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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Sources: Facebook is working on Collections, a feature to showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed — Facebook is working on a new feature that will showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed, according to two people familiar …
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BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, Engadget, Digiday, Breitbart, Investor's Business Daily, Fortune, Mashable, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, and SocialTimes
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Thanks:@lexnfx. See also Mediagazer| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Researchers bypass Apple's Activation Lock on iPhone and iPad running the latest version of iOS — Researchers have found a bug that can be used to bypass Apple's Activation Lock feature and gain access to the homescreen of locked iPhones and iPads running the latest version of iOS.
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Hemanth Joseph, BGR, AppleInsider, Tech Times, CIO.com, TechCrunch, Naked Security, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, Security Affairs, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, and Forbes
Tweets: @michaelbolton and @raulsiles
| Bloomberg: |
Pandora's stock up 16% on reports of a possible sale; sources say Sirius XM approached the company again and Pandora has reached out to other potential suitors — Board hasn't responded to new engagement from Greg Maffei — Pandora advisers have begun soliciting interest from buyers
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: key executive for Apple health initiatives, Yoky Matsuoka, has left the company after joining in May — Yoky Matsuoka joined Apple in May to help lead health projects — Previously co-founded Google X, ran technology at Nest Labs — Yoky Matsuoka, who joined Apple Inc …
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GeekWire, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Silicon Valley Business …, and Patently Apple
Tweets: @markgurman and @markgurman
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC reaches preliminary conclusion that AT&T is violating net neutrality with DirecTV data cap exemption — Verizon also in trouble with FCC over charging competitors for zero-rating. — The Federal Communications Commission has reached a preliminary conclusion that AT&T …
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| Tom Dotan / The Information: |
Source: Zenefits searching for a possible replacement for CEO, less than a year after David Sacks took the position — Zenefits is trying to recruit senior managers who could replace CEO David Sacks, less than a year after he took over from embattled co-founder Parker Conrad, according to a person close to the company.
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| Geoffrey Smith / Fortune: |
Airbnb will limit entire home rentals to 60 days a year in Amsterdam and 90 days in London, unless hosts have a license to rent for longer — Home-sharing firm Airbnb said it will for the first time impose fixed limits on the number of nights a year that hosts can rent out their homes through its site in Amsterdam and London.
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Wall Street Journal, london.airbnbcitizen.com, TheStreet.com, GeekWire, Amsterdam.nl, CNET, Associated Press, Morning Consult, City A.M., London Evening Standard, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, The Hill, amsterdam.airbnbcitizen.com, GeekWire, BBC, Engadget, Mashable, Bloomberg, and Business Insider
Tweets: @nealkwatra and @kfrenken
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Steve Kondik leaves Cyanogen Inc., blames co-founder and CEO Kirt McMaster for company's troubles, ponders what's next for CyanogenMod — Steve Kondik has left a statement about the rather troubling news coming out of Cyanogen Inc. this week on the [private] official CyanogenMod developer Google+ community …
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cyngn.com, AndroidGuys, PhoneArena, Gear, Android Beat, Inquirer, and Droid Life. Tweets: @cyanogen
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft developing Home Hub software feature for Windows 10 to compete with Google Home and Amazon Echo — Microsoft's connected home ambitions with Home Hub lay far beyond just competing with Amazon and Google. — Rumors regarding a new Windows 10 feature called “Home Hub” … | Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Obama prohibits German semiconductor equipment maker Aixtron to sell its US based business to a Chinese investment fund, citing national security risks — President Barack Obama issued an executive order which prohibits China's Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund from acquiring the U.S. business …
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Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Seattle Times, and Wall Street Journal
| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Internet Archive and EFF fend off FBI national security letter that demanded records of an Internet Archive user and came with an everlasting gag order — A decade ago, the FBI sent Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, a now-infamous type of subpoena known as a National Security Letter …
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Techdirt and Electronic Frontier Foundation. Tweets: @eff and @theintercept. See also Mediagazer
| Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed: |
Secure messaging app Signal's downloads increase 400% after Trump's win, amid anxiety over the future of US surveillance — “I think there's a lot of fear, given Trump's alarming statements about surveillance and his penchant for revenge, that he will attempt to use surveillance to crush dissent."Sponsor Posts
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