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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview and Microsoft Defender ATP for macOS in limited preview — Microsoft today made a slew of announcements to help IT pros reduce costs, increase security, and boost employee productivity. The headline items are the launch …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @gcluley, and @wdsecurity
| Krebs on Security: |
Facebook admits it stored some user passwords in plain text, searchable by employees; source says it may have been between 200M and 600M user passwords — Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees …
Tweets: @martinsfp and @mgsiegler
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Four European Wikipedia sites are blocking access and directing users to contact their EU representatives on March 21 to protest the copyright directive — Sites including Reddit, Twitch, and PornHub are also encouraging users in the EU to contact local politicians
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: WSJ plans to join the new paid tier of Apple News to be announced on Monday, expected to cost $10/month; NYT and The Washington Post have opted out — SAN FRANCISCO — The Wall Street Journal plans to join a new paid subscription news service run by Apple, according to two people familiar …
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Square CEO Jack Dorsey introduces Square Crypto, a new initiative for open source contributions to the “bitcoin/crypto ecosystem” — Payments startup Square plans to hire a number of engineers and a designer to work on its crypto initiatives, according to tweets from CEO Jack Dorsey.
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Tweets: @jack, @coindesk, @jack, @jack, @nathanielpopper, @melt_dem, @jack, and @cz_binance
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says support for Windows 7, which makes up 40% of desktop market, will end Jan. 14, 2020; enterprise customers can pay for extended support until 2023 — Microsoft has rolled out a patch that will warn Windows 7 users that security updates will soon come to an end.
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Windows Help, Windows Central, The Verge, Thurrott, Inquirer, TechSpot, Softpedia News, OnMSFT.com, Firstpost, and SlashGear
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple iPad mini (2019) review: same specs as larger iPad Air, headphone jack, and solid performance, but has huge bezels and a Lightning port instead of USB-C — Sometimes smaller is better — People who love the iPad mini really, really love the iPad mini.
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| Guy Rosen / Facebook: |
Facebook says it blocked 800+ distinct variants of New Zealand shooting video, in contrast to ISIS-style propaganda which is not rebroadcast or reshared widely — We continue to keep the people, families and communities affected by the tragedy in New Zealand in our hearts.
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Tweets: @hshaban, @hshaban, @raju, @dbyman, and @jaycee001
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Tesla files two lawsuits against multiple former employees and the self-driving car startup Zoox alleging misappropriation of the company's trade secrets — The automaker claims employees brought logistics info to Zoox, while another took Autopilot data to Xiaopeng Motors
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Instagram, which has largely escaped scrutiny, is teeming with conspiracy theories, misinformation, and extremist memes, linked by its recommendation algorithm — When Alex, now a high-school senior, saw an Instagram account he followed post about something called QAnon back in 2017 … | Laura M. Holson / New York Times: |
After Rep. Devin Nunes sued Twitter and the @DevinCow account claiming defamation, the parody account gained 465K+ followers, surpassing his own follower count — Consider this: a parody account pretending to be an imaginary cow owned by Representative Devin Nunes, the California Republican …
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Tweets: @andylassner, @heratylaw, @howroute, and @therealmarkcm
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Israeli startup Guesty, which provides tools for property managers who list on Airbnb and other rental sites, raises $35M Series C led by Viola Growth — The growth of Airbnb — and likewise other platforms like Booking.com, VRBO and Homeaway for listing and renting short-term accommodation …
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| Dustin Childs / Zero Day Initiative: |
Researchers hacked Apple's Safari, Oracle VirtualBox, and VMware Workstation in Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019 contest, earning $240K in cash awards — SUBSCRIBE — The first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2019 is in the books and already, we've seen some great research.
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9to5Mac, SecurityWeek, and Security Affairs
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
A look at an automated Instagram influencer account made to garner free meals from NYC restaurants in exchange for posts — Chris Buetti had a problem: Dining out in New York was getting too expensive. He saw was one obvious solution — becoming an Instagram influencer and asking restaurants … | Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Two crypto indices from CoinMarketCap, CMC Crypto 200, which includes bitcoin, and CMC Crypto ex BTC, which doesn't, launch on Nasdaq, Bloomberg, and Reuters — Two cryptocurrency benchmark indices from data provider CoinMarketCap will launch today on financial data feeds …
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CoinMarketCap, CoinGeek, Ethereum World News, PYMNTS.com, Modern Consensus, Altcoin Buzz, Ethereum World News, Coinspeaker, ETHNews, Anycoin.news, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @coinmarketcap
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google's Stadia could be the future of gaming but the announcement left questions unanswered, like cost and subscription, launch date, or available games — A lot of questions remain unanswered — “The future of gaming is not a box,” according to Google. “It's a place.”
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Thurrott, Thurrott, Windows Central, Reuters, Kotaku, My Two Cents, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, IGN, GameSpot, Business Insider, New York Magazine, VG247, and Variety
Tweets: @klobrille, @benjamintseng, @tomwarren, @backlon, @caseynewton, @cnbc, and @karlbode
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
US retailers are deploying facial recognition tech to fight shoplifters, raising privacy concerns due to lack of legal restrictions or rules to prevent abuse — At my bodega down the block, photos of shoplifters sometimes litter the windows, a warning to would-be thieves that they're being watched.
Tweets: @eff, @alfredwkng, and @evacide
| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Sources: Netflix is testing a low-cost, mobile-only subscription with select users in India, for half the price of its entry-level plan in the country — In October last year, Netflix chief product officer Greg Peters had said that they will experiment with their pricing models to grow … | Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Tencent misses Q4 profit estimates with net income falling 32% YoY to $2.1B on revenue of $12.6B, partially due to China's gaming freeze — Depending on whom you talk to, 2018 was either a bumper year for Tencent Holdings or a year to forget.The first Asian company to breach US$500 billion in market cap …
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Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia, Fortune, Reuters, and Financial Times
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Gizmodo: |
AT&T and Comcast say they successfully tested anti-robocall protocol SHAKEN/STIR, which adds a verified status to calls authenticated across networks — We live in a robocall hell with an epidemic of 26.3 billion fraudulent calls made to U.S. numbers in 2018.
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corporate.comcast.com, Ars Technica, The Verge, Geek.com, SlashGear, NBC Bay Area, Engadget, and BGR
Tweets: @stevekovach and @verge
| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Google's stock rose 2% by the end of trading, adding nearly $17B to its market value, the same day it was fined €1.49B by the EU Commission — - The stock rose 2 percent by the end of trading adding nearly $17 billion to the company's market value. — Alphabet's gains on Wednesday add … | EU Press Room: |
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