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| Bla1ze / CrackBerry.com: |
Emtek announces it will shut down BBM for consumers on May 31, but BlackBerry's enterprise-grade service, BBM Enterprise, will become available to individuals — Consumer BBM users encouraged to switch to BBM Enterprise — Back in 2016, BlackBerry announced a new partnership …
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook updates a March blog post to say it stored passwords of millions of Instagram users in plain text, not tens of thousands as first announced — This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared. — On the same morning Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report …
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| Heather Kelly / CNN: |
Facebook's subtle disclosure about storing millions of Instagram passwords in plain text before a holiday weekend shows it has mastered the art of the news dump — San Francisco (CNN Business)On the Thursday before a major holiday weekend, and an hour before the much-anticipated Mueller report … | Rob Price / Business Insider: |
| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: macOS 10.15 to get Siri Shortcuts support for Marzipan apps, Screen Time, and a new Apple ID management panel — Apple is working on bringing the Mac and iOS closer together with the introduction of macOS 10.15 and iOS 13. Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, and more are expected …
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| Tom Huddleston Jr / CNBC: |
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan, an immigrant from China who was denied a US visa eight times, is now a billionaire after his company debuted on Nasdaq — When Eric Yuan was in his early 20s, he heard a speech from then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates about the promise of the internet …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Samsung Galaxy Fold review: awkward as a phone and has many issues, in addition to screen breaking, like “jelly scroll” where one side scrolls faster than other — The future is still very fragile — This is going to be a weird review. — It'll be weird because … | Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Amazon Music launches an ad-supported tier for Alexa-enabled devices in the US, allowing users to listen to Amazon Music's top playlists and stations for free — Amazon Music today basically soft-launched its free streaming tier, in which U.S. customers of its Alexa voice assistant …
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: FTC probe into Facebook's privacy practices is also looking at past statements by Zuckerberg and weighing whether to seek oversight of his leadership — Federal regulators investigating Facebook for mishandling its users' personal information have set their sights on the company's chief executive … | Bryn Elise Sandberg / Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix is opening an NYC production hub, will lease about 161,000 square feet for six sound stages in Brooklyn and also will expand its Manhattan office — The streamer also will expand its Manhattan office and create 127 high-paying jobs by 2024. — Amazon's loss is Netflix's gain.
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| Casey Johnston / The Outline: |
Apple's butterfly keyboard has failed and the company owes customers an apology, but it still claims that only a small percentage of users experience trouble — Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to substantially admit that it has made a very big mistake.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla's open source IoT platform for monitoring and controlling connected devices graduates from its experimental phase, launching as Mozilla WebThings — For the better part of two years, the folks at Mozilla have been chipping diligently away at Project Things, an open implementation …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: 3.2M+ Indian card records posted for sale online in 2018; India expected to surpass the UK in 2019, taking second place for stolen cards, behind the US — Prices for stolen Indian payment cards has also gone up by 150% in 2018 to around $17/card. — Due to a booming cybercrime scene … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Head of Memento Labs, the new company that acquired spyware vendor Hacking Team, says they're “starting from scratch”, but will keep their existing customers — The head of Memento Labs, the new company that acquired infamous spyware vendor Hacking Team, admitted there's a lot … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Several journalists have reported their Samsung Galaxy Fold review unit's screen breaking after a day or two of use — Yikes — Look closely at the picture above, and you can see a small bulge right on the crease of my Galaxy Fold review unit. It's just enough to slightly distort the screen, and I can feel it under my finger.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Pinterest closes up 28% on its first day of trading after raising $1.43B in its IPO and is now valued at nearly $13B, above the $12B valuation at its last raise — - Pinterest begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “PINS,” debuting at $23.75, up 25% from its IPO price.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Uproar among some fans of Steam over Epic Store's exclusive game deals is the latest battle in a long war over DRM and copy protection in PC gaming — Earlier this month, PC gaming fans learned that the long-awaited Borderlands 3 would initially launch exclusively on the Epic Store … Sponsor Posts
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