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Facebook says it is working to fix outages across News Feed, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger that are causing issues loading images and more — Facebook has had problems loading images, videos, and other data across its apps today, leaving some people unable to load photos in the Facebook News Feed …
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Sources: HP and Dell plan to shift up to 30% of notebook production out of China; Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Nintendo also want to move some production — Production shift to create new rivals for world's consumer tech factory — TAIPEI/HONG KONG/CHONGQING— Global consumer electronics makers HP … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Broadcom is in advanced talks to acquire Symantec in a deal that could be reached in weeks; Symantec shares rise 13%+ — - CEO Tan has branched out into software already with CA deal — Chipmaker led wave of deals that reshaped the industry| Reuters: |
Contradicting Trump's surprise Huawei announcement, an internal memo says Commerce Department staff should still treat the company as blacklisted — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official told the Commerce Department's enforcement staff this week that China's Huawei should still … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
iOS 13 beta includes an ARKit-based FaceTime feature that makes it look as if users are looking into the camera even when looking at the image on the screen — Fake eye contact for improved intimacy — iOS 13's third developer beta includes a new feature that makes it look …
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Sources: Walmart is projecting losses of $1B+ for its US e-commerce division this year; e-commerce CEO Marc Lore is exhausted by internal politics — Walmart bought Jet.com to compete with Amazon, but Jet founder Marc Lore is feeling the heat as e-commerce losses surpass $1 billion.
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Netlab researchers discover the first-ever malware strain abusing the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol, named Godlua, designed to attack Linux servers — Godlua, a Linux DDoS bot, is the first-ever malware strain seen using DoH to hide its DNS traffic. — Security researchers from Netlab … | Alfred Ng / CNET: |
In a letter to Senator Chris Coons, Amazon says it keeps Alexa transcripts and voice recordings indefinitely, only removing them if manually deleted by users — If you have hangups about Amazon and privacy on its smart assistant, Alexa, you're not alone. Even after Amazon sent answers …
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PE firm KKR acquires Canadian software company Corel, which bought virtualization software company Parallels in Dec., in a deal sources say is worth $1B+ — Yesterday we broke the news that Corel — the company behind WordPerfect, Corel Draw, and a number of other apps …
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Amazon says it plans to hire 2,000 more workers in UK, including engineers, software developers, and data scientists, bringing its total headcount there to 30K — - New hires bring Amazon's U.K. workforce to almost 30,000 — Amazon.com Inc. is set to hire more than 2,000 workers in the U.K. … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
D-Link agrees to implement a new security program to settle a 2017 FTC complaint that alleged D-Link left thousands open to well-known attacks — Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats. — Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement …
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House subcommittee sends letter requesting Facebook halt Libra's development until Congress and regulators can investigate potential risks to the global economy — ‘These vulnerabilities could be exploited and obscured by bad actors’ — House Democrats are requesting Facebook halt development …
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| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
UK competition agency launches investigation into how Google and Facebook collect and use user data and if they've abused their power to dominate the ad market — Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data — The UK competition watchdog has launched … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
In its latest transparency report, Apple says it received 80 requests from 11 countries to pull 634 apps from its app stores from July 1 to December 31, 2018 — For the first time, Apple has published the number of requests it's received from governments to take down apps from its app store.
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