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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Comprehensive macOS 11.0 Big Sur review: the end of OS X era — Yes, you read that right—Mac OS X (or macOS 10?) is no more. — The era of Mac OS X is over. Kind of. — For the first time in almost two decades, Apple has decided to bump up the version number of the Mac's operating system.
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| Jeffrey Paul: |
Thursday's OCSP service-related issues highlighted the fact that macOS sends a hash of every app that users run along with the users' IP, unencrypted, to Apple — ( 1122 words, approximately 6 minutes reading time. ) — It's here. It happened. Did you notice?
| Ars Technica: |
Many Mac users experienced app slowdowns during the launch of Big Sur, possibly due to issues with Apple's OCSP service being unable to validate certificates — Even Macs that didn't upgrade to Big Sur had problems. — Mac users today began experiencing unexpected issues …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Andrew Griffin / The Independent: |
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it detected three APTs, from N. Korea and Russia, that launched attacks on at least seven companies developing a COVID-19 vaccine or treatments — The three state-sponsored hacker groups (APTs) are Russia's Strontium (Fancy Bear) and North Korea's Zinc (Lazarus Group) and Cerium.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
DHS says US election was the most secure, with “no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised” — “The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history.” — The November 3rd election was the …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
DoorDash files for IPO, says it had revenue of $1.9B and loss of $149M in the first nine months of 2020, vs. revenue of $587M and loss of $533M a year ago — - DoorDash, the leading food delivery app in the U.S., filed its IPO prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple plans to launch an iPad with a mini-LED display and AirPods 3 with a design similar to AirPods Pro, both in the first half of 2021 — Apple intends to launch an iPad with a mini-LED display and AirPods 3 with a design signature similar to AirPods Pro in the first half of next year …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation — As false claims declaring that Joe Biden isn't the president-elect flourish on his platform, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees …
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| Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sundar Pichai apologizes to Thierry Breton for an internal Alphabet document outlining a plan to attack the EU commissioner, saying it “was never shown to me” — Sundar Pichai says he was unaware of plan for ‘pushback’ against the regulator — The chief executive …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Insurance software provider Vertafore discloses breach after data of 27.7M Texas drivers on an unsecured external storage service was accessed by external party — Vertafore blames incident on human error after user data was stored on an unsecured external storage service.| Sahil Patel / Wall Street Journal: |
LinkedIn says it discovered a pair of video and ad metrics measurement errors that led to 418K advertisers overpaying for campaigns for over two years — The errors affected more than 418,000 advertisers on the professional networking platform for over two years
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| Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 14.3 beta code indicates Apple may suggest third-party apps to users during the iPhone or iPad setup process, likely to appease antitrust concerns — As Apple has been investigating for anti-competitive practices, the company is working on new ways to avoid these accusations and even sanctions from governments around the world.
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9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, HotHardware.com News, NextPit, TechRadar, TouchArcade, Appleosophy, and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @stroughtonsmith and @llsethj
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Twitter says it labeled 300K election-related tweets from Oct. 27 to Nov. 11 as disputed, accounting for 0.2% of all messages about the election — Twitter said on Thursday that it labeled as disputed 300,000 tweets related to the presidential election, or .2 percent of the total number …
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Tweets: @vijaya, @prashantrao, @kantrowitz, @d_f_stone, @digiphile, @reaganbattalion, @jack, @jesselehrich, @walldo, and @ajb_sf
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