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May 4, 2020, 9:00 AM
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Apple updates 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard, 10th-gen CPUs, double the SSD storage, and faster RAM, available to order today starting at $1,299 — Cupertino, California — Apple today updated the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the new Magic Keyboard for the best typing experience ever …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
PE firm Silver Lake announces it will invest $747M in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, giving it a valuation of $65B, weeks after Facebook invested $5.7B — Weeks after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Indian telecom giant Jio Platforms, private equity firm Silver Lake is following suit.
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| Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNN: |
Uber to require masks or face coverings for drivers and passengers in certain markets and is developing technology to detect drivers' usage of face coverings — (CNN Business)As it anticipates a restart to its core rideshare business amid the pandemic, Uber (UBER) plans to require drivers …
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| Omri Zerachovitz / Globes Online: |
Sources: Intel is in talks to acquire Israeli startup Moovit, which makes a journey planner app and provides transit data APIs to cities and companies, for ~$1B — Intel Capital is one of the shareholders in the company, which has developed a public transport journey planner and mobility app.
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| Om Malik / On my Om: |
The pandemic brought tech-enabled behaviors previously considered on the fringe into the mainstream and compressed years of digital transformation into months — Disruptions, downturns, and recessions make the weak weaker and the strong stronger. It was true centuries ago, and it is true today.
Tweets: @amirulabu, @om, @perezbox, @christysandhoff, @photomatt, @natbullard, and @stevesi
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Elliott Management is financing a patent lawsuit by interactive-video company Eko, which it will take an equity stake in, against Quibi — Elliott, run by billionaire Paul Singer, will fund the suit by interactive-video company Eko and take an equity stake
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Tokopedia, Indonesia's largest e-commerce site, is investigating the alleged leak of 91M account details, which are being sold online for as little as $5,000 — A hacker is selling a database containing the information of 91 million Tokopedia accounts on a dark web market for as little as $5,000.
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ZDNet, The Jakarta Post, infosecurity-magazine.com, Bloomberg, KalingaTV, Jakarta Globe, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, and HackRead
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Flaws in Salt, a server automation and management tool, have been exploited to breach servers belonging to Ghost blogging platform, DigiCert, and LineageOS — Ghost platform got hacked via the same vulnerability that allowed hackers to breach LineageOS servers hours before.
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Ghost Status, Computer Business Review, SlashGear, and Cointelegraph
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
An article in the European Heart Journal argues that in addition to atrial fibrillation, Apple Watch's ECG function may also detect myocardial ischemia — Since the Apple Watch added the ECG app with the Series 4, numerous stories have surfaced about how the app has contributed to saving people's lives.
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OUP Academic, EurekAlert!, MacRumors, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, iMore, AppleInsider, Hindustan Times, and Redmond Pie
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| Geoff White / BBC: |
Filipino Onel de Guzman, author of the Love Bug worm that infected millions of PCs in May 2000, talks about his creation and claims he regrets writing it — The man behind the world's first major computer virus outbreak has admitted his guilt, 20 years after his software infected millions of machines worldwide.| Allen St. John / Consumer Reports: |
An analysis of privacy policies of Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Cisco Webex finds that the services may be collecting more data than many consumers realize — CR evaluated videoconferencing privacy policies and found these services may collect more data than consumers realize| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Magic Keyboard finally transforms iPad into a personal computing device that easily shape-shifts between media consumption and white collar professional uses — After years of futile attempts to do my everyday work on an iPad, the newly released Magic Keyboard, coupled with a long wished … | South China Morning Post: |
China's biannual report says it has 904M internet users, 897M of those via mobile; education and live streaming services see growth as food delivery apps suffer — Eight key takeaways from China's biannual internet roundup, including education and live streaming services getting a big boost … Sponsor Posts
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