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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation between Win32 and UWP APIs — At Build 2020 today, Microsoft unveiled Project Reunion, its latest attempt to unify the Windows developer platform by reducing fragmentation …
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Windows Blog, TechCrunch, PCWorld, Tom's Hardware, Thurrott, Microsoft Docs, Softpedia News, SlashGear, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @tomwarren, @qmatteoq, @panos_panay, @epro, @dcseifert, and @ow
| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
Microsoft unveils Windows Package Manager, native to Windows 10, letting users install software from the command line without visiting vendor sites or the Store — Microsoft is adding a built-in package manager to Windows 10. The company today announced Windows Package Manager at Build 2020 …
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CNET, The Verge, The Verge, Windows Central, PCWorld, Petri, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @whatthebit
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is buying older movies and shows for Apple TV+ to build a back catalog; as of February it had ~10M subscribers but only half actively used it — - Company wants to create back catalog to complement originals — TV+, launched in November, had 10 million sign-ups by February
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iMore, Android Authority, MacRumors, CNET, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, TechRadar.com, Tom's Guide, Observer, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, MacDailyNews, The Streamable, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, BGR, PhoneArena, iPhone Hacks, 9to5Mac, Pocket-lint, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @lucas_shaw and @markgurman
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft unveils Azure Synapse Link, an enterprise service that uses an approach called “hybrid transaction/analytical processing” to analyze data more quickly — At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced Azure Synapse Link, a new enterprise service …
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Cloud Computing Services, ZDNet, Neowin, and OnMSFT.com
| Tom Krazit / Protocol: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces the Fluid Framework, a new type of Office document built around collaborative Lego-like blocks on the web, and says it will be open source — Microsoft is creating a new kind of Office document. Instead of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, the company has created Lego blocks of Office content that live on the web.
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TECHCOMMUNITY.MICROSOFT.COM, TechCrunch, PCWorld, Windows Central, ZDNet, Thurrott, Tom's Hardware, Business Insider, Tom's Guide, and OnMSFT.com
Tweets: @jorilallo, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
| BBC: |
Budget airline EasyJet says email addresses and travel details of 9M passengers were stolen and credit card details of 2,208 customers were accessed — EasyJet has admitted that a “highly sophisticated cyber-attack” has affected approximately nine million customers.
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Investis Digital, The Guardian, ZDNet, The Register, TechCrunch, The Verge, TechCrunch, Graham Cluley, Telegraph, Bloomberg, Tom's Guide, BetaNews, The Capital, Bloomberg, CNBC, SlashGear, and Mashable
Tweets: @weldpond, @petefirman, @ccleaner, @mikko, @joetidy, and @osxreverser
| New York Times: |
Disney's top streaming exec, Kevin Mayer, resigns to become CEO of TikTok and COO of parent company ByteDance; Disney names Rebecca Campbell as his successor — Kevin Mayer will lead the Chinese-owned app for making and sharing short videos, which has exploded in popularity during the pandemic.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung announces a 50-megapixel smartphone sensor promising faster “DSLR-level auto-focus speeds” and better low-light image quality — Samsung has unveiled a new smartphone sensor showing that more megapixels may not always be better. The ISOCELL GN1 is “only” a 50-megapixel sensor …
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Samsung Global Newsroom, XDA Developers, The Verge, 9to5Google, Droid Life, TechSpot, Mashable, Android Central, Android Authority, Neowin, Pocketnow, and SamMobile. Tweets: @stanhoraczek
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft launches Lists, an Airtable-like app for Microsoft 365 that helps users track a wide range of issues using customizable views, rules, and alerts — Microsoft today launched Lists, a new “smart tracking app” for Microsoft 365 users. That may sound a lot like a todo list app …
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CNET, The Verge, Microsoft Tech Community …, Windows Central, Thurrott, and Engadget
| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
AG Barr says that, “no thanks to Apple”, the FBI succeeded in unlocking the “phones” of the Pensacola gunman, who they found had significant links to Al Qaeda — It looks like the most recent contention between the FBI and Apple over device encryption has come to an end …
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Axios, CNN, U.S. Department of Justice, New York Times, The Verge, U.S. Department of Justice, MacRumors, AppleInsider, KnowTechie, Federal Bureau …, Gizchina, Input, Fortune, Techdirt, International Business Times, The Loop, infosecurity-magazine.com, Daring Fireball, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Wall Street Journal, Axios, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, Appleosophy, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @markgurman, @chriswelch, @9to5mac, @stick631, @xxdesmus, @eff, @ahmed, @marcoarment, @heilemann, and @karaswisher
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it acquired Windows task automation startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum, merging its tools with Microsoft's Power Automate — Microsoft today announced that it acquired robotic process automation (RPA) startup Softomotive for an undisclosed sum.
