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| Abby Vollmer / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub reinstates the youtube-dl project, raises its bar for DMCA takedown requests, and creates $1M legal defense fund to help open source devs fight takedowns — Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project …
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TorrentFreak, BleepingComputer, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, Better Programming, VICE, 9to5Google, ZDNet, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @konklone, @artemr, @konklone, @githubpolicy, @thomasfuchs, @xor, @film_girl, @waxpancake, and @benthompson
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
A large number of mostly late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro users are reporting that upgrading to macOS Big Sur is bricking their computers — A large number of late 2013 and mid 2014 13-inch MacBook Pro owners are reporting that the macOS Big Sur update is bricking their machines.
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discussions.apple.com, MacRumors Forums, Axios, TechSpot, OnMSFT.com, AppleInsider, KnowTechie, The Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, The Mac Observer, Lifehacker, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, cloudpro.co.uk, ZDNet, Engadget, Softpedia News, SecurityWeek, TechRadar, International Business Times, Engadget, SlashGear, Firstpost Tech, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, and Wccftech
| Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
It's hard to believe Craig Federighi's claim that Apple wasn't “remotely considering” touch for Macs, given Big Sur's large controls and iOS apps coming to Macs — Reviews of new Apple Silicon Macs are not out yet. They're likely to be good. But one small disappointment lingers … | Financial Times: |
Max Schrems' campaign group noyb files complaints with German and Spanish regulators, claiming Apple breaks EU law by letting advertisers track users via IDFA — Austrian activist files complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities — Apple is breaking EU law …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, noyb.eu, CNBC, Associated Press, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Economic Times, Forbes, Apple World Today, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Business Insider, MacDailyNews, Engadget, coinspeaker.com, AppleInsider, Patently Apple, MacRumors, and blockchain.news
Tweets: @noybeu, @finnmyrstad, @stephaniebodoni, @mnot, and @martinsfp
| Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog: |
Apple responds to privacy concerns over checking macOS apps' Developer ID certs over OCSP, ceases logging IP addresses, will launch encrypted protocol in 2021 — Following privacy concerns from Mac users after Apple's Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) server went down …
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MacRumors, The Verge, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Cult of Mac, Engadget, Input, SlashGear, TechRadar, ExtremeTech, Six Colors, The Next Web, and Mashable
| Phil Vachon / Security Embedded: |
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blog.jacopo.io/en, SentinelOne, KnowTechie, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @yoz, @konklone, @yoz, @alexlindsay, @yoz, @edbott, @timbray, @ianbetteridge, @matthew_d_green, @bcrypt, @techloreistaken, @bcrypt, @rezendi, @coralineada, @xeraa, @dhh, @atoonk, and @pvachonnyc
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Profile of Erdal Arıkan, an obscure Turkish academic whose groundbreaking work in information theory in 2005 helped Huawei dominate the 5G infrastructure market — How an obscure Turkish scientist's obscure theoretical breakthrough helped the Chinese tech giant gain control of the future.
Tweets: @counternotions, @gassee, @wired, and @stevenlevy
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft expands third-party app integration support for Teams meetings and launches low-code tools like Power Apps for Teams and the Power Virtual Agents app — Microsoft today announced the general availability of Teams apps for meetings. For those who prefer a low-code approach …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, The Verge, Windows Central, and Petri
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Podcasts now lets anyone create an embeddable web player for shows or individual episodes — Apple is making it easier to discover and listen to podcasts via the web. The company announced today an Apple Podcasts embed web player is now available, allowing anyone — including creators …
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9to5Mac, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, and MacStories
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Facebook now lets any page admin submit images and videos for rights protection, which helps creators monetize their content and may lead to more takedowns — The company opens its rights manager up to all page admins — More copyright takedown requests might be coming to Facebook and Instagram.| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Investigation: US military buys granular movement data of people around the world from a wide array of apps for Muslim dating, prayer, Craigslist, weather, more — A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain …
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Business Insider. Tweets: @rowaida_abdel, @sanasaeed, @farhiyaa4, @ayeshaasiddiqi, @slpng_giants, and @jmbooyah
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
WarnerMedia says HBO Max will be available on Amazon Fire devices from November 17 — The HBO Max app for Amazon's devices will be available Tuesday, Nov. 17. The launch will bring WarnerMedia's flagship direct-to-consumer product to Amazon's estimated 40 million-plus active Fire TV users …
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Pressroom, International Business Times, TechCrunch, The Verge, AFTVnews, TechHive, Thurrott, Business Insider, Light Reading, Engadget, IGN, Fast Company, SlashGear, Bloomberg, CNBC, KnowTechie, The Wrap, GameSpot, Tom's Guide, Deadline, Adweek, The Streamable, and Cord Cutters News
Tweets: @xpangler, @amazonfiretv, @loudmouthjulia, and @ed_hale
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Activity and fitness tracking service Strava raises $110M Series F led by TCV and Sequoia, touts growth rate of 2M new users per month in 2020 — Activity and fitness tracking platform Strava has raised $110 million in new funding, in a Series F round led by TCV and Sequoia … | Will Oremus / OneZero : |
A look at the debate over the kind of news Facebook users are reading, after Facebook released more data on top performing link posts in the US — What kind of news does the news feed feed when the news feed does feed news? — Since July, New York Times journalist Kevin Roose … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Gretel, a startup aiming to make it faster and easier to anonymize data sets, announces $12M Series A led by Greylock — As companies work with data, one of the big obstacles they face is making sure they are not exposing personally identifiable information (PII) or other sensitive data.| Josh Terry / VICE: |
As part of the Justice at Spotify initiative, 18,000+ musicians demand at least a penny per stream, more financial transparency, and an end to royalty lawsuits — Damon Krukowski of Galaxie 500 and the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers explains the ‘Justice at Spotify’ campaign. — JTSponsor Posts
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