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FireEye says some internal systems were hacked by nation state actors, compromising its Red Team tools, used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers — The cybersecurity company said the attack compromised its software tools used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
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FireEye, New York Times, CyberScoop, Washington Post, Business Insider, VICE, The Hill, CNET, ZDNet, and Axios
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| Washington Post: |
An internal Huawei document, found on its website, says Huawei tested facial recognition with a “Uighur alarm” to alert Chinese police when it detected Uighurs — An internal report claims the face-scanning system could trigger a “Uighur alarm,” sparking concerns that the software …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare and Apple say they have developed a new protocol called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, which decouples DNS queries from internet users for more privacy — Engineers at Cloudflare and Apple say they've developed a new internet protocol that will shore up one of the biggest holes …
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The Cloudflare Blog, Ars Technica, The Cloudflare Blog, HotHardware.com News, Schneier on Security, CircleID, Apple Terminal, Computerworld, iPhone Hacks, BleepingComputer, Apple Must, CyberScoop, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, and MacRumors
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple announces AirPods Max, over-ear headphones with noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and audio sharing, available from December 15 for $549 — The first over-ear headphones with an Apple logo on them — It turns out Apple has one more major hardware announcement …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best on why it is not a media company, content moderation, making a reader app for users to easily read their newsletters, and more — On today's episode of Decoder, I'm talking to Chris Best, co-founder and CEO of Substack, the subscription newsletter startup that's taken …
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| BBC: |
China bans TripAdvisor from its app stores, along with 104 apps it said were violating cyber-laws aimed at fighting pornography, gambling, and violence — China has removed 105 apps from its app stores as part of a campaign to get rid of content related to pornography, prostitution, gambling and violence.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: as Bob Mansfield retires, Apple puts AI chief John Giannandrea in charge of self-driving car project Titan; Doug Field runs the project day to day — - Company has been developing autonomous vehicle tech for years — AI executive Giannandrea takes lead after Bob Mansfield leaves
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CoinDesk, The Verge, AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Trusted Reviews, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, and Apple Terminal
Tweets: @caseynewton, @parkerortolani, and @markgurman
| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is opening up its open source Fuchsia OS to outside developers, the first formal announcement about the project — For the past four years, Google has been developing a new operating system, Fuchsia, from the ground up. Starting today, Google's Fuchsia OS is now being developed more openly …
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Google Open Source Blog, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, HotHardware.com News, Thurrott, Fuchsia, Engadget, Neowin, and VentureBeat
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung's SmartThings will support Google Nest devices starting in January 2021 — Support for Nest products through the SmartThings app arrives next month — Google and Samsung are bringing their smart home platforms together for the first time. Samsung's SmartThings …
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The Keyword, Samsung Global Newsroom, Ars Technica, Android Police, Engadget, Thurrott, Chrome Unboxed, Neowin, Android Central, SlashGear, Wccftech, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, MSPoweruser, and Tom's Guide. Tweets: @samsungnewsus
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
In a private 2018 meeting between UK's digital chief and Zuckerberg, minutes show Zuckerberg said the UK was “anti-tech” and threatened to end UK investment — Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism — which fought for two years to obtain details …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Florida police raid home of former state employee and COVID whistleblower, claiming she breached a messaging system despite all its users sharing one password — This is insane. Earlier this year, we wrote about Rebekah Jones, the data scientist working for Florida, who put together …
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Tallahassee Democrat, CNN, Sun-Sentinel, Washington Post, and Tampa Bay Times
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| Associated Press: |
Pornhub will no longer let users download videos or unverified users upload videos, after a NYT report alleged that it was hosting videos of rape, underage sex — NEW YORK (AP) — Pornhub said Tuesday it was halting unverified users from uploading video material after a report alleged …
| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Square commits $10M to fund efforts to mine bitcoin with renewables; Dorsey believes “that cryptocurrency will eventually be powered completely by clean power” — Square eyes clean energy consumption for Bitcoin as a step towards the global conversion to renewable energy. — Bitcoin| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Uber is selling its flying car project, Elevate, to Joby Aviation and is investing $75M into the company as part of the deal; terms were not disclosed — - The move will allow Joby to use Uber's app to offer air taxi rides when the company's aircraft eventually enters service, which could be as soon as 2023.
