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Cloudflare fixes bug active since September 2016 that leaked private user info, says search engine caches have now been cleared of sensitive information — Service used by 5.5 million websites may have leaked passwords and authentication tokens. — Cloudflare, a service that helps optimize …
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Cloudflare's Cloudbleed may have exposed user authentication info and credentials; sites hosted by Cloudflare should consider prompting users to reset passwords — Tavis Ormandy (Tavis Ormandy) of Google's Project Zero uncovered a major vulnerability in the Cloudflare Internet infrastructure service.| David Pierce / Wired: |
Google announces more carrier support for its implementation of RCS, rebrands Messenger to Android Messages, makes app default on phones from LG, ZTE, others — When text messaging was simple, SMS worked beautifully. You could send 160 characters to anyone with a cellphone, and they'd receive it the same way they would a phone call.
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Uber women confront CEO Travis Kalanick in leaked audio from Thursday meeting with 100+ female engineers — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick joined a group of more than 100 female engineers on Thursday to discuss the explosive allegations of sexual harassment and sexism recently leveled against the ride-hailing company.
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Early Uber investors Mitch and Freada Kapor speak out after private appeals reached a “dead end”, say current Uber investigation team is too conflicted — By now a staggering number of people recognize the name of Susan Fowler and have read some account of her experiences of sexism …
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Sources: autonomous Uber was driving itself when it ran a red light in San Francisco, though Uber claimed “human error” — SAN FRANCISCO — Late last year, Uber, in defiance of California state regulators, went ahead with a self-driving car experiment on the streets … | Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Alphabet's Waymo sues Otto and parent company Uber for trade secret theft, unfair competition, and patent infringement, claiming Otto founder took LiDAR designs — The Alphabet subsidiary is accusing its former employee, Otto co-founder Anthony Levandowski, of downloading 14,000 confidential files before he left the company.
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google is shutting down Spaces, its experimental group messaging app, on April 17, will make app read-only on March 3 — After nine months of existence, Google is throwing in the towel on group messaging app Spaces. It's going read-only on March 3rd and will be completely offline on April 17th.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Apple says iOS 10.2.1 reduced unexpected shutdowns of iPhone 6, 6s devices by more than 70% — Over the past couple of iPhone versions users have complained of “unexpected” shutdowns of their devices. Some iPhone 6, 6s, 6 Plus and 6s Plus devices could basically go dark unexpectedly …
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| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Source: Amazon considers bundling upgraded WorkMail, WorkDocs, and Chime apps in a new AWS productivity suite to compete with G Suite and Office 365 — Amazon Web Services dominates the market for cloud server and storage services and has made inroads in other enterprise technologies like databases.| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Samsung announces Exynos 9 8895, a 10nm octa-core SoC with dual-camera system support; integrated Samsung LTE modem supports 1 Gbps downloads, 150 Mbps uploads — Even though Mobile World Congress doesn't kick off for another few days, Samsung isn't wasting any time in getting started.| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Sources: early Snap investor Lightspeed added terms effectively giving it veto power over later investments; Snap founders tightened grip on company in response — When Snap goes public next month, one of the biggest winners will be Lightspeed Venture Partners.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Sources: Apple, eBay, IBM, Microsoft, PayPal, Salesforce, and others preparing to file brief in favor of transgender rights in SCOTUS case due next month — A number of leading tech firms plan to file a brief in favor of transgender rights in a case due to be heard next month in the Supreme Court, Axios has learned.
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