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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How a hacking group used comments on Britney Spears' Instagram account to hide the location of their malware's command and control servers — Turla uses social media and clever programming techniques to cover its tracks. — A Russian-speaking hacking group that, for years …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Apple launches Business Chat for iMessage in developer preview; Business Chat currently works with other customer service platforms like Salesforce and Nuance — Apple launched Business Chat for iMessage today in developer preview, company executives said onstage today at WWDC, the company's annual developer conference.
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| Johnny Lin / Medium: |
How scammers use deceptive security apps and abuse search ads in the App Store to trick users into expensive subscriptions — It's far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary. — At WWDC, Apple reported that they've paid out $70 billion to developers, with 30% of that ($21 billion!) in the last year.| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Apple's Podcasts app to report to podcasters how many people are listening and where listeners stop or skip, and will enable downloads of full seasons — Today at the Worldwide Developer Conference, Apple made some major announcements about improvements to its offerings to the podcast world.
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Apple will finally offer basic analytics for podcasts, enabling podcast creators and advertisers to get significant listener feedback for the first time — Basic analytics are (finally) coming to Apple's podcast app in an upcoming refresh. It's a big deal.| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
As vendors prepare to ship Windows laptops with Qualcomm CPUs, Intel warns x86 emulation is a patent minefield — Intel doesn't name names, but Windows 10 on ARM is surely the target of its ire. — In celebrating the x86 architecture's 39th birthday yesterday—the 8086 processor first came …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Postmates acquihires Secret CEO David Byttow's startup Bold; Bold will shut down its enterprise blogging tool, plus the anonymous publishing space IO — The founder of one of Silicon Valley's most famous flameouts, anonymous social app Secret, is the new product lead for Postmates' app.
Tweets: @krogsgard and @joshconstine
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
App Store now requires developers to use official API to request app ratings, disallows custom prompts — The App Review guidelines were updated this week to accommodate App Store policy changes and new rules for usage of frameworks introduced in iOS 11, like MusicKit. — One change is the addition of section 1.1.7.
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
At a Senate hearing, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats backtracked on promise to reveal how many Americans had their communications intercepted by NSA — For more than a year, U.S. intelligence officials reassured lawmakers they were working to calculate and reveal roughly …
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| Nick Summers / Engadget: |
What to expect from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, and Bethesda at E3 2017 — Dazzling press conferences. Heart-stopping trailers. A convention center packed with video games large and small. E3 is a magical week for anyone who likes to spend their free time pushing buttons on plastic gamepads.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
How Chinese smartphone makers are gaining global market share with competitive pricing and by offering devices with features targeted to local markets — Chinese manufacturers managed to snare more than 40% of the global smartphone market, double what they had five years ago …
Tweets: @danwwang
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Isaac Choi, former CEO of defunct job search startup WrkRiot, indicted for allegedly defrauding employees — Following allegations of the now-defunct job search startup WrkRiot scamming employees out of wages and its CEO Isaac Choi of misleading former employees about his credentials … Sponsor Posts
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