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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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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber's net loss widens to $1.46B in Q3, gross bookings rose to $9.71B vs $8.74B in Q2, with a net loss in Q2 of $1.06B — Uber Technologies Inc.'s net loss widened to $1.46 billion in the third quarter, according to people with knowledge of the matter, a sign that the ride-hailing leader …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Facebook testing new CAPTCHA, asks users to upload a photo of their face to prove they're human, says it will permanently delete pictures after checking — FACEBOOK MAY SOON ask you to “upload a photo of yourself that clearly shows your face,” to prove you're not a bot.
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| Reed Albergotti / The Information: |
Sources: Andy Rubin left Google in 2014 after internal inquiry found he had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate, has now taken leave from Essential — Andy Rubin, the creator of Android and a key executive at Google Inc. for nine years, left the company in 2014 shortly …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Amazon introduces AWS EC2 bare metal instances in public preview, giving customers direct access to hardware — AWS, Amazon's cloud computing division, today announced its long-awaited bare metal instances for its EC2 service. — With bare metal, you get direct access to the hardware …
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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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| 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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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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| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Microsoft plans multibillion-dollar overhaul of its Redmond campus, expanding it by adding ~2.5M square feet of new space for an additional 8,000 employees — SEATTLE — While Amazon is hunting for a second headquarters away from its hometown, its neighbor in the Seattle area — Microsoft …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook says 99% of ISIS and Al Qaeda-related terror content is removed via AI before users flag it, and 83% of copies are removed within an hour of upload — By Monika Bickert, Head of Global Policy Management, and Brian Fishman, Head of Counterterrorism Policy, Facebook
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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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| Adam Ismail / Tom's Guide: |
Google activates Pixel Visual Core processor on Pixel 2 phones in latest Android 8.1 beta for faster, more efficient processing of HDR+ photos — Android Oreo 8.1 is nearly here, and although it doesn't appear to introduce many new features on the surface, there's one enhancement Pixel 2 users …
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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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