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.
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 …
A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency
there were some popular but misleading tweets about the topic (because story > facts) also wikipedia on the protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/... https://twitter.com/... @dhh : I don't see how this m...
Results uploaded to Geekbench show that Apple Silicon M1 scores higher than every previous Mac in the single core benchmark, even when the M1 is emulating x86
The first native benchmarks of Apple's M1 chip appeared on the Geekbench site last week showing impressive native performance.
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 …
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 u...
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 …
Nvidia announces A100 80GB GPU for supercomputers, offering twice the memory of its predecessor, introduced in May 2020
Nvidia launched its 80GB version of the A100 graphics processing unit (GPU), targeting the graphics and AI chip at supercomputing applications.
Sources leak specs for Samsung Galaxy S21 series: the S21 Ultra will have a 108MP main camera sensor, and 3x optical and 10x “super” optical telephoto sensors
A look at Parler, backed by Rebekah Mercer, which has doubled its user base to 10M in a week, but unlike Facebook and Twitter leaves moderation to users
primarily the removal of spam, threats of violence, or illegal activity—is handled by ‘community jurors’, all currently volunteers.” https://www.wsj.com/... Hayes Brown / @hayesbrown : So.........not ...
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 …
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. — JT
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: @stevenlevy Tweets: Steven Levy / @stevenlevy : The untold story o...
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 … Tweets: @willoremus . Thanks: @dlberes See also Mediagazer Tweets: ...
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 … Tweets: @rowaida_abdel and @jmbooyah Tweets: Rowaida Abdelaziz / @rowaida_abdel : Musli...
Turkey fines Google ~$26M for violating fair competition rules and abusing market dominance by placing text ads above organic search results
Zeotap, a SaaS startup that helps companies with customer intelligence, adds $18.5M to its Series C, bringing the round to $60.5M
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Sales readiness service MindTickle raises $100M in a round of debt and equity led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2; source: MindTickle is now valued at ~$500M
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Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, who first began work on the language in 1979 and still remains very much involved in its development
Google updates COVID-19 forecasting models with 28 day projections, up from 14, and expands the service to Japan, after initially launching only in the US
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
London-based Harbr raises $38.5M Series A to help businesses exchange and share big data sets securely
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Researchers: flaws in Bumble exposed info of ~95M Bumble users, including Facebook data of some, and it took over 200 days after being notified to fix the bug
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Airbnb says 1.4M users have rejected its non-discrimination agreement, foregoing their use of the platform, since it implemented the policy in 2016
Filing: Snap UK had revenue of $653M in 2019, up from $403.7M YoY, but losses grew to $435M, and will borrow up to $500M from Snap over the next five years
Michael Cogley / Telegraph : Tweets: @sam_l_shead Tweets: Sam Shead / @sam_l_shead : Snap UK plans to borrow up to $500m from its US parent over the next 5 years https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ...
Q&A with Lisa Pearce, VP of Intel's Architecture, Graphics and Software Group, on its oneAPI strategy, the new Iris Xe MAX discrete GPU, cloud gaming, more
Dr. Ian Cutress / AnandTech : Thanks: @iancutress
Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain
Cyrus Farivar / NBC News : Tweets: @laszlobock , @carnage4life , @nbcnews , @suchipahi , @_jack_poulson , @nbcnewstech , @unitehere_19 , @jrbinsv , @gigworkersrise , @cfarivar , @alexhanna , and @iso...
A year after promising to create a way for people to memorialize accounts of deceased users, Twitter has yet to launch such a system
Barry Collins / Forbes : Tweets: @carnage4life and @martinsfp . Thanks: @bazzacollins Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : This is an example of why product teams shouldn't announce upcoming featu...
OpenVault study: 8.8% of US broadband subscribers used at least 1TB/month in Q3, up from 4.2% in Q3'19, and about 1% used at least 2TB/month, up from 0.36% YoY
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Thoughtexchange, which hosts large group conversations while shielding participants' identities to reduce gender and ethnicity biases, raises $34M Series B
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