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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
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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The Register, Search Engine Journal, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Business Insider, Mashable, GeekWire, Engadget, CNBC, Neowin, PhoneDog.com, Cult of Mac, iMore, The Next Web, On MSFT, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, BetaNews, SlashGear, Windows Central, Search Engine Land, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, Fortune, Digital Trends, Macworld, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, ZDNet, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Consumerist, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, Seeking Alpha, MSPoweruser, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, MacStories, and AppAdvice.com. Tweets: @panzer
| 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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Forbes, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @patrickwardle, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| 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.
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MacRumors, 512 Pixels, Engadget, Six Colors, MacStories, Laptop Mag, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @andrewwrites
| 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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TechCrunch, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, AppleInsider, The Verge, Macworld, InvestorPlace, Good E-Reader, Redmond Pie, iPhone Hacks, Gotta Be Mobile, MacRumors, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, The Verge, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @mrcippy
| 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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Wall Street Journal, Microsoft, Wired, TechCrunch, GeekWire, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, MSPoweruser, CNBC, Fossbytes, and Fortune. Tweets: @preskill
| 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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Office Blogs, Office Blogs, Fortune, Windows Blog, PCWorld, The Verge, TechCrunch, Enterprise Mobility …, Microsoft, Microsoft Secure Blog, BetaNews, The Tech Report, Digital Trends, gHacks Technology News, MSPoweruser, Engadget, Liliputing, The Register, On MSFT, TechCrunch, TechSpot, Microsoft EDU, ZDNet, The Official Microsoft Blog, ZDNet, On MSFT, and Windows Blog. Tweets: @jetzemellema
| 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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Office Blogs, Petri, On MSFT, SlashGear, Computerworld, TechCrunch, Petri, MSPoweruser, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, MSPoweruser, ZDNet, On MSFT, VentureBeat, Reuters, GeekWire, and ZDNet. Tweets: @microsoftteams
| Krebs on Security: |
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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The Guardian, CNET, TechCrunch, Forbes, BetaNews, IT ProPortal, Fortune, Mashable, Nextgov, The Hacker News, InvestorPlace, Consumerist, Engadget, Gizmodo, CRN, ZDNet, TechCo, BBC, The Register, Silicon Republic, CNBC, Inquirer, and Axios
Tweets: @gossithedog, @briankrebs, @ericgeller, @taosecurity, and @ericgeller
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Verizon discontinues its LTE-enabled Wear24 Android Wear smartwatch after just 4 months — Verizon announced its very own Android Wear smartwatch earlier this year, powered by its LTE network. It started selling the Wear24 in May for $300 on contract and $350 without one.
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9to5Google, Droid Life, CNET, Digital Trends, Engadget, Android Authority, The Verge, Neowin, PhoneDog.com, and SlashGear
| 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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Android Police, The Verge, Android Authority, TechCrunch, CNET, SlashGear, Mashable, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @techcrunch and @nytimes
| 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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Associated Press, Android Authority, Digital Trends, Engadget, 9to5Google, InvestorPlace, and Quartz
| 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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TechCrunch, Wired, Forbes, Cloudflare Blog, Cloudflare Blog, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @eastdakota
| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel i9-7980XE review: takes the performance crown, but pricey at $2K; consider AMD Threadripper at half the price unless you can take advantage of TSX/AVX-512 — Intel Core i9-7980XE and Core i9-7960X Conclusion — In the 2000s, we had the frequency wars.| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
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