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Sources: US Cyber Command disrupted internet access for Russia's Internet Research Agency during the 2018 US midterms — The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said …
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Engadget, MIT Technology Review, CNET, New York Times, Washington Times, Mashable, The Verge, The Mac Observer, and The Daily Caller
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find that weaknesses in Supermicro hardware would let an attacker leave a persistent and hidden backdoor on IBM's cloud “bare-metal” servers — Other providers of bare-metal cloud computing might also be vulnerable to BMC hack. — More than five years …
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Eclypsium, IBM PSIRT, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Threatpost, Dark Reading, EnterpriseTech, Enterprise Times, CSO, ZDNet, BleepingComputer, and SecurityWeek
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
FTC announces a new task force to monitor competition in “technology-related sectors” and says that it will look into previous mergers — And they're going to look at previous mergers — The Federal Trade Commission will be launching a task force to monitor competition …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has been testing a sleep tracking feature for Apple Watch for several months in California, and could add it to the Watch by 2020 — - Company holding studies at headquarters to track sleep habits — Function would compete with wearables from Fitbit and Withings
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CNET, Thurrott, Macworld, Forbes, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Engadget, BGR, KnowTechie, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Neowin, Business Insider, Stock Market News …, Mashable, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, Patently Apple, Gizchina, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, The Verge, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Ars Technica, MAC blog, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @tomwarren, @adampasick, and @stroughtonsmith
| Gus Garcia-Roberts / USA Today: |
Twitter has permanently suspended Jacob Wohl for creating and operating fake accounts, after he shared plans to make deceptive accounts before the 2020 election — Twitter announced that it is permanently suspending Jacob Wohl, a 21-year-old Internet hoaxer and supporter of President Donald Trump …
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USA Today, The Daily Beast, NBC News, and CNET
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| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
HTC's blockchain-focused Exodus 1 phone adds ~20 decentralized blockchain apps, integrates with Opera for crypto micropayments, will be sold for $699 in March — Now you can buy the HTC blockchain phone with regular cash — HTC's blockchain phone is getting several new apps today …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Decentraland, CNET, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Authority, Android Police, NewsBTC, ExtremeTech, The Mac Observer, iPhone in Canada Blog, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, Mashable, Cointelegraph, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @epro
| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Sources: Facebook has been telling news publishers that it will only renew about a third of the existing news shows that it has funded for Facebook Watch — Facebook is showing a greater willingness to ax news programming that's not working on Facebook Watch.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google says its AI-powered grammar checker, announced last July, will now be available on Google Docs for all G Suite users — The power of machine translation to help you improve your writing at work — Google today announced that its artificial intelligence-powered grammar checker … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook policy doc shows it wants up to a 30% cut of Fan Subscriptions, vs Patreon's 5%, and to reserve right to offer free trials with no creator compensation — Facebook will drive a hard bargain with influencers and artists judging by the terms of service for the social network's Patreon …
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| The Guardian: |
UK far-right activist Tommy Robinson has been permanently banned from Facebook and Instagram for repeatedly breaking policies on hate speech — Far-right founder of English Defence League repeatedly breached hate speech rules — Tommy Robinson, the far-right founder of the English Defence League …
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Tweets: @peoplesmomentum, @ezralevant, @jimwaterson, @alexhern, @imbadatlife, @markdistef, and @davidlammy. Thanks:@alexhern
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Volkswagen is planning to invest around $1.7B in Ford's Argo self-driving subsidiary, making it the nucleus of a joint venture — Volkswagen is planning to invest around $1.7 billion in a self-driving car venture with Ford's subsidiary Argo as auto makers seek to share the huge costs of developing self-driving cars.| Hadas Gold / CNN: |
DC appeals court rejects DOJ's bid to overturn the ruling that cleared the way for AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner; DOJ says it will not seek further review — London (CNN Business)An appeals court has rejected the Justice Department's bid to overturn a ruling that cleared the way for AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Report: Microsoft and VMware are working on software to ease porting apps built on VMware's virtualization tech to Azure as part of a broader partnership — One of the biggest obstacles to the growth of cloud computing is inertia, as companies that spent tens of millions of dollars … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Spotify goes live for some in India, even as its licensing fight continues with Warner Music; after free trial, premium service is 119 rupees, or about $1.67/mo — Spotify's India launch is well underway, with some local users reporting that they can already access the music service on their devices.| Lindsey Bever / Washington Post: |
Suicide tips and other dark and dangerous content was found spliced in kids' cartoon videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids — Free Hess, a pediatrician and mother, had learned about the chilling videos over the summer when another mom spotted one on YouTube Kids.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Flutter v1.2, its cross-platform UI framework, with support for Android App Bundles, better tools for in-app payments, and web-based dev tools — Google today launched version 1.2 of its Flutter cross-platform UI framework at MWC Barcelona.| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
SoFi says it will launch cryptocurrency trading in partnership with Coinbase in Q2 and also has plans for zero-fee SoFi-branded ETFs and a credit card in 2019 — - The online lending start-up will launch cryptocurrency trading in the second quarter of this year.
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CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Crowdfund Insider, and The Block
| CNN: |
Amid employee pushback, Satya Nadella defends Microsoft's $479M US Army contract for HoloLens, says Microsoft will not withhold tech from democratic governments — Barcelona (CNN Business)Satya Nadella has defended Microsoft's $479 million contract to supply augmented reality systems …
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Computerworld, Wired, TechCrunch, Mashable, Recode, Silicon Republic, The Register, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, Ars Technica, GamesIndustry.biz, and Gamasutra
Tweets: @nxthompson, @wired, @ajrivas, @realrobdias, @oliviasolon, @msworkers4, @mhbergen, and @ceodonovan
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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