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A look at Parler, a social network with little moderation, which is backed by Rebekah Mercer and saw its user base more than double to 10M in under a week — The libertarian-minded platform aims to challenge tech giants through a focus on free speech; surge in users since the election
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| Phil Vachon / Security Embedded: |
A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency — On November 12, 2020 Apple released macOS Big Sur. In the hours after the release went live, somewhere in Apple's infrastructure …
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Tweets: @lapcatsoftware, @dhh, @pvachonnyc, @techloreistaken, @bcrypt, @rezendi, @coralineada, @atoonk, and @xeraa
| Max Weinbach / Android Police: |
Sources leak specs for Samsung Galaxy S21 series: the S21 Ultra will have a 108MP main camera sensor, and 3x optical and 10x “super” optical telephoto sensors — The Galaxy S21 launch is just a few months out, which means it's a great time for leaks.
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Tweets: @filipeesposito and @rdrv3
| Whitney Kimball / Gizmodo: |
Airbnb says 1.4M users have rejected its non-discrimination agreement, foregoing their use of the platform, since it implemented the policy in 2016 — In the four years since it implemented an agreement to promote equitable treatment of its users, Airbnb claims that 1.4 million individuals …
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| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
Qualcomm has received a US license to sell some 4G smartphone chips to Huawei — (Reuters) - Qualcomm Inc on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile phone chips to China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, an exemption to U.S. trade restrictions imposed amid rising tensions with China.
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Tweets: @mytechmusings, @andyboxall, and @stephennellis
| Lisa Stiffler / GeekWire: |
Profile of Tom Alberg, an early investor in Amazon, the founder of Madrona Venture Group, and a key figure in shaping the Pacific Northwest's tech economy — It was the mid 1990s, and Tom Alberg had a decision to make. — Jeff Bezos had arrived in Seattle and was looking for investors for his nascent virtual bookstore.
Tweets: @jasonkilar, @bgurley, @stevessingh, and @trengriffin
| Cyrus Farivar / NBC News: |
Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain — Nora Morales, 57, an overnight janitor at Google's main campus in Mountain View, California, knows better than anyone else how empty Silicon Valley's offices have become.
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| Owen Hughes / TechRepublic: |
Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, who first began work on the language in 1979 and still remains very much involved in its development — Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it remains one of the most widely used programming languages today.
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Slashdot. Tweets: @eagerbeavertech, @eagerbeavertech, @owenrdhughes, @techrepublic, @steveranger, @grady_booch, and @timokissel. Thanks:@steveranger
| Menekse Tokyay / Arab News: |
Turkey fines Google ~$26M for violating fair competition rules and abusing market dominance by placing text ads above organic search results — Turkey's competition authority has given Google six months to fix the problem and terminate its “unfair” advertisement strategy. (Reuters) — Short Url| 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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The Verge, New York Times, Engadget, Mashable, Microsoft on the Issues, IT Management, Gizmodo, Threatpost, GeekWire, HealthITSecurity, BBC, Fortune, Forbes, New York Post, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, cyberscoop.com, and Slashdot
Tweets: @lukolejnik, @tarah, @tomburt45, @thegrugq, @bradsmi, @jamiemaccoll, @selenalarson, @gordoncorera, @nikolasott, @johnhultquist, @ericgeller, @jrreed, and @zackwhittaker
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
US regulators have levied $198M in fines against crypto firms to date, of which $175M came from SEC and $23M from CFTC — The top two U.S. market regulators — the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) — have hit crypto firms and founders … | Rich Karlgaard / Forbes: |
Q&A with AI expert Kai-Fu Lee on China catching up to the US in AI, his investment philosophy, ethics in AI, China's natural advantages, and more — Any credible list of influential books about tech from the last decade would include AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee.
Tweets: @hkanji, @raam_beart, and @richardturrin
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