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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
LinkedIn says CEO Jeff Weiner is stepping down in June after 11 years in the role, becoming executive chairman, to be replaced by SVP of Product Ryan Roslansky — After 11 steady years as the CEO of the professional networking company, Weiner is yielding the reins to deputy Ryan Roslansky.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft reorganizes its Windows software and hardware teams into one group, called Devices + Windows and led by Panos Panay, amid other reshuffling — It's reorg day in Microsoft's Experiences and Devices unit. Here's what's happening, including what's happening with Windows client and Surface.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple adds universal purchases for iOS and macOS apps to the Xcode 11.4 beta, letting developers bundle apps — The new Xcode 11.4 beta update, released today alongside the iOS 13.4, tvOS 13.4 and macOS Catalina 10.15.4 betas, includes support for universal purchases … | Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases the first iOS 13.4 beta, which includes a “CarKey” API, making it possible to unlock, lock, and start a car with an iPhone or Watch — Apple today released the first beta version of iOS 13.4 for developers, and now 9to5Mac has found evidences to a new feature …
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Spotify will buy The Ringer, the podcast-centric media company run and owned by Bill Simmons, and plans to hire Simmons and his approximately 90 employees — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year. — Spotify is making yet another big-budget purchase aimed at getting …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Spotify reports Q4 revenue of $2B, up 24% YoY; 271M total MAUs, up 31% YoY, as paying users rise 29% YoY to 124M; 16% of its MAUs engage with podcast content — Streaming music now accounts for more than 80% of all music consumption in key markets like the US, and one of the big leaders in the field is reaping some of the rewards.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Chrome's ad blocker will expand to target disruptive video ads in August, including long pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads, and overlays ads on video — Last year, Google made Chrome's standards-backed ad blocker fully available around the world. The Better Ads Standards today announced a …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Facebook says older versions of the WhatsApp desktop app, which uses Electron, let hackers access files on macOS and Windows via a malicious link in messages — Yet another Electron implementation of a “secure” app turns out not to be. — Facebook has issued a security advisory for a flaw …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it resolved an issue that caused Windows 10 Search, which is powered by Bing, to return blank results for several hours — Microsoft's Bing search was misbehaving in Windows 10 — Microsoft's built-in Windows search went down for many users for more than three hours today.
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Tweets: @backlon, @chrisbhoffman, @tomwarren, @tim_stevens, @reckless, and @maryjofoley
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
YouTube sends cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI over photo scraping after a similar move by Twitter; Facebook says it is reviewing Clearview AI practices — Google and YouTube have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Clearview AI, the facial recognition company that has been scraping billions …
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Researchers discover a now patched vulnerability in Philips Hue smart light bulbs that could have let hackers infiltrate users' home or corporate networks — Might want to check if you've got firmware 1935144040 — Four years ago, security researchers showed how a flying drone could hack …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Lightning Labs, which wants to speed up bitcoin transactions, raises $10M Series A led by Craft Ventures and rolls out its first enterprise product — Elizabeth Stark stands out in the digital currency world. The 30-something entrepreneur is at ease among crypto's tribal subcultures …
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Lightning Labs⚡️, CoinDesk, Decrypt, blog.lightning.engineering, Messari Crypto, PYMNTS.com, The Market Refresh, The Block, The Daily Hodl, Cryptocurrency News, and Cointelegraph. Tweets: @starkness. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Tom Foremski / ZDNet: |
Although Google disclosed many financial metrics for the first time in Q4, it removed cost-per-click, which has steadily declined, and the number of paid clicks — Google makes less money per click every quarter. Now, we won't know how much less. Is there trouble ahead in online advertising?| Corey Kilgannon / New York Times: |
The NYPD is replacing officers' handwritten patrol memo books, a fixture since the 1800s, with an iPhone app starting February 17 — Officers' most-used item since the 1800s isn't the gun or handcuffs, but the handwritten activity log. Now an iPhone app is replacing it.| Janko Roettgers / protocol: |
Profile of Tom Conrad, a former Pandora and Snap executive who is now chief product officer at Quibi, as the streaming service gears up for launch — Tom Conrad is in charge of making a video service that gets people hooked. — Talk to Silicon Valley or Hollywood insiders about Quibi …
Tweets: @kerrymflynn and @joshconstine
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Armis researchers find five serious vulnerabilities in Cisco's Discovery Protocol, affecting millions of enterprise products, including routers and desk phones — Five vulnerabilities in Cisco Discovery Protocol make it possible for a hacker to take over desk phones, routers, and more.
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Armis, Threatpost, SDxCentral, SecurityWeek, Help Net Security, CyberScoop, and ZDNet
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad agencies, and ad tech rivals of Google as its online ad tools become a focus of antitrust probe — Antitrust enforcers have reached out to more than a dozen publishers, ad tech rivals and ad agencies
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CNET, Search Engine Land, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, and @keachhagey
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher details a backdoor in Huawei-owned HiSilicon chips used in millions of smart devices, including security cameras, that has been active since 2013 — Researcher said he did not notify HiSilicon due to a lack of trust in the hardware vendor to adequately fix the issue.
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Habr, Tom's Hardware, ExtremeTech, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @threatresearch, @simoncrosby, @kwiens, @axcheron, @cybergibbons, and @counternotions
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Apple seems to have fixed a macOS Catalina bug, first reported in July, that caused snippets of encrypted emails sent via the Mail app to be stored unencrypted — The fix is apparently in macOS Catalina 10.15.3 — Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.3 last week, and the update apparently patched …
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| Norman Mayersohn / New York Times: |
A look at how cities like Los Angeles are using anonymous data gathered from electric scooters to inform policy and city planning — Analyzing digital streams of information from electric scooters and motor-assisted bicycles is helping solve travel congestion issues.
Tweets: @davidzipper, @zagster, and @nytimesbusiness
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber gets a permit to test autonomous vehicles on California's public roads, nearly two years after a fatal crash in Arizona, but says it has no plans to do so — Uber Advanced Technologies Group has been issued a permit that would allow the company to put its autonomous vehicles …
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VentureBeat, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, Reuters, Input, VentureBeat, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @kfury
| Naomi Nix / Bloomberg: |
Documents show the CIA plans to hire multiple companies for lucrative cloud computing contracts offering an opportunity for Amazon's rivals — - Government posts draft requirements for new cloud contracts — Program builds on $600 million deal awarded to Amazon in 2013| The Guardian: |
Dutch court rules that a surveillance system used to detect welfare fraud violates human rights; called SyRI, it used a secret algorithm to run risk modeling — Government told to halt use of AI to detect fraud in decision hailed by privacy campaigners — A Dutch court has ordered … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
After layoffs at 23andMe, Ancestry says it is laying off 6%, citing slowdown across entire DNA testing category, now that most of early adopters have enrolled — - Ancestry, following 23andMe, made the decision to lay off some employees. It confirmed to CNBC that the cuts affected 6% of its workforce.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Rockstar Games says co-founder Dan Houser is leaving in March, after taking a break since spring 2019; Houser co-founded Rockstar in 1998 with his brother Sam — He touched every franchise it worked on — Dan Houser, co-founder of Grand Theft Auto developer Rockstar Games, will leave the company in March.
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TrueAchievements, Ars Technica, The Guardian, and TechSpot
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