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Apple updates MacBook Air with True Tone display, lowers price to $1,099, and updates base MacBook Pro with new processors, Touch ID, Touch Bar, and True Tone — Students Can Purchase MacBook Air for $999 and the 13-inch MacBook Pro for $1,199 — Cupertino, California …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Apple stops selling 12-inch MacBook and previous generation MacBook Air — Along with updating its Retina MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks today, Apple has discontinued its 12-inch MacBook and previous generation MacBook Air. The refreshed lineup now consists of the Retina 13-inch MacBook Air …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
UK's regulator ICO to fine Marriott ~$123M over GDPR violations related to the Starwood Hotels breach, disclosed in 2018, that affected 380M+ guests — The intent to fine Marriott comes a day after the ICO announced a $230 million GDPR fine against British Airways.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
YouTube officially returns to Fire TV and Amazon's Prime Video is launching today with support for Chromecast and other Android TV devices — Amazon and Google have mostly made up — YouTube is officially back on Fire TV devices starting today, almost a year and a half after Google pulled …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Spotify Lite, which requires only 10MB of storage, is now available on Android in 35 countries across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and in Canada — Spotify has been testing a smaller, lighter version of its app since mid-2018 in hopes of expanding its reach to regions …
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| Jonathan Leitschuh / Medium: |
Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom's Mac client that lets any malicious site force a user into a Zoom call with video enabled without user permission — A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission.
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The Verge, ZDNet, Zoom Blog, Threatpost, CyberScoop, Mercury News, Macworld, VICE, Graham Cluley, BBC, BetaNews, The Register, Wired, Bloomberg, Naked Security, Gizmodo, Forbes, Lifehacker, Business Insider, Engadget, Inquirer, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechRepublic, Boing Boing, The Block, MacRumors, Tom's Guide, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, SlashGear, The Next Web, The Hacker News, Apple Must, IT PRO, Mashable, Silicon Republic, TechEBlog, iPhone Hacks, TechCrunch, CNET, 9to5Mac, and bit-tech.net
| Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post: |
Federal appeals court rules that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter — President Trump cannot block his critics from the Twitter feed he regularly uses to communicate with the public, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, in a case with implications …
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Engadget, BetaNews, The Verge, BBC, Washington Times, BuzzFeed News, today.rtl.lu, USA Today, and Mashable
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google to acquire enterprise cloud storage provider Elastifile, which has raised $74M in venture capital prior to acquisition — Google today announced that it's entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Elastifile, a Santa Clara, California-based provider of enterprise cloud file storage solutions, for an undisclosed price.
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Inside Google Cloud, ZDNet, CNBC, InvestorPlace, Globes Online, Database Trends …, and MarketWatch
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| Adam Mosseri / Instagram: |
Instagram is rolling out warnings to users about to post an offensive comment, starts testing Restrict, an option to block abusive users without notifying them — Our mission is to connect you with the people and things you love, which only works if people feel comfortable expressing themselves on Instagram.
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Tweets: @daveleebbc, @mosseri, @fraying, @carnage4life, @cbouzy, @mashable, @jackdamn, @kiraoconnor, @joshconstine, @mikeisaac, @verge, @joshconstine, @instagram, @robaeprice, @brianstelter, and @taylorlorenz
| Twitter: |
Twitter updates its rules against hateful conduct, will now remove tweets that dehumanize people on the basis of their religion — We create our rules to keep people safe on Twitter, and they continuously evolve to reflect the realities of the world we operate within.
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The Verge, BuzzFeed News, New York Times, Engadget, Adweek, Mashable, and Washington Post
Tweets: @hemantmehta, @hopenothate, @kelseymsutton, @oliverdarcy, and @twittersafety
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
IBM closes its $34B acquisition of Red Hat, its largest deal ever, announced in October 2018 — IBM closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, the companies announced Tuesday. — Shares of IBM were up slightly during premarket trading, while Red Hat shares were halted.
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IBM, Thurrott, ZDNet, The Register, Reuters, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @patrickmoorhead
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Facebook will start taking a 30% cut from fan subscriptions via desktop starting 2020 and a 15% fee for second year subscriptions via mobile platforms — Facebook will take a cut of up to 30% on fan subscriptions, beginning on January 1, 2020. — The social network is revealing its plans … | Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
IDC: out of 2,473 organizations using AI in their operations, only 25% have a broad AI strategy, and most report some failures among their AI projects — Despite enterprises' best efforts, painless AI deployments appear destined to remain elusive for all but the most dogged adopters.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Cisco to acquire Acacia Communications, optical interconnect equipment maker, for $70/share or $2.6B, a 46% premium to Acacia's Monday closing price — Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy Acacia Communications Inc. for about $2.6 billion, the technology giant's latest acquisition …
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ZDNet, Financial Times, Business Insider, Reuters, PR Newswire, ITworld.com, Wall Street Journal, Barron's Online, Reuters, and CNBC. Tweets: @lauren_feiner
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