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Sources: Apple is planning to use its own processors in Macs from 2020, replacing Intel; Intel stock closed down 6.07% — Apple is planning to use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, replacing processors from Intel, according to people familiar with the plans, Bloomberg News' Ian King and Mark Gurman report.
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Sources: Trump wants USPS to increase Amazon's shipping costs as advisers encourage the president to cancel Amazon's cloud computing contract with the Pentagon — With the West Wing finally calm, Trump is contemplating a multi-front campaign against Jeff Bezos.
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| Azeen Ghorayshi / BuzzFeed: |
Grindr shared users' HIV status, “last tested” date, other personal info with 3rd parties, according to an outside research firm's analysis verified by BuzzFeed — (Update: Late on Monday Grindr said it would stop sharing HIV status information with other companies.)
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Grindr's security chief Bryce Case says company has been unfairly singled out and that it has stopped sharing users' HIV status with its third-party vendors — Grindr has stopped sharing users' HIV status with its third-party vendors, the company's head of security told Axios.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Sources: Panerabread.com leaked customer records with names, emails, last four digits of CCs; flaw reported 8+ months ago, may affect 7M+; Panera says now fixed — Panerabread.com, the Web site for the American chain of bakery-cafe fast casual restaurants by the same name …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel debuts new 8th Gen CPUs: i9 and i7 with 6 cores for laptops, 6 new H-series including vPro, 4 new U-series with Iris Plus, 17 new desktop Coffee Lake CPUs — The march from Intel for everything to be under the ‘8th Gen Intel Core’ branding is now at its climax: today is the official launch …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Spotify's direct listing is an inflection point in the push-and-pull power struggle between Silicon Valley and Wall Street — You should care what happens on Tuesday — even if you don't care about Spotify. — Tuesday will be an abnormal day in the history of the IPO. — “Normally, companies ring bells.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google search chief John Giannandrea to step down and return to AI research, Jeff Dean will lead Google's AI efforts, and Ben Gomes will become VP of search — Two years ago, Google appointed its head of artificial intelligence to lead Search in a move that reflected the future of the company.
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| CoinDesk: |
SEC charges Centra Tech co-founders with fraud following last year's ICO, which raised $32M+ and received endorsements from Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has halted an initial coin offering and charged its founders with “orchestrating …
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A timeline of how Microsoft came to accept the reality of Windows' decline with Nadella's reorg, leaving it without a dedicated PC division, a first since 1980 — The story of Windows' decline is relatively straightforward and a classic case of disruption: — The Internet dramatically reduced application lock-in| Kyle Wiggers / XDA Developers: |
Google bans all crypto-mining Chrome extensions from its Web Store, removing existing ones by July, after 90% failed to properly inform users about the activity — Despite new regulatory hurdles and a market downturn, the adoption of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin shows no sign of slowing down.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Instagram has cut its API limit from 5000 to 200 calls without warning, breaking functionality in some 3rd-party apps, amid Facebook privacy scandals — Without warning, Instagram has broken many of the unofficial apps built on its platform. This weekend it surprised developers … | April Rinne / Quartz: |
An e-Resident reflects on Estonia's virtual citizenship program, which lets foreigners run a business using digital IDs, giving them access to the EU market — An online community survey recently asked me where I'm based. Without hesitation, I answered “Estonia.”| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Amazon announces Alexa Donations, powered by Amazon Pay, allowing users to give to one of 48 charities and nonprofits via voice commands — You can now donate to charity with your voice by asking Amazon's Alexa. Today, the tech giant announced a new feature called Alexa Donations, powered by Amazon Pay.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
After 150+ cryptocurrency hedge funds opened amid 2017's meteoric rise in prices, this year's ~50% drop in Bitcoin value has led at least 9 funds to close — At least nine funds have been shuttered so far this year — Funds have losses of 23 percent in 2018, industry tracker says
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| Arielle Pardes / Wired: |
Reddit begins months-long roll out of its site redesign, with ~1% of users seeing it today, will allow users to switch back to old site layout for now — Goodbye, dystopian Craigslist. There's a new Reddit, and it's all grown up. — ON A RAINY day in San Francisco … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google expands its initiative to equip rural school buses with Wi-Fi and Chromebooks to 16 additional school districts — Google today announced an expansion of its Rolling Study Halls initiative to over 16 additional school districts, giving “thousands” of students access to Wi-Fi and Chromebooks on their buses.| Shrutika Verma / Livemint: |
Filing shows Paytm Mall, the ecommerce arm of Paytm, is raising ~$450M round led by SoftBank with Alibaba participating, sources say at a $1.6B-$2B valuation — The funding from SoftBank and Alibaba values Paytm Mall, run by Paytm E-commerce Pvt. Ltd, between $1.6 billion and $2 billion| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Indian ride hailing service Ola acquires public transportation booking and real-time traffic service Ridlr for an undisclosed amount — The rumors are true, India's Uber rival/potential-future-M&A-buddy Ola has acquired transportation startup Ridlr in an undisclosed deal.
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