiduciary duty by covering up sexual misconduct by execs and giving Andy Rubin a payout — - Investor accuses Alphabet directors of abusing their power — Android creator allegedly got $90 million payout amid probe
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
IDC reports global PC shipments in Q4 were down 3.7% YoY, while Gartner estimates a 4.3% YoY decline, amid CPU shortages and the US-China trade war — IDC and Gartner market share stats illustrate how trade wars and CPU shortages hurt fourth quarter sales for PC makers.
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| Vanessa Gera / Associated Press: |
Poland has searched the Warsaw offices of Huawei and Orange, arrested a Chinese manager at Huawei and charged him with espionage on behalf of China — WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Internal Security Agency has charged a Chinese manager at tech giant Huawei in Poland and one of its own former officers …
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Tweets: @luoshanji, @ebkania, @kevinslaten, @notesfrompoland, @oskargie, and @ap
| Fraser Brown / PC Gamer: |
Unity says Improbable's claims are “incorrect” and game devs using SpatialOS are not affected by Unity's TOS update; Improbable says it was a “misunderstanding” — Unity CTO Joachim Ante said Improbable's warning that SpatialOS could not longer be used with Unity was ‘incorrect.’| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
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| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Some Twitter users in China, of which there are 3.2M, face detention and threats in Beijing's broad and punitive new censorship push — SHANGHAI — One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened another's family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation.
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Sources: Slack is planning to go public through a direct listing, likely to debut in the second quarter — Messaging company, recently valued at $7 billion, aims to debut in the second quarter — Slack Technologies Inc. is planning to go public through a direct listing … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview that reserves ~7GB of disk space for updates, apps, and more to ensure critical OS functions always have space — Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview with improvements to disk space management, Reset this PC, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
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Munich court rules that Amazon's Dash buttons do not provide consumers with sufficient information about a purchase in breach of consumer e-commerce rules — Amazon's Dash buttons have been found to breach consumer ecommerce rules in Germany. — The push-to-order gizmos were debuted by Amazon in 2015 … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Videolan says it expects VLC to surpass 3B downloads on Friday and that Airplay support is coming to the main VLC app, possibly arriving in about a month — Open source video player app VLC was mere hours away from surpassing 3 billion downloads Friday, and the Videolan team celebrated …
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VentureBeat, The Verge, TechSpot, The Next Web, The Mac Observer, Neowin, ValueWalk, MSPoweruser, Cult of Mac, Firstpost, BGR, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Engadget, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, and iDownloadBlog.com. Thanks:@jank0
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify outlines its strategy for podcasts that includes bringing talent in-house or exclusively licensing content and selling ads within its podcasts — Having established itself as a top streaming service with now over 200 million users, Spotify this year is preparing to focus more of its attention on podcasts.
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Sources say Amazon is developing a game streaming service, but it isn't likely to launch until next year at the earliest — Amazon is developing a service for streaming videogames over the internet, joining Microsoft, Google and other companies that are building similar offerings …
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Tweets: @boringstein, @kmclaughlinsf, and @jtoonkel
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
TiVo to launch Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV apps in Q2 and Q3, letting people watch live or recorded video on multiple TVs without buying a separate TiVo Mini — TiVo is launching apps for the Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV streaming devices later this year, letting people watch live or recorded video … | Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review: |
Survey: 41% of Americans somewhat or strongly support AI development, 82% want AI carefully managed, universities and US military most trusted to build AI — In 2018, several high-profile controversies involving AI served as a wake-up call for technologists, policymakers, and the public.| Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Ford is shutting down Chariot, the startup it acquired in 2016 that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and in London — Chariot, the Ford-owned transportation startup that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and internationally in London, is shutting down.
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