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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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| 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.| 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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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon will stop ordering from thousands of small suppliers in the next few months, focusing on wholesale purchases from major brands like P&G and Lego — - 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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: @zackwhittaker, @blakandblack, @nick__nobody, @recordio_, and @mehreenfaruqi
| 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 … | 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: @pinboard, @allafarce, @codinghorror, @patio11, @allafarce, @howelloneill, @thegrugq, and @codinghorror
| 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 … | 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
| Matthew Wall / BBC: |
Since GDPR, Ireland's Data Protection Commission says it has launched 19 cross-border investigations, 11 of which focus on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram — Social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp have been the subject of most data investigations in the Republic …
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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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The Verge, Gizmodo, Business Insider, VICE, TechSpot, Forbes, artnet News, Digital Trends, NDTV Gadgets 360, Critical Hit, digit.in, HYPEBEAST, BGR, BBC, HackRead, Mashable, Neowin, The Mac Observer, and One Degree. Tweets: @zeevs
| 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.| 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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TechCrunch, The Verge, and Axios
| Jessica Davies / Digiday: |
Four German publishing groups, Axel Springer, Funke Mediengruppe, RTL, and Gruner+Jahr, will sell their combined ad inventory in an effort to combat Big Tech — Four big German publishing groups are collaborating in order to fight the market power of tech platforms.Sponsor Posts
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