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Sources: Apple plans to give its movies traditional theatrical release runs before releasing them on Apple TV+ in the interest of brand-building and prestige — Maker of iPhone would keep movies in cinemas for weeks before release on streaming TV — Apple Inc. is looking to make a splash …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher claims he found “a permanent unpatchable bootrom exploit” for iOS devices with A5 to A11 chips, enabling jailbreaks for iPhone 4S to X, releases code — New jailbreak will work on iPhones 4S up to iPhone 8 and X. — A security researcher has released today …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Latest beta version of Spotify's app now lets iOS 13.1 users play songs, albums, and playlists using Siri — Spotify is testing this new beta feature — Spotify is finally gaining the ability to play songs, albums, and playlists via Siri. The latest beta versions of Spotify include this support …
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Sen. Warren proposes to reinstate Office of Technology Assessment, created in 1970s to help Congress legislate on science and tech; OTA was dissolved in 1990s — 'Our representatives shouldn't have to rely on Google's policy team' — Over the past few years, some of the largest tech firms …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash confirms a data breach on May 4 affecting 4.9M customers, workers, and merchants, with last-four digits of payment cards, driver's license info stolen — DoorDash has confirmed a data breach. — The food delivery company said in a blog post Thursday that 4.9 million customers …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says that YouTube Music will be preinstalled on all new Android 9 and Android 10 devices, replacing Google Play Music — Behind-the-scenes, Google requires hardware manufacturers to preinstall certain apps to get access to other first-party services.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers: new Nodersok malware, which installs Node.js to turn PCs into proxies, has infected thousands of machines, mostly in the US and EU over past month — New Nodersok malware installs Node.js to turn systems into proxies, perform click-fraud. — Thousands of Windows computers across … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
AltStore is an alternative iOS App Store that works without a jailbreak, using a developer feature for sideloading test apps, and has its own Nintendo emulator — And anyone can download it, no jailbreak required — Riley Testut, an iOS app developer who has for years worked …
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| Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN: |
Former employees of dog-walking startup Wag, which raised $300M from SoftBank and replaced CEO in Jan. 2018, describe slowed growth, multiple layoffs, and more — (CNN)At the start of 2018, Wag looked like tech's next Big Thing. — In January, the founders of the dog-walking startup announced …
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| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
In an email to staff, Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan denies retaliating against employees for union organizing, but says union framework is “inherently adversarial” — The CEO Aziz Hasan denied retaliating against employees for union organizing, but said that a “union framework is inherently adversarial.”
Tweets: @mariskreizman, @hamiltonnolan, @alexhern, @jason_koebler, and @laurenkgurley
| Jocelyn Kaiser / Science: |
DoJ announces an interim policy, that will go into effect Nov.1 2019, limiting how genealogy DNA databases can be used by law enforcement in serious crimes — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released new rules yesterday governing when police can use genetic genealogy to track down suspects … | Alex Kotch / Sludge: |
Report: since May 2018, ~38 entities identified as “hate groups” by the SPLC have paid Facebook ~$1.6M to run sponsored ads, despite its anti-hate speech policy — Facebook has accepted millions of dollars in advertising fees from hate groups and hate figures despite its anti-hate speech policy …
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