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Sources: hackers stole NSA data on US offensive and defensive cyber capabilities from a contractor's laptop in 2015, likely via Kaspersky software — The breach, considered the most serious in years, could enable Russia to evade NSA surveillance and more easily infiltrate U.S. networks
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| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Netflix is raising prices in US starting today: standard $9.99 plan will be $10.99/month; premium $11.99 plan will be $13.99/month; $7.99 plan does not change — Netflix will raise prices for its US subscribers starting Thursday, the company confirmed to Business Insider.
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Mashable, 9to5Mac, Fast Company, TechCrunch, USA Today, Fortune, International Business Times, DSLreports, The Verge, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, iMore, MacRumors, CNET, Reuters, Engadget, Newser, Tubefilter, SlashGear, TmoNews, Tom's Guide, AppAdvice.com, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, Investor's Business Daily, PhoneDog.com, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Central, Tech Narratives, FierceCable, InvestorPlace, iPhone Hacks, AFTVnews, Polygon, Lifehacker, and Variety. Tweets: @shiraovide. Thanks:@stevetweedie
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Edge for Android and iOS in beta and relaunches Arrow Launcher for Android as Microsoft Launcher in public preview — If you want more proof that Microsoft is embracing Android and iOS, boy, do we have it for you today. The company has launched Edge for iOS in preview …
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Tweets: @tomwarren, @epro, and @dcseifert
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon is testing its own delivery service called Seller Flex; trial began this year in West Coast states, with broader rollout planned in 2018 — Online retailer would deliver from other merchants' warehouses — Trial program underway on West Coast before national expansion
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tests button to provide additional context on links in News Feed, such as the publisher's Wikipedia entry, trending information, and related articles — Facebook thinks showing Wikipedia entries about publishers and additional Related Articles will give users more context about the links they see.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple updates High Sierra with fix for APFS Disk Utility flaw that revealed password instead of hint and Keychain vulnerability that let apps dump passwords — Apple today released a supplemental update to macOS Sierra 10.13, the first update to the macOS High Sierra operating system that was released to the public in late September.| Bloomberg: |
Inside Apple and Qualcomm's billion dollar patent war, during which Apple stopped paying $2B a year in royalties to Qualcomm — IPhone season, that extravaganza of novelty and surprise, began in mid-September with a two-hour-long presentation at Apple Inc.'s brand-new, spaceshiplike campus.
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: YouTube accelerates rollout of update to search after criticism of misinformation, hate, and conspiracy videos after Las Vegas shooting and NFL protests — Debunked claims appear in top 5 videos for news about Las Vegas shooting, NFL anthem protests
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BuzzFeed, Engadget, Business Insider, The Guardian, and Boing Boing
Tweets: @jacknicas, @baekdal, @timjhanrahan, @rmac18, @stevekovach, and @mhbergen
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo unveils limited edition 25th anniversary ThinkPad, styled on IBM's original, with Intel Kaby Lake i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, starting at $1,899 — IBM's first ThinkPad debuted exactly 25 years ago today, with a bright red TrackPoint nub and a classic design that still exists in a modern form.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
First look at Google Home Mini and Max: both sound good, no distortion with full volume on Max, which has impressive wake word detection even over loud music — Smart speakers that do the obvious things — Not 10 minutes after Amazon's surprise announcement of new Echo devices last week …
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
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| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Mattel says it's canceling its AI-powered Aristotle smart hub for kids after privacy and childhood development concerns — This post has been updated. — Mattel said Wednesday that it will not move forward with plans to sell a kid-focused smart hub, after new executives decided it did not …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram starts rolling out feature to enable users to post Instagram Stories directly to Facebook Stories — Facebook Stories might not be a ghost town for long. After testing in Portugal last month, TechCrunch spotted the option to syndicate your Instagram Stories to Facebook Stories appearing to US users.
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iMore, Adweek, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Silicon Republic, International Business Times, Engadget, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, Cult of Mac, and Social Media Today
Tweets: @jandawson, @juiceboxca, and @joshconstine
| David McCabe / Axios: |
Facebook steps up efforts to answer questions about its role in Russian election meddling, with print ads, lobbying, outreach by Campbell Brown and Liz Spayd — Facebook is stepping up its offensive to respond to questions about the role it played in Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.Sponsor Posts
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