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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google releases Android P preview with support for iPhone X-style notch, updates to Quick Settings and notifications, and more — But don't install it on your main phone — As it has for the last couple years, Google is releasing a developer preview of the next version of Android in March.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Amazon confirms some Alexa devices are randomly laughing and says it's working on a fix, after multiple users posted about it on social media — Wait, what? — Over the past few days, users with Alexa-enabled devices have reported hearing strange, unprompted laughter.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft confirms Windows 10 S will no longer be a dedicated operating system and will become a “mode” of Windows 10 in 2019 — Windows 10 S will no longer be a dedicated version next year — Microsoft says its plans to move Windows 10 S from a dedicated operating system to a special …
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
SEC issues strongly worded warning on unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges, saying “many” appear SEC-approved when they aren't; Bitcoin is down 8%+ — Bitcoin falls 10 percent after regulators signal crackdown on exchanges. — The Securities and Exchange Commission issued …
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| Russell Holly / Windows Central: |
Oculus Rift users say a problem with Oculus Runtime Service's certificate has made all Rift devices useless until Oculus releases an update — Oculus goofed, and it's going to be a little bit before you can use your Rift again. — If you were hoping to get a little VR in today …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Magic Leap raises an additional $461M from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, on top of its $502M round in October, bringing total Series D funding to $963M — Magic Leap still hasn't released a product, but they're continuing to raise a lot of cash to get there.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces new AI platform for Windows 10 developers ahead of Build, including ability to import different learning models, available in Visual Studio — Microsoft is planning to include more artificial intelligence capabilities inside Windows 10 soon.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google updates Duo with ability to leave 30-second video messages for users who miss or decline calls, rolling out to iOS and Android users this week — 30-second ephemeral video messages — Duo, Google's take on Apple's FaceTime, is getting video messages today in an update.
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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Snap plans layoffs to its engineering department, the largest layoffs to date; source says less than 10% of staff in the unit are affected — Snap Inc. is preparing its largest round of layoffs to date, Cheddar has learned. — The Snapchat-maker plans to announce the cuts internally within …
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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
Interview with Peter Thiel on Facebook's board dynamics, Russian interference in 2016 election, his continued support for Trump, his bid for Gawker assets, more — Peter Thiel is Silicon Valley's homegrown Cassandra. He warned for years that the big tech companies were arrogant and clueless … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers find bug in Exim message transfer tool that allows remote code execution, affecting up to 400K servers — Widely used message transfer agent patched buffer overflow last month. — A bug in an obscure but widely used email program may be putting as many as 400,000 servers around … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
NYT journalist Farhad Manjoo spent nearly two months relying solely on print for his news and concluded that digital has broken how we process information — I first got news of the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., via an alert on my watch. Even though I had turned off news notifications months ago … | New York Times: |
US national security panel, CFIUS, calls for full investigation of Broadcom's bid for Qualcomm as tech companies are increasingly caught in US-China rivalry — WASHINGTON — As the United States and China look to protect their national security needs and economic interests …
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| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
A consortium of 61 Japanese banks plans to use Ripple's blockchain technology for a consumer payments app, starting with a trial in three banks in autumn 2018 — A group of Japanese banks is planning to use Ripple's blockchain-based payments technology in a forthcoming product aimed at general consumers.| Kim Zetter / The Intercept: |
Study of Shadow Brokers documents: in 2013 the NSA was tracking 45+ different nation state operations by detecting other hackers on machines it had infected — When the mysterious entity known as the “Shadow Brokers” released a tranche of stolen NSA hacking tools to the internet a year ago … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches a low-cost version of Prime at $5.99 per month for qualifying recipients of Medicaid — Amazon announced this morning it will offer a low-cost version of its Prime membership program to qualifying recipients of Medicaid. The program will bring the cost of Prime …
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CNET, The Verge, BGR, International Business Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Engadget, ABC News, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, and GeekWire. Tweets: @caro_milanesi
| Will Strafach: |
Study of data collection by Facebook's Onavo Protect app for iOS: total WiFi and cellular data usage in bytes is sent even when VPN is turned off — Recent media coverage of Onavo Protect encouraged me to investigate the code for the iOS version of their app.
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The Register, Gizmodo, BetaNews, HackRead, and International Business Times
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| Kim Zetter / Motherboard: |
Researchers show how hackers with physical access could install malware by bypassing the lock protection on Windows machines using Cortana voice commands — Two independent Israeli researchers found a way for an attacker to bypass the lock protection on Windows machines and install malware by using voice commands directed at Cortana.
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BetaNews, Kaspersky Security …, HackRead, TechSpot, SlashGear, Softpedia News, and MSPoweruser
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Khronos Group announces Vulkan 1.1, the first big update to its cross platform GPU API, with multi-GPU support, better DirectX compatibility, and more — Updated drivers that support the latest version should be out today. — The Khronos Group today launched Vulkan 1.1 … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK government says it will examine driving laws over the next three years to prepare for self-driving cars — In 2021 the UK government intends the country to be well on its way to a driverless future. — No, not a cheap joke about Brexit — yesterday it announced a three-year regulatory review to … | Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
BlackBerry is suing Facebook, alleging that many of Facebook's messaging services infringe on BlackBerry patents, seeks injunctive relief and damages — BlackBerry is suing Facebook for patent infringement on its legacy messaging service, the company said Tuesday.
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| Sascha Segan / PC Magazine: |
Ookla says tests show average speed of 504Mbps down and 42.7Mbps up at one cell site in New York City with T-Mobile's Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) technology — T-Mobile is now boosting LTE download speeds to over 500Mbps by using Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) in New York City …
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DSLreports, Cult of Mac, Droid Life, and Fortune
| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft updates Azure services for SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL — Microsoft announced a smorgasbord of updates to its Azure cloud platform today, primarily aimed at helping companies migrate database workloads to its datacenters. These workloads are typically mission critical …
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