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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is rolling out native M1 support for many Microsoft 365 for Mac apps, iCloud account integration in Outlook, and updated collaboration capabilities — Microsoft's new ‘Universal’ Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote apps for Mac will work on both Apple's M1 Arm silicon and Intel processors.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, iMore, Pocketnow, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, MakeUseOf, OnMSFT.com, Wccftech, Neowin, BleepingComputer, Thurrott, iClarified, Engadget, and SlashGear
Tweets: @reneritchie and @sushubh
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 84 with native support for Apple M1 Macs, saying the browser launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive — Mozilla today released Firefox version 84 with native support for Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip, touting …
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Mozilla, Engadget, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, MSPoweruser, The Mac Observer, Neowin, TechRadar, Thurrott, Appleosophy, XDA Developers, iClarified, Threatpost, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iMore
Tweets: @mkennedy, @chrismessina, and @alternativeto
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sources: Microsoft and industry partners seize key command and control domain used in SolarWinds hack — By seizing the domain, Microsoft and its partners hope to identify all victims, but are also preventing attackers from escalating intrusions in currently infected networks.| Washington Post: |
SolarWinds' top investors Silver Lake and Thoma Bravo sold a combined $286M worth of stock in the company on Dec. 7, six days before the hack was made public — The timing of the trades raises questions about whether major shareholders used inside information to avoid stark losses after the attack.
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ZDNet, NPR, Slate, SC Media, and VICE
Tweets: @senblumenthal, @jasonhowell, @drewharwell, @mollywood, and @campuscodi
| Periscope: |
Twitter says it will discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021, saying it's brought most of the core capabilities of Periscope into Twitter — Today, we're sharing that we have made the difficult decision to discontinue Periscope as a separate mobile app by March 2021.
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The Verge, help.twitter.com, The Economic Times, Variety, ZDNet, Social Media Today, Newser, The Hill, MacRumors, Mashable, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Police, SlashGear, Neowin, Tubefilter, CNET, MakeUseOf, and Reuters
| Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook is working on an AI tool called TLDR, which would summarize articles in bullet points and which was announced in an end-of-year, company-wide meeting — Facebook told employees on Tuesday that it's developing a tool to summarize news articles so users won't have to read them.
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The Next Web and Reuters
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook is building a video product called Super that will let people pay content creators or celebrities to interact with them during a live broadcast — - New product ‘Super’ is still being tested at social network — Facebook is developing more video features during the pandemic
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Social Media Today, CNET, and PYMNTS.com
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
EU proposes two bills governing tech giants, focused on illegal content and anticompetitive behavior, to empower regulators to levy large fines or break them up — Proposed bills would be the bloc's most ambitious internet laws since GDPR — European officials want new powers …
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CNBC, BBC, European Commission, Financial Times, European Commission, Politico, Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Information, The Logic, MacDailyNews, TorrentFreak, ZDNet, Apple Terminal, and Engadget
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos expands Memories, adding new collage designs and 3D Cinematic photos that simulate depth in a scene by adding a smooth panning effect — Google Photos is rolling out a series of updates to its Memories feature, which surfaces your best photos from years past.
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The Keyword, The Verge, Ausdroid, Neowin, and PetaPixel
Tweets: @googlephotos, @askdes, @sapochat, and @dflieb
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook will shift its UK users into user agreements with its HQ in California, instead of its Irish unit, moving them out of reach of EU's privacy laws — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will shift all its users in the United Kingdom into user agreements with the corporate headquarters …
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Tweets: @vilpponen, @paulnemitz, @razhael, @adrianweckler, and @martinsfp
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Neverware, which helps schools and enterprises resurrect old PCs with its Chromium-based CloudReady OS, gets acquired by Google, which invested in its Series B — Neverware lets you turn old PCs and Macs into Chromebook-esque devices through its CloudReady OS.
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cloudreadykb.neverware.com, Chrome Unboxed, Android Authority, SlashGear, AndroidGuys, and Android Police
Tweets: @neverware, @frankcatalano, @mishaalrahman, @kevinctofel, and @chromeunboxed. Thanks:@technacity
| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Facebook says people linked to France's military used fake accounts to meddle in African politics, tangling with similar efforts by Russia's IRA in some nations — It's the first time Facebook has identified people affiliated with a Western government for sanction
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About Facebook, Graphika, cyber.fsi.stanford.edu, SiliconANGLE, and Reuters
| The Verge: |
Google has restored service after a significant number of Gmail users saw “error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior” for a few hours — Stadia was experiencing issues, too — Google says that a “significant subset” of Gmail users ran into errors with the service Tuesday afternoon.
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TechCrunch, BleepingComputer, South China Morning Post, CRN, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Forbes, The Hill, Chrome Unboxed, Towards AI, and CNN
Tweets: @chrismessina, @ediggs, @meganmorrone, @thegautamkamath, @tracyalloway, @trevorbattle, and @mslopatto
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches CloudShell, a fully featured web-based shell, based on Amazon Linux 2, for command-line access to AWS — AWS today launched CloudShell, a new, fully featured web-based shell environment, based on Amazon Linux 2, for developers who want to be able to use some of their favorite command-line tools … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will allow ads targeting Georgia voters about the Jan. 5 runoffs, starting at 9am PT on Dec. 16, even as its broader political ad ban remains — Facebook said Tuesday it will begin letting advertisers run ads targeting Georgia voters about the state's Jan. 5 runoff elections …
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About Facebook, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Mediaite, New York Times, Politico, The Hill, Engadget, and Associated Press
Tweets: @sarafischer, @craigsilverman, @rmac18, @hshaban, @mikeisaac, and @brooklynmarie
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
The ad industry is bracing for Apple's privacy-focused IDFA changes and attempting to adapt with new targeting methods — - Apple is making a huge change to settings on users' iPhones in the name of privacy, and it will fundamentally change mobile advertising on those devices.
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NextPit. Tweets: @msitarzewski, @max_mead, @disruptivedean, @mattrosoff, @aparanjape, @aparanjape, and @megancgraham. Thanks:@fintwitfb
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Amazon's cloud gaming service Luna is now available on Android for US users, with initial support on some Pixel, Samsung, and OnePlus devices running Chrome 86+ — It works on some Pixel, Samsung, and OnePlus devices — Amazon's cloud gaming service, Luna, is now available on Android, Amazon announced on Tuesday.
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9to5Google, Engadget, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, and Android Authority
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Facebook and Twitter represent v1 of social networking, a bad copy of the analog world, whereas v2 is something unique to digital and a lot more promising — It's a rather motley crew. One is a nurse, another a lawyer, a third an investment adviser. There are three programmers, a soldier, and a data scientist.
Tweets: @rossgarber, @stratechery, @blaine, @modestproposal1, @damanr, and @blaine
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources: a coalition of US states are expected to file antitrust lawsuit against Google as soon as Thursday, alleging it altered design of search to hurt rivals — A coalition of states is finishing an antitrust lawsuit against Google focused on its power in the online search market … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok expands Community Guidelines to strengthen its existing policies in areas like harassment, self-harm, and violence, and unveils new well-being features — TikTok this morning announced a new set of Community Guidelines that aim to strengthen its existing policies in areas like harassment …
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TikTok, Engadget, The Verge, MobileSyrup, and Social Media Today. Tweets: @lanceulanoff. Thanks:@jamiefavazza
| Michael Waters / Modern Retail: |
A look at Walmart's Spotlight program which recruits employees to showcase the positive sides of Walmart on the individuals' social media accounts — When Lauren Castle started interning at Walmart in 2011, she didn't think she'd last more than a few months.
Tweets: @jimstengel and @caseyjohnston
| Lilah Burke / Inside Higher Ed: |
UT Austin has stopped using a ML-based system called GRADE to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in CS following backlash, seven years after first introducing it — U of Texas at Austin has stopped using a machine-learning system to evaluate applicants for its Ph.D. in computer science.
Tweets: @susanschorn, @microbiomdigest, and @hypervisible
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Modern Health, whose app helps employers provide digital mental health care to their employees, raises $51M Series C, bringing its total raised to over $95M — Modern Health is providing a “fourth pillar” of health care, what Alyson Watson, founder and CEO, likes to call …
Tweets: @rsarver
| Laura Lovett / MobiHealthNews: |
nference, whose search tool makes it easy for researchers and doctors to find biomedical information in the public domain, raises $60M Series C — The tool was designed to make it easier for scientists, researchers and doctors to look up biomedical information.
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