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| John Leyden / The Register: |
Weaknesses in DEP, Apple's free service for remote enterprise device management, may give attackers access to the network by guessing serial numbers of devices — Researchers check bootstrap enrolment tech, suck teeth, whistle — Hackers can blow holes in Apple's managed service technology …
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| David Stringer / Bloomberg: |
Unnamed Australian teenager sentenced to eight months probation for breaching Apple's systems; investigators recovered 1TB of sensitive info copied from Apple — - Youth found accessing Apple networks addictive, court hears — Customers' data wasn't compromised by the attacks, Apple says
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| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Study: Facebook lets ads target your account using info given for security purposes, like your phone number, as well as info from your friends' address books — Last week, I ran an ad on Facebook that was targeted at a computer science professor named Alan Mislove.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Home-flipping startup Opendoor raises $400M from SoftBank's Vision Fund, source says at a $2B+ valuation — It's official. Two weeks ago, we reported that Opendoor — the four year-old, San Francisco-based company aiming to make it possible to buy and sell residential real estate …
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Amazon's anti-union tactics revealed in leaked 45-minute video that it sent to team leaders at Whole Foods; Amazon says Gizmodo “cherry-picked soundbites” — Amazon, the country's second-largest employer, has so far remained immune to any attempts by U.S. workers to form a union.
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| Benjamin Mayo: |
Apple's first iOS apps on Mac, via its universal framework Marzipan, are sluggish, have UI quirks, non-standard behaviors, should not be preinstalled on Mojave — I don't like marzipan. And I don't like Marzipan. — I haven't been running Mojave on my machine in the beta period.
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| Bloomberg: |
SoftBank's Vision Fund has already committed $65B; Masayoshi Son says that he plans to raise a new $100B fund every two or three years and spend ~$50B per year — The Japanese dealmaker says he'll raise a new $100 billion fund every few years. Silicon Valley's disruptors are struggling to keep up.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Alphabet's Chronicle launches VirusTotal Enterprise, a business version of its free offering that, it says, increases malware search speed by 100x — Alphabet in January unveiled Chronicle as the latest project to graduate from the X moonshot factory. Focusing on cybersecurity …
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| Consumer Reports: |
Most Microsoft Surface laptops regain Consumer Reports' “recommended” status; Surface Go is still not recommended, mainly due to its slow performance — New reliability ratings prompt the change, but Surface Go falls short on performance — Microsoft Surface laptops are now eligible for …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Real estate tech company Compass raises $400M Series F, led by SoftBank's Vision Fund and the Qatar Investment Authority, at a $4.4B valuation — Compass, the New York startup that has built a tech-first platform to take on the antiquated market of real estate, is building up its own house today.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's Swiftkey keyboard adds two-way translation for 60+ languages, to translate both outgoing and incoming messages on Android — Microsoft-owned mobile keyboard company SwiftKey has announced a new translation feature in its Android app, one that leverages Microsoft Translator …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
A look at how, ten years after Google introduced Android to prevent the industry's other players from becoming dominant, its mobile OS has become just that — It's an Android world; we just live in it — Android is 10 years old now, give or take. It was revealed on September 23rd … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Cargo, which makes boxes of items such as gum, phone chargers, and snacks to help drivers sell goods to ride-hailing passengers, raises $22.5M Series A — In-car commerce startup Cargo has raised $22.5 million in a series A round of funding led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund …
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| CoinDesk: |
Crypto mining company Bitmain files for Hong Kong IPO; draft filing shows $2.8B in revenue as of June 30 and $422.05M raised in funding round that ended Aug. 7 — Bitmain, the Beijing-based cryptocurrency mining giant, has officially filed an application to go public on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX).
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Tweets: @jonrussell, @francispouliot_, @ampressman, @jonrussell, @kr00ney, and @jonrussell
| Steve Blank: |
A look at how the Apple Watch is poised to disrupt the highly regulated healthcare industry and what diagnostics and screening apps Apple may add in the future — I don't own an Apple Watch. I do have a Fitbit. But the Apple Watch 4 announcement intrigued me in a way no other product has since the original IPhone.
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| Amazon US Day One Blog: |
Amazon announces Amazon 4-star, a physical store that only sells items rated four stars and above with discounts for Prime members, with the first in NYC — Peek inside our newest store, inspired by our customers. — Tomorrow, we're opening Amazon 4-star, a new physical store where everything …
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Oculus announces the standalone Oculus Quest, shipping next spring for $399 with touch controllers and 50+ games at launch — Opening up the Oculus Connect 5 keynote with some announcements, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that its newest headset, called Oculus Quest …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog: |
Cloudflare launches its own domain registrar called Cloudflare Registrar, promises to never charge anything more than the wholesale price each TLD charges — “I love my domain registrar.” Has anyone ever said this? From before Cloudflare even launched in September 2010 …
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Jen Fitzpatrick, head of Google Maps and once-intern of 1999, on the consistency of Google's culture, ongoing opportunities for Maps, possibilities with AR — Jen Fitzpatrick started out in Google's first class of interns in 1999. She now runs one of the company's most important businesses.
Tweets: @harrymccracken
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will now include creator and credit metadata in photos it displays on Google Images and will add copyright notice metadata in the coming weeks — Google hasn't always had the best of relationships with photographers, but today it announced a small measure that should go some way toward appeasing image rightsholders.
Tweets: @samharrelson
| Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: |
IBM study: ~60% of 5K polled execs say they're concerned with explaining, in order to meet regulatory standards, how AI is using data, up from 29% in 2016 — About 60% of 5,000 executives in IBM survey expressed concern with AI's ‘black box’ — Concerns about transparency and ethics …
Tweets: @ibmnews
| Amy Gesenhues / Marketing Land: |
Snap makes shoppable Snap ads available via its self-serve ad-buying platform, lets advertisers import product catalogs, adds advanced pixel targeting features — Shoppable Snap ads are rolling out, and advertisers can now import catalogs to automatically create product ads.
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