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Hackers hid backdoor in Avast-owned system cleanup tool CCleaner for Windows from August 15 to September 12; affected software was run by 2.27M users — Users of Avast-owned security application CCleaner for Windows have been advised to update their software immediately …
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| Cory Doctorow / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF says it's resigning from W3C after the standards org voted for browser DRM, a move hostile to archiving, accessibility, security research, more — In 2013, EFF was disappointed to learn that the W3C had taken on the project of standardizing “Encrypted Media Extensions,” …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS says that beginning October 2, it will start charging EC2 customers by the second, not hour; competitors Azure and Google Cloud charge by the minute — Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services on Monday said that on Oct. 2 it will start charging its customers by the second for use …
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| Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google has offered to auction off shopping ad spaces to rivals, to comply with EU's antitrust order; Google would set price cap for its own bids — Tech giant would bid against its competitors to display products for sale in the space above its general search results| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple Pay Cash is coming in a future update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4 in the fall, not in the iOS 11 launch tomorrow — Apple today confirmed that Apple Pay Cash will be released as part of a future update to iOS 11 and watchOS 4. … Apple added a “Coming This Fall” label to Apple Pay Cash …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: DoJ has opened a criminal investigation into three Equifax executives' stock sales that occurred days after the historic data breach was discovered — U.S. attorney in Atlanta said to lead probe alongside SEC — Managers unaware of breach when they sold stock, company said
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
A profile of Satya Nadella, who has stopped infighting, restored morale, and has led Microsoft over the past 3.5 years as its market cap increased by $250B+ — Microsoft's CEO has stopped infighting, restored morale, and created more than $250 billion in market value. All it took was focusing on what matters most.
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| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers will not stand for re-election in December; CEO Chuck Robbins will assume the role — Chuck Robbins has been the company's leader since July 2015 — Move cements Robbins's position as he tries to remake company — Cisco Systems Inc. Chief Executive …
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
Geekbench benchmarks: Apple's A11 Bionic is 25% faster in single core and 80% faster in multicore than A10 Fusion, beats i5 MacBook Pro and all other phones — Official benchmarks posted by Geekbench show that Apple's A11 Bionic delivers a huge jump in performance over last year's A10 Fusion used …
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| New York Times: |
Facebook and other tech giants are increasingly coming into conflict with governments around the world that are exerting greater control over the internet — On a muggy, late spring evening, Tuan Pham awoke to the police storming his house in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Tweets: @jonah_kessel, @pwnallthethings, @zeynep, @markscott82, @mekosoff, @ejacqui, @rondeibert, @nytimes, @paulmozur, @tepingchen, and @jonrussell
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Study: Apple may be overselling its differential privacy protections, which add noise to a user's info before it's sent to iCloud; Apple disputes the findings — FOR THE LAST year, Apple has touted a mathematical tool that it describes as a solution to a paradoxical problem: mining user data … | Cade Metz / New York Times: |
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