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Researchers say they found two actively exploited iOS 0-days, present since at least iOS 6, including a remote zero-click flaw in Mail; Apple says patch coming — In the summer of 2016, researchers at a digital rights organization and a cybersecurity firm announced they had caught …
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Tweets: @ryanaraine, @lorenzofb, @wsj, @newley, and @ildannymoore
| Ed Hammond / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Magic Leap is laying off about half its employees, or around 1,000 people, as it winds down its consumer business; Magic Leap has raised over $2B — - About 1,000 employees are said to be affected by cuts — Magic Leap to wind down consumer business in retreat
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Magic Leap, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Input, The Information, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider, Mashable, Financial Times, Variety, The Verge, New World Notes, Forbes, CNET, South Florida Business Journal, Yahoo Finance, TechSpot, Business Insider, MSPoweruser, GamesIndustry.biz, and Axios
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
iPhone SE 2020 review: good battery life but has a tired design and while the camera is good in bright light and great at video, it is noisy in low-light — A strong case against $1,000 phones — What do you look for in a new iPhone? The top of the list likely includes battery life and camera quality.
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Wired, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Android Central, CNBC, Engadget, CNBC, CNET, Macworld, Pocket-lint, The Irish Times, Michael Tsai, International Business Times, TechRadar.com, Wccftech, The Independent, MacRumors, YouTube, 9to5Mac, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizchina, AppleInsider, Tom's Guide, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @dhh, @thurrott, @reckless, @joannastern, @backlon, @waltmossberg, @chillmage, and @panzer
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Zoom rolls out its 5.0 update, focused exclusively on security and privacy features, including easier call management and upgrading encryption — Zoom is moving quickly to address complaints — Zoom promised a 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues, and the company is delivering on some of those promises.
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Zoom Blog, Laptop Mag, USA Today, The Next Web, iMore, Neowin, Cult of Mac, Engadget, ZDNet, Thurrott, ITworld.com, 9to5Mac, OnMSFT.com, TechRepublic, MSPoweruser, and BetaNews
Tweets: @jwangark and @profwoodward
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Facebook invests $5.7B in Jio for a 9.99% stake, making it the largest minority shareholder in the subsidiary of India's most valued firm, Reliance Industries — Facebook has enjoyed unparalleled reach in India for more than a decade. But as China's fast-growing ByteDance emerges …
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Financial Times, Livemint, CNBC, PYMNTS.com, coinspeaker.com, South China Morning Post, Engadget, Bloomberg, Gizchina, Financial Times, and Financial Times
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| Scott Rosenberg / Axios: |
Zoom fatigue is now setting in, as it moves from being a social lifeline to a chore, used for all interactions while aggravating anxieties in an exhausting time — The rapid trajectory of videoconferencing service Zoom has entered a new phase: What started as a social lifeline during the pandemic …
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Business Insider, The Information, Fast Company, and BBC
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US intelligence officials say Chinese operatives are amplifying COVID-19 disinformation in America using text messages and social media posts — American officials were alarmed by fake text messages and social media posts that said President Trump was locking down the country.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix announces plans to offer $1B in junk bonds to fund operations and potential acquisitions; as of the end of March, Netflix reported $14.17B in debt — Netflix is going back to the debt markets yet again, announcing plans to offer $1 billion in junk bonds to fund operations and potential acquisitions.
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Netflix, The Verge, Deadline, Wccftech, Hollywood Reporter, and Reuters
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| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News: |
Instagram confirms it will add a “Remembering” banner under the usernames of people who have died, and has accelerated the process due to the pandemic — Instagram is speeding up plans for a new account memorialization feature, adding a “Remembering” banner under a username to signal that a person has died.
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MSPoweruser. Tweets: @wongmjane, @katienotopoulos, @wongmjane, @yoda, @chrismessina, and @wongmjane
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Google's Threat Analysis Group shares a report outlining efforts by over 12 state-sponsored hackers using COVID-19 as cover for espionage — More than 12 government-backed groups are using the pandemic as cover for digital reconnaissance and espionage, according to a new report.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, BleepingComputer, Federal Computer Week, CNET, Mashable, and Yahoo Finance
Tweets: @mrisher, @razhael, @ryanaraine, @razhael, @jenn_elias, and @campuscodi. Thanks:@aaronjstein
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it now prioritizes the removal of COVID-19 tweets that incite “harmful activity” or could lead to the destruction of 5G infrastructure — Ever since it first started rolling out, 5G skeptics have attempted to link the next-gen cellular technology to all manner of health issues.
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Engadget and Associated Press
Tweets: @twittersafety, @digiphile, @tonyromm, and @allergykidsdoc
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it will now show the location of large Facebook and Instagram accounts alongside posts, to help users assess their authenticity, rolling out in US — Facebook today is introducing another feature aimed at making it easier to see who's behind the posts published across Facebook and Instagram.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a Watchlist feature for Search to help users keep track of TV shows and movies — Google is adding a new feature to Search that will help you keep track of all the TV shows and movies you want to watch during these long weeks at home. The company had already …
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The Keyword, Mashable, 9to5Google, and SlashGear
| Sophos News: |
Deep dive on a “sextortion” spam email scheme that raked in 50.98 BTC, or ~$473K, over five months and, on some days, accounted for 20%+ of all observed spam — Cryptocurrency profits from sextortion spam funneled into wallets tied to other cybercrime and dark web market activity.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Motorola's new $999 Edge Plus, which has a 6.7-inch display, Snapdragon 865, 5G, 12GB of RAM, 3.5mm jack, and arrives on May 14 on Verizon — Hands-on with Motorola's most powerful phone in years — Motorola is making flagship phones again.
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Verizon, TechCrunch, PCWorld, XDA Developers, Engadget, Gizmodo, Thurrott, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, and Android Police
Tweets: @glkcreative and @dcseifert
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Fishtown Analytics, makers of an open source analytics engineering tool called dbt, raises $12.9M Series A led by a16z — Philadelphia-based Fishtown Analytics, the company behind the popular open-source data engineering tool dbt, today announced that it has raised a $12.9 million Series …
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PR Newswire and Philadelphia Business Journal
| CNBC: |
US Small Business Administration notifies ~8,000 business owners seeking federal relief loans that their personal data may have been exposed to other applicants — - Some small business owners seeking help via the Small Business Administration's Economic Injury Disaster Loan program …
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Ars Technica, Washington Post, Threatpost, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @katerogers, @shaynacpa, @arielmtspeaks, @iansams, @zck, and @counternotions
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Granulate, which is developing a service that optimizes computing infrastructure in real time, raises $12M Series A led by Insight Partners — Granulate, a startup developing a platform that optimizes computing infrastructure in real time, today announced that it raised $12 million, bringing its total raised to date to $15.6 million.
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TechCrunch, FinSMEs, and ZDNet
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google says Flutter, its open source UI framework, now has nearly 500,000 users, up 10% month-over-month in March, as it outlines future changes — Google today revealed that “nearly half a million developers” now use its open source UI framework Flutter each month.| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Trustwave: ransomware attacks have quadrupled YoY in 2019 and have overtaken credit card theft as the most common form of cybercrime — Ransomware attacks have overtaken credit card theft as the top form of cybercrime according to new data. — Ransomware attacks have become more commonplace …
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Trustwave, BetaNews, TechRepublic, and infosecurity-magazine.com
Tweets: @shah_sheikh and @dannyjpalmer
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Q1 lobbying filings: Facebook's spend rose 19% QoQ to $5.3M, Apple rose by 18% QoQ to $2.2M, Amazon was up 3% QoQ to $4.3M, and Google dropped 34% QoQ to $1.8M — - Facebook and Amazon led the Big Tech companies in lobbying spend in the first quarter of 2020, according to documents filed with the federal government this week.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Vivaldi browser gets built-in options to block ads and tracking, with a blocklist powered by DuckDuckGo's Tracker Radar, and comes out of beta on Android — Vivaldi, the browser launched by former Opera CEO Jon von Tetzchner, has long positioned itself as a highly customizable alternative to Chrome and Firefox for power users.
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Vivaldi Browser, The Verge, Downloadcrew, MSPoweruser, TechRadar.com, BetaNews, 9to5Google, Thurrott, Engadget, and gHacks Technology News. Tweets: @vivaldibrowser
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Intel details Project Corail, a partnership with Accenture and Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation, debuted in May 2019, that uses AI to monitor coral reef health — To commemorate Earth Day, Intel — in partnership with Accenture and Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Patreon says it laid off 30 employees, 13% of its workforce, partly due to current economic uncertainty, despite seeing a surge in new creators last month — Creative platform Patreon has laid off 30 employees, which is 13% of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned.| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Profile of Martin Pichinson, whose firm helps wind down financially troubled tech companies, as his work ramps up amid 21K lost startup jobs since early March — Toggle more options — Monikers have followed Martin Pichinson for his whole career, given his line of work.
Tweets: @npr and @wolfejosh
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Sources: Bill Gurley will not be a partner in Benchmark's 10th venture fund but will continue to work with companies he led earlier investments in — Lead investor won't be involved in new fund for first time since he joined firm in 1999 — Bill Gurley—one of the most prominent … | Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says that its open source tool for microservices management, Istio, will be donated to a foundation in the near future — Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian has ended years of confusion by telling Protocol that Google will eventually donate its open-source project Istio …
Tweets: @sogrady, @chipchilders, @tomkrazit, @techjournalist, and @christianposta
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