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April 28, 2019, 11:20 AM

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Phil Schiller, in an email to a user, says screen-time apps Apple restricted used MDM feature only intended for enterprises, creating privacy and security risks  —  Earlier today, a report from The New York Times highlighted Apple's removal of a number of App Store apps that had allowed users …
New York Times:
Officials say FBI, DHS, NSA, and the US Cyber Command task forces, formed before midterms to combat foreign interference in elections, have been made permanent  —  WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director warned anew on Friday about Russia's continued meddling in American elections, calling it a “significant counterintelligence threat.”
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
PayPal to buy $500M worth of Uber shares at $47/share, says the companies will work on future payment collaborations, including developing Uber's digital wallet  —  Uber's announcement of its IPO pricing earlier today came with a $500 million belated Easter egg.
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Charter reaches settlement nine months after NY Department of Public Service revoked its 2016 Charter/TWC merger approval, agrees to broadband expansion terms  —  Charter must expand its own network and pay $12 million to fund more broadband.  —  Charter Communications won't be kicked out of New York after all.
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:
Affirm, an online lending company led by former PayPal CTO Max Levchin, spins out Resolve, an automated payments platform focused on B2B e-commerce  —  Resolve takes Affirm's buy now, pay later approach and applies it to business purchasing.  —  Affirm, a financial services company led …
Clive Thompson / Wired:
Profile of Up & Go, a worker owned on-demand house cleaning service in New York, which takes only a 5% cut and lets its cleaners decide the design of the app  —  Rating drivers on Lyft.  Three stars?  Five stars?  I know Lyft wants to feed the ravenous maw of its machine intelligence …
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Overcast introduces a new clip-sharing feature, allowing users to share audio or video clips, up to a minute each, from any public podcast  —  Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I've always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations …

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