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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Current version of macOS, versions after 10.12.6, include flaw that unlocks App Store menu in system preferences with any password; fix coming in macOS 10.13.3 — A bug report submitted on Open Radar this week has revealed a security flaw in the current version of macOS High Sierra that allows …
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Senate Commerce Committee chairman John Thune sends Apple letter asking about iPhone performance throttling as Paris prosecutor's office confirms investigation — Sen. John Thune writes letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook; Paris prosecutor's office opens investigation
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| Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter: |
YouTube says it is putting original projects with Logan Paul on hold and removes him from Google Preferred ad program after his video showing suicide victim — The video platform says it will not feature Paul in the fourth season of YouTube Red original comedy ‘Foursome.’
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| Cho Mu-Hyun / ZDNet: |
Samsung says it will launch its flagship Galaxy S9 at Mobile World Congress in February and plans to launch its foldable phone sometime next year — Samsung Galaxy S9 will be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in February, the company's mobile boss said, denying rumors of a CES 2018 unveiling.
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| Denisse Moreno / International Business Times: |
Confide unveils ScreenShield, a new anti-screenshot feature for its iOS app, says it will make the technology available to third-party developers — Encrypted messaging app Confide is boosting its efforts against unwanted screenshots on iOS devices, the platform announced Wednesday.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Experts dispute WhatsApp's “end-to-end encryption” claim, saying confidentiality of group chat could be broken if servers were compromised — When WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption to every conversation for its billion users two years ago, the mobile messaging giant significantly raised …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces the Virtual Dash Button Service, a developer kit that lets third parties create virtual Dash buttons for their own devices — First Amazon announced physical Dash buttons to make it easy for consumers to reorder their favorite products. Then it launched virtual versions … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Self-driving car startup Voyage says it will launch a taxi fleet in Florida's The Villages, a 125K-person retirement community, after $20M Series A in 2017 — Largest retirement community in the US gets robot taxis courtesy of startup Voyage — With 125,000 residents, over 54,000 homes …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook tests local news feature called Today In across six US cities, combining human curation and AI to surface news, events, and announcements in its app — Facebook is vetting local publishers that appear in this section. — Facebook wants to make it easier for people to find local news from vetted sources.
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| Dan Murtaugh / Bloomberg: |
Report: Bitcoin mining is so profitable in China that miners will make money as long as bitcoin is worth more than $6,925 — Bitcoin mining is so profitable in China that the cryptocurrency could fall by half and miners would still make money, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.| Paula Parisi / Variety: |
Jimmy Iovine casts doubt on earlier report that he planned to leave in August: “I am committed to doing whatever Eddy (Cue), Tim (Cook) and Apple need me to do” — Music mogul Jimmy Iovine shot down rumors that he plans to exit Apple in August telling Variety that he's committed …
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| Gene Maddaus / Variety: |
Netflix, Amazon, and major studios sue Dragon Box, alleging it facilitates piracy with its $350 streaming box that offers easy access to illegal movies and TV — Netflix and Amazon joined with the major studios on Wednesday in a lawsuit against Dragon Box, as the studios continue their crackdown on streaming devices.| Reuters: |
Nvidia CEO says its GPUs “immune” to flaws from Spectre threat, but Nvidia is updating software drivers because they interact with potentially vulnerable CPUs — Nvidia Corp said some of its chipsets have been affected by Spectre, a memory corruption flaw that allows hackers … | Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Kodak now is not Kodak we knew, it's a shell of a bankrupt company that was worth $135M before blockchain announcements like KODAKCoin and KashMiner this week — The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) can be a showcase of invention. Each year, giant corporations from around the world flock …
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