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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Apple sues Qualcomm for ~$1B, says Qualcomm charged royalties for tech the chip giant didn't invent, retaliated for Apple's cooperation in Korean antitrust case — Apple is suing Qualcomm for roughly $1 billion, saying Qualcomm has been “charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with.”
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| Qualcomm: |
Qualcomm comments on Apple complaint, says “Apple has been actively encouraging regulatory attacks” on Qualcomm in various jurisdictions around the world — “While we are still in the process of reviewing the complaint in detail, it is quite clear that Apple's claims are baseless.
| Zeynep Tufekci / technosociology: |
Open letter signed by 60+ security experts calls for The Guardian to retract story about alleged WhatsApp backdoor vulnerability — You recently published a story with the alarming headline “WhatsApp backdoor allows snooping on encrypted messages.” This story included the phrasing “security loophole”.
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| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apologizes for errors migrating @POTUS followers, says the issues, which affected about 560K people, have been fixed — People are a bit on edge at the moment when it comes to being forced to do things by now-President Donald Trump.
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| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Lavabit email service, which shut down in 2013 to avoid court order connected to Snowden investigation, relaunches with features to thwart surveillance — In 2013, Ladar Levison, founder of the encrypted email service Lavabit, took the defiant step of shutting down the company's service rather …
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| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Weekly builds of CyanogenMod fork Lineage OS, supporting 80+ Android 6 and 7 devices, begin this weekend; Lineage OS to offer CyanogenMod data migration tools — CyanogenMod has long been the most popular custom ROM, covering a wide array of devices from numerous manufacturers.
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| Politico: |
Sources: President Trump will tap sitting GOP FCC commissioner Ajit Pai, a fierce critic of net neutrality, to lead the agency — President Donald Trump will tap Ajit Pai to lead the FCC in the new administration, elevating the sitting GOP commissioner to the top spot overseeing … | Logan Booker / Gizmodo Australia: |
ASUS launches $73 Tinker Board, a Raspberry Pi competitor with 4K video, gigabit Ethernet, quad-core processor, and more, available in Europe and UK — It doesn't matter if you want a computer the size of a card, a thumb drive or dice box — there's a manufacturer out there that has you covered.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber hires former Google search chief Amit Singhal as SVP of Engineering — Uber's latest hire has a storied and accomplished history in Silicon Valley - Amit Singhal, former Senior Vice President of Search and employee number 176 at Google, has joined the ride-hailing company as SVP of Engineering.
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| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers at Google, OpenAI, MIT, and other organizations say they are making progress on automating the development of AI software using AI software — Progress in artificial intelligence causes some people to worry that software will take jobs such as driving trucks away from humans.
Tweets: @techreview
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet Capital Partners fund, operational since early 2016, says it reached $1B fundraising target; Rocket Internet committed $140M to the fund — If you thought the problems Rocket Internet has had bringing its portfolio of startups and its business overall into the black … | Jan Willem Aldershoff / Myce.com: |
Microsoft shows popup in Windows 10 to advertise its shopping extension to Chrome users — Microsoft has started to advertise it's Personal Shopping Assistant (PSA) extension for Chrome to Windows 10 users. Users of Microsoft's latest operating system now receive a small notification above …
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