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Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search results on iOS, Search inside iOS, and Spotlight on macOS, now consistent with Safari on macOS and iOS — Apple is switching the default provider of its web searches from Siri, Search inside iOS (formerly called Spotlight) and Spotlight on the Mac.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft plans to release a quantum computing programming language, with full Visual Studio integration, along with a quantum computing simulator this year — Microsoft wants to be ready for a quantum computing world. — At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced its moves …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft 365 expands with Education version for schools and F1 for firstline workers, alongside new Windows 10 S devices from HP, Lenovo, and Fujitsu — At Ignite, its enterprise technology conference in Orlando today, Microsoft launched two new versions of its Microsoft 365 subscription: Education and F1 (for firstline workers).
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft Teams is replacing Skype for Business to put more pressure on Slack — Microsoft Teams isn't even a year old, but it's about to replace Skype for Business. At Microsoft's Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida today, the software giant is revealing that it plans to kill off Skype for Business in favor of Microsoft Teams.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Ex-NSA hacker and security researcher at Synack reveals macOS zero-day flaw that exposes Keychain contents to exfiltration by apps, demos it in High Sierra — The vulnerability lets an attacker steal the contents of a Keychain — without needing a password.
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| Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider: |
High Sierra validates Mac firmware weekly, alerts users to possible security issues — A new routine in High Sierra runs automatically weekly and checks the firmware of the Mac that is installed on to check for modifications that may jeopardize the security of the machine.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
macOS High Sierra now available to download, featuring Apple File System for SSD Macs, Photos updates, smart tracking prevention in Safari, enhanced Siri, more — Apple has just released this year's major update to its desktop operating system, macOS High Sierra.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
High Sierra review: macOS is in catch-up mode as eGPUs have been supported by Windows for years, and Apple File System is an overdue replacement for HFS+ — If you've felt like the last few macOS releases have been a little light, High Sierra won't change your mind.
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Global accounting firm Deloitte confirms report that it was breached, downplays impact; source: it affected all company email, admin accounts, occurred in 2016 — Deloitte, one of the world's “big four” accounting firms, has acknowledged a breach of its internal email systems, British news outlet The Guardian revealed today.
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Tweets: @briankrebs, @ericgeller, @ericgeller, and @taosecurity
| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
China has broadly blocked WhatsApp, including basic text messages on the service, following its mid-July crackdown on WhatsApp video chats, multimedia messages — SHANGHAI — China has largely blocked the WhatsApp messaging app, the latest move by Beijing to step up surveillance ahead of a big Communist Party gathering next month.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google and Levi's $350 Commuter Trucker Jacket with smart sleeve controls goes on sale, compatible with Android and iPhone — Project Jacquard is here — More than a year after it was announced and two years after we first saw a demonstration of touch-sensitive fabric, the Levi's jacket with a smart sleeve is finally going on sale.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi apologizes to Londoners in an open letter, says his intention is to “run our business with humility, integrity, and passion” — Uber's new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has written an open letter apologizing for “mistakes we've made” following the announcement … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Fitbit's Ionic smartwatch and Flyer bluetooth headphones go on sale October 1 for $299.95 and $129.95 respectively — Fitbit has announced the global availability of two of its new product lines, with its Ionic smartwatch and Flyer wireless headphones hitting retailers globally from October 1.
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Fitbit, Inc., Android Authority, The Next Web, and 9to5Toys
| Louise Matsakis / Motherboard: |
Cloudflare debuts Unmetered Mitigation service for free protection against large DDoS attacks — Cloudflare, a major internet security firm, is on a mission to render distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks useless. The company announced Monday that every customer …
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