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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Walmart agrees to buy a majority stake of about 77% in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart for ~$16B, says its long-term goal is to see Flipkart publicly listed — - Walmart said on Wednesday that it would acquire an initial stake of roughly 77 percent in Flipkart.
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Tweets: @tommetcalf123, @vijayshekhar, @shiraovide, @swarajyamag, @vindugoel, @jonrussell, @ajit_ranade, and @madhav_et
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple starts cracking down on apps that violate its guidelines by sharing location data with third-parties without explicit user consent — Over the last few days, Apple has seemingly started cracking down on applications that share location data with third-parties.
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The Verge, TechSpot, Engadget, BetaNews, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, BGR, SlashGear, iLounge, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, CNET, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, Softpedia News, Inquirer, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @thomasbcn
| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
ZTE says in filing that it has ceased “major operating activities” following US ban on US companies supplying tech and is working with US government — HONG KONG (Reuters) - ZTE Corp's (0763.HK)(000063.SZ) main business operations have ceased due to a ban imposed by the U.S. government …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft's May 2018 Patch Tuesday fixes 68 security issues, 21 of them critical, including one being actively exploited to hack users — Latest Patch Tuesday included 68 fixes, 21 of them rated “critical.” — Microsoft on Tuesday patched two Windows vulnerabilities that attackers …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 test build shows a new File Explorer dark mode and cloud clipboard for multi-device copying and pasting, coming to public later this year — Insiders get to test the new changes today — Microsoft is testing a new build of Windows 10 today (17666) that includes some new features that will be available later this year.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Amazon Experience Centers, hosted inside Lennar's model home demos across the US, to showcase smart home devices, Dash Buttons, and more — Last week, we reported on how Amazon was leveraging a new relationship with home builder Lennar to expand its smart home business …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Reddit, Pornhub, Tumblr, Etsy, and others support Red Alert for Net Neutrality project as Sen. Ed Markey attempts to force a vote on reinstating the rules — Reddit, Pornhub, Tumblr, and other companies are supporting an upcoming net neutrality vote with a new publicity campaign.
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Facebook: Senator Edward J. Markey. Tweets: @senmarkey, @verge, @frankthorp, @kamalaharris, @fightfortheftr, and @nxthompson
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Multiple OSes including Windows, macOS, and Linux were affected by a serious security flaw caused by developers misinterpreting chipmakers' documentation — OS and hypervisor makers patch flaw that attackers could use to crash systems or read data from memory.
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US-CERT, cve.mitre.org, The Register, iPhone in Canada Blog, BleepingComputer.com, SecurityWeek, and bit-tech.net. Tweets: @linuxjournal
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Smoothness of Google's AI-based demonstrations at I/O and “Make Google Do It” campaign mask the reality: users will need to give up more information and agency — In the middle of its Tuesday morning I/O presentation Google played an audio recording of what was essentially an AI-powered crank call.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Glassdoor to be acquired by Japanese HR giant Recruit Holdings for $1.2B, will remain a “distinct and separate part” of Recruit's HR technology business segment — Job review site Glassdoor has agreed to be acquired for $1.2 billion by Japanese HR giant Recruit Holdings Co.
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Researcher finds Signal messages delivered on Mac stay in Notification Center, even when set to self-destruct, complete with message content and sender's name — If you use the Signal desktop app, be careful with your notification settings. — When it comes to protecting your messages …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Sources: Facebook launching new team of fewer than 12 to explore blockchain tech, led by David Marcus and including Instagram's VPs of engineering and product — What is the blockchain? Facebook wants to find out, too. — What is the blockchain? And how should Facebook be using it?
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Tweets: @shiraovide and @karaswisher
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Tour Creator, a free tool that lets anyone make their own VR tours using Google's Street View imagery and their own 360-degree photos — Google today launched a new tool for teachers and their students called Tour Creator, which allows anyone to create their own VR tour using imagery … | Steven Musil / CNET: |
Google developing Lookout Android app to aid the blind and the visually impaired by offering users auditory clues to the objects, text, and people around them — The Android app will offer users spoken clues to the objects, text and people around them. — Google is developing an app …
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
Google bans all adverts related to Irish abortion referendum on its platforms, following a similar move by Facebook — The decision will mean an end to advertisements relating to the referendum appearing alongside Google results and on YouTube during the final fortnight of the campaign.
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Tweets: @paraicodonnell, @markdistef, @jimwaterson, and @samcoatescymru
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts ARCore 1.2 with Sceneform SDK, Augmented Images, and Cloud Anchors, which enables collaboration between multiple ARCore device users via the cloud — At the 2018 Google I/O today, Daydream product manager Nathan Martz introduced ARCore 1.2, a new version of the company's …
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The Keyword, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, Pocket Gamer.biz, CNET, Road to VR, TechCrunch, Engadget, Liliputing, SlashGear, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @claybavor and @andrewprojdent
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Researchers calculate that Mirai botnet DDoS attack on KrebsOnSecurity, which lasted 77 hours and used 24,000 unsecured IoT devices, cost device owners ~$324K — The attack levied against the domain using insecure IoT devices cost their owners dearly in power and bandwidth.| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Yahoo quietly releases Squirrel, an invite-only group chat app, in which conversations within a group can be further divided into rooms for specific topics — Chat apps are all the rage these days. Just ask Google, it can't seem to get enough. And it looks like Yahoo is the latest to jump …
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MacRumors, Android Authority, Gizmodo, CNET, TechCrunch, GSMArena.com, Android Community, and PhoneArena
Tweets: @lewis_lin, @timfullerton, and @larakiara
| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Microsoft and Red Hat unveil OpenShift on Azure, a jointly managed hybrid cloud service for Kubernetes container management, out in preview in coming months — Microsoft and Red Hat expand their partnership around hybrid cloud, Kubernetes container management, and developer productivity.
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