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Equifax chairman and CEO Richard Smith steps down effective immediately after massive data breach, having spent 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 …
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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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| 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: |
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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| iFixit: |
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.| 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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
IHS: base 64GB iPhone 8 includes material costs of $247.51, up from $237.94 for 32GB base model iPhone 7, equaling about 35% of sale price, same as last year — Apple margins stay high as company raises price of new models — Bigger changes to Apple's business formula seen with iPhone X
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| Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: |
China says it has imposed “maximum fines” on Baidu, Tencent, and Weibo for not censoring banned content like porn and violence on their social media platforms — - Chinese internet watchdog said on Monday that it has imposed maximum fines on tech giants Baidu … | Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon adds Alexa voice control to Music app, available for iOS and Android in the US, UK, Germany, and Austria — Amazon is bringing Alexa to its Music app as it tries to challenge Spotify and Apple, leaders in the streaming music industry. — The Seattle tech giant announced Tuesday that Alexa … | 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
| 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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Nvidia unveils AI acceleration software, partners with server makers Huawei and Lenovo, and cloud providers Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent in China push — Nvidia Corp., whose graphics chips are the basis for many recent advances in artificial intelligence, Monday night unveiled new software … Sponsor Posts
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