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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
WhatsApp to delay new privacy policy by three months following widespread confusion over whether the policy would mandate data sharing with Facebook — The new update will now go out on May 15th — WhatsApp on Friday announced a three-month delay of a new privacy policy originally slated …
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| Shoshana Wodinsky / Gizmodo: |
A deep dive into the WhatsApp privacy policy change that prompted an exodus of users from the app and why Facebook struggled to communicate what was in it — Even if you aren't the type of person who peruses WhatsApp on a regular basis, chances are you've tried perusing its new privacy policy.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to launch redesigned iMacs this year with a Pro Display XDR-like design, and is working on two new Mac Pros, one of which may use Intel CPUs — Apple Inc. is planning the first redesign of its iMac all-in-one desktop computer since 2012, part of a shift away from Intel Corp. processors …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple has begun preliminary work on an iPhone model with a foldable screen, while testing an in-screen fingerprint reader for 2021 — Apple Inc. has begun early work on an iPhone with a foldable screen, a potential rival to similar devices from Samsung Electronics Co. and others …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
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Sources: Apple is discussing launching a new subscription service that would charge people to listen to podcasts — Apple—long considered the sleeping giant in the podcast space—is waking up. The company, which runs the most widely used podcasting app in the industry …
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| Zoe Schiffer / The Verge: |
Leaked screenshots show GitHub employees using the term “Nazi” in its internal Slack to protest the unexplained firing of an employee that used the same word — Now in protest, they're using Slack to call Nazis what they are — GitHub employees are protesting the firing …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A security researcher was able to purchase one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's top-level domains, potentially preventing malicious use by attackers — Fredrik Almroth thought the authorities would try to save the critical domain name. Nobody ever did.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says it will remove the inadvertent ability for Chromium browsers to access Chrome bookmarks and other sync features when users are logged into Google — Besides the intended differences, web browsers based on Chromium offer an underlying experience that's mostly identical to Chrome.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Twitter outlines its plans for Wednesday's Inauguration Day, including transitioning @POTUS and other handles to Biden and archiving several official accounts — - Less than two weeks after President Donald Trump was kicked off his personal Twitter account, the institutional White House …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
FAA approves the first fully automated commercial drone flights, letting Massachusetts-based American Robotics operate its drones in rural areas below 400 feet — American Robotics granted permission to operate drones without hands-on piloting — U.S. aviation regulators have approved … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is planning to fix a Windows 10 vulnerability that could corrupt a NTFS-formatted hard drive simply by viewing a folder with a malicious shortcut — A bizarre Windows bug for 2021 — Microsoft says it's planning to fix a bizarre Windows 10 bug that could corrupt a hard drive just by looking at an icon.| Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
Sources: at an all-hands staff meeting, incoming CEO says Intel has to deliver better products for PCs than what a “lifestyle company in Cupertino” makes — - Competition: Intel rivals AMD and NVIDIA use TSMC's factories and have capitalized on the technical advances in Taiwan to leapfrog Intel in key segments.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Parler is not down due to a single company but because the market chose not to do business with it because it's toxic, which is the nature of a free market — I've delayed writing deeper thoughts on the total deplatforming of Parler, in part because there was so much else happening …
Tweets: @benhixonva, @erratarob, @mcwm, @tynanpants, @jonjones, @erratarob, @chuq, @erratarob, @evan_greer, @erratarob, @bdowney, and @mmasnick
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple has started to block the sideloading of unsupported iOS and iPadOS apps using third party software on M1 Macs — Earlier this week, 9to5Mac reported that Apple would soon start blocking users from side loading iPhone and iPad applications to their M1 Macs.
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| Shannon Vavra / CyberScoop: |
Rob Joyce will replace Anne Neuberger as the director of NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate; Neuberger will join the Biden admin as deputy adviser on the NSC — Rob Joyce, the National Security Agency's special U.S. liaison officer at the U.S. Embassy in London, will replace Anne Neuberger … | South China Morning Post: |
A look at the rise and fall of Xiami, Alibaba's discontinued music streaming service, which only had 22.4M MAUs by Oct. vs. 450M+ for Tencent's three music apps — Once a leader, Xiami saw its monthly active users (MAUs) fall to 22.4 million by October 2020, a tiny fraction of the 450 million … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Bumble files for an IPO, says it had 42M MAUs, 2.4M total paying users, and lost $117M on revenue of $417M in the first nine months of 2020 — The dating and networking service Bumble has filed to go public. — The company, launched by a former co-founder of the IAC-owned Tinder …
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