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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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| 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 …
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Report: the FBI is investigating a ransomware attack that took The Weather Channel off the air for 90 minutes amid severe weather in the southeastern US — Down for more than an hour — The Weather Channel was hit by a ransomware attack on Thursday, briefly taking a live TV program off the air …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google says it will block any user login attempts from embedded browser frameworks to better prevent man-in-the-middle attacks starting in June — Google previously banned logins initiated from browsers where JavaScript had been disabled. — Google announced today a security update … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins pleads guilty to entering a conspiracy to distribute the Kronos malware, aiding and abetting its distribution — WannaCry hero faces up to ten years in a US prison. — Marcus “MalwareTech” Hutchins, the British security researcher known for stopping …
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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 … | Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News: |
CDN provider Fastly files for an IPO, says it had $144M in revenue, up 38% YoY, and a net loss of $31M in 2018; Fastly raised a total of $219M in VC funding — Morning Markets: A dorky edition of this column focused on the Fastly S-1 filing. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily| 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 …
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| David Yanofsky / Quartz: |
Scribd reinstates 32 copies of Mueller's report, which is in the public domain, says they were removed after algorithms identified them as copyrighted work — A convenient feature of nearly all documents created by the US government is that they have no copyright.| Reuters: |
Tencent wins approval from its regional regulator to sell Nintendo Switch in China, the first key step for the console to enter the world's largest games market — BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - China's Tencent has won a key approval to start selling the Nintendo Switch in the country …
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| Reed Albergotti / Washington Post: |
In an Apple memo shown in Apple v. Qualcomm, Apple execs described Qualcomm tech as “the best”, raising questions about Apple's belief in its legal arguments — Sealed documents, obtained as part of a trial between the two tech giants, offer a rare window into the decision-making process … | Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
A look at a heated discussion about diversity, reminiscent of Google's Damore incident, on an internal Microsoft board for communications with CEO Satya Nadella — Some Microsoft employees are openly questioning whether diversity is important, in a lengthy discussion on an internal online …
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| Karl Bode / Motherboard: |
Report finds that 26 states now either restrict or outright prohibit towns and cities from building their own broadband networks, up from 20 in 2018 — Many of the laws restricting local voters' rights were directly written by a telecom sector terrified of real broadband competition.| BuzzFeed News: |
Eyal Gutentag, CMO of ZipRecruiter, has resigned after a report detailed an alleged sexual battery incident involving Gutentag when he worked for Uber in 2015 — Eyal Gutentag, the chief marketing officer of the employment job site ZipRecruiter, has left the company following …
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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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| Holly Beilin / Hypepotamus: |
Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup STORD raises $12.3M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, says it has more than five Fortune 500 clients — Details have emerged about supply chain software startup STORD's latest funding round, a $12.3 million Series A. The round was led … | Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
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