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97 companies including Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Uber, Twitter, and Netflix, file amicus brief voicing opposition to Trump's immigration ban — Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies filed an amicus brief tonight voicing opposition to President Trump's executive order …
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300 of Intel's Shooting Star drones were used for a choreographed light show for Super Bowl halftime show, which was taped last week because of FAA regulations — The best Super Bowl halftime shows leave indelible memories, be it a notorious wardrobe malfunction, that goofy Left Shark …
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Intel's UAV segment GM Anil Nanduri talks about RealSense cameras, why Intel got into drone business, their product roadmap, and where the industry is headed — Intel is flooding the skies with drones, doing everything from sending them out to inspect massive solar arrays in the Mojave Desert … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google security engineer recounts how the company brought KrebsOnSecurity into Project Shield and defended the site against massive DDoS attacks — Behind the scenes defending KrebsOnSecurity against record-setting DDoS attacks. — OAKLAND, Calif.—In September, KrebsOnSecurity … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US Judge orders Google to comply with warrants seeking user emails stored outside the US, diverging from decision in similar Microsoft case; Google plans appeal — A U.S. judge has ordered Google to comply with search warrants seeking customer emails stored outside the United States … | Susan Crawford / Backchannel: |
Interview with former FCC head Tom Wheeler on the new FCC chairman, Trump administration's talk of “modernizing” the FCC, municipal broadband, and more — Obama's FCC head Tom Wheeler talks candidly about the open internet—and why, in Trumpworld, four companies could lock it up.| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
PlayStation 4's 4.5 software update adds support for external hard drives, “Boost Mode” to PS4 Pro to help older games load faster and run at higher frame rates — Coming as part of the 4.50 update — Sony is rolling out the beta preview of the PlayStation 4's latest firmware update …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google, Facebook to help French newsrooms combat “fake news” ahead of presidential election — Google and Facebook are to help a host of French news organizations combat the growing scourge of fake news ahead of the upcoming French presidential election campaign.| Benedict Evans: |
10 years after iPhone, ubiquitous LTE and 1B high-end smartphones are ushering in “Mobile 2.0”, similar to how broadband and new browser tech ushered in Web 2.0 — In 2004, ten years after Netscape launched, Tim O'Reilly launched the ‘Web 2.0’ conference, proposing (or branding) a generational shift in how the web worked.
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Nextdoor acquires assets of Streetlife, a UK neighborhood social network with 1.5M registered users — In what is being billed as a “multi-million pound” acquisition, San Francisco-headquartered Nextdoor is purchasing the “assets” of U.K. local social network Streetlife.
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Interview with the hacker who says he took down Freedom Hosting II, a service reportedly hosting 15-20% of dark web sites — On Friday, a hacker took down a huge chunk of the dark web. Visitors to over 10,000 Tor hidden services running on Freedom Hosting II—a hosting provider for dark web sites … | Mehedi Hassan / MSPoweruser: |
Early build of Windows 10 Cloud leaks; the lightweight OS can only run UWP apps from Windows Store, could lead to cheaper devices to compete with Chromebooks — Microsoft is working on a new Cloud SKU for Windows 10 which is expected to be Redmond's next take on Chromebooks.
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