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Senate narrowly rejects a bill that would have allowed FBI to access browser history and email info without warrant; McConnell submits motion to reconsider vote — Lawmakers couldn't get the required majority to advance the bill. — An amendment designed to allow the government warrantless access …
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Thanks:@cauchon| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
macOS Sierra in detail: changes to Messages, Safari and other native apps; Continuity, Siri, iCloud Drive, Apple Watch unlocking, Gatekeeper, more — Siri ushers in a range of updates that refine but don't transform the Mac. — When Apple runs through its operating system announcements at WWDC …
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Dropbox adds better Office integration and file scanning to its iOS app; business users can search text of scanned documents — Cloud syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today is announcing a slew of new features for individuals and teams. — Probably the most significant addition … | Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Study: Amazon Video downstream traffic share in North America hits 4.26%, up from 1.97% in 2015, overtaking iTunes; Netflix has 35.15% share, YouTube has 17.53% — Streaming video companies like Netflix are notoriously secretive about their numbers, but there are proxy measurements we can use …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
The new entry-level Kindle is thinner, lighter, still costs $80, has double storage, and comes with Bluetooth audio support — The luxurious Kindle Oasis is no longer the new kid on the block. Amazon just unveiled its new entry-level Kindle device, which is more portable and packs in twice as much storage as the last model.
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
SoundCloud rolls out Suggested Tracks to surface new music based on user listening habits — SoundCloud has started rolling out a new way for people to discover music and audio files on its service. Called Suggested Tracks, this feature analyzes your listening activity to surface the tracks and artists you may not have heard before.
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| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Twilio prices IPO at $15 a share, above range of $12 to $14; will begin trading Thursday on NYSE under ticker TWLO — Twilio priced its IPO at $15 per share, above the range of $12 to $14 that the cloud software developer proposed in an updated IPO prospectus last week.
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Red Hat acquires API management company 3scale, will open-source the code — Red Hat today announced that it's acquiring 3scale, a company with software for managing the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) that companies can expose for other developers to use.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft readies July preview of Azure Information Protection rights-management service, which classifies, labels, and protects data across storage types — Microsoft will launch a public preview in July of its Azure Information Protection service, which builds on technology from its November 2015 Secure Islands acquisition.
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Tech companies worry that Britain leaving the EU could negatively affect European tech policy, data handling, and hiring — Differing national attitudes to regulation color firms' views on doing business after a possible fracture — Microsoft Corp. was for a decade pursued …
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| David E. Sanger / New York Times: |
FireEye report finds sharp drop-off in Chinese cyberattacks on US over past two years — WASHINGTON — Nine months after President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China agreed to a broad crackdown on cyberespionage aimed at curbing the theft of intellectual property …
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The Diplomat, FireEye, FedScoop, Federal Computer Week and SiliconBeat
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Ditching iPhone headphone jack leaves room for a larger battery, isn't about thinness or DRM; Apple has proven itself at timing the removal of legacy ports — Nilay Patel, “Taking the Headphone Jack Off Phones Is User-Hostile and Stupid”: … And let's compare them to arguments against removing floppy drives from the iMac in 1998.
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