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Yahoo reveals another hack where an “unauthorized third party” in Aug. 2013 stole data from 1B+ accounts including names, emails, telephone numbers, birthdates — Yahoo has disclosed that — in addition to its September hacking incident — another “unauthorized third-party” …
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| Ginger Gibson / Reuters: |
Trump transition official says Twitter was too small to be included in tech summit and that #CrookedHillary emoji ordeal had nothing to do with excluding them — Dec 14 President-elect Donald Trump left Twitter off the invitation list for a meeting of technology company executives on Wednesday …
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13 pictures of tech CEOs appearing unhappy at Donald Trump's tech summit — That feeling when.
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Facebook tests context-based actions in Messenger via its “M” assistant, such as sending location or stickers — Facebook's “M” virtual assistant hasn't been rolled out to all that many people, but its interactions with a limited user base have helped train Facebook's artificial …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger adds Snapchat-like photo filters, including “3D masks”, special effects, stickers, more — What's better than a few geofilters? A billion algorithmically generated filters. That's Facebook Messenger's strategy to steal the visual communication crown from Snapchat … | Politico: |
Democratic FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler says he will resign on January 20, which will allow a new Republican majority to begin dismantling Obama-era regulations — Democratic FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said today he would resign, ending months of will-he or won't-he speculation about his plans.
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See also Mediagazer| Jon Barlow / Pebble Developers: |
Fitbit to keep Pebble software and services running through 2017, but smart features dependent on third-party services will be reevaluated — Greetings, Pebble Devs, from our new home at Fitbit! — After last week's announcement and Dev Blog post, we wanted to share the latest … | Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Instagram doubles its monthly active user base in two years to 600M, adding 100M in six months — That's 600 million Instagrammers, and a whole lotta brunch pics — It appears that the rise of Snapchat and all its Spectacles fun have yet to slow Instagram's growth: the Facebook-owned …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Docker open sources critical infrastructure component “containerd”, cloud vendors including Alibaba, AWS, Google, IBM, and Microsoft sign on to work on it — Docker announced today that it was open sourcing containerd (pronounced Container D), making a key infrastructure piece …
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Data Center Knowledge, Docker Blog, EnterpriseTech, SiliconANGLE, and eWeek
| Will Greenwald / PC Magazine: |
Onvocal introduces OV Bluetooth headphones that allow you to access Amazon's Alexa via a smartphone app, the first headphones with feature — Technology startup Onvocal has new Bluetooth earphones, dubbed OV, that offer full voice control of your music and direct access to voice assistants …
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Digital Trends, Business Wire, VentureBeat, Fast Company, SlashGear, Android Central, Android Police, AndroidHeadlines.com, TechCrunch, and Recode. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Tweetbot maker Tapbots launch Pastebot 2.0 for Mac, a $20 clipboard manager that can sync across multiple Macs, available now — Tapbots, the developers behind the popular Twitter client Tweetbot, today launched Pastebot 2.0 for Mac, which is designed to make copy and paste better.
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Mac App Store, 9to5Mac, Macworld, iMore, and MacStories
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
California adopts energy standards requiring idle computers to draw less power; energy commission estimates 6% of desktops, 73% of laptops meet standards — California became the first state in the US to approve energy efficiency requirements for laptops, desktops, and monitors today … | Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Twitter spent over a year developing a standalone messaging app in India, aimed at on-boarding new users, but killed it in September after trial runs — Twitter spent more than a year developing an instant messaging app for emerging markets but killed the product without launching it, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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TechCrunch and Digital Trends. Tweets: @natisho, @ravichandrans25, and @mims. Thanks:@pranavdixit
| Reuters: |
FTC orders owner of Ashley Madison to pay $1.66M fine, as remainder of $17.5M settlement gets suspended due to inability to pay — The owner of hacked infidelity website Ashley Madison will pay $1.66 million to settle an investigation by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and several U.S. states …
| NBC News: |
Two senior US officials say new intel shows Vladimir Putin directed how hacked DNC material was leaked to discredit US as global leader — U.S. intelligence officials now believe with “a high level of confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin became personally involved … Sponsor Posts
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