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New York Times, Axios, Business Insider, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Bloomberg, and Engadget. Tweets: @stevekovach
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
Senate votes 49-47 to appoint Trump ally Nathan Simington to the FCC for a five-year term, which could mire the FCC in partisan gridlock — Nathan Simington's was chosen to attack free speech and net neutrality. He could gridlock internet policy for the next five years.| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Google announces Look to Speak, an experimental project for Android that helps users with speech and motor impairments by selecting phrases with their eyes — The Android app is designed to make communication easier for people with motor and speech impairments
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The Keyword, Releases, CNET, Android Police, Lifehacker, 9to5Google, Engadget, VentureBeat, and TechSpot
Tweets: @dangerot, @thedicea, @krliu_advocate, @lilririah, @backlon, and @speedoftrust27
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researchers detail vulnerabilities found in four open source TCP/IP stacks used in millions of embedded IoT devices, collectively called Amnesia:33 — Amnesia:33 is the latest in a long line of vulnerabilities that affect countless embedded devices. — YES, AT THIS point it's a cliche that cheap …
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Threatpost, AppleInsider, ZDNet, HealthITSecurity, and Internet of Things News
Tweets: @campuscodi, @lilyhnewman, @wired, and @lnpservices
| Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
CentOS, a free Linux distro functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, says it's ending support for recently announced CentOS 8 — Well here is a surprise for those that have long used CentOS as the community-supported rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux …
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lists.centos.org Mailing Lists. Tweets: @0x47df, @phoronix, @quinnypig, @nixcraft, @chris_dag, @gaveen, @ibuildthecloud, @htbaa, and @michaelkofler
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds carts to WhatsApp, allowing users to add multiple items from a business to the cart then send the order request as a message to the business — WhatsApp said on Tuesday it is adding a new shopping feature to its business app as the Facebook -owned instant messaging service looks …
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WhatsApp.com, Social Media Today, Neowin, Android Central, and The Verge
Tweets: @wizaj, @jasuja, @shiraovide, and @ohmdee
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google says Stadia users will be able to live stream directly to YouTube starting December 8 — Finally fulfilling its biggest original promise — From the very beginning, Google Stadia and YouTube were supposed to work together — thanks to the magic of cloud computing …
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9to5Google, Input, Android Police, TechSpot, Thurrott, New blog articles in Community, KnowTechie, iPhone in Canada Blog, AndroidGuys, Neowin, and Android Central. Tweets: @alexhern
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Paris-based NextMind says its wearable $399 Dev Kit, offering a claimed real-time brain computer interface, will begin shipping — NextMind has started shipping its real-time brain-computer interface Dev Kit for $399. The device translates brain signals into digital commands …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Salt Security, which develops tools that discover APIs and detect vulnerabilities, raises $30M Series B led by Sequoia Capital — Salt Security, which is developing a threat protection solution that discovers APIs and detects vulnerabilities, today raised $30 million.
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Security Boulevard
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Apple says Fitness+, its workout class subscription service, will launch on December 14 in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand — Apple has today announced that its fitness subcription service, Apple Fitness+, is set to launch on Monday, December 14.
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Apple, Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Gizmodo, Redmond Pie, Macworld, Wareable, Engadget, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @ashleyrcarman and @lamonicabuzz
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
AWS expands on SageMaker capabilities with end-to-end features for machine learning including SageMaker Clarify, which allegedly provides bias detection — Nearly three years after it was first launched, Amazon Web Services' SageMaker platform has gotten a significant upgrade in the form … | Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Calm, maker of a meditation, sleep, and relaxation app, raises $75M at a $2B valuation, bringing its total raised to $217M — - Insight, Marc Benioff also participated in $75 million round — San Francisco-based firm's app has 4 million paying users
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GlobeNewswire, Lightspeed Venture Partners, MobiHealthNews, Business Insider, Telegraph, and TechCrunch
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube launches HDR support for live streams and says that it's the first major platform to do so — YouTube in 2016 added support for HDR (high-dynamic range) videos on its platform, allowing cretators to upload videos offering higher contrast, more accurate shadows and highlights … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Thumbtack, a home improvement service marketplace, is acquiring Setter, which offers video home checkups by experts and has raised $12M since its 2015 launch — Thumbtack, a marketplace where you can hire local professionals for home improvement and other services, is announcing that it has acquired Setter.Sponsor Posts
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