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Microsoft says hackers working for Russia, China, and Iran have recently escalated their attacks on people and orgs involved in the US presidential election — Hackers working for Russia, China and Iran have recently escalated their attacks around the U.S. presidential race as Election Day looms, Microsoft says.
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| Marshall Cohen / CNN: |
Twitter expands election misinfo policies, prohibiting misleading claims about results, “inciting unlawful conduct” to prevent peaceful transfer of power, more — Washington (CNN Business)Twitter announced Thursday that it is expanding its policies against election-related misinformation …
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Apple Music's 3.4.0 beta APK contains a reference to Apple One, likely the name of the rumored Apple subscription bundle — Back in June, our colleagues at 9to5Mac discovered in the iOS 13.5 beta that Apple was planning to bundle their services into a single subscription.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Duo review: has thin, beautiful hardware, good battery life, and runs two apps at once well, but software is too buggy and the camera is bad — All the right ideas — but spoiled by buggy software and a bad camera — Microsoft's Surface Duo aspires to be something different from any other gadget you've used.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook is piloting Campus, a section specifically designed for college students to interact with peers at their school, at 30 universities around the US — A place for college students to talk about school — Facebook is getting back to its roots today with the launch of a new product called Campus …
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| CNN: |
Investigation finds more than 70 AmazonBasic products have been reviewed as dangerous, with many still for sale; Amazon says it's investigating — (CNN)When firefighters arrived at Austin Parra's home on January 12, 2017, they could see smoke and the charred remnants of an office chair outside.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Opendoor, which directly buys and sells homes online, is in talks to go public via merger with Social Capital II, valuing the combined company at ~$5B — - Transaction could be valued at around $5 billion, people said — Blank-check company is led by chairman Chamath Palihapitiya
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| Oliver Haslam / iMore: |
Epic says Apple is disabling Sign in with Apple for Fortnite on Sept. 11 and impacted users should update their account email address and password now — What you need to know — Epic has tweeted to warn users that Apple is going to block Sign in with Apple for Fortnite.
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| Joe Wituschek / iMore: |
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will remove any Autocomplete suggestions that endorse or oppose a candidate or a party, or make a claim about voting or the electoral process — Ahead of the U.S. presidential election, Google says it's taken a number of steps to improve the quality of information …
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump says “there will be no extension of the TikTok deadline”, as sources say ByteDance will likely miss the WH deadline to sell TikTok's US operations — - China's regulators plan to review technical details of deal — Microsoft and Oracle have not been dissuaded by China move
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
A Bluetooth vulnerability in standards 4.0 through 5.0 lets attackers gain access to authentication services; patch is not yet available — All devices using the Bluetooth standard 4.0 through 5.0 are vulnerable. Patches not immediately available. — The organizations behind …
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Bluetooth® Technology Website, 9to5Mac, The Hacker News, Gizmodo, HackRead, TechRadar, SiliconANGLE, Android Headlines, Threatpost, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider, and SecurityWeek. Tweets: @obsessive_mind
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India's Times Internet reports 67B page views, up from 47B last year, says it has 557M MAUs and 111M+ DAUs, with MX Player at 200M+ MAUs and Gaana at 185M MAUs — Times Internet said on Thursday it reaches more than 557 million active users in India each month and over 111 million users … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Google unveils Android 11 Go Edition, which supports phones with 2GB of RAM, up from 1.5GB before, and says it can launch apps 20% faster than Android Go 10 — Now that Android 11 has dropped, Google has unveiled Android 11 Go Edition with the aim of speeding up entry-level smartphones.| Kenrick Cai / Forbes: |
Replicant, a customer service platform that uses text-based chatbots and AI assistants to help human reps, raises $27M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners — Hundreds of millions of consumers use voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa or Apple's Siri for simple tasks in their daily lives.| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, who left Twitch for an exclusive deal with Mixer in August 2019, is back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site — He's got an exclusive, multiyear deal — Ninja's back on Twitch, exclusively, in a multiyear deal with the site.
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