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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Comprehensive macOS 11.0 Big Sur review: the end of OS X era — Yes, you read that right—Mac OS X (or macOS 10?) is no more. — The era of Mac OS X is over. Kind of. — For the first time in almost two decades, Apple has decided to bump up the version number of the Mac's operating system.
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| Jeffrey Paul: |
Thursday's OCSP service-related issues highlight the fact that macOS sends a hash of every app that users run, along with the users' unencrypted IP, to Apple — ( 1122 words, approximately 6 minutes reading time. ) — It's here. It happened. Did you notice?
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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DoorDash files for IPO, says it had revenue of $1.9B and loss of $149M in the first nine months of 2020, vs. revenue of $587M and loss of $533M a year ago — - DoorDash, the leading food delivery app in the U.S., filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to launch an iPad with a mini-LED display and AirPods 3 with a design similar to AirPods Pro, both in the first half of 2021 — Apple intends to launch an iPad with a mini-LED display and AirPods 3 with a design signature similar to AirPods Pro in the first half of next year …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
DHS says US election was the most secure, with “no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised” — “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” — The November 3rd election was the …
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| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: CFIUS extends the deadline for ByteDance to divest its US TikTok operations by 15 days until Nov. 27 — U.S. panel sets Nov. 27 as new deadline for Chinese-owned app's divestiture — WASHINGTON—Federal officials have granted TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. a 15 …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it detected three APTs, from N. Korea and Russia, that launched attacks on at least seven companies developing a COVID-19 vaccine or treatments — The three state-sponsored hacker groups (APTs) are Russia's Strontium (Fancy Bear) and North Korea's Zinc (Lazarus Group) and Cerium.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will end support for Expeditions, its education-focused VR app, on June 30, 2021, and fold most of the existing tours into its Arts & Culture app — Almost every tech company was invested in virtual reality five years ago and saw it as the future.
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Oculus Quest 2 update adds support for 90Hz games; an Oculus Move app for tracking fitness metrics while playing is coming in the following week — Plus, the mobile app will be able to record the headset's screen in late November — Oculus has rolled out its first big update …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sundar Pichai apologizes to Thierry Breton for an internal Alphabet document outlining a plan to attack the EU commissioner, saying it “was never shown to me” — Sundar Pichai says he was unaware of plan for ‘pushback’ against the regulator — The chief executive …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Facebook plans to use machine learning to sort its moderation queue prior to human review, prioritizing viral and potentially severe content first — Facebook says it's using AI to prioritize potentially problematic posts for human moderators to review as it works to more quickly remove content that violates its community guidelines.| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Uber has been in talks since October to sell its self-driving car unit, Advanced Technologies Group, to Aurora Innovation — Eighteen months ago, Uber's self-driving car unit, Uber Advanced Technologies Group, was valued at $7.25 billion following a $1 billion investment from Toyota, DENSO and Softbank's Vision Fund.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Filing: Online learning marketplace Udemy is raising up to $100M Series F at a $3.32B valuation; Udemy raised $50M Series E in February at a $2B+ valuation — Online education has been one of the hotspots in the tech world this year, as people turn to e-learning tools to fill … Sponsor Posts
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