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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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Tweets: @patrickwardle, @stevesi, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple starts collecting Safari browsing data in macOS High Sierra using differential privacy tech that will help it identify problematic websites — Today's public release ofmacOS High Sierra brings with it some key updates to Safari — including the ability to disable cross-site cookie tracking and turn off autoplaying ads.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitter says it will update public policies to include considering the newsworthiness of tweets after Trump threatens North Korea — Twitter didn't act to remove President Donald Trump's tweet threatening North Korea in part because it is newsworthy, the company said today.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Equifax chairman and CEO Richard Smith steps down effective immediately after massive data breach, after more than a decade at the company — The company's shares were halted pending the news. — Equifax chairman and chief executive Richard Smith has stepped down from the embattled credit rating agency, effective immediately.
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| Jared Spataro / Office Blogs: |
Microsoft announces that Office 2019 will ship in the second half of 2018, will include better IT capabilities for businesses that aren't using Office 365 — Today's post was written by Jared Spataro, general manager for Office. — Today, at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, we announced Office 2019 …
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| 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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Tweets: @nytimes, @keithbradsher, and @techcrunch
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Apple Watch Series 3 shows little change from Series 2 Watch, some redesign to accomodate LTE, and 1.07 watt-hour battery, up from 1.03 in Series 2 Watch — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — The Apple Watch is one step closer to a super spy accessory with its Series 3 capable of making phone calls.| Village Global: |
Seed and early stage VC fund Village launches backed by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman, Jeff Bezos, Marissa Mayer, Eric Schmidt, and others — We're excited to publicly announce Village, a new early stage venture capital firm. This is Day 1 for us. There is much to do, and much to learn.
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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, @gossithedog, @ericgeller, @epsilontheory, @taosecurity, @ncweaver, @troyhunt, and @ericgeller
| Seth Stevenson / Wall Street Journal: |
Interview with Satya Nadella and Bill Gates on political climate, how AI, quantum computing, and mixed reality will shape the future as Nadella debuts memoir — On the occasion of the publication of Nadella's first book, out this fall, Nadella and his predecessor talk shop| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
ProsperWorks raises $53M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners for its Google-centric CRM tools — ProsperWorks, a service that offers a set of Google-centric CRM tools, today announced that it has raised a $53 million Series C round led by Norwest Venture Partners, with participation from GV …
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
IVP announces $1.5B venture fund, its sixteenth and largest yet, bringing the group's total committed capital to $7B — IVP,one of the original late-stage venture capital firms, is announcing its sixteenth fund. And at $1.5 billion, it's the largest yet. This brings the group's total committed capital to $7 billion.
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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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Vimeo is acquiring live video streaming platform Livestream and launching its own live streaming service, Vimeo Live — After abandoning its plans to launch a subscription video-on-demand business earlier this year, IAC-owned streaming video site Vimeo announced today that it's acquiring … Sponsor Posts
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