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| Sarah Krouse / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tim Armstrong, head of Oath, Verizon's media and advertising business, is in talks to exit — Tim Armstrong combined Yahoo and AOL but struggled to marry Verizon's wireless customer data with online advertising — Tim Armstrong, the leader of Verizon Communications Inc.'s media …
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Twitter permanently suspends Infowars and Alex Jones' accounts, saying they violate “abusive behavior” rules, will suspend other accounts he registers or uses — After weeks of equivocation, Twitter permanently suspended the accounts of Infowars and its founder Alex Jones on Thursday …
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| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
British Airways says an attack on its site and app on Aug. 21-Sept. 5 exposed customers' personal and financial details, believes ~380K “card payments” breached — British Airways revealed on Thursday that hackers managed to lurk in its systems for two weeks, exposing around 380,000 card payments.
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| AnandTech: |
Huawei includes benchmark detection tool in smartphones so scores don't reflect real performance; in response it says its competitors mislead consumers too — Does anyone remember our articles regarding unscrupulous benchmark behavior back in 2013? At the time we called the industry …
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| Kif Leswing / INSIDER: |
Twitter says it's testing a redesign of its desktop site with night mode, data-saving mode, bookmarks, and more; UI looks similar to Twitter on a mobile browser — Twitter is testing a redesign of its desktop website that adds a night mode, data-saving mode, bookmarks, and other new features, the company announced on Thursday.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google announces an event for October 9 in NYC where it is expected to announce the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL — Gosh, I wonder what it's announcing? — Google has sent out invites for an October 9th event that will almost certainly be the official announcement of the thoroughly leaked Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL smartphones.
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| Tom Spring / Threatpost: |
Popular anti-adware app in Apple's Mac App Store, Adware Doctor, surreptitiously steals users' browsing history and sends it to a Chinese domain — A top-grossing Apple App Store program called Adware Doctor is capable of sidestepping macOS security controls and surreptitiously copying a user's entire browser history.
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Goldman Sachs CFO says reports about the company abandoning plans to open a cryptocurrency desk are “fake news” — - The price of bitcoin and other top cryptocurrencies tumbled after a report that the bank was ditching plans to launch a cryptocurrency trading desk.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple to launch a web portal by the end of 2018 for authenticated law enforcement officers to submit data requests and is developing an online training module — Apple this week announced it will be launching a dedicated web portal by the end of 2018 for authenticated law enforcement officers …
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| David Carnoy / CNET: |
Amazon debuts next gen Fire HD 8 with hands-free Alexa, 16 GB storage, support for up to 400GB via microSD; available for pre-order today for $79, ships Oct. 4 — An “all-new” Fire HD 8 tablet is on the way, but it's much more of a refresh than a major upgrade.
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UK retailer Argos launches a voice shopping service that lets customers check product availability and reserve products using Google Assistant — Catalogue retailer Argos has launched a “voice shopping” service to let people reserve products in a local store using a Google Home smart speaker.| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Report: colleagues who have worked with Eddy Cue say he seems overextended and lacked much interest in Siri from the moment he gained responsibility — A new profile on Apple chief Eddy Cue has been shared online today by The Information, highlighting Cue's history and leadership at the company … | Shannon Vavra / Axios: |
Sonatype, which helps companies build secure software using its Nexus platform, raises $80M in a round led by TPG — Sonatype, a company that helps companies build more secure software, will be announcing an $80 million funding round led by TPG. — Why it matters: The Equifax breach occurred with a known vulnerable component.
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| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Didi has failed to generate a profit in the six years since its founding, and has spent $1.7B on subsidies and discounts in H1 2018, losing about $585M — - The ride-hailing giant hasn't made a profit in six years — Didi is said to have given out $1.7 billion in subsidies
Tweets: @luluyilun
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber launching Uber Rent, which lets users book rentals from car sharing service Getaround, in SF this month, after originally saying it would launch in April — You may remember how Uber laid out its ambitions to become a multi-modal transportation company back in April … | Richard Gao / Android Police: |
Google gives YouTube TV subscribers the option of pausing their subscription for anytime between four weeks to six months — Pausing memberships isn't something that many subscription services offer, but YouTube TV is now joining that limited club. In the (probably pretty rare) …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
BMW debuts the AI-powered BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant for its cars, available from March 2019 in 10 countries, including US and UK, and May 2019 in China — At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018, BMW today premiered its digital personal assistant for its cars, the aptly named BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant.
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| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft begins testing Cortana and Alexa support for the Xbox One, letting users power the console on and off and start games and apps — Microsoft's Xbox One is getting a whole lot easier to use. The company today announced a new Xbox Skill for Cortana and Amazon Alexa …
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| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
DOJ announces hacking charges against a North Korean government spy, linked to the Lazarus Group, in connection with the 2014 Sony hack — The Justice Department will announce computer hacking charges Thursday against a North Korean government spy in connection with the 2014 attack …
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Tweets: @backchnnl, @thejusticedept, @vice, @josephfcox, @zackwhittaker, @ericgeller, and @mlevinereports
| Alex Pasternack / Fast Company: |
Facebook says Joseph Chancellor, a psychology researcher tied to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, has left the company, but declines to say when or why he left — A Facebook psychology researcher who previously helped harvest millions of Facebook users' profiles for the controversial Trump … Sponsor Posts
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