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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
Study: many iOS apps, including the Washington Post's, use “background app refresh” to send tracking info like location and IP address, even late at night — Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week.
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| Apple: |
Apple launches new iPod touch with A10 Fusion chip, support for Group FaceTime, and a 256GB storage option, available to order now starting at $199 — Featuring Support for Group FaceTime and AR Experiences — Cupertino, California — Apple today introduced the new iPod touch with enhancements to power …
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| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Leaked screenshots reveal iOS 13's Dark Mode, new “Find My” app icon, and a redesigned Reminders app that helps you quickly sort by Scheduled, Flagged, more — Not a mockup, some information redacted to protect our sources — We're less than a week away from WWDC …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Leaked doc: Google has ~121K temporary and contract workers globally, compared with ~102K full-time staff, raising concerns about its growing reliance on them — SAN FRANCISCO — Mindy Cruz had an offer for a full-time position at another big tech company when she accepted a temporary job as a recruiter at Google in 2017.
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| Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: |
Chat app Kik launches a crowdfunding campaign to support a likely court fight with SEC over its 2017 ICO, says it's spent $5M so far and pledges $5M more in BTC — Canada-based messaging app firm Kik has launched a crypto crowdfunding campaign to support a likely court battle with the U.S. Securities …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
MacKenzie Bezos to give over half her $37B fortune to charity, joining the Giving Pledge with Brian Armstrong, Ben Delo, others; Jeff Bezos has not signed — MacKenzie Bezos, the world's third-richest woman following her divorce from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has signed the Giving Pledge …
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| Martin Bryant / The Next Web: |
The tech community doesn't get as excited about tech as we used to, as enthusiasm about startups and embracing new things has been replaced by cynicism — WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT GOOGLE WAVE WOULD BECOME THE GOOD OL' DAYS? — Today marks 10 years since Google stoked great excitement …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Kik and Facebook, which are building their own blockchain tech, could finally make micropayments to access single articles behind paywalls a reality — It's a problem that's long flummoxed media outlets, and also one that's increasingly frustrating consumers: The inability to pay a small sum … | Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Researcher finds about a million older Windows devices currently vulnerable to the wormable Remote Desktop flaw BlueKeep, amid spike in port scanning activity — Nearly one million devices are vulnerable to attacks involving the Windows vulnerability dubbed BlueKeep and it appears that hackers …
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
The rise of Chrome and its open source Chromium sibling, often used in new browser projects, raises concerns about Google's effective power over the web — - Once underdog, browser now labeled ‘spyware,’ ‘monopolist’ — Company accused of stalling approvals for rival browsers
Tweets: @samharrelson, @gerritd, @gerritd, @hannah_recht, and @gerritd
| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with Valve's $999 Index VR headset a month before debut: excellent screen and tracking help reduce “VR swimminess”, but questions about software remain — For better and for worse (mostly better), there's never been a VR system like this.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
After a long tug of war, W3C says it will not publish future HTML and DOM standards, instead letting the WHATWG, a group of browser vendors, do so — W3C hands over development of HTML and DOM standards to browser vendors (WHATWG). — An industry group made up the four major browser vendors … | Geoff Colvin / Fortune: |
A look at AT&T's grand vision of transforming into a “modern media company” spanning multiple content networks, distribution channels, and customer data streams — Bellhead CEO Randall Stephenson is taking on Netflix and Comcast simultaneously. It won't be easy.| Maciej Cegłowski / Idle Words: |
A behind-the-scenes account on what it was like to provide basic cybersecurity training to 41 Democratic Congressional campaigns from late 2017 to 2018 — You know how it happens. You try to secure one Congressional campaign, and then another, and pretty soon you can't stop.
Tweets: @allafarce, @codinghorror, @patio11, @allafarce, @thegrugq, @howelloneill, @codinghorror, and @pinboard
| Paul Karp / The Guardian: |
FOIA doc: Australian police can use new encryption legislation to compel social media giants, telcos, retailers, and Wi-Fi providers to provide info on users — Exclusive: Documents reveal rushed encryption legislation allows police to compel wifi providers to turn over information about users
Tweets: @sectorca, @zackwhittaker, @blakandblack, @nick__nobody, @recordio_, and @mehreenfaruqi
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon to stop ordering from thousands of small suppliers in the next few months, focusing on wholesale purchases from big brands; Amazon denies report — - Thousands of mom-and-pops will lose bulk orders from company — Big brands like P&G and Lego will be immune from the changes
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| Lauren Thomas / CNBC: |
Walmart hires former Google, Microsoft, and Amazon executive Suresh Kumar as CTO and chief development officer — KEY POINTS — Walmart has hired former Google, Microsoft and Amazon exec Suresh Kumar into a newly elevated chief technology officer and chief development officer role.| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Dell updates the XPS 13 2-in-1 with a new design, Intel's 10th Gen processors, webcam above the screen, new keyboard and larger touchpad, starting at $1,000 — I don't throw the word “perfect” around a lot, but that was honestly the best way to describe the latest XPS 13.
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| Luna Lin / KrASIA: |
China-based Crazy Dog, an online provider of pet supplies, raises $43.4M Series B led by Guangdian Capital and Fosun Group, and reports 2018 revenue of $86M+ — Online pet supplies shop brand Crazy Dog announced today that it has recently raised RMB 300 million (USD 43.4 million) …
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China Money Network and Crunchbase News
| Philip Nabben / Lexology: |
In the year since GDPR took effect, a look at the first wave of decisions and fines issued by data protection authorities in EU countries — European Union, France, Germany — On Saturday 25 May 2019, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which aims to protect personal data including …
| Matthew Wall / BBC: |
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PYMNTS.com, BleepingComputer, The Mac Observer, Fortune, Data Protection Commission, and Telecompaper. Tweets: @matthew_wall
| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
A Deep Instinct-commissioned art piece of a laptop containing six pieces of malware that have caused an estimated $95B in damages sells for $1.3M+ at auction — Today, bidding on a laptop packed with some of the world's most dangerous malware closed at $1.345 million.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Meta View acquires the assets of AR pioneer Meta, says it will continue to provide support for owners of Meta 2 devices but will not offer it for sale — New spatial computing company Meta View today announced it has acquired the assets of Meta, a pioneer in augmented reality head-mounted displays.
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