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flow.microsoft.com, GeekWire, ZDNet, TechCrunch, CNBC, and OnMSFT.com
| The Verge: |
Interview with Sundar Pichai on Google's diversity, long-term plans for its hardware division, the pandemic's effect on its ads business, and more — Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
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NBC News, Android Authority, The Verge, 9to5Google, CNET, CNBC, Droid Life, The Next Web, and Android Central
Tweets: @davidclinchnews, @backlon, and @reckless
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Microsoft's Cloud for Healthcare, a suite of telehealth tools including a Healthcare Bot Service and patient engagement portals, is now in public preview — At its virtual Build conference today, Microsoft announced it is launching industry-specific cloud offerings, starting with one designed for healthcare.
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CNET, TechCrunch, Microsoft Industry Blogs, Bloomberg, CNET, Neowin, and MSPoweruser
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Chrome 83 with updated safety and privacy settings, third-party cookies blocked in Incognito mode, DNS-over-HTTPS support, and new dev features — Google today launched Chrome 83 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Chrome 83 includes redesigned safety and privacy settings …
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CNET, The Verge, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, 9to5Google, BleepingComputer, BleepingComputer, Android Police, ZDNet, Chromium Blog, and The Keyword
Tweets: @campuscodi and @campuscodi
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft announces the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems — Microsoft announced the public preview of Project Bonsai, a platform for building autonomous industrial control systems, during its Build 2020 online conference.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers found a bug in Bluetooth Classic pairing process that allows attackers to spoof the identify of a previously paired device to gain access of another — New BIAS attack works agaisnt Bluetooth devices and firmware from Apple, Broadcom, Cypress, Intel, Samsung, and others.
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9to5Mac, US-CERT, Threatpost, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, SecurityWeek, and The Hacker News
| Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: |
Brex, which offers a credit card tailored to startups, raises $150M in a Series C extension — Fast-growing fintech behemoth Brex is raising big money as its customer base itself — high-growth and spendy startups — is struggling. — The company, which sells a credit card tailored for startups …
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| Mara Hvistendahl / Wired: |
Profile of Chinese voice computing company iFlytek, which makes AI-based apps for consumers and the Chinese government that critics say aid surveillance efforts — Alexa can tell you the weather. Siri knows a few jokes. In China, voice-computing company iFlytek built similar smart assistants beloved by users.
Tweets: @chinabeigebook, @shanthikalathil, @wired, and @wadhwa
| Richard Speed / The Register: |
At an MIT event, Microsoft president Brad Smith says the company was “on the wrong side of history” with open source — Tell-all with president Brad Smith reveals Obama warned tech giants that a privacy reckoning was coming — Microsoft president Brad Smith (pictured) …
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Tweets: @amandaksilver, @kevinokeefe, @skinnylatte, @jwolpert, @dirkriehle, @alrubinger, and @backlon
| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Walmart says it will discontinue Jet.com, which it acquired for $3.3B in 2016, even as Q1 e-commerce sales were up 74% — Jet.com was critical to Walmart's e-commerce strategy and omnichannel efforts, but is no longer necessary.| Brian Merchant / OneZero: |
Google says it will not “build custom AI/ML algorithms to facilitate upstream extraction in the oil and gas industry” — A Greenpeace report details Silicon Valley's ties to Big Oil — and spurs Google to take a step toward opting out — After a year of weathering criticism …
Tweets: @jimmylevendia, @alixtrot, @climatekeith, @ozm, @natashanyt, @wokyleeks, @organizejs, @bcmerchant, and @willoremus
| David Meyer / Fortune: |
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court rules that spying on the Frankfurt exchange's global internet traffic by the BND, its intelligence agency, is illegal — In the world of online spying, great power lies with those who can get their hands on the data flowing through the world's Internet infrastructure.
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Bundesverfassungsgericht. Tweets: @privacyint, @markard_chair, @daphnehk, @gabrielazanfir, @fborgesius, @senficon, and @jonathandunnett
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Event software startup Bevy.com raises $15M Series B as it shifts gears to power virtual events, says Duolingo has hosted 1,000 events with it in past six weeks — This might seem like the worst time to be building an event software business, but it seems to be working for Bevy.com …
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