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macOS High Sierra flaw allows user to authenticate as root while leaving password field blank — Apple, this is bad, like Windows 95 bad — A trivial to exploit flaw in macOS High Sierra allows users to get admin rights without a password. — The bug occurs on the Mac's admin login window …
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US district judge says Uber “withheld evidence from me” in trade secrets case brought by Waymo, delays the trial that was due to begin next week — - The judge granted a request from Alphabet's Waymo self-driving car unit to delay a trade secrets trial.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Arguments against FCC's Net Neutrality rollback miss that regulation incurs opportunity costs and more attention should be paid to inter-ISP competition — Weirdly, this article about the American broadband market must start in Portugal. … Last week Federal Communications Commission …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
FCC's Pai says tech giants like Twitter and Facebook use “the regulatory process to cement their dominance” and pose biggest threat to online speech, not ISPs — Pai had sharp words for Silicon Valley tech giants who are trying to avoid regulation.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is bringing tabbed window management to Windows 10 with Sets, so users can group different apps together, rolling out to testers over next few weeks — One of the most popular feature requests (more than 20,000 votes) for Windows 10 is tabs in File Explorer.
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
WeWork agrees to acquire Meetup, the New York-based social network that helps organize offline meetings; source says deal is valued at ~$200M — WeWork has agreed to acquire Meetup, a New York-based social network that helps organize offline meetings around common interests.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researcher finds 100GB of US intel data, from US Army and NSA, hosted on unsecured AWS server as disk image, following a string of similar mistakes by US intel — The leak marks at least the fifth exposure of NSA-related data in as many years. — The contents of a highly sensitive hard drive belonging …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Alexa devs can use notifications starting today, alerting users with lights and audio cues, and will soon be able to personalize apps based on users' voices — Amazon says it will allow Alexa skill developers to alert customers using notifications starting today, and soon …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington announces hedge fund denominated in Ripple, will focus primarily on crypto assets, currently raised ~$50M of $100M target — The prominent tech figure Michael Arrington announced a new hedge fund on Tuesday that will be denominated in the crypto-currency XRP …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Adobe: US Cyber Monday sales hit record-breaking $6.59B, with purchases on smartphones also breaking a record with $1.59B in sales — Cyber Monday is off to a flying start for online shopping in the US. As of 7am Pacific, $840 million has been spent, up 16.9 percent on Cyber Monday 2016.| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb launches payment splitting for group trips for up to 16 people on a single reservation — In February of this year, Airbnb acquired social payments startup Tilt. Today, the fruits of that acquisition are being passed along to Airbnb users. — Starting now, Airbnb users … | Frank Chaparro / Business Insider: |
Bitcoin clears $10,000, up more than 875% this year, and up more than $2,000 since Thursday's low of $7,979 per coin — - Bitcoin, the scorching-hot digital currency, cleared $10,000 a coin on Tuesday. — The digital currency, which many Wall Streeters have said is in a massive bubble, is up more than 875% this year.| Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times: |
A look at some of the plans submitted by 238 municipalities in Amazon's HQ2 contest, offering big tax breaks, free land, and special access to public resources — A review of some of the bids to woo Amazon's HQ2 to other cities and states shows it's not all about the money.
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