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FAA to propose rules on commercial drones: operators must be licensed pilots, flights only allowed in daylight hours at altitudes below 400 feet — Drone Flights Face FAA Hit — Looming Rule Proposal Would Restrict Commercial Uses, Require Pilot License
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T-Mobile forced to stop hiding slow speeds from throttled customers — When T-Mobile US customers exceed their monthly data caps, they aren't cut off from the Internet entirely. Instead, T-Mobile throttles their connections to 128Kbps or 64Kbps, depending on which plan they have, for the rest of the month.
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Whitney Wolfe, Other Former Tinder Employees To Launch Direct Competitor Called Bumble — Whitney Wolfe, an early employee at Tinder who sued the company for sexual harassment and workplace discrimination, has joined up with two other early Tinder employees, Chris Gulczynski and his parnter Sarah Mick … | Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Sony Pictures hacked, entire computer system reportedly unusable — Reports that Sony Pictures has been hacked have been trickling in this morning, after a thread appeared on Reddit claiming all computers at the company were offline due to a hack. — According to the Reddit thread …
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Uber removed blog post from data science team that examined link between prostitution and rides — Earlier today, Gina Neff, an associate professor of communication at the University of Washington and the School of Public Policy at Central European University in Budapest, noticed something missing from Uber's Data Blog.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Former WSJ publisher L. Gordon Crovitz is either misinformed or is deliberately misleading in recent pro-surveillance essay — Ridiculously Misinformed Opinion Piece In WSJ Asks Apple And Google To Make Everyone Less Safe — Former Wall Street Journal publisher L. Gordon Crovitz still gets to publish opinion pieces in the WSJ.
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Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, in apparent “DM fail”, expresses support for buying unnamed company — A Top Twitter Executive Just Had A Massive Direct Message Fail — It looks like Twitter's finance chief Anthony Noto thought he was messaging another Twitter executive about buying a company.
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Regin malware found on Belgacom, plus networks of European Commission, Council, Parliament, and others linked to GCHQ, NSA operations — U.S. and British Intel Agencies Attacked European Union With Malware — Complex malware known as Regin is the suspected technology behind sophisticated …
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iFixit: Nexus 6 is easy to fix if you can get it open — If you ever find yourself with a broken Nexus 6, iFixit has your back. The site has just completed its teardown of the Google/Motorola Nexus “phablet,” and it turns out that most of the internal components are pretty easy to get to.
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Lack of centralized cloud infrastructure team hampering Apple's development of iCloud services - report — Apple's work-in-progress iCloud Photo Library still hasn't fully realized the original concept, code-named “Hyperion,” that was pushed years ago by late company co-founder Steve Jobs, according to a new report.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
iPhone 6 drives App Store downloads to all-time-high in October, up 42% from September and 39% YoY, while app marketing costs fall slightly — iPhone 6 drives huge downloads in October, but marketing costs finally fall slightly — App and game makers got some welcome relief in October, according to marketing technology firm Fiksu.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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Update on Node.js vulnerabilities CVE-2026-111497, CVE-2026-105482, CVE-2026-105483 and CVE-2026-106069 — Overview On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced security releases for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x release lines to fix multiple vulnerabilities.
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