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Apple says it will stop selling iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 in its 15 retail stores across Germany after Qualcomm was granted an injunction by a Munich court — - Last week, a Chinese court ordered an injunction against Apple over an alleged patent violation filed by chipmaker Qualcomm.
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DOJ charges two alleged members of China's state sponsored hacking unit APT10 with stealing data from at least 45 US tech companies and government agencies — - They are accused of stealing information from at least 45 U.S. tech companies and government agencies.
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| Reuters: |
Sources: state-sponsored Chinese hackers breached networks of HPE and IBM, then used access to hack into their clients' computers in campaign called Cloudhopper — WASHINGTON/LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hackers working on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security breached the networks …
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UK's Gatwick airport was shut down on Wednesday and Thursday after drones were seen flying over the runway; about 760 flights were due to fly on Thursday — Tens of thousands of passengers have been disrupted by drones flying over one of the UK's busiest airports.
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| Arno Schuetze / Reuters: |
Amazon gives a German Alexa user, who requested his personal data under GDPR, access to 1,700 audio files of another user; Amazon says it was due to human error — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - A user of Amazon's (AMZN.O) Alexa voice assistant in Germany got access to more than a thousand recordings …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Slack is deactivating accounts it says are linked to Iran to comply with US sanctions without warning the users — ‘They are either incompetent at OFAC interpretation or racist’ — This morning, many Slack users with ties to Iran discovered their accounts had been abruptly deactivated.
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| Ime Archibong / Facebook: |
Facebook confirms Spotify, Netflix, Dropbox, and RBC had read/write/delete access for messaging integrations, says it was experimental and ended three years ago — In the past day, we've been accused of disclosing people's private messages to partners without their knowledge.
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| Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: |
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon says it is rolling out an Alexa integration with Wolfram Alpha to users in US — Alexa's getting a bit smarter, courtesy of Wolfram Alpha. Amazon today announced that its cross-platform assistant will integrate with Wolfram Research's computational knowledge engine to answer math- and science-related questions.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
FBI has seized the domains of 15 high-profile DDoS-for-hire websites, including downtime.org and deacon.pro, and charged 3 men in US with operating the sites — The FBI has seized the domains of 15 several high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) websites, after a co-ordinated effort … | Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Earnin, which develops a money management platform for workers, raises $125M Series C from DST Global, a16z, and others and says it has 1M+ downloads — Before Ram Palaniappan founded Earnin, he developed a system for employees at a payments company called UniRush, where he spent eight years as president.
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Corel, which makes products like CorelDraw and WordPerfect, says it is acquiring virtualization company Parallels for an undisclosed sum — Popular virtualization software company Parallels has been acquired by Corel. The creative software veteran who has produced Corel Draw and Painter Pro …
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Sources: blockchain incubator ConsenSys, which helps ~36 startups, will spin some of them off; source speculates layoffs will be between 600 and 700 — As many as 50 to 60 percent of the company's employees could be let go — Layoffs are coming to ConsenSys, the Ethereum-focused startup incubator … | Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Uber says it will bring its self-driving cars back on the road on Thursday in Pittsburgh, nine months after a fatal crash — Uber took its self-driving cars off the road last March, after a fatal accident, the first known pedestrian death caused by a vehicle in full autonomous mode.
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| Reuters: |
Twitter closes down 11%+ after investor group Citron Research calls it “the Harvey Weinstein of Social Media” following Amnesty International report — - Shares of social media company Twitter down 11.3 percent at $29.22; set for its biggest one-day percent fall in nearly five months
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify settles the $1.6B copyright lawsuit by music publisher Wixen, which represents artists like Tom Petty, Missy Elliot, Stevie Nicks, and Neil Young — Spotify has settled the $1.6 billion lawsuit filed by music publisher Wixen Music Publishing in December 2017.| Charlie Hall / Polygon: |
Microsoft says Xbox All Access, its subscription program to buy an Xbox, Xbox Game Pass, and Xbox Live, will end on Dec. 31, return in a revised format in 2019 — Microsoft promises program will be ‘expanding’ soon — This summer, Microsoft unveiled a novel new subscription program called Xbox All Access.| Virginia Hughes / BuzzFeed News: |
In a 99-page letter to the FTC, 22 child advocacy groups call for an investigation into Google's alleged misrepresentation of some kids apps as safe — Google is marketing apps to kids that share personal data with third parties, show manipulative ads, and are rife with creepy images … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Flexible car ownership marketplace Fair.com raises $385M Series B led by SoftBank and says it leases cars to over 20,000 users — California startup Fair.com is aiming to turn the car market on its head by providing price-friendly, easy options for people to lease vehicles instead of buying them …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French data science startup Dataiku raises $101M Series C led by Iconiq Capital — Dataiku wants to turn buzzwords into an actual service. The company has been focused on data tools for many years, before everybody started talking about big data, data science and machine learning.Sponsor Posts
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