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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
In leaked audio from open meetings in July, Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's challenges and potential breakup, politics, competitors, content moderators — In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Appeals court upholds FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality, but also rules the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — But the 200-page ruling says the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb is planning a direct stock listing for its planned 2020 IPO, following Spotify and Slack — - Spotify and Slack have opted for similar path to public market — Hot IPOs of this year, like Uber, Lyft have had a chilly debut — Airbnb Inc.'s long-awaited Wall Street debut …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Sony drops the price of PlayStation Now by 50% to $10 per month or $25 per quarter in the US, with similar cuts in Japan, EU, and UK — Facing new competition for consumers' entertainment spending, Sony is slashing the price of the PlayStation Now game-subscription service …
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| Associated Press: |
Former Yahoo engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of about 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos.
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| The Verge: |
A look at iPhone 11's Deep Fusion camera tech, meant to offer a big step forward for images taken in medium-light, now in the iOS 13 developer beta — Sweater mode is on its way — Apple's Deep Fusion photography system has arrived in the latest developer betas of iOS 13 …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Sources: Tesla is buying computer vision startup DeepScale, which has raised ~$18M to date, as it works toward creating truly driverless cars — - DeepScale could help fill the gap left by the departure of several Autopilot engineers who reportedly left over the summer.
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| Brent Rose / The Verge: |
GoPro Hero8 Black review: doesn't require special housing for mounts, has even better image stabilization, but the camera gets hot while recording — Let's start with the body. Since the Hero 5, GoPro cameras have been waterproof up to 33 feet without the need of an additional housing …
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| Todd Haselton / CNBC: |
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| Alex Davies / Wired: |
UPS says its drone service is the first of its kind to be recognized by the FAA as a commercial airline, but each new site it operates in must be approved — The FAA has granted a Part 135 certification for the logistics giant's drone business, propelling the little fliers closer to a commercial future.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Skydio debuts the $999 Skydio 2 autonomous drone, an update to the original that is 50% smaller and lighter with 43% more flight time, coming next month — The drone a three-year-old could fly — Last year, I got to play with one of the most amazing gadgets I've ever touched …
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Engadget, The Next Web, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Mashable, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat, Digital Photography Review, and Android Police. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers discover issues with the PDF standard, allowing exfiltration from encrypted PDF files, and show 27 desktop and web viewer apps are vulnerable — All the 27 desktop and web PDF viewer apps that were tested were found to be vulnerable in a way or another.
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PDF Insecurity Website, The Hacker News, and On Web-Security and
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Confiant: a bug in Webkit has allowed 1B+ malicious ads to exploit code that's redirected users to hostile websites, affecting primarily iOS and macOS users — Flaw rendered ad-sandboxing protections “entirely useless,” researchers say. — Attackers have bombarded the Internet …
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| David Pan / CoinDesk: |
Skale Labs, parent to Skale Network, which develops a scalable and elastic blockchain network, raises $17.1M from Arrington XRP Capital and others — SKALE Network, a blockchain scalability platform, has raised $17.1 million to launch its mainnet. The firm says it could be ethereum's … | Simon Cohen / Digital Trends: |
TiVo unveils its TiVo+ live streaming service, with channels like TMZ and Food52, coming alongside new DVR hardware, in a bid to rival the Roku Channel — Surprise — TiVo is not dead. Well, not yet anyway. Confirming an earlier leak, the company has just announced two new models of its famous DVR.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pandora unveils a revamped mobile app with a new For You tab that recommends music, podcasts, and more — Pandora is doubling down on personalization and revamping its app in order to better compete with rivals like Spotify and Apple Music. Today, the company is introducing a new mobile experience …
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XDA Developers, Variety, Engadget, The Verge, Android Central, iMore, Droid Life, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @wongmjane
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Twitter says all iOS users will be able to search their direct messages by names and groups, but not content, starting today — Sorry, Android fans — Twitter has announced that it's launching direct message search for all users on iOS starting today, October 1st.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
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TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, iMore, Social Media Today, and WebProNews. Tweets: @twittersupport
| Marko Tupper: |
A software engineer's account of his year and a half at Snap, from dealing with a micromanaging director to the move from the Venice to the Santa Monica offices — I spent the last year and a half working as a software engineer for Snap, Inc.. The experience was...unique, if nothing else.
Tweets: @richardmatthias, @holman, @tompjacobs, and @tomwhitwell
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
What to expect from Microsoft's event on October 2: Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, an ARM-based Surface, and at least a teaser of a dual-screen device — Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, and some mysterious new hardware — Microsoft is holding a big Surface hardware event in New York City on Wednesday, October 2nd.
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Tom's Hardware, PCWorld, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, MSPoweruser, ExtremeTech, XDA Developers, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo, The Next Web, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, and MSPoweruser
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