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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Interview with Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi on porting iOS apps to Mac, how the hardware will remain distinct, and more — NEAR THE END of yesterday's WWDC keynote, Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, acknowledged that people … | Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
At WWDC, Apple takes aim at Facebook with new Safari tracking protections, tools to limit app usage, and enhanced social media tools in iMessages and FaceTime — The iPhone maker is improving its media-sharing capabilities while limiting the social-media company's ability to harvest data
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Israeli-based DNA testing service MyHeritage discloses security breach, says account info for 92M+ users exposed, including email addresses and hashed passwords — On Monday MyHeritage announced a security researcher had uncovered tens of millions of account details for recent customers, including email addresses and hashed passwords.
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MyHeritage Blog, The Verge, Engadget, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Krebs on Security, The Hill, Digital Trends, CNET, Axios, Business Insider, ZDNet, Fast Company, Washington Post, HackRead, Tom's Guide, Security Affairs, CSO, STAT, Fortune, and The Hacker News
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Behind the long-running dispute between Facebook and WhatsApp's founders about monetizing WhatsApp with ads, which led them to leave with $1.3B on the table — After a long dispute over how to produce more revenue with ads and data, the messaging app's creators are walking away leaving about $1.3 billion on the table
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Business Insider, CNET, Fast Company, CNBC, and Axios
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tests Lip Sync Live feature to compete with Musically and says users can now upload videos with copyrighted music — Facebook users will no longer have their uploaded videos with copyrighted background music taken down thanks to a slew of deals with all the major record labels plus many indies.
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Facebook, The Verge, Engadget, Music Industry Blog, Gizmodo, CNET, Fortune, VideoInk, and BetaNews. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: ZTE signs preliminary agreement to lift US ban on buying from US suppliers; ZTE to pay $1B fine and have $400M held in escrow for future violations — (Reuters) - ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) has signed an agreement in principle that would lift a U.S. Commerce Department ban on buying from U.S. suppliers …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researchers disclose Zip Slip, a critical vulnerability that impacts many open source code libraries that handle archived files; thousands of projects affected — Security researchers have disclosed today details about a critical vulnerability impacting open source coding libraries that handle archived files.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces four pre-tested white box PC form factors manufactured by Wistron, Compal, and Quanta as part of its Alexa for PCs ecosystem — Amazon is making it easier for PC manufacturers to integrate Alexa into PCs. The retailer today announced four new pre-tested …
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| Axios: |
Source: GV to lead ~$250M round in scooter startup Lime; each scooter gets used 8-12 times/day, and the startup has told investors users have taken 4.2M rides — Lime, a San Francisco-based bike and scooter-sharing startup, is raising around $250 million in new funding led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Axios has learned.| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Asus announces ZenBook Pro 15 with ScreenPad, a 5.5-inch touchpad with FHD display that can run its own apps; price and availability TBD — Remember Razer's Switchblade UI? Remember Windows SideShow? If you ever dreamt of a computer with its own secondary display, then ASUS' New ZenBook Pro is the device for you.
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CNET, The Verge, Pocketnow, Digital Trends, ASUS Press Room, BGR, PCWorld, Liliputing, TechCrunch, Neowin, Windows Central, CNET, Softpedia News, The Register, Gizmodo, Laptop Mag, and AnandTech. Tweets: @dcseifert
| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel announces limited edition 5GHz Core i7-8086K anniversary CPU, its fastest ever, as an homage to the 40th anniversary of the eponymous 8086 processor — As an homage to both Intel's 50 year company anniversary and the 40 year anniversary of the eponymous 8086 processor … | Steven Aquino / TechCrunch: |
Apple's Live Listen is coming to AirPods with iOS 12 update, allowing iPhones to be used as a directional mic and audio relayed to a user's AirPods — Apple has one hardware-specific feature planned that wasn't announced at Monday's WWDC keynote. In iOS 12, users will be able to use Live Listen …
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| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Sources: GitHub, acquired by Microsoft, also talked with Google about an acquisition; Amazon, Atlassian, and Tencent made acquisition inquiries in recent years — - GitHub agreed to sell to Microsoft on Monday for $7.5 billion, but was also talking to Google about a deal in recent weeks.| CNBC: |
Sources: Amazon's Grand Challenge team, led by Google Glass creator Babak Parviz, has added 50+ staff since 2014, focused on health efforts like cancer research — - Amazon's Grand Challenge team, led by Google Glass creator Babak Parviz, consists of former Google X engineers and founders of various health start-ups.| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
How comment hosting service Disqus, which gets ~2B unique visitors/month and supports anonymous comments, is losing its battle against trolls and hate speech — The commenting giant Disqus has said repeatedly that it doesn't allow hate speech. But its platform is overrun with trolls, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis.| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Instagram may soon allow posted videos to be up to an hour long, has talked with content creators and publishers about producing long-form videos — Feature to allow videos of up to an hour in length — Instagram, which allows users to post photos and brief glimpses …
Tweets: @benmullin
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Comparison between Google's Digital Wellbeing initiative, announced at I/O, and Apple's Screen Time, which both aim to reduce phone usage — Two similar but subtly different perspectives on managing our time on our phones — Developer conference season is coming to an end with Apple's WWDC this week …
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Android Authority, ZDNet, KTLA, Cult of Mac, and MacDailyNews
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google releases new shortcut app to directly launch Google Lens — At the moment, the LG G7 offers the fastest way to access Google Lens through a dedicated hardware button. In comparison, the vast majority of users have to first bring up Assistant and then tap the camera icon.
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Digital Trends, The Verge, Android Police, Neowin, CNET, Mashable, Gizmodo, Engadget, Android Police, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, and Android Central
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS now fully supports Kubernetes with the general release of Amazon EKS, following other cloud vendors, after announcing the service last year at AWS re:Invent — Amazon Web Services was the last of the major cloud vendors to go all-in with the Kubernetes container-orchestration project …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Apple reports that Podcasts now hosts more than 555K active shows, up from 525K in April, and Stuff You Should Know is the first show to pass 500M downloads — Beyond Watch compatibility, podcasting didn't get a lot of love as Apple blew through announcements at a frenetic pace during its two-hour-plus keynote yesterday.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's newly updated App Store guidelines say non-subscription apps may offer a “free time-based trial period” by using a “non-consumable” in-app purchase — Apple today has updated its App Store Review Guidelines with a handful of changes.
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MacRumors, PCMag, iPhone Hacks, GamesIndustry.biz, Apple Developer, TechCrunch, MacRumors, and SlashGear. Tweets: @alexhern
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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Stratechery, InfoQ, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, Investor's Business Daily, Yourstory.com, GamesIndustry.biz, Apple, and The Verge. Tweets: @morningedition
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