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Sources: thinner and lighter, higher-end 13" MacBook Air with MagSafe charging to launch as soon as this year; redesigned MacBook Pros to get SD card slot back — Apple Inc. is working on a thinner and lighter version of the MacBook Air, the company's mass-market laptop, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is increasing the prices of Xbox Live Gold subscriptions, up $1 to $10.99 per month and up $5 to $29.99 for a three-month membership — Xbox Live Gold prices are going up for monthly subscribers — Microsoft is increasing the prices of its Xbox Live Gold subscription soon.
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Unclassified memo: Defense Intelligence Agency analysts have used commercial databases of location data from smartphone apps to track Americans without warrants — The disclosure comes amid growing legislative scrutiny of how the government uses commercially available location records.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
FTC fines three bot-powered ticket scalping operations a total of $3.7M, the first time the agency applied a 2016 anti-bot law called the BOTS Act — The three will pay a total of $3.7 million — The Federal Trade Commission issued multimillion-dollar fines against three bot-powered ticket scalping operations.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Ex-ADT technician pled guilty to computer fraud and invasive visual recording for viewing home security camera feeds he installed in ~200 homes over 9,000 times — Employee for ADT accessed ~200 customer cams on more than 9,600 occasions. — A home security technician has admitted …
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| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Lyft is testing a “priority mode” offering drivers more rides in exchange for a 10% pay cut; some drivers call it “poverty mode”, saying their earnings dropped — In late September, Earla Phillips got what she described as an irritating email from Lyft.| Eric Newcomer / Newcomer: |
Sources: data analytics service Databricks is in talks to raise a private funding round, potentially valuing it at ~$27B; Databricks was valued at $6.2B in 2019 — The Andreessen Horowitz and NEA-backed company is raising a private round. — Databricks — a data and AI platform … | Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, on starting and scaling one of the biggest YouTube tech channels to 13.5M subscribers, day-to-day work, and future of his business — Marques Brownlee is one of the best reviewers I know, and also one of the most savvy and successful YouTubers.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung is considering building a $10B chipmaking plant in Texas, a major investment it hopes will help it catch up with industry leader TSMC — - It's looking to build a cutting-edge wafer fab in the U.S. — It would follow TSMC's decision to build a new site in Arizona
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
FOSS Patents' Florian Mueller files a complaint with US and EU antitrust authorities after Google and Apple reject his COVID-19-related game — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A German app developer has filed a complaint with European Union antitrust authorities against Google and Apple …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sources: Microsoft president Brad Smith defended the company's political contributions in a meeting with employees after some questioned donations from its PAC — - Brad Smith, Microsoft's president, said the company needs the Microsoft Political Action Committee.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Aside from Facebook Oversight Board's binding decision on Trump, Nick Clegg says it'll be interesting if it has guidance for similar situations in the future — Facebook's decision to ask its new independent Oversight Board to review the company's indefinite suspension of former President Trump … | Nick Clegg / About Facebook: |
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Alphabet says that it is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon project, calling it “a successful experiment” but not a viable one — Plus: The moonshot's launch, health care for the mask-less, and a new era's inaugural meme. — DO you detect something missing?
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