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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.| 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).| 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 … | 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.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Ex-NSA hacker and chief security researcher at Synack reveals High Sierra zero-day flaw that exposes Keychain contents to exfiltration by malicious apps — The vulnerability lets an attacker steal the contents of a Keychain — without needing a password. — Just hours before Apple … | 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.| 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.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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Global accounting firm Deloitte confirms it suffered a data breach, says impact limited; 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.| 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.| 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.| 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.| Louise Matsakis / Motherboard: |
Cloudflare debuts Unmetered Mitigation service for free protection against large DDoS attacks — Starting today, Cloudflare is making protection against DDoS attacks free, regardless of how bad they are. — Cloudflare, a major internet security firm, is on a mission to render distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks useless.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Instagram claims it has 800M MAUs, up from 700M in April, and 500M DAUs, says the time spent by users viewing video on Instagram is up over 80% YoY — Instagram's still growing at a rapid pace, having added 100 million new monthly active users in just a month since it last reported a new figure.
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