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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft's patch for a zero-day privilege escalation Windows bug in June did not fix the vulnerability, which could still be exploited with some adjustments — Back in June, Microsoft released a fix for a vulnerability in the Windows operating system that enabled attackers to increase …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
2020 has been the beginning of major streaming exclusivity plays, forcing users to pay for four or five services as big studios prioritize their own platforms — End-of-year turnover is always rough, and it's going to get worse — Two of the biggest movies people want to talk about this week … | Ankit Malhotra / Counterpoint Research: |
With 31% market share, MediaTek becomes the biggest smartphone SoC vendor globally in Q3, surpassing Qualcomm, which remains the largest 5G chipset vendor — - More than 100 million smartphones were sold globally with MediaTek chipsets in Q3 2020. — Qualcomm led the market for 5G chipsets in Q3 2020.
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Engadget, NDTV Gadgets 360, The Indian Express, 91mobiles.com, DigiTimes, Gizchina, and Notebookcheck.net. Tweets: @liliputingnews
| Nicole Sperling / New York Times: |
As streaming platforms like Netflix have grown, political films they used to seek out, like The Dissident, on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, are being shunned — Bryan Fogel's examination of the killing of the Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi had trouble finding a home among the companies … | Lorraine Longhi / The Copper Courier: |
Some GoDaddy employees are upset after the company sent a phishing email scam to test its employees, with the email promising a $650 one-time holiday bonus — GoDaddy surpassed 20 million customers this year and laid off or reassigned hundreds of employees during the coronavirus pandemic in Arizona, Iowa, and Texas.
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| Gene Park / Washington Post: |
Interview with Microsoft's VP of gaming ecosystem Sarah Bond, a former T-Mobile executive, on lowering entry barriers by selling Xbox as a subscription — The launch of the new series of Xbox consoles is actually unlike any other console launch in the industry's history …
Tweets: @genepark, @launcherwp, @htsuka, and @genepark
| Yuan Yang / Financial Times: |
European tech executives and diplomats privately complain US sanctions on Huawei shut them out of the Chinese market while offering exceptions for US companies — Business says EU groups are losing out on licences to sell to blacklisted Chinese companies — European tech executives …
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Thurrott. Tweets: @anewman_forward, @thedailymao, @tc_intlaw, @marchofer, @anupamchander, @j_b_c16, @peterkirkegaard, @c_szabla, @ftchina, @pastynome, @chadbown, @yuanfenyang, and @skellyceo
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
2020 political campaigns secured emails with physical security keys from a nonprofit working with Google and Microsoft; source says Biden's campaign used keys — - Keys from the likes of Google and Yubico became a hit among campaign workers this year, including in Joe Biden's campaign.
Tweets: @eladgil, @martin_casado, @elizabeth_joh, @boblord, and @jordannovet
| Dipayan Ghosh / Wired: |
Facebook's claims that SMBs will suffer from iOS's privacy changes seem exaggerated when examining the technical changes Facebook announced in response — The social media giant would have you believe that Apple's privacy update will hurt the little guys. But Facebook's motives aren't so altruistic.
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iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Mobile Dev Memo, International Business Times, Thurrott, The Information, and MacRumors
Tweets: @jrhennessy, @mattnavarra, @icave_dave, @carnage4life, @ghoshd7, and @hypervisible
| Sara Morrison / Vox: |
Privacy laws in the US had momentum at the beginning of 2020, but the pandemic has focused Congress elsewhere and forced everyone to give up more data online — Our lives moved online in 2020. Too bad privacy laws didn't. — As a digital privacy reporter, I try to avoid sites and services …
Tweets: @azza_alt, @forsheit, @evan_greer, @hypervisible, and @adam_k_levin
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Citrix confirmed ADC networking equipment is being actively exploited to amplify DDoS attacks against a “small number of customers”; patch expected mid-January — Citrix says it's working on a fix, expected next year. — Threat actors have discovered a way to bounce …
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My little Farm, Citrix, The Hacker News, SiliconANGLE, SC Media, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @sagelikebrian, @wilkyit, and @thorstenrood
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
NewsGuard: 17% of engagement among the top 100 news sources on social media in 2020 was with sources NewsGuard considers unreliable, compared to 8% in 2019 — Unreliable news websites significantly increased their share of engagement among the top performing news sources on social media this year … Sponsor Posts
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