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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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PCWorld, Tom's Hardware, Windows Central, Business Insider, Thurrott, The Verge, Engadget, Neowin, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com
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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 — The Ringer CEO Bill Simmons in 2015 | Photo by Mike Windle/Getty Images for Vanity Fair — It's the fourth podcast deal Spotify has done in a year.
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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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| Charlie Warzel / New York Times: |
Shadow's Iowa failure was a dangerous combination of techno-utopianism and laziness, which led to slapdash software engineering, procurement, and deployment — Democrats desperately need to win the internet to beat Trump. Their first big test was a massive failure. — Mr. Warzel is an opinion writer at large.
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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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| 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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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amid coronavirus fears, ZTE cancels its MWC 2020 press conference; LG Electronics says it is withdrawing from exhibiting and participating in the Barcelona expo — The second big company to cancel its MWC appearance — LG Electronics, the division of LG Corporation responsible for mobile phones …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Flaws in WhatsApp's macOS and Windows apps allowed remote access to files when a malicious link was clicked; the app, which uses Electron, has a patch available — Yet another Electron implementation of a “secure” app turns out not to be. — Facebook has issued a security advisory …
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| 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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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI says YouTube served a cease-and-desist letter over photo scraping, following Twitter's letter in January — 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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| 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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Disney says Disney+ will roll out to Western Europe in March and India on March 29 through Hotstar; Disney plans to launch Hulu internationally as soon as 2021 — Hulu will finally expand outside of the U.S., likely as soon as next year. This tidbit of news was confirmed by Disney Chairman … | Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: |
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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 over-lays 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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Chromium Blog, ZDNet, XDA Developers, Android Police, VentureBeat, Coalition for Better Ads, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @brianjjackson
| David Ingram / NBC News: |
A look at the wave of hundreds of tech companies helping enterprises comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act — Privacy-focused technology companies are offering a variety of services, from personal data scrubbing to business-focused software meant to help companies comply with the law.
Tweets: @privacyproject and @michellemanafy
| Chris Stobing / PCMag: |
Apple Pro Display XDR review: exceptional color accuracy, sturdy build, competitive price among reference-grade pro monitors, expensive Pro Stand but worth it — - Exceptional color accuracy. — DisplayHDR 1600 looks incredible. — High contrast ratio. — Sturdy build.| 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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| 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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Twitter says users “may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media” likely to cause harm; such tweets will be labeled or removed — It's our responsibility to create rules on Twitter that are fair and set clear expectations for everyone on our service.
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| 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.
Tweets: @chillmage and @caseynewton
| 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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Tweets: @jasonschreier, @alexhern, @juliofortworth, @benjisales, @alexhern, and @gracecellis
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
HackerRank's survey of 116K+ developers across 162 countries finds that Go and Python are the top programming languages that developers want to learn next — A huge developer survey reveals trends in developer education, job prospects, skills acquisition, and salaries.Sponsor Posts
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