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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
In email to staff, Musk alleges an employee sabotaged Tesla, including changing OS code under false usernames and sending sensitive data to unknown 3rd parties — - Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an e-mail to all employees on Sunday night alleging there was a saboteur within the company's ranks.| The Keyword: |
Google rolls out web interface for Android Messages to enable texting from desktop and says GIF search, Smart Reply, and more features coming by next week — Over the past few years, we've been working on improving the messaging experience on Android—from working with carriers to upgrade …
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| New York Times: |
A look at Tim Cook's relationship with the Trump administration and Chinese government; source: Trump administration told Cook it won't place tariffs on iPhones — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, may be the leader of the world's most valuable public company …
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| Jennifer Bisset / CNET: |
Apple ordered to pay AU$9M fine by Australian court for telling customers they weren't entitled to a refund after the Error 53 bug that bricked some iOS devices — The time has come for Apple to pay for the infamous Error 53 that bricked iPhones and iPads taken to a third party for repairs.
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Australian Competition …, Sydney Morning Herald, Engadget, TechCrunch, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Verge, BGR, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, MacRumors, BBC, Telegraph, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, and The Guardian. Tweets: @cnetnews
| K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: |
An overview of the EU's proposed new copyright law that will require internet platforms to automatically filter uploaded content, ahead of Wednesday's vote — A proposed new European copyright law could make memes illegal and threaten the future of the internet as we know it. Time to panic?
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| Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News: |
Experts say macOS' Quick Look feature has for years created and insecurely cached preview thumbnails and more for files in encrypted containers and USB drives — Security researchers are warning of almost a decade old issue with one of the Apple's macOS feature which was designed …
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed: |
After Microsoft pulled reference on its site touting work with ICE, it reemerged after inquiry; Microsoft says it's “dismayed” by ICE's child separation policy — “An employee briefly deleted the blog after seeing commentary in social media. This was a mistake and as soon …
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| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Wired: |
Inside the crypto world's biggest scandal: how the Tezos story unfolded into a tragedy after raising $232M in the largest ICO at the time — ACT I — ONE DAY IN the spring of 2010, Kathleen McCaffrey, a sophomore at New York University, received an invitation from a stranger named Arthur Breitman.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon rolling out Alexa for Hospitality, a special version of Alexa for hotels that can help order room service, request housekeeping, more, by invite — Order room service, request housekeeping, or play some tunes — Amazon is today introducing Alexa for Hospitality …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Adobe improves Adobe Scan for Android and iOS with its Sensei machine learning tech and introduces new PDF integrations with Microsoft Office 365 — Adobe today announced a slew of updates and integrations across Adobe Document Cloud, its suite of cloud-based apps for converting and processing PDFs.
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| Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post: |
Ex-CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who allegedly leaked Vault 7 hacking tools to WikiLeaks, charged with violations of the Espionage Act and related crimes — Federal prosecutors charged a former CIA employee Monday with violations of the Espionage Act and related crimes in connection with the leak …
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Engadget, Ars Technica, U.S. Department of Justice, New York Times, Politico, and The Hacker News
Tweets: @ericgeller and @christinayiotis
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Privacy leak found in Google Home and Chromecast that would let a malicious site find a user's precise location from Wi-Fi info; Google to fix leak within weeks — Google in the coming weeks is expected to fix a location privacy leak in two of its most popular consumer products.
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Inquirer, The State of Security, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Android Authority, The Verge, Neowin, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Pocketables, CNET, 9to5Google, Android Police, SlashGear, MSPoweruser, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @briankrebs and @craigtweets
| Jen Wieczner / Fortune: |
Brex, a fintech startup which provides a credit card for startups and is backed by PayPal cofounders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, raises $50M Series B led by YC — Brex, a fintech startup backed by PayPal cofounders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, has raised $50 million in new venture capital, the company announced Tuesday.
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| Nicholas Fandos / New York Times: |
In a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration, Senate votes 85-10 on an annual defense policy bill that included a measure to reinstate penalties on ZTE — WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Monday to reinstate tough penalties on ZTE, a Chinese telecom company accused of violating American sanctions …
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CNET, Axios, Reuters, Slashdot, CNBC, Politico, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, SlashGear, Reuters, New York Times, The Daily Beast, The Hill, Liliputing, and Android Police
Tweets: @npfandos and @kate_okeeffe
| Matt McFarland / CNNMoney: |
In letters to Jeff Bezos, nearly 20 Amazon shareholder groups, ACLU, and others call for halt of selling Rekognition facial recognition tech to law enforcement — Facial recognition could revolutionize public transportation — Nearly 20 groups of Amazon shareholders are pressuring …
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ACLU, Slashdot, Beyond Search, ACLU, Gizmodo, GeekWire, BuzzFeed, GeekWire, VentureBeat, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, and New York Magazine
Tweets: @aclu_wa, @daveyalba, @aclu, @matt_cagle, @aclu_norcal, @demandprogress, and @onekade
| Samm Sacks / The Atlantic: |
A look at how China is pushing dozens of regulations and technical standards to wrest control of the entire internet ecosystem from the West — Xi Jinping wants to wrest control of global cyber governance from the market economies of the west. — It's never been a worse time to be a Chinese telecom company in America.
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| Killian Bell / Android Police: |
Google Maps on Android removes ability to hail an Uber from within the app, after adding the integration in January 2017 — Google has removed the ability to book an Uber ride from inside Google Maps. You can still look up the route in Maps and then “request the ride from the Uber app,” …
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CNET, The Verge, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, SlashGear, XDA Developers, Mashable, Fortune, Engadget, 9to5Google, KnowTechie, and MSPoweruser
| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
How a team of 150 at Square made the $999 Square Register, a two-screen Android device with its own secure enclave chip, aiming to be SMBs' preferred PoS device — IF YOU KNOW the company Square, it's probably because you've paid in a store using a Square “stand,” a dock that supports a tablet …
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Cult of Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @dcseifert, @laurengoode, @nxthompson, and @square
| Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
WHO to add gaming addiction as a medical condition to the International Classification of Diseases, its highly regarded compendium of medical conditions — Video games work hard to hook players. Designers use predictive algorithms and principles of behavioral economics to keep fans engaged.
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9to5Mac, ZDNet, CNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Business Insider, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, PC Gamer, Fortune, Washington Post, Silicon Republic, VatorNews, Blue's News, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tweets: @amietsang, @redlianak, and @katiecouric
| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
Japanese flea market app startup Mercari, which raised $1.2B in its IPO, closes up 77% in its debut on the Tokyo stock exchange, valuing it at as much as $7.4B — TOKYO (Reuters) - Flea market app operator Mercari Inc's shares surged 77 percent in their Tokyo stock market debut on Tuesday …
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Financial Times, Japan Today, CNBC, Bloomberg, and PYMNTS.com
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Datally, Google's Android app for monitoring and managing mobile data, updated with new features including daily limits, guest mode, unused apps, and a WiFi map — In November, Google introduced Datally, a data-saving app largely aimed at emerging markets where users often rely on prepaid SIM cards …
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