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Apple files DMCA notice to remove apparent iOS 9 “iBoot” source code, parts of which are likely used in iOS 11, from GitHub; experts say the code is authentic — Source code for iBoot, one of the most critical iOS programs, was anonymously posted on GitHub.
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| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Twitter Q4: profit of $91.1M, its first ever, revenue of $731.6M, up 2% YoY, vs. $686.4M est.; MAUs up 4% YoY but flat QoQ at 330M vs. 333M est.; stock up 20%+ — Revenue rises to $732 million, topping analysts' estimates — Efforts to fight spam, bots limited gains in user numbers
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| Cindy Cohn / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow has died at 70 — With a broken heart I have to announce that EFF's founder, visionary, and our ongoing inspiration, John Perry Barlow, passed away quietly in his sleep this morning. We will miss Barlow and his wisdom for decades to come, and he will always be an integral part of EFF.
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| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon starts delivering Whole Foods groceries to Prime members in Dallas, Virginia Beach, Cincinnati, and Austin with free two-hour delivery for $35+ orders — Groceries offered via one- and two-hour Prime Now service in four markets to start — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -1.81% …
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An in-depth look at the scary experience of living in a smart home and how it creates new streams of personal information that can be used to profile us — In December, I converted my one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco into a “smart home.” I connected as many of my appliances …
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Alphabet says Nest will be brought back under Google with Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz reporting to Google's hardware chief Rick Osterloh — Nest has sold 11 million devices, so Google isn't ditching the brand. The new strategy: Try to get Google Assistant into more of Nest's smart gadgets in a war against Amazon's Alexa.
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| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Intel releases stable Spectre patches for Skylake U-, Y-, H-, and S-series chips, says it will patch more platforms in the coming days — If you own a Skylake-based PC and receive a patch to address the Spectre vulnerabilities, install it—Intel has greenlit the code.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft outlines roadmap for Progressive Web Apps, will experiment with crawling and indexing PWAs from the web so they can be listed in the Microsoft Store — Microsoft will be ready to support PWAs in the Microsoft Store as of Windows 10 Redstone 4. Here's its game plan.| Eric Jackson / CNBC: |
Q&A: ex-Zenefits, Yammer CEO David Sacks on his Craft VC fund and Harbor, which has raised $10M for its decentralized compliance protocol for crypto securities — I interviewed David Sacks last August about his interest in cryptocurrency. His interest was well-founded as the whole asset class took off last fall.
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| Jared Newman / Fast Company: |
Class action suit filed against Google alleges first-gen Pixel and Pixel XL phones were knowingly sold with defective microphones — Google is facing a lawsuit over the original Pixel. — In a class action complaint filed this week, plaintiffs allege that the microphones in their Pixel …
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| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Sneaker marketplace GOAT is merging with sneaker retailer Flight Club and raising $60M Series C led by Index Ventures — Sneaker marketplace GOAT is merging with Flight Club, essentially the first name in after market sneaker retail. It's also raising a $60M series C led by Danny Rimer … | Bankless Times: |
DataWallet, a consumer-to-business blockchain-based data exchange backed by Tim Draper and Marc Benioff, says its DXT token sale sold out after reaching $40M — Datawallet, a C2B blockchain-based data exchange, today announced its DXT token sale has sold out after reaching its goal of $40 million USD.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says it paid 274 security researchers $2.9M in 2017 as part of its bug bounty program, bringing total paid out to $12M since November 2010 launch — Google today announced it has paid out almost $12 million since launching its bug bounty program in November 2010.
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