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Apple's system status page is showing issues with “iCloud Account and Sign In” since Christmas morning, as users complain about problems with device activation — Apple's status page shows an ongoing issue with “iCloud Account and Sign In” since early Christmas morning.
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Laptop and desktop manufacturers are still months away from fulfilling outstanding orders as sales see a renaissance; shortages won't ease until 2022 — OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - The world stocked up on laptop and desktop computers in 2020 at a level not seen since the iPhone debuted in 2007 … | 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 … | 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: @netik, @eladgil, @martin_casado, @elizabeth_joh, @boblord, and @jordannovet
| 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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Tweets: @maddiestone, @maddiestone, @thehackersnews, and @jvagle
| Will Knight / Wired: |
David Silver, a principal research scientist at DeepMind, on AlphaGo, AlphaZero, and MuZero, applying reinforcement learning to real world problems, and more — David Silver of DeepMind, who helped create the program that defeated a Go champion, thinks rewards are central to how machines—and humans—acquire knowledge.
Tweets: @louisgray, @alan_couzens, and @bravo_abad
| Sarah Fallon / Wired: |
Profile of Ray Holt, who in the 1960s jointly developed the F-14 Tomcat's Central Air Data Computer, considered by some to be the first microprocessor — In a weird way, I've known Ray Holt all my life, but I never knew what he had accomplished—or how his inventions wove their way into my own family.
Tweets: @airpir_southern, @sarahfallon, @mathewi, @dantley, @caitlin__kelly, @topgunbio, @crispinburke, and @wired
| 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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Pocketnow, TechSpot, Engadget, 91mobiles.com, The Indian Express, NDTV Gadgets 360, DigiTimes, Gizchina, and Notebookcheck.net. Tweets: @liliputingnews
| 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: @launcherwp, @genepark, @genepark, and @htsuka
| 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 … | 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: @anupamchander, @marchofer, @j_b_c16, @peterkirkegaard, @c_szabla, @anewman_forward, @thedailymao, @tc_intlaw, @ftchina, @pastynome, @chadbown, @yuanfenyang, and @skellyceo
| 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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