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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's system status webpage indicates that the company has resolved an outage affecting iCloud Account and Sign In services — Apple's system status webpage indicates that the company has resolved an outage affecting “iCloud Account and Sign In” services.
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Engadget, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Verge, Pocketnow, Gizmodo, PCMag, iMore, Redmond Pie, Fortune, BleepingComputer, and Forbes. Tweets: @tweeting_frog
| Andrew Davis / Bloomberg: |
Report: Facebook closed Irish subsidiary and moved billions in profits back to US following IRS suit; Irish subsidiary paid $101M in tax on $15B profit in 2018 — Facebook Inc. has moved to wind down several Irish holding companies that had allowed it to shift billions of dollars in profit to the country … | Michelle Gao / CNBC: |
From working remotely to benefiting from the new normal, tech companies led the way in pandemic response, but fell behind in stopping COVID-19 misinformation — - Tech companies were the first to cancel events and send workers home because of Covid concerns in early 2020.| New York Times: |
Beijing's frenzied drive to free itself from a reliance on imported chips could prove to be one of the enduring legacies of Trump's trade policies toward China — Beijing's drive to free itself from reliance on imported semiconductors has lifted start-ups and big firms alike. Some have flamed out.| Lars Eidnes / ITNEXT: |
Analysis of the top 1M pages on the web finds that HTTP/2 is now more common than HTTP/1.1; jQuery, Google Analytics were the top JavaScript libraries by usage — We rendered the top 1 million pages on the web, tracking every conceivable performance metric, logging every error, noting every requested URL.
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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 … | 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.| Reuters: |
Mastercard SpendingPulse: US online holiday sales from Oct. 11 to Dec. 24 grew 49% YoY, for a 19.7% share of overall retail sales, up from about 13.4% in 2019 — (Reuters) -U.S. retail sales rose 3% during this year's expanded holiday shopping season from Oct. 11 to Dec. 24 … | Steven Overly / Politico: |
Facebook critics say a general animosity toward Facebook in Washington may push the Biden administration into taking more proactive measures against the company — Facebook endured a deluge of political scrutiny in Donald Trump's Washington. It's poised to face even worse in the Joe Biden era.
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Slashdot, New York Times, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @justinhendrix, @bruno_j_navarro, @fboversight, @rededdy56, @alfonslopeztena, and @jason_kint
| 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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Google Project Zero. More:
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Tweets: @maddiestone and @thehackersnews
| 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 …
Tweets: @sachinrekhi, @trengriffin, @stevie_mat, @themeganpurdy, and @robabramowitz
| 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: @bcantrill, @pomeranian99, @wired, @dantley, and @crispinburke
| 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, @codinghorror, and @eladgil
| 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
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