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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Western Digital says some My Book Live devices are being compromised by malware leading to a factory reset erasing all data, believes its servers weren't hacked — Western Digital My Book NAS owners worldwide found that their devices have been mysteriously factory reset and all of their files deleted.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
In his closing Windows event remarks, Nadella issued a subtle but stinging critique of Apple, positioning Microsoft as Apple's main competition for developers — ‘Windows has always stood for sovereignty for creators and agency for consumers’ — At the end of a surprisingly eventful …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces Windows 11, with a simplified UI, new Windows store, Start menu, Teams integrated into taskbar, and more, available free to Windows 10 users — A new version of Windows is officially on the way — Microsoft is officially confirming the name for the next release of Windows today: Windows 11.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Satya Nadella about Windows 11, bringing Windows closer to Android, integrating Amazon Appstore, antitrust bills in Congress, and more — We've got a special episode of Decoder today — I'm talking to Satya Nadella, the CEO and chairman of Microsoft.| Pradeep / MSPoweruser: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
UK's CMA launches an investigation into whether Amazon and Google are doing enough to crack down on fake reviews and deter sellers from manipulating listings — U.K. regulator opens investigation into whether tech giants are doing enough to deter sellers from manipulating product listings
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| TechCrunch: |
Amazon's AWS acquires encrypted messaging service Wickr, says it will continue operating the service and offer it to AWS customers — Amazon's cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced …
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| Ali Breland / Mother Jones: |
Journalists say Amazon's PR team uses aggressive, manipulative, and sometimes outright deceptive tactics to intimidate and mislead reporters — Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.| Shirin Ghaffary / Vox: |
Google is showing a warning on some searches that it may not have reliable sources to show, usually on trending topics — The company is notifying people when they search for rapidly evolving topics. — Google is testing a new feature to notify people when they search for a topic that may have unreliable results.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Robinhood, which had been seeking to go public this month, has seen its listing plans slowed due to an SEC review into its cryptocurrency business — - Trading app had been seeking to go public this month — Customers can trade virtual currencies like Bitcoin, Dogecoin
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Mozilla launches Rally, a Firefox plugin that lets users share browsing data with researchers studying the web, starting with researchers from Princeton — By this point in the internet's history, most of us have come to terms with the fact that accessing the web involves giving up information …
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| Byron Tau / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Premise, an app that pays users around the world for tasks like taking photos, and has clients like US military using the data to gather intelligence — The Premise app pays users, many in the developing world, to do tasks like taking photos and completing surveys for clients including the U.S. military
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
After approving five major antitrust bills on Wed., House committee approves the Ending Platform Monopolies Act on Thursday; all bills now head to House floor — I'm going to sleep — This story is part of a group of stories called — After nearly two years of investigations …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Instagram starts to quietly roll out the option to publish posts from its website on desktop, but iPad is not supported — After we got a sneak peek at the feature last month, Instagram has quietly rolled out the option to create and publish posts from its website on desktop (but not on iPad).
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