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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Waymo raises $2.25B from Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, parent-company Alphabet, and others to scale up its autonomous vehicles operations — Waymo, the autonomous vehicles division of Google parent company Alphabet, just got a massive capital infusion from a coterie of investors.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Pixel phones with new Motion Sense gesture controls, emoji, AR effects, car crash detection for its Personal Safety app, photo and video features — One of the benefits of owning a Pixel smartphone is that it improves over time as Pixels are first to receive updates that deliver the latest fixes and improvements.
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The Keyword, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, PCWorld, TechRadar.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Thurrott, KnowTechie, and Yahoo Finance. Tweets: @madebygoogle
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Report: senior management at Apple rebuffed some operations execs' suggestion to relocate part of its manufacturing from China to Vietnam as early as 2015 — Production on Apple's devices has been stymied in recent weeks due to delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China.
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Wall Street Journal. More:
9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, 9to5Mac, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @jchengwsj, @mdudas, @carlquintanilla, and @wsmco
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Apple agrees to pay up to $500M to settle a US class-action lawsuit accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models …
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Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts and @obarcala
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Behind Facebook's rewrite of Messenger, going live today, that has shrunk the iOS app's size from 130MB to 30MB and its codebase from 1.7M to 360K lines of code — To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now.
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Facebook Engineering, Messenger News, The Verge, Daring Fireball, Daily Mail, The Independent, 9to5Mac, CNET, Thurrott, The Next Web, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, Neowin, VentureBeat, Engadget, BetaNews, iDownloadBlog.com, SlashGear, MacRumors, and iPhone in Canada Blog
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple and its suppliers are among the 83 big companies benefitting from China's abusive labor transfer programs for Uyghur Muslims and other minorities — A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank has named Apple among 83 other major companies benefiting …
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| Bloomberg: |
Robinhood says it has been experiencing a “system-wide outage” today that it is affecting “all functionalities” on the platform — - Issue has been identified and fix is under way, company says — Some customers of online broker couldn't access their accounts
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Tweets: @yoda, @bw, @markets, @bloombergasia, @shaig, @finplan, and @danberger
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T TV launches across the US after rolling out in over a dozen markets last year, with prices that start at $49.99/month but go up dramatically after a year — AT&T's next big TV play has a problem: pricing — AT&T TV is launching nationwide today after initially rolling out to over a dozen markets last year.
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Tweets: @matthewkeyslive, @patiencehaggin, @matthewkeyslive, @georgeslefo, @wsj, and @backlon
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US sanctions two Chinese nationals for allegedly laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea's Lazarus Group, which has hacked two crypto exchanges since 2018 — Two Chinese men laundered funds from two hacked cryptocurrency exchanges. — The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions today …
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Tweets: @kevincollier, @mayazi, @nathanielpopper, and @errorinn
| Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
Internal Huawei documents from 2010 show that the company shipped prohibited US computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator despite sanctions — LONDON (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies, which for years has denied violating American trade sanctions on Iran …
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Android Headlines, Wccftech, Input, Android Authority, and Engadget
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
ACLU sues ICE for its algorithm used to recommend if people arrested for immigration violations should be let go, argues it's rigged to detain nearly everyone — In 2013, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly began using a software tool to recommend whether people arrested …
Tweets: @chadloder and @jvagle
| About Facebook: |
Facebook to begin publishing a monthly report on coordinated inauthentic behavior, says it took down 467 Facebook accounts and 1,245 Instagram accounts in Feb. — We're constantly working to find and stop coordinated campaigns that seek to manipulate public debate across our apps.
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DFRLab and CyberScoop
Tweets: @benimmo, @benimmo, @benimmo, @moorehn, @benimmo, @slpng_giants, @benimmo, @benimmo, @emilybell, and @benimmo
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
BMC to acquire its longtime mainframe software competitor Compuware from Thoma Bravo for an undisclosed sum; Thoma Bravo bought Compuware in 2014 for $2.4B — Together they plan to focus on mainframe operations, cybersecurity, application development, data, and storage.| CNBC: |
Apple shares jumped 9.3% today, closing at $298.81, with the Dow up 5.1% and Nasdaq up 4.5%, as the market rebounded from last week's coronavirus-fueled selloff — Tim Anderson: I don't see how cutting rates is going to solve problem — Stocks rose sharply in volatile trading on Monday … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies — Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information …
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Input, Beyond Search, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @doublejake, @reckless, @caseynewton, @verge, @verge, @robaeprice, @verge, @privacymatters, @waltmossberg, @verge, @praeclarum, @tomcrath, @mattnavarra, @bowelsurgeon, @emilybell, @tomkarlo, @backlon, @andyjayhawk, and @mattnavarra
| Financial Times: |
Analysis: one-third of donations from employees at big tech firms went to Sens. Warren and Sanders, despite a lack of enthusiasm from tech executives — Progressive Democratic candidates receive most cash from tech workers ahead of Super Tuesday — Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders …
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New York Times. Tweets: @kateconger, @opensecretsdc, @nytpolitics, @teddyschleifer, @dmedin11, @alexsjacquez, @went1955, @toddntucker, @bcmerchant, @arezourezvani, @davidsess, and @owillis
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A look at WireGuard, a lightweight and simple open source VPN tool and protocol that will soon be part of the Linux kernel — The virtual private network software from security researcher Jason Donenfeld wins fans with its simplicity and ease of auditing. — VPNs, or virtual private networks …
Tweets: @wired and @martijn_grooten
| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
Study: YouTube has reduced recommendations of some conspiracy theories like flat earth and QAnon but has let others flourish for topics like climate change — A new study examines YouTube's efforts to limit the spread of conspiracy theories on its site, from videos claiming the end times are near to those questioning climate change.
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Reclaim The Net. Tweets: @kevinroose, @oliverdarcy, @broderick, @nytimesbusiness, @slpng_giants, @jacknicas, @hshaban, @drdannielle, @jacknicas, and @hshaban
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Cloud gaming services are raising questions of licensing and platform control, as Nvidia's GeForce Now service encounters some publisher and developer pushback — The cloud gaming service is controversial among developers. Here's why — Nvidia's GeForce Now took yet another hit …
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Digital Trends, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, LaptopMag, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @nickstatt and @raphlife
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
US private equity group Thoma Bravo has closed the acquisition of UK-based cybersecurity company Sophos for $3.9B; the deal was first announced in Oct. 2019 — Thoma Bravo announced today that it had closed its hefty $3.9 billion acquisition of security firm, Sophos, marking yet another private equity deal in the books.
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IT Brief Australia, CRN, Sophos News, Channel Futures, and infosecurity-magazine.com
| Brian Deagon / Investor's Business Daily: |
JD.com beats estimates with Q4 net revenue of $24.5B, up 26.6% YoY, says it expects Q1 revenue to increase “at least 10%” YoY to ~$19.09B amid COVID-19 concerns — Shares of China e-commerce giant JD.com (JD) shot up Monday after the company reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter results.
| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Airbnb's long-planned IPO, previously scheduled for March or April, has been derailed by the coronavirus fallout and could be pushed back to 2021 — - Startup was targeting first half to kick off the process — Shares of rivals dive as travel bookings canceled globally| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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Tweets: @balajis, @danprimack, @mckaycoppins, @jasonthinks, and @thekenyeung
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