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macOS High Sierra bug gives access via password prompt that authenticates as root with empty password; Apple says update coming, set root password as workaround — Security bug found in latest version of MacOS High Sierra — Company says it is working on a software update to fix issue
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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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| 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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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 …
| 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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Tweets: @stevesi and @benbajarin
| 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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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google adds a new search navigation tab called “Finance”, retires some Google Finance features including portfolio, and drops need for Adobe Flash — Google Finance now lives as a tab in Search, and some features are going away. — Google has announced that the Web version of Google Finance is getting a redesign.
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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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| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen Karim Baratov pleads guilty for his role in 2014 Yahoo data breach; sentencing hearing set for Feb. 20, 2018 — A man pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco on Tuesday for his role in helping Russian spies hack into email accounts.
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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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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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