DoorDash confirms a data breach on May 4 affecting 4.9M customers, workers, and merchants, with last-four digits of payment cards, driver's license info stolen
DoorDash has confirmed a data breach. — The food delivery company said in a blog post Thursday that 4.9 million customers …
AltStore is an alternative iOS App Store that works without a jailbreak, using a developer feature for sideloading test apps, and has its own Nintendo emulator
And anyone can download it, no jailbreak required — Riley Testut, an iOS app developer who has for years worked …
Microsoft and Google announce Google Assistant support in English for the Xbox One in beta, with the ability to launch games, take screenshots, and more
On Team Xbox, we put customer choice at the forefront of our decision making and regularly use community feedback to help guide the experiences we deliver to gamers.
Latest beta version of Spotify's app now lets iOS 13.1 users play songs, albums, and playlists using Siri
Spotify is testing this new beta feature — Spotify is finally gaining the ability to play songs, albums, and playlists via Siri. The latest beta versions of Spotify include this support …
Sources: Apple plans to give its movies traditional theatrical release runs before releasing them on Apple TV+ in the interest of brand-building and prestige
Maker of iPhone would keep movies in cinemas for weeks before release on streaming TV — Apple Inc. is looking to make a splash …
Researchers: new Nodersok malware, which installs Node.js to turn PCs into proxies, has infected thousands of machines, mostly in the US and EU over past month
New Nodersok malware installs Node.js to turn systems into proxies, perform click-fraud. — Thousands of Windows computers across …
Facebook to run a limited test hiding the public display of numbers of Likes, Reactions, and video views, first in Australia, starting tomorrow
If their post has lots of Likes, you feel jealous. If your post doesn't get enough Likes, you feel embarassed.
Tesla starts rolling out Software Version 10.0, featuring Smart Summon, a karaoke library, Spotify, Netflix, YouTube integration, and more
Plus a lot of improvements to other car features — Tesla has announced that version 10 of its in-car software has begun rolling out to Model S, Model X, and Model 3 owners.
DoJ announces an interim policy, that will go into effect Nov.1 2019, limiting how genealogy DNA databases can be used by law enforcement in serious crimes
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released new rules yesterday governing when police can use genetic genealogy to track down suspects …
Google says that YouTube Music will be preinstalled on all new Android 9 and Android 10 devices, replacing Google Play Music
Behind-the-scenes, Google requires hardware manufacturers to preinstall certain apps to get access to other first-party services.
Report: since May 2018, ~38 entities identified as “hate groups” by the SPLC have paid Facebook ~$1.6M to run sponsored ads, despite its anti-hate speech policy
Despite a company policy banning hate speech, the social media giant has taken in nearly $1.6 million from hate groups since mid-2018.
Logitech agrees to acquire Streamlabs, which makes the popular live streaming app Streamlabs OBS, for $89M cash; Streamlabs is used by 15M+ streamers
The hardware maker gets game live streaming software — Logitech has agreed to acquire Streamlabs, which makes the popular live streaming …
In an email to staff, Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan denies retaliating against employees for union organizing, but says union framework is “inherently adversarial”
The CEO Aziz Hasan denied retaliating against employees for union organizing, but said that a “union framework is inherently adversarial.” Tweets: @alexhern , @jason_koebler , and @laurenkgurley Tweet...
Peloton closes down 11% on its first day of trading, after raising $1.16B at a valuation of ~$8.1B
a company that sells $2,000 bikes that also makes you pay additional fees every month on top of the initial purchase choosing to go public while much of the market anticipates a coming recession did p...
Uber overhauls its app to become “the OS for everyday life”, merging ride-hailing and food delivery, boosting alternate modes of travel, and new safety features
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Amazon announces a new line of Alexa-enabled wearables equipped with mics and speakers, including the $180 Echo Frames eye glasses and $130 Echo Loop ring
wherever you are John Adams / PaymentsSource : Morning Brief 9.26.19: Rabobank, Mastercard make an agriculture financial inclusion play Tweets: Jay Greene / @greene : Jeff Bezos dropped in on the post...
Report: number of countries using political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 since 2017; Facebook remains #1 social network for disinformation
New York Times :
Total digital privacy is impossible, but obfuscation, the intentional shrouding of identity with useless information, can be a compromise
I am back from a fun series of locations. Tweets: MIT Press / @mitpress : Those who know about us have power over us. They can deny us employment, deprive us of credit, restrict our movements, refuse ...
Veeva Systems, a cloud services provider focused on the life sciences industry, acquires Crossix, a patient data and analytics platform, for $430M
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iFixit teardown: 40mm Apple Watch Series 5 battery has a metal casing, instead of traditional foil pouch, which makes it physically stronger, and more compact
Craig Lloyd / iFixit News :
Twitch updates its design, tied to an advertising campaign meant to emphasize that it is an all-purpose live-streaming platform, not just for gamers
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times :
Apple support document says the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro can identify non-certified displays and will warn users about them
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac :
Google quietly removed at least 46 apps from the Play store belonging to iHandy, a major Chinese developer, but won't comment on the reason for the removals
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News :
Public benefit corporation Summer, a platform to streamline student loan payments and debt forgiveness, raises $10M Series A led by QED Investors
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
Google to shut down Bulletin, an app it launched in 2018 as a limited pilot to let users report and publish local news stories about their communities, in Nov.
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police :
Beyond Pricing, which takes 1% of bookings to help homeowners optimize how much they charge each day on platforms like Airbnb, raises $42.5M Series A
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox add support for HTTP/3, the next major version of the HTTP protocol
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
YouTube says it will remove content that violates its guidelines regardless of who said it, including politicians, but will make exceptions depending on context
Julia Alexander / The Verge :
Microsoft, Mastercard, and Hewlett Foundation fund The CyberPeace Institute to defend public organizations, activists, and others from cyberattacks
Bloomberg : Tweets: @lschmeiser , @microsofteu , @asebenius , and @rj_gallagher Tweets: Lisa Schmeiser / @lschmeiser : A tech/business story that's been developing over the past few years: Microsoft ...
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