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Facebook has urged users to enable phone number-based 2FA, but the numbers are used in a user lookup feature with no opt out and to target ads, sparking outcry — Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
USB Implementers Forum announces USB 4, which offers a maximum speed of 40 Gbps, double that of USB 3.2, and support for Thunderbolt 3 — Double the speed of USB 3.2 up to 40 Gbps — Hot on the heels of USB 3.2 receiving a confusing Gen 2x2 suffix, the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) …
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Sources: Huawei is preparing to sue the US government for banning federal agencies from using the company's products — SHANGHAI — The Chinese electronics giant Huawei is preparing to sue the United States government for banning federal agencies from using the company's products, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
W3C approves WebAuthn as the official web standard for password-free logins; WebAuthn is supported by Edge, Chrome, and Firefox, and is in Safari preview — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today declared that the Web Authentication API (WebAuthn) is now an official web standard.
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Luminary, a subscription-based podcasting app, has just emerged from stealth with $100M in funding and shows from Conan O'Brien, Lena Dunham, and more — LOS ANGELES — Patti LuPone as a bebop-singing junkie nun in John Cameron Mitchell's musical follow-up to “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”| John Herrman / New York Times: |
The Momo Challenge sensation has mostly reflected the moral panic of grown-ups, fearing what their kids are doing on the internet and how it affects them — The real “Momo Challenge” is the terror of parenting in the age of YouTube. Here's the truth of what we know.| Messari: |
Coinbase exec says they felt compelled to buy Neutrino quickly to bring blockchain analytics in-house, because Coinbase's vendors were selling its clients' data — In an alarming interview on Cheddar, Coinbase Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, suggested …
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| Usama Jawad / Neowin: |
Google discloses a “high severity” security flaw in macOS kernel after privately reporting the flaw to Apple in November 2018; no patch available yet — Google's Project Zero team is well-known for its knack of finding security flaws in the company's own products as well as those manufactured by other firms.
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| Joshua Fruhlinger / Thinknum Media: |
For the first time since at least Q1 2016, “Hardware” is not the most in-demand hiring category at Apple, being eclipsed by “Software and Services” — Apple ($NASDAQ:AAPL) started as a hardware company. Its first product was a kit: a box of hardware that customers had to assemble on their own.| Jon Evans / TechCrunch: |
How Facebook's cryptocurrency may succeed: a blockchain for instantaneous international remittances which can be easily converted into mobile money like M-Pesa — If Bloomberg and the New York Times are to be believed, later this year Facebook will introduce a cryptocurrency which will allow WhatsApp users to send money instantly.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Pinterest expands personalized shopping recommendations, makes tools, like Catalogs which allows merchants to upload their entire catalog, generally available — Pinterest today introduced a series of new tools to help merchants sell their products, including Catalogs …
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After four years and $2B+ in funding, OneWeb's first six satellites have launched, as part of a planned constellation of 650 to provide global internet access — Update: Launch and deployment successful! — After four years and more than $2 billion in funding, OneWeb is ready to launch … Sponsor Posts
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