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Redesigned Twitter for Mac app now available with dark mode, GIF support, Group Direct Messages, Quote Tweet functionality, and more, but lacks polls support — Redesigned Twitter for Mac app with dark mode, GIF support, & more is now available — Earlier this year, Twitter promised …
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| The Local: |
Apple agrees to pay €318M in taxes to close the investigation into €1B of undeclared profits by its Italian subsidiary, tax office confirms — Apple to pay €318m in tax owed to Italy — US tech giant Apple has agreed to pay €318 million in tax owed to Italy's inland revenue … | Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
LG Display, Samsung Display to supply OLED screens for iPhones - report — South Korea's LG Display Co Ltd and the panel-making unit of Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will supply organic light emitting diode (OLED) screens for Apple Inc's iPhones, the Electronic Times reported on Wednesday citing unnamed sources.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42 — Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He was 42.| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
LG's SmartThinQ smart home hub connects to your appliances and gadgets, needs smartphone to control them and play music, looks like Amazon Echo with LCD display — LG's smart home hub looks like an Amazon Echo with a screen — Amazon's Echo was one of the stars of the retail giant's … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Flawed Chrome extension forcibly installed by AVG antivirus software could have exposed browsing history and other personal data of 9M+ users, has been patched — Google slams AVG for exposing Chrome user data with “security” plugin — AVG AntiVirus “force-installed” Chrome plugin that left browsing data vulnerable.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Samsung's new Tizen-based TVs will have GAIA security with pin lock for credit card and other personal info, data encryption, built-in anti-malware system, more — Samsung says its new Tizen TVs will be harder to hack — Samsung has announced that its next generation of Tizen smart TVs will be a lot harder to crack than before.
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| Brian Rohan / Associated Press: |
Egypt shuts down Facebook's Free Basics internet service on telco provider Etisalat, reasons unclear — Free Internet service for over 3 million Egyptians shut down — BEIRUT (AP) — Social media site Facebook says a program that had been giving free basic Internet services to over three million Egyptians has been shut down.
| Pete Rizzo / CoinDesk: |
Chain issues first private investor shares using Nasdaq Linq blockchain platform — Chain Issues Investor Shares on Nasdaq Blockchain Platform — Blockchain startup Chain has issued shares to a private investor using Nasdaq's recently launched private markets blockchain solution, Linq.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Credit Karma acquires mobile notifications firm Snowball for engineering talent, will remove Snowball's Android app from Play Store, shutter service — Credit Karma Acquires Innovative Mobile Notifications Startup Snowball — Credit and finance management platform Credit Karma …
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Sources: NSA continued to spy on some allies after Snowden leaks, also capturing communications with US lawmakers and Jewish groups — U.S. Spy Net on Israel Snares Congress — National Security Agency's targeting of Israeli leaders also swept up the content of private conversations with U.S. lawmakers
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google confirms next Android version will use Oracle's open-source OpenJDK for Java APIs — Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK).
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