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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked iOS 11 firmware indicates Apple's new phones are called iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X — We think we know the names of the new iPhones, thanks to the iOS firmware. Apple's three new phones are called iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X (via Steven Troughton Smith).
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 11 GM leak reveals details about new iPhone features including Face ID, animated emoji, 4K at 60fps, possibility of True Tone display, revised AirPods, more — Here we go. We're digging through the iOS 11 GM we received this evening to unpack what we can learn about the D22 'iPhone 8 …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
What to expect from Apple on September 12: OLED iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus with LCD displays, Apple Watch with LTE, 4K Apple TV with HDR, more — This Tuesday, the first-ever event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in Cupertino will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Apple's iconic iPhone.
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| Scott Shane / New York Times: |
Investigation shows how suspected Russian operators used fake accounts on Twitter and Facebook to spread anti-Clinton messages and promote hacked material — Sometimes an international offensive begins with a few shots that draw little notice. So it was last year when Melvin Redick of Harrisburg …
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| The Daily Beast: |
Theoretically, how many people could Russians reach with $100K in Facebook ads? Up to 70M in the US, if smartly targeted — Russian-funded covert propaganda posts on Facebook were likely seen by a minimum of 23 million people and might have reached as many as 70 million …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Equifax breach exposes the problems with using social security numbers as a unique identifiers in the digital age — ONE OF THE most shocking things about Thursday's announcement of the Equifax data breach is the sheer scale of the numbers involved. Particularly the Social Security numbers.
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New York Times, Daily Mail, Kalzumeus Software, Bloomberg, and Naked Security
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
| Holly Hartman / Houston Chronicle: |
A first-person account of using the walkie talkie app Zello during Hurricane Harvey; app was used by the volunteer group Cajun Navy to coordinate rescues — After two minutes of training, I was talking to people desperate for help — After watching nonstop coverage of the hurricane … | David Robinson / Stack Overflow Blog: |
Stack Overflow site metrics from high-income countries show Python is fastest-growing major programming language, with the highest trafficked tag on the site — We recently explored how wealthy countries (those defined as high-income by the World Bank) tend to visit a different set of technologies than the rest of the world.
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The New Stack and The Register
| Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed: |
Inside the DNC's cybersecurity effort since the 2016 hack: phishing drills, hires from SV, constant cybersecurity education, cloud email, encrypted chat, more — Phishing drills, top Silicon Valley hires, constant cybersecurity education, emails in the cloud, Tom Perez on Signal … | Mike Shields / Business Insider: |
After bringing in more than $500M in 2016, Vevo says it expects 130% growth this year and has locked in nearly $200M in upfront ad buys — - Vevo - the so-called Hulu for music videos - is seeing a surge in audience, thanks to artists like Taylor Swift. — Since embracing a TV-like selling model … | Joe Maring / 9to5Google: |
YouTube starts rolling out HDR video support to Android app, available on Google Pixel, Galaxy S8, Galaxy Note8, LG V30, and Sony Xperia XZ Premium — Update (2:18 PM PT) — Since originally publishing this article, Google has also started to push out HDR YouTube support for the Google Pixel, LG V30, and Sony Xperia XZ Premium.| Financial Times: |
France, Germany, Spain, and Italy take aim at US tech giants in plan to tax on revenues instead of profits; passage requires unanimous approval by member states — Paris and Berlin are mounting a joint offensive to tax internet giants such as Google and Amazon based on revenues generated in EU countries …
| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Lawsuit against Grubhub, argued in court this past week, may set a precedent for how gig economy companies define employees vs contractors — Was Raef Lawson an employee or a business owner when he drove for GrubHub? — SAN FRANCISCO—The first big trial over worker rights in the …
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