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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 …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google hasn't updated Android distribution data, which details the adoption of Android versions and which it used to update every month, in the last six months — The Android developer website hosts a distribution dashboard that details the adoption of Google's mobile operating system versions.| Bloomberg: |
Profile of Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, an LLC that is part charity and part VC firm with investments in 30+ startups, including Pinterest — In the seven years since the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, his 55-year-old widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, has become one of the most high-profile philanthropists in the world.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Docker discovers unauthorized access to a Hub database that exposed info of ~190K users; the info included access tokens for GitHub and Bitbucket repositories — An unauthorized person gained access to a Docker Hub database that exposed the the user names and hashed passwords for approximately 190,000 users.| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
After Partnership on AI issues a report condemning the use of algorithms to assess bail, only Microsoft agrees to publicly comment on it — The Partnership on AI, a trade organization founded by Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft to set best-practice standards on AI research …
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| Loren Grush / The Verge: |
FCC gives SpaceX permission to fly some Starlink satellites at a lower orbit than planned earlier, enabling SpaceX to launch first internet satellites in May — Changing the destination for more than 1,500 satellites — The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX's request …
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| 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.| 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.| 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.”
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| 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 …
Tweets: @wired, @isabel_pedersen, @aprilrinne, and @kierandhanrahan
| 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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