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Equifax discovered major breach in March but says it's unrelated to recently disclosed hack affecting 143M people; source says both involve the same intruders — New timeline could have implications for executive stock sales — The company is the subject of multiple investigations
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iPhone 8 and 8 Plus review: wireless charging works well, great cameras and performance in a familiar design, great for those not ready to forgo home button — It's no secret that smartphones have tended to get sleeker and less obtrusive over time. Screens are growing, but bezels are shrinking.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iOS 11 review: a major stepping-stone towards a full-fledged productivity OS, benefits iPad the most, has a more versatile and useful Control Center — Wide-ranging update is full of changes, but iPad benefits the most. — The iPad is having a great year.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
iPhone 8 and 8 Plus review: wireless charging is good but slow, Portrait Lighting is fun, but design is getting dated and it's not worth upgrading from iPhone 7 — It's an iPhone — I was at a party the other night with several people who knew I'd just been to Apple's annual iPhone launch event.
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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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| Lauren Gensler / Forbes: |
Gift card marketplace Raise raises $60M Series C from Accel, PayPal, and others, will focus on building a mobile wallet for gift cards — Raise, which lets consumers buy and sell gift cards online, has raised $60 million in its pursuit to become a mobile payments company.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple File System will be limited to Macs with only flash storage in the initial release of High Sierra, which means it won't work on iMacs with Fusion Drives — When macOS High Sierra is released to the public next week, the new Apple File System (APFS) feature will be limited to Macs … | Ryan Lau / Hacker Noon: |
iOS 11 has many cases of inconsistent UI design, possibly due to new elements like Large Title and Search Bar with which Apple engineers may be unfamiliar — Few days ago, Apple had their fall special event at Steve Jobs Theater located inside Apple Park, unveiling the all screen iPhone X … | SamMobile: |
Samsung rolls out update to let Galaxy S8, S8+, and Note8 owners disable the Bixby button but still does not let the button be remapped to another purpose — The dedicated Bixby button on the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ didn't really serve any meaningful purpose until last month when Bixby Voice was rolled out globally.
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| Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
Keybase launches alpha version of Teams, an open source and end-to-end encrypted Slack-like tool for collaboration amongst groups — Chris Coyne and Max Krohn are going for the hat trick. — The two entrepreneurs, who are co-founders of the literature summary site SparkNotes and dating service OkCupid …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Former Facebook and Snap ad exec Sriram Krishnan announces he is joining Twitter as senior director of product — Krishnan, who previously worked on ad tech, is trying something new. — Twitter has hired Sriram Krishnan, a former ad tech executive from Facebook and Snap, but he won't be working on ads.Sponsor Posts
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