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AT&T's WarnerMedia reveals the name, HBO Max, for its streaming service coming next spring with 10K hours of programming, including exclusive rights to Friends — AT&T's WarnerMedia finally has a name for its streaming service — and some unfortunate news for people hoping it would share some classic shows.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
AT&T says it will enable Call Protect, its free service to block robocalls, by default for new customers, and “in the coming months” for existing customers — The first major carrier to automatically block fraudulent calls — In June, the Federal Communications Commission ruled …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Zoom, following backlash for initially refusing to fix a flaw in its app that allows an attacker to launch the Mac camera via a malicious link, releases a fix — AFTER INITIALLY SAYING that it wouldn't issue a full fix for a vulnerability disclosed on Monday, the video conferencing service Zoom has changed course.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Inside deliberations at Twitter on defining “dehumanizing speech” and its decision to limit enforcement on the issue to tweets about religious groups for now — SAN FRANCISCO — Last August, Twitter's top executives gathered at the company's headquarters to discuss how to make the site safer for its users.| Twitter: |
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| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook creates a new subsidiary, NPE Team, to build, design, and launch apps that give users “entirely new experiences for building community” — Get ready for a flood of new Facebook apps. The social media giant said Tuesday it's created a team, known as New Product Experimentation …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
GitHub removes reimplementations of DeepNude, a now-shuttered app that digitally removes clothing from images of women, citing violations of policy — After the creator of DeepNude shuttered its app that digitally undressed women, multiple people uploaded their own versions to GitHub.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
E-commerce startup Bolt, which provides a checkout, payments processing, and fraud prevention platform for online merchants, raises $68M Series B — Bolt — not to be confused with blockchain startup Bolt Labs, hardware investor Bolt, or the ride-sharing firm formerly known as Taxify …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber launches Uber Comfort in 40 US markets and Ottawa, letting riders request better legroom, higher rated drivers, and more for a 20%-40% premium over UberX — You can get access to Uber's controversial Quiet Ride button that lets you ask your driver for silence if you'll pay a 20% to 40% premium atop the UberX price.
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Tweets: @eggroli, @bznotes, @fauxdenzel, @shiraovide, @backlon, @rdrv3, and @joshconstine. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Nick Heath / TechRepublic: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation confirms that the recently released Raspberry Pi 4 does not work with some USB-C cables — The Pi's co-creator Eben Upton has confirmed that not every USB-C cable will power the Pi. — The Raspberry Pi Foundation has confirmed that the recently released Raspberry Pi 4 …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say a networking protocol flaw in two popular hospital anesthesia and respiratory devices made by GE could enable malicious remote tampering — Security researchers have found a vulnerability in a networking protocol used in popular hospital anesthesia and respiratory machines …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla says it will not include root certificates of surveillance company DarkMatter, which has been accused of helping UAE hack its citizens, inside Firefox — Mozilla declines DarkMatter's application to have its root certificates included in Firefox's root store.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
YouTube to require those submitting manual copyright claims to give timestamps of where in a video infringing content appears, making creator responses easier — YouTube is updating the way it handles manual copyright claims with changes that should make them much less of a headache for video creators.
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YouTube Creator Blog, Engadget, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Adweek, PC Gamer, Android Central, Tubefilter, and GamesIndustry.biz
Tweets: @teamyoutube, @ytcreators, @teamyoutube, @susanwojcicki, @seapeekay, @rickbeato, @teamyoutube, and @teamyoutube
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Glitch, formerly Fog Creek Software, says its community has created 2.5M+ web apps using its collaboration and code sharing platform, reveals 2018 $30M Series A — Glitch, the quirky and collaborative coding site, announced a new milestone today: more than 2.5 million apps have been made on its website since it launched in 2017.
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Tweets: @anildash, @spolsky, @chiefmartec, @karlitaliliana, @anildash, @anildash, @anildash, @anildash, and @anildash. Thanks:@anildash
| 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 … | Apple: |
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: |
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