Techmeme: Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser (Tom Warren/The Verge)

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Klint Finley / Wired:

Wikipedia partners with The Internet Archive to turn book citations into links to two-page previews, using Archive's scanned-in books as sources for ~130K links — The operator of the Wayback Machine allows Wikipedia's users to check citations from books as well as the web.

More: The Verge and Mashable

Tweets: @ryanmerkley, @internetarchive, @sfmnemonic, @textfiles, and @krmaher

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Researchers spot the first successful attack using Windows BlueKeep vulnerability; the exploit is not a worm and installs cryptominers, instead of ransomware — After months of warnings, the first successful attack using Microsoft's BlueKeep vulnerability has arrived—but isn't nearly as bad as it could have been.

More: DoublePulsar, Threatpost, ZDNet, Blogs on Kryptos Logic, Engadget, Forbes, Graham Cluley, SecurityWeek, Computer Business Review, MSPoweruser, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Yahoo Finance, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, Slashdot, and AskWoody

Tweets: @alyssam_infosec and @gossithedog

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft unveils a new logo for Edge Chromium, ahead of the release of the final version of the browser — The new icon is a wave surfing the web — Microsoft is refreshing the logo for its Chromium-based Edge browser. The software giant originally unveiled its Edge icon more than four years ago …

More: ZDNet, Windows Central, Firstpost Tech, Thurrott, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, AskWoody, Memeburn, Engadget, MSPoweruser, Pureinfotech, CNET, OnMSFT.com, and Mashable

Tweets: @tomwarren, @tomwarren, @harrymccracken, @dcominottim, @reapercapital, and @numbersmuncher

Wall Street Journal:

Evan Spiegel on Facebook, Snap's turnaround, and how the controversial redesign, after some tweaking, increased the time users spent on premium content — As the company turns a corner, the CEO says Snapchat's controversial redesign is paying off — Last year, Snap Inc. Chief Executive …

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @unhedgedchatter, @wsj, @georgia_wells, @theryanford, @wsj, and @carnage4life

Apple:

Apple announces a $2.5B plan to combat the housing availability and affordability crisis in California — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced a comprehensive $2.5 billion plan to help address the housing availability and affordability crisis in California.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @jjvincent

david.dev:

Apple is now rejecting Mac apps using modern versions of Electron, citing private API usage, warns developers repeated App Store submissions can lead to a ban — Allright, as a follow up to the previous chapter in this odyssey I can now state that, apparently, you cannot submit an electron 6 or 7 app to the apple store:

More: 9to5Mac. Tweets: @sandofsky, @mxswd, @tonyarnold, @nickdinges, and @mcclure111

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Unprotected database for popular “camgirl” sites run by Spain-based VTS Media exposed months worth of user activity logs and chats, details about sex workers — A number of popular “camgirl” sites have exposed millions of sex workers and users after the company running the sites left the back-end database unprotected.

More: TweakTown News and Engadget

Tweets: @shadow0pz and @adam_k_levin

South China Morning Post:

A look at China-backed News Break, which was the top downloaded Android and #2 iOS news app in the US from Jan. through Sept., topping ByteDance's TopBuzz — Both news aggregation apps provide a more personalised news-reading experience, but ‘David’ is beating ‘Goliath’ in this case News Break …

Tweets: @scmpnews

Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal:

Profile of Jim Simons, a mathematician and founder of hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies who pioneered computer-based approaches to quantitative trading — Jim Simons was a middle-aged mathematician in a strip mall who knew little about finance. He had to overcome his own doubts to turn Wall Street on its head.

More: Bloomberg. Tweets: @marginalideas, @hkanji, @gzuckerman, @farrisbaba, @michaeltefula, and @whenrmmtrades

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

Android bug impacting all Android 8 or later devices lets hackers plant malware via NFC beaming and circumvent the installation security prompt; patch available — All Android 8 (Oreo) or later devices are impacted. Google released a patch last month, in October 2019.

More: Firstpost Tech, International Business Times, and Security Affairs

Natasha Frost / Quartz:

How Oulu, Finland, 5+ years after Nokia's collapse in smartphones, has become an entrepreneurial tech hub and home to 1,175 new companies in 2017 alone — In the early days of the mobile phone, Nokia was everywhere—ubiquitous, inescapable, supreme. It created the best-selling 1100 …

Tweets: @infoecon and @marcgayle

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Interview with Micron Technology VP Steve Pawlowski about the recent acquisition of AI startup FWDNXT and why the memory chip maker is moving into AI processing — I did a double-take last week when Micron Technology, one of the world's largest memory chip makers, acquired artificial intelligence hardware and software startup Fwdnxt.

Tweets: @farshchi

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