Day: December 4, 2018

    • New York City adopts the nation's first pay floor for rideshare drivers, approving measures for a $26.51/hour gross pay floor, est. $17.22/hour after expenses (Bryan Menegus/Gizmodo)

    Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: New York City adopts the nation’s first pay floor for rideshare drivers, approving measures for a $26.51/hour gross pay floor, est. $17.22/hour after expenses  —  Today, New York’s City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission approved measures to enact minimum pay requirements for app-based for-hire vehicles (FHV) like Uber, Lyft, and Juno. New

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    • Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, promising up to 3x better AI performance than last gen, and its new under-display fingerprint reader using an ultrasonic sensor (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

    Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, promising up to 3x better AI performance than last gen, and its new under-display fingerprint reader using an ultrasonic sensor  —  This week, Qualcomm is hosting press and analysts on Maui for its annual Snapdragon Summit.  Sadly, we’re not there … Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon 855, promising up

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    • Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, Blackphone, and PGP Corp, has left his senior security role at Apple to take a job at the ACLU (Joseph Menn/Reuters)

    