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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” … | Bloomberg: |
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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 … | 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 … | 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.| Jessica Misener / BuzzFeed: |
13 pictures of tech CEOs appearing unhappy at Donald Trump's tech summit — That feeling when.| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
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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 … | 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 … | Will Greenwald / PC Magazine: |
Onvocal introduces OV Bluetooth headphones, the first headphones that allow access to Amazon's Alexa via a smartphone app — Technology startup Onvocal has new Bluetooth earphones, dubbed OV, that offer full voice control of your music and direct access to voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and Google Assistant.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Wordpress adds support for 360-degree photos and video to all its hosted blogs, viewable on desktop, mobile, and VR headsets — All blogs hosted by WordPress.com are getting the ability to host VR content today. The site is launching support for 360-degree photos and videos … | 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 … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Big data firm Databricks, built on top of the Apache Spark open source project, raises $60M Series C led by NEA, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz — Looking to be the next leap forward in data organization, computation, and delivery for big data Databricks, the business built … | 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.| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Twitter's rule against inciting harassment means it could ban President-Elect Trump, but free speech advocates argue his tweets have value — If Twitter wanted to, it would be well within its rights to suspend Donald J. Trump's account. — After the president-elect used Twitter last week … | 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Delivery startup Just Eat acquires rival Delivery Hero's UK business for $251M cash, plus $50M based on performance, buys Canadian rival SkipTheDishes for $83M — Yet more regional consolidation is underway among the giants of take-out and delivery startups in Europe as they gear up to compete …
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Run payroll in batches using Pay Groups, now with Zoho Payroll — Learn how Pay Groups in Zoho Payroll lets you process, approve, and run multiple pay runs independently for different employee groups within the same pay period.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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