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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 …
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Sources: Amazon-owned Ring gave its teams in Ukraine and the US unfiltered cloud access to unencrypted home security camera videos and live feeds — The “smart home” of the 21st century isn't just supposed to be a monument to convenience, we're told, but also to protection …
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| Bloomberg: |
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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| Fraser Brown / PC Gamer: |
After an outcry from Improbable, Unity says the recent change to its ToS won't affect Unity-based games using Improbable's SpatialOS cloud platform — Unity CTO Joachim Ante said Improbable's warning that SpatialOS could not longer be used with Unity was ‘incorrect.’
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| 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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| 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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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, @jtoonkel, and @kmclaughlinsf
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say it is easy to find child porn images on Bing, which also actively suggests related keywords and images; Microsoft says it is working on fixes — A TechCrunch-commissioned report finds damning evidence — Illegal child exploitation imagery is easy to find on Microsoft's Bing search engine.
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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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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Ahead of its expected IPO, Postmates has raised a $100M investment, which a source says values the company at $1.85B, up from $1.2B in September — Just in the nick of time. — The food delivery startup Postmates has raised a $100 million investment just before it plans to go public … | 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.| David Randall / Reuters: |
Analysts and fund managers speculate about how the Bezos divorce could affect Amazon, with the couple holding a roughly 16% ownership stake — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) shares see-sawed on Thursday as investors questioned how the impending divorce of company founder Jeff Bezos …
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Tweets: @jeffbezos, @delrey, @tomgara, and @ashleymayer
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Samsung announces its next Unpacked event will be held in San Francisco on February 20 at 11AM PT, hints at launch of Galaxy S10 series — ‘Fully functional’ foldable phone also expected to break cover — Samsung has announced the date of its next Unpacked event, at which it's widely expected …
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Tweets: @samsungmobile, @mkbhd, and @mgsiegler
| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
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Tweets: @wsj, @mgsiegler, and @jchengwsj
| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Researchers develop tool that can predict where Twitter users live with 92.5% accuracy using GPS data from geotagged tweets posted prior to April 2015 — AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP of researchers has developed an algorithmic tool that uses Twitter to automatically predict exactly where you live …
Tweets: @issielapowsky, @issielapowsky, @wired, and @alexwhitcomb
| 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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
A reconstruction of the cyberattack on the US power grid from 2016 to 2018, which targeted contractors and trade publications, and which the US blamed on Russia — A Wall Street Journal reconstruction of the worst known hack into the nation's power system reveals attacks on hundreds of small contractors
Tweets: @dnvolz, @ericgeller, and @amy_siskind
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
US Secret Service memo warns that card thieves are avoiding detection while carrying multiple counterfeit cards by relying on the Fuze smart card — Street thieves who specialize in cashing out stolen credit and debit cards increasingly are hedging their chances of getting caught carrying … Sponsor Posts
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