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| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
FireEye says some internal systems were hacked by nation state actors, compromising its Red Team tools, used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers — The cybersecurity company said the attack compromised its software tools used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Apple announces AirPods Max, over-ear headphones with noise cancellation, adaptive EQ, spatial audio, and audio sharing, available from December 15 for $549 — The first over-ear headphones with an Apple logo on them — It turns out Apple has one more major hardware announcement …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: as Bob Mansfield retires, Apple puts AI chief John Giannandrea in charge of self-driving car project Titan; Doug Field runs the project day to day — - Company has been developing autonomous vehicle tech for years — AI executive Giannandrea takes lead after Bob Mansfield leaves
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Trusted Reviews, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, SlashGear, The Verge, and Apple Terminal
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: FTC and 40+ state AGs to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday, alleging Instagram and WhatsApp purchases were made to kill competition — More than 40 attorneys general and the U.S. government are preparing to file antitrust lawsuits against Facebook on Wednesday …
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CNET, USA Today, and Gizmodo
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Cloudflare and Apple say they have developed a new protocol called Oblivious DNS-over-HTTPS, which decouples DNS queries from internet users for more privacy — Engineers at Cloudflare and Apple say they've developed a new internet protocol that will shore up one of the biggest holes …
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The Cloudflare Blog, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, The Verge, CyberScoop, TechRadar, Schneier on Security, and CircleID
Tweets: @da_667, @gchampeau, @jfslowik, @jgrahamc, @grittygrease, and @aallan
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Substack CEO Chris Best on why it is not a media company, content moderation, making a reader app for users to easily read their newsletters, and more — On today's episode of Decoder, I'm talking to Chris Best, co-founder and CEO of Substack, the subscription newsletter startup that's taken …
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The Verge and On my Om
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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google says it is opening up its open source Fuchsia OS to outside developers, the first formal announcement about the project — For the past four years, Google has been developing a new operating system, Fuchsia, from the ground up. Starting today, Google's Fuchsia OS is now being developed more openly …
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Google Open Source Blog, The Verge, Engadget, Fuchsia, ZDNet, CNX Software, Thurrott, HotHardware.com News, SiliconANGLE, and Liliputing
Tweets: @ziromr, @suka_hiroaki, @ohmdee, @googleoss, @backlon, and @stshank
| Washington Post: |
An internal Huawei document, found on its website, says Huawei tested facial recognition with a “Uighur alarm” to alert Chinese police when it detected Uighurs — An internal report claims the face-scanning system could trigger a “Uighur alarm,” sparking concerns that the software …
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IPVM, OneZero , Input, Newshub, Business Insider, Forbes, and Telecoms.com
| BBC: |
China bans TripAdvisor from its app stores, along with 104 other apps it said were violating cyber laws aimed at fighting pornography, gambling, and violence — China has removed 105 apps from its app stores as part of a campaign to get rid of content related to pornography, prostitution, gambling and violence.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon launches a preview of HealthLake, a HIPAA-eligible service for health organizations to store, transform, and analyze life science data in AWS — During its re:Invent 2020 virtual keynote today, Amazon launched Amazon HealthLake, a service that enables health care organizations to store …
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SiliconANGLE, Business Wire, and ZDNet
| Max Weinbach / Android Police: |
Sources: Samsung Unpacked will take place on January 14, and official marketing teasers for Galaxy S21, S21+, and S21 Ultra appear to have leaked — Samsung's next-gen Galaxy S21 series is just about a month away, and with that official debut coming up fast, renders of the device are inevitably … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
In a private 2018 meeting between UK's digital chief and Zuckerberg, minutes show Zuckerberg said the UK was “anti-tech” and threatened to end UK investment — Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism — which fought for two years to obtain details …
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| Scott Chipolina / Decrypt: |
Square commits $10M to fund efforts to mine bitcoin with renewables; Dorsey believes “that cryptocurrency will eventually be powered completely by clean power” — Payments company Square has launched a Bitcoin Clean Energy Investment Initiative.| Associated Press: |
Pornhub will no longer let users download videos or unverified users upload videos, after a NYT report alleged that it was hosting videos of rape, underage sex — NEW YORK (AP) — Pornhub said Tuesday it was halting unverified users from uploading video material after a report alleged …
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PCMag, Reuters, The Hill, Mashable, HotNewHipHop.com, The Daily Beast, Engadget, and The Verge
| CNBC: |
Sources: DoorDash is expected to price shares in its IPO at $102, valuing the company ~$38.7B fully diluted, well above last week's $90 to $95 range — - DoorDash sold shares at $102 a piece in its IPO, above its range of $90 to $95, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Wall Street Journal, CNET, PYMNTS.com, Financial Times, TheStreet, Forbes, Reuters, Business Insider, TechCrunch, New York Times, and Restaurant Business. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Google announces Look to Speak, an experimental project for Android that helps users with speech and motor impairments by selecting phrases with their eyes — The Android app is designed to make communication easier for people with motor and speech impairments
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The Keyword, ZDNet, Releases, BGR, CNET, and TechSpot
Tweets: @dangerot, @thedicea, @krliu_advocate, and @backlon
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
Senate votes 49-47 to appoint Trump ally Nathan Simington to the FCC for a five-year term, which could mire the FCC in partisan gridlock — Nathan Simington's was chosen to attack free speech and net neutrality. He could gridlock internet policy for the next five years.
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Ars Technica, CNBC, Medium, Gizmodo, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and Morning Consult
Tweets: @rob_sheridan and @karlbode
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Samsung's SmartThings will support Google Nest devices starting in January 2021 — Support for Nest products through the SmartThings app arrives next month — Google and Samsung are bringing their smart home platforms together for the first time. Samsung's SmartThings … | Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Uber is selling its flying car project, Elevate, to Joby Aviation and is investing $75M into the company as part of the deal; terms were not disclosed — - The move will allow Joby to use Uber's app to offer air taxi rides when the company's aircraft eventually enters service, which could be as soon as 2023.
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New York Times, Axios, ZDNet, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Silicon Valley Business …, and Business Insider. Tweets: @stevekovach
| Michael Larabel / Phoronix: |
CentOS, a free Linux distro functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, says it's ending support for recently announced CentOS 8 — Well here is a surprise for those that have long used CentOS as the community-supported rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux …
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CentOS, iTWire, and iTWire
Tweets: @nixcraft, @chris_dag, @0x47df, @phoronix, @gaveen, @ibuildthecloud, and @htbaa
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
GitHub expands its Sponsors program to let companies directly fund open source projects, starting with Amazon, AmEx, Daimler, Stripe, and others — Amazon.com Inc., American Express Co., Daimler AG and Stripe Inc. are among those joining a new GitHub program that will let companies directly …
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The GitHub Blog, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Developer Tech News, MakeUseOf, ZDNet, BetaNews, and Windows Central
| Amy Feldman / Forbes: |
Supply chain and logistics cloud software startup Stord has raised $31M Series B at a ~$200M valuation led by Founders Fund, bringing its total funding to $46M — Sean Henry, 24, and Jacob Boudreau, 22, founded flexible warehousing startup Stord while in college at Georgia Tech in 2015.| Angus Whitley / Bloomberg: |
A proposed Australian bill to force Google and Facebook to pay publishers for news now recognizes the monetary value of traffic that platforms send publishers — Google and Facebook Inc. won a key concession in Australia as the government unveiled details of a world-first law to force … | Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
AT&T CEO says HBO Max now has 12.6M subscribers in the US, up from 8.6M at the end of Q3; ~30% of HBO subscribers have exercised their right to access HBO Max — HBO Max, which closed the third quarter at 8.6 million activated subscribers in the U.S., has added another four million … | Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Florida police raid home of former state employee and COVID whistleblower, claiming she breached a messaging system despite all its users sharing one password — This is insane. Earlier this year, we wrote about Rebekah Jones, the data scientist working for Florida, who put together …
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Sun-Sentinel, NPR, WLRN, Sun-Sentinel, Ars Technica, and Washington Post
Tweets: @georebekah, @georebekah, @malwarejake, @greg_doucette, @scaramucci, @kylegriffin1, and @doctorow
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Netflix rolls out Kids Activity Report tool for parents to monitor their child's frequently watched shows, favorite character, and recommendations on new shows — Netflix is rolling out a new tool for parents to better understand and monitor what their kids are watching.
Tweets: @hshaban
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