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Sources: Musical.ly acquired for as much as $1B by Beijing Bytedance Technology Co., maker of news app Toutiao — With 60 million monthly users, startup sells to Chinese maker of news app Toutiao — Musical.ly Inc., the maker of a lip-syncing app popular among teens and tweens …
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How Mimikatz, a tool coded by a French government IT manager in his spare time, became a ubiquitous password stealer for hackers globally — FIVE YEARS AGO, Benjamin Delpy walked into his room at the President Hotel in Moscow, and found a man dressed in a dark suit with his hands on Delpy's laptop.
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| Prashant S. Rao / New York Times: |
Uber must treat drivers as employees and not as independent contractors, UK's Employment Appeal Tribunal rules in appeal case — LONDON — Uber suffered a renewed blow to its operations in London — its biggest market outside the United States — when an employment tribunal on Friday rejected …
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| Dave Mark / The Loop: |
Apple says it is working on a software fix for iPhone X screens that become temporarily unresponsive to touch in cold environments — Yesterday, a Reddit user named Darus 214 started a thread complaining about his iPhone X screen becoming unresponsive in cold weather. From the thread:
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Tweets: @jonyiveparody, @backlon, @joannastern, and @stevekovach
| Napier Lopez / The Next Web: |
Twitter more than doubles the characters available for display names from 20 to 50, retains 15 character limit for usernames — Twitter has been a bit preoccupied with length lately. After permanently increasing the maximum character length for tweets to 280, it's now allowing your display name to be longer too.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will age-restrict flagged videos that make “inappropriate use of family-friendly characters” to logged-in users 18 or older — Videos that violate policy will now be age restricted — Earlier this week, a report in The New York Times and a blog post on Medium drew …
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Interviews with Jony Ive and Stefan Behling, one of Apple Park's lead architects, on the site's design and flexibility and on the fluid nature of iPhone X — Anticipation was higher than usual - and it always runs to feverish - when the press and other interested parties …
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Tweets: @alexhern, @markgurman, @drwave, @jonyiveparody, @ampressman, @neilcybart, @michaeltdoan, and @cgartenberg
| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
After backlash, Logitech says it will offer free Harmony Hubs for all Harmony Link users — WHEN LOGITECH DECIDED to intentionally brick its Harmony Link hub next March, it somehow didn't anticipate the backlash, which spread from Reddit comment threads to major tech publications and beyond.
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Tweets: @wired, @swiftonsecurity, and @logitech
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WikiLeaks publishes source code for malware control system Hive, shows examples of CIA allegedly impersonating Kaspersky via digital certificates — Source code and analysis for CIA software projects including those described in the Vault7 series. — This publication will enable investigative …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it has temporarily paused “all general verifications” to work on clarifying policy, after verifying white supremacist Jason Kessler — Twitter today announced it's pausing all account verifications - the process that gives public figures on Twitter a blue checkmark next …
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Tweets: @twittersupport, @fun_beard, @cwarzel, @ali, @jack, @levinejonathan, @michaelianblack, @cwarzel, @kno, @davezatz, @letsgomathias, @mrdonut, @mrdonut, @oneunderscore__, @kfile, @cernovich, @tomgara, @evepeyser, @muslimiq, @mtracey, and @summerbrennan
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Electronic Arts to acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315M in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140M — Electronic Arts announced it will acquire Titanfall maker Respawn Entertainment for $315 million in cash and stock, plus a possible bonus of $140 million.
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Tweets: @a7zatru, @titanfallblog, @patrickklepek, @jasonschreier, and @gameanim
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook relaunches Events app as Facebook Local in the US on iOS and Android, adds restaurants, bars, and places your friends visit — Bad news for Yelp and good news for nightlife lovers. When you want to go out, it doesn't necessarily have to be to an event.| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Hulu comes to the Nintendo Switch in the US today, becoming the first major video streaming app available on the console — Nintendo's gaming tablet is finally getting some streaming content. Today, the company revealed its first major media app will be Hulu, which will be available later today.
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