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Apple Music's new student membership option discounts the service by 50% — Amid news that Apple Music is getting a makeover come this summer, Apple today launched a new plan to boost subscribers to its streaming music service and competitor to Spotify, SoundCloud, Tidal and others.
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| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Internal documents show Palantir losing some top-tier clients and on track to turn over 20% of its staff in 2016 — Inside Palantir, Silicon Valley's Most Secretive Company … A trove of internal — documents and insider interviews has pulled back the curtain on one of Silicon Valley's …
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Business Insider and Fortune. Tweets: @alanna, @tomgara, @mattzeitlin, @mattzeitlin, @johnpaczkowski, @dangillmor, @tomgara, @benpopper, @williamalden, @paullewis, @brian_solomon, @jwherrman and @fmanjoo
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Music Connect social network to be demoted in iOS 10 overhaul — Apple Music Connect, a social interaction feature between artists and listeners that was a cornerstone of the Apple Music launch last summer, will be demoted in an iOS 10 overhaul this fall.| Troy Hunt / Troy Hunt's Blog: |
Security investigator explains how he verifies data breaches after reports impugn Holden data — Here's how I verify data breaches — Let me start with this headline: — Other headlines went on to suggest that you need to change your password right now if you're using the likes of Hotmail or Gmail, among others.
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99.9% of Alex Holden's Database Entries Are Invalid, Mail.Ru Group's Security Analysis Shows — Mail.Ru Group's Information security specialists have studied the sample of data received from Alex Holden. The analysis shows that 99.982% of Mail.Ru account credentials found in the database are invalid.
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Qualcomm issues fix for 5 year old Android security flaw that exposes SMS, call history; Android versions prior to 4.3 mostly affected — Critical Qualcomm security bug leaves many phones open to attack — Fix still isn't available for most users, and many will probably never get it.
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| Cynthia Littleton / Variety: |
FCC officially approves Charter's acquisition of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks, with conditions FCC chairman outlined last month — FCC Approves Charter Acquisition of Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks … The FCC has formally approved the acquisition of Time Warner Cable …
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Reuters, DSLreports, The Hill, CNET, Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, USA Today, Light Reading, MediaPost, Gizmodo, Fortune and FierceCable. See also Mediagazer
| Brad Chacos / PCWorld: |
NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 1080 starting at $600 and available May 27, and 1070 starting at $380 and available June 10; both are faster than the Titan X — Nvidia's monstrous new GeForce GTX 1080 and 1070 kick more ass than a Titan X — Latest GeForce cards also push prices that won't break the bank either| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon promises to fill all racial gaps in Prime Same Day delivery service, not launch in new regions until it can cover all zip codes there — Amazon to Fill All Racial Gaps in Same-Day Delivery Service — Congressional Black Caucus responds to online retailer's plan
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The Hill, Tech Insider, SlashGear, Engadget, Fortune, Consumerist and Racked
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Lawsuit challenging Facebook's facial recognition system moves forward, as judge rules that Illinois' Biometric Information Privacy Act is applicable — Lawsuit challenging Facebook's facial recognition system moves forward — A lawsuit alleging that Facebook photo tagging violates user privacy has cleared a crucial early hurdle.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Warner's Q1 music streaming sales up $72M, making it the biggest source of revenue, more than 50% from outside US; downloads down $17M, physical copies down $6M — Streaming music has become Warner Music's biggest business — Another milestone in the music industry's shift to streaming … | JC Torres / SlashGear: |
Android N splits MediaServer into distinct pieces, each with access to only a specific subsystem, to prevent Stagefright-like exploits — Android N splits up mediaserver to prevent future Stagefrights — The Stagefright security exploit definitely sent the Android world in a tumble.
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Android Developers Blog, Ubergizmo and 9to5Google
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