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Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers were able to view some of its source code by hacking into an employee account but were unable to modify code or access emails — The hackers gained more access than the company previously revealed, though the attackers were unable to modify code or access emails.
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| Daniel Victor / New York Times: |
Obituary of FarmVille, which closed on Thursday but lives on in its growth-hacking techniques that are being imitated by everything from Instagram to QAnon — The game, a phenomenon a decade ago, is shutting down on Thursday. But its legacy — for better and for worse — carries beyond gaming.
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| @larsiusprime: |
[Thread] As a promised replacement for Flash, HTML5/JS is still in the stone age as a newbie-friendly animation/graphics-first authoring toolset — To this day, I am super mad at all the people who put for the codswallop that HTML5 was this perfect replacement for Flash. It's been 10 years since “Thoughts on Flash” was published and HTML5 STILL doesn't (in actual practice) replicate what mattered about Flash.
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Adobe ends support for Flash and will start blocking Flash content from January 12; major browsers will block Flash content from Jan. 1 — It's the end of the line — Adobe scheduled its famous Flash software to end on December 31st, 2020, and today is the day.
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| Max Zimmerman / Bloomberg: |
NYSE says it will delist three Chinese companies, China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, on January 7 to comply with a US EO imposing restrictions — The New York Stock Exchange said it will delist three Chinese companies to comply with a U.S. executive order that imposed restrictions …
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| Katie Paul / Reuters: |
Rob Leathern, Facebook's chief of advertising integrity who handled ad products around sensitive subjects, says he left the company on December 30 — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc's chief of advertising integrity, who handled the company's ad products around sensitive subjects such as politics … | Siva Vaidhyanathan / New Republic: |
Criticism of Facebook must move beyond content moderation issues; the effort to invent and invest in public cultural institutions should be our focus instead — Every day, a Twitter account run by Kevin Roose, a technology reporter for The New York Times, posts a list of the top 10 sources …
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| Reuters: |
Huawei removes and then reinstates Tencent games on its app store after a dispute over revenue sharing; source: Huawei insisted on receiving a 50% cut — HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Tencent's online games were removed and then reinstated on Huawei's app store on Friday in a dispute over revenue sharing by the Chinese companies.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Top nine streaming services to end 2020 with combined US subscribers up 50%+ YoY; US households now subscribe to 3.1 services on average, up from 2.7 in 2019 — From Hulu to Disney+, largest streaming services are expected to end the year with 50% more U.S. subscribers
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A look at the tech companies and people that helped with issues from COVID-19 to wildfires to Black Lives Matter in 2020 — This year, technology firms big and small stepped up to help with the Covid-19 pandemic and other thorny challenges. — Some years, I have to dig deep to come …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Alphabet's Wing says new FAA drone rules mandating radio-frequency broadcasts for remote identification will erode privacy, suggests internet-based tracking — Alphabet Inc's drone delivery unit Wing criticized Trump administration rules issued this week mandating broadcast-based remote identification … | Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
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