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Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links — The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser — The new icon is a wave surfing the web — Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser. The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Evan Spiegel on Facebook, Snap's turnaround, and how the controversial redesign, after some tweaking, increased the time users spent on premium content — As the company turns a corner, the CEO says Snapchat's controversial redesign is paying off — Last year, Snap Inc. Chief Executive …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware — After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn't nearly as bad as it could have been.| david.dev: |
Apple is now rejecting Mac apps using modern versions of Electron, citing private API usage, warns developers repeated App Store submissions can lead to a ban — Allright, as a follow up to the previous chapter in this odyssey I can now state that, apparently, you cannot submit an electron 6 or 7 app to the apple store:
| South China Morning Post: |
A look at China-backed News Break, which was the top downloaded Android and #2 iOS news app in the US from Jan. through Sept., topping ByteDance's TopBuzz — Both news aggregation apps provide a more personalised news-reading experience, but ‘David’ is beating ‘Goliath’ in this case News Break …
Tweets: @scmpnews
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Unprotected database for popular “camgirl” sites run by Spain-based VTS Media exposed months worth of user activity logs and chats, details about sex workers — A number of popular “camgirl” sites have exposed millions of sex workers and users after the company running the sites left the back-end database unprotected.| Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading — Jim Simons was a middle-aged mathematician in a strip mall who knew little about finance. He had to overcome his own doubts to turn Wall Street on its head.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Android bug impacting all Android 8 or later devices lets hackers plant malware via NFC beaming and circumvent the installation security prompt; patch available — All Android 8 (Oreo) or later devices are impacted. Google released a patch last month, in October 2019.| Natasha Frost / Quartz: |
How Oulu, Finland, 5+ years after Nokia's collapse in smartphones, has become an entrepreneurial tech hub and home to 1,175 new companies in 2017 alone — In the early days of the mobile phone, Nokia was everywhere—ubiquitous, inescapable, supreme. It created the best-selling 1100 …
Tweets: @infoecon and @marcgayle
| Darla Mercado / CNBC: |
Brian Chesky says Airbnb will ban “party houses” after five people died in a shooting at a Halloween party in a California home rented through the service — - Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, tweeted on Saturday that the company would bar “party houses” and step up its efforts against unauthorized parties.
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| Financial Times: |
Emotion recognition systems, already installed in Xinjiang, have started rolling out across China even as experts say the tech does not work very well — Emotion recognition was the crime prevention buzz-phrase on everyone's lips this week at China's largest surveillance tech expo, held in the southern tech hub of Shenzhen.
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