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| Abby Vollmer / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl project, raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fund to help open source devs fight takedowns — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
A large number of mostly late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro users are reporting that upgrading to macOS Big Sur is bricking their computers — A large number of late 2013 and mid 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro owners are reporting that the macOS Big Sur update is bricking their machines.
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discussions.apple.com, MacRumors Forums, Axios, AppleInsider, The Verge, KnowTechie, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, iPhone Hacks, Lifehacker, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, cloudpro.co.uk, Engadget, Softpedia News, SecurityWeek, TechRadar, International Business Times, Engadget, SlashGear, Firstpost Tech, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, Wccftech, and phonearena.com
| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
It's hard to believe Craig Federighi's claim that Apple wasn't “remotely considering” touch for Macs, given Big Sur's large controls and iOS apps coming to Macs — Reviews of new Apple Silicon Macs are not out yet. They're likely to be good. But one small disappointment lingers … | Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog: |
Apple responds to privacy concerns over checking macOS apps' Developer ID certs over OCSP, ceases logging IP addresses, will launch encrypted protocol in 2021 — Following privacy concerns from Mac users after Apple's Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server went down …
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| Phil Vachon / Security Embedded: |
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blog.jacopo.io/en, SentinelOne, KnowTechie, AppleInsider, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @edbott, @konklone, @yoz, @alexlindsay, @yoz, @yoz, @timbray, @ianbetteridge, @matthew_d_green, @bcrypt, @techloreistaken, @bcrypt, @rezendi, @coralineada, @xeraa, @dhh, @atoonk, and @pvachonnyc
| Financial Times: |
Max Schrems' campaign group noyb files complaints with German and Spanish regulators, claiming Apple breaks EU law by letting advertisers track users via IDFA — Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities — Apple is breaking EU law …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, noyb.eu, CNBC, Associated Press, Forbes, The Economic Times, 9to5Mac, Apple World Today, PYMNTS.com, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, TechCrunch, Business Insider, MacDailyNews, Engadget, coinspeaker.com, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, MacRumors, and blockchain.news
Tweets: @noybeu, @finnmyrstad, @stephaniebodoni, @mnot, and @martinsfp
| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Investigation: US military buys granular movement data of people around the world from a wide array of apps for Muslim dating, prayer, Craigslist, weather, more — A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain …
Tweets: @rowaida_abdel, @sanasaeed, @farhiyaa4, @ayeshaasiddiqi, @slpng_giants, and @jmbooyah
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft expands third-party app integration support for Teams meetings and launches low-code tools like Power Apps for Teams and the Power Virtual Agents app — Microsoft today announced the general availability of Teams apps for meetings. For those who prefer a low-code approach …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Profile of Erdal Arıkan, an obscure Turkish academic whose groundbreaking work in information theory in 2005 helped Huawei dominate the 5G infrastructure market — How an obscure Turkish scientist's obscure theoretical breakthrough helped the Chinese tech giant gain control of the future.
Tweets: @stevenlevy
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
WarnerMedia says HBO Max will be available on Amazon Fire devices from November 17 — The HBO Max app for Amazon's devices will be available Tuesday, Nov. 17. The launch will bring WarnerMedia's flagship direct-to-consumer product to Amazon's estimated 40 million-plus active Fire TV users …
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Pressroom, TechCrunch, The Verge, TechHive, AFTVnews, Thurrott, Business Insider, Engadget, Light Reading, IGN, Fast Company, SlashGear, Adweek, KnowTechie, Tom's Guide, GameSpot, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Wrap, Deadline, The Streamable, and Cord Cutters News
Tweets: @xpangler, @amazonfiretv, @loudmouthjulia, and @ed_hale
| Will Oremus / OneZero : |
A look at the debate over the kind of news Facebook users are reading, after Facebook released more data on top performing link posts in the US — What kind of news does the news feed feed when the news feed does feed news? — Since July, New York Times journalist Kevin Roose … | Frank McShan / MacRumors: |
Results uploaded to Geekbench show that Apple Silicon M1 scores higher than every previous Mac in the single core benchmark, even when the M1 is emulating x86 — The first native benchmarks of Apple's M1 chip appeared on the Geekbench site last week showing impressive native performance.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iMore, Apple World Today, Cult of Mac, MSPoweruser, Data Driven Investor, Redmond Pie, iClarified, Wccftech, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @dcuthbert, @jonmasters, @geerlingguy, @stroughtonsmith, @stevesi, @stroughtonsmith, and @mgsiegler
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook now lets any page admin submit images and videos for rights protection, which helps creators monetize their content and may lead to more takedowns — The company opens its rights manager up to all page admins — More copyright takedown requests might be coming to Facebook and Instagram.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Gretel, a startup aiming to make it faster and easier to anonymize data sets, announces $12M Series A led by Greylock — As companies work with data, one of the big obstacles they face is making sure they are not exposing personally identifiable information (PII) or other sensitive data.Sponsor Posts
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Meet Zoho Books MCP: Bring AI-powered accounting to your business — Isn't change the only constant? And that holds true for accounting too. For years, accounting software has helped businesses manage their finances …
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