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Facebook has had data-sharing partnerships with Huawei, Lenovo, Oppo, and TCL since at least 2010 and will wind down the Huawei deal by the end of the week — Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese electronics companies, including a manufacturing giant …
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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: |
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Microsoft had to acquire GitHub to attract developers because it lacks a mobile platform with enough users and its cloud strategy hinges on corporate customers — Yesterday saw three developer-related announcements, two from Apple, and one from Microsoft. The former came as part …
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Israel-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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TechCrunch, MyHeritage Blog, Fast Company, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, The Hill, Krebs on Security, CNET, HackRead, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Business Insider, Boing Boing, The Hacker News, Axios, Engadget, Security Affairs, Washington Post, Reuters, Fortune, STAT, CSO, Ars Technica, and ZDNet
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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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| 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 … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tests Lip Sync Live feature to compete with musical.ly 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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The Next Web, Facebook, Music Industry Blog, Fortune, The Verge, Engadget, VideoInk, Gizmodo, CNBC, MSPoweruser, Adweek, CNET, and BetaNews. Tweets: @joshelman. Thanks:@joshconstine
| 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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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
AMD announces Threadripper 2, a 32-core CPU for desktops based on 12nm process, coming later this year — One of the surprises from AMD's first year of the newest x86 Zen architecture was the launch of the Threadripper platform. Despite the mainstream Ryzen processors already taking …
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The Verge, PCWorld, Windows Central, VentureBeat, Engadget, SlashGear, PC Gamer, and ZDNet. Tweets: @tapbot_paul. Thanks:@iancutress
| 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 …
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9to5Google, Gizmodo, CNET, Mashable, Variety, Seeking Alpha, and The Verge. Tweets: @benmullin
| 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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| Pranav Dar / Analytics Vidhya: |
UC Berkeley open sources the world's largest autonomous driving dataset containing 100K video sequences across various US locations — - UC Berkeley has open sourced the world's largest and most diverse self-driving dataset — It contains 100,000 video sequences, each approximately 40 seconds long and in 720p quality
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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.| 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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AWS News Blog, GeekWire, GeekWire, The New Stack, and ZDNet
| 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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Snyk Blog, GitHub, GitHub, Security Affairs, SiliconANGLE, and The Hacker News
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SAP unveils SAP C/4HANA, a suite of cloud-based business products combining tech from its Hybris, Gigya, and CallidusCloud acquisitions into one CRM platform — Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a mature market with a clear market leader in Salesforce.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Europe's top court rules that administrators of fan pages on Facebook are jointly responsible with Facebook for the processing of users' data — An interesting ruling by Europe's top court could have some major implications for data mining tech giants like Facebook and Google …
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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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