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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds universal purchases for iOS and macOS apps to the Xcode 11.4 beta, letting developers bundle apps — The new Xcode 11.4 beta update, released today alongside the iOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4 and macOS Catalina 10.15.4 betas, includes support for universal purchases … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases the first iOS 13.4 beta, which includes a “CarKey” API, making it possible to unlock, lock, and start a car with an iPhone or Watch — Apple today released the first beta version of iOS 13.4 for developers, and now 9to5Mac has found evidences to a new feature …
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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
LinkedIn says CEO Jeff Weiner is stepping down in June after 11 years in the role, becoming executive chairman, to be replaced by SVP of Product Ryan Roslansky — After 11 steady years as the CEO of the professional networking company, Weiner is yielding the reins to deputy Ryan Roslansky.
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LinkedIn, Thurrott, Associated Press, TechCrunch, LinkedIn Newsroom, CNBC, Reuters, PYMNTS.com, GeekWire, Observer, Business Insider, Neowin, Quartz, MSPoweruser, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Adweek, and Mercury News
Tweets: @caseynewton, @danprimack, @jeffweiner, @danroth, @om, @julien, @seanlinehan, @jowens510, and @laurengoode
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft reorganizes its Windows software and hardware teams into one group, called Devices + Windows and led by Panos Panay, amid other reshuffling — It's reorg day in Microsoft's Experiences and Devices unit. Here's what's happening, including what's happening with Windows client and Surface.
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Business Insider, Engadget, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, Windows Central, PCWorld, The Verge, MSPoweruser, CNBC, Thurrott, and OnMSFT.com
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Chrome's ad blocker will expand to target disruptive video ads in August, including long pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads, and overlays ads on video — Last year, Google made Chrome's standards-backed ad blocker fully available around the world. The Better Ads Standards today announced a …
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Chromium Blog, Coalition for Better Ads, Neowin, Tom's Guide, VentureBeat, Adweek, Engadget, ZDNet, Android Police, Search Engine Journal, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, Thurrott, Android Central, MarTech Today, CNET, XDA Developers, The Verge, BGR, and Input
Tweets: @niemanlab, @jbenton, @getadblock, @jbenton, @brianjjackson, and @cnada
| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Spotify will buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, and plans to hire Simmons and his approximately 90 employees — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year. — Spotify is making yet another big-budget purchase aimed at getting …
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Business Wire, New York Times, Bloomberg, Engadget, Pitchfork, The Hill, CNBC, Hot Pod News, The Verge, USA Today, Yahoo Finance, Input, Adweek, The Next Web, AdExchanger, SlashGear, Nieman Lab, Mashable, Fortune, and Engadget
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue of $2B, up 24% YoY; 271M total MAUs, up 31% YoY, as paying users rise 29% YoY to 124M; 16% of its MAUs engage with podcast content — Streaming music now accounts for more than 80% of all music consumption in key markets like the US, and one of the big leaders in the field is reaping some of the rewards.
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Spotify, Spotify, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, iPhone Hacks, Thurrott, iDownloadBlog.com, Input, and MacDailyNews
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Report: 198 UK council websites found using real time bidding advertising, which is subject to numerous data protection complaints across the EU and in the UK — On the same day that a data ethics advisor to the UK government has urged action to regulate online targeting a study conducted …
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The Guardian, Brave Browser, The Register, BBC, Yorkshire Evening Post, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @johnnyryan, @johnnyryan, and @vikc
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it resolved an issue that caused Windows 10 Search, which is powered by Bing, to return blank results for several hours — Microsoft's Bing search was misbehaving in Windows 10 — Microsoft's built-in Windows search went down for many users for more than three hours today.
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Windows Central, ZDNet, Computerworld, BleepingComputer, CNET, Windows Latest, Gizmodo, OnMSFT.com, Yahoo Finance, AskWoody, LaptopMag, PCWorld, Digital Trends, Computerworld, Engadget, BetaNews, BBC, BBC, MSPoweruser, and gHacks Technology News
Tweets: @backlon, @chrisbhoffman, @tomwarren, @tim_stevens, @reckless, and @maryjofoley
| CNET: |
YouTube sends cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI over photo scraping after a similar move by Twitter; Facebook says it is reviewing Clearview AI practices — In an interview with CBS This Morning, Clearview AI's founder says it's his right to collect photos for the facial recognition app.
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CBS News, Engadget, The Verge, BuzzFeed News, The Next Web, Tubefilter, Input, Gizmodo, and Techdirt
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| Tom Foremski / ZDNet: |
Although Google disclosed many financial metrics for the first time in Q4, it removed cost-per-click, which has steadily declined, and the number of paid clicks — Google makes less money per click every quarter. Now, we won't know how much less. Is there trouble ahead in online advertising?| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Researchers discover a now patched vulnerability in Philips Hue smart light bulbs that could have let hackers infiltrate users' home or corporate networks — Might want to check if you've got firmware 1935144040 — Four years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack …
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Check Point Software, Input, AppleInsider, The Hacker News, Engadget, Business Insider, GameSpot, HackRead, Mashable, TechRepublic, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechHive, SecurityWeek, iDownloadBlog.com, and iMore
Tweets: @migueldeicaza, @troyhunt, @benlovejoy, @xtrixcyclex, and @tobi
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Lightning Labs, which wants to speed up bitcoin transactions, raises $10M Series A led by Craft Ventures and rolls out its first enterprise product — Elizabeth Stark stands out in the digital currency world. The 30-something entrepreneur is at ease among crypto's tribal subcultures …
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Lightning Labs⚡️, CoinDesk, blog.lightning.engineering, Messari Crypto, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, The Daily Hodl, Cryptocurrency News, The Market Refresh, Cointelegraph, BitcoinExchangeGuide, and The Block. Tweets: @starkness. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Twilio announces Q4 revenue of $331.2M, up 62% YoY, 2019 total revenue of $1.13B, up 75% YoY, ends Q4 with 179K+ active customer accounts; forecasts loss in Q1 — Twilio is posting strong revenue growth but its earnings outlook for the first quarter and fiscal 2020 fall short of expectations.
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Business Wire and SiliconANGLE
| Corey Kilgannon / New York Times: |
The NYPD is replacing officers' handwritten patrol memo books, a fixture since the 1800s, with an iPhone app starting February 17 — Officers' most-used item since the 1800s isn't the gun or handcuffs, but the handwritten activity log. Now an iPhone app is replacing it.
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Gizmodo, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Yahoo Finance, Cult of Mac, and TechSpot
Tweets: @caseynewton and @chillmage
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
After layoffs at 23andMe, Ancestry says it is laying off 6%, citing slowdown across entire DNA testing category, now that most of early adopters have enrolled — - Ancestry, following 23andMe, made the decision to lay off some employees. It confirmed to CNBC that the cuts affected 6% of its workforce.
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TechCrunch. Tweets: @chrissyfarr, @emilylmullin, @jakejakeny, and @joemckendrick. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Armis researchers find five serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's Discovery Protocol, affecting millions of enterprise products, including routers and desk phones — Five vulnerabilities in Cisco Discovery Protocol make it possible for a hacker to take over desk phones, routers, and more.
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Armis, Threatpost, SDxCentral, SecurityWeek, Help Net Security, CyberScoop, and ZDNet. Tweets: @ashk4n
| Janko Roettgers / protocol: |
Profile of Tom Conrad, a former Pandora and Snap executive who is now chief product officer at Quibi, as the streaming service gears up for launch — Tom Conrad is in charge of making a video service that gets people hooked. — Talk to Silicon Valley or Hollywood insiders about Quibi …
Tweets: @kerrymflynn and @joshconstine
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple seems to have fixed a macOS Catalina bug, first reported in July, that caused snippets of encrypted emails sent via the Mail app to be stored unencrypted — The fix is apparently in macOS Catalina 10.15.3 — Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.3 last week, and the update apparently patched …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Facebook says older versions of the WhatsApp desktop app, which uses Electron, let hackers access files on macOS and Windows via a malicious link in messages — Yet another Electron implementation of a “secure” app turns out not to be. — Facebook has issued a security advisory for a flaw …
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National Vulnerability Database, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, Mashable, Engadget, The Hacker News, The Register, Graham Cluley, Threatpost, Digital Trends, Input, AppleInsider, Fast Company, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, SecurityWeek, and iMore
Tweets: @muhd_uwais_, @bentasker, @appleinsider, and @weizmangal
| The Guardian: |
Dutch court rules that a surveillance system used to detect welfare fraud violates human rights; called SyRI, it used a secret algorithm to run risk modeling — Government told to halt use of AI to detect fraud in decision hailed by privacy campaigners — A Dutch court has ordered … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher details a backdoor in Huawei-owned HiSilicon chips used in millions of smart devices, including security cameras, that has been active since 2013 — Researcher said he did not notify HiSilicon due to a lack of trust in the hardware vendor to adequately fix the issue.
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Habr, Tom's Hardware, ExtremeTech, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @axcheron, @threatresearch, @simoncrosby, @kwiens, @cybergibbons, and @counternotions
| Naomi Nix / Bloomberg: |
Documents show the CIA plans to hire multiple companies for lucrative cloud computing contracts offering an opportunity for Amazon's rivals — - Government posts draft requirements for new cloud contracts — Program builds on $600 million deal awarded to Amazon in 2013| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Child safety experts from 102 countries urge Facebook to halt plans for encrypted messaging across its apps until it addresses child exploitation concerns — Nearly 130 charities and academics around the world have urged Mark Zuckerberg to halt plans to introduce encrypted messaging across Facebook's trio …
Tweets: @mike_salter and @fttechnews
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad agencies, and ad tech rivals of Google as its online ad tools become a focus of antitrust probe — Antitrust enforcers have reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad tech rivals and ad agencies
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CNET, PYMNTS.com, and Search Engine Land
Tweets: @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, and @keachhagey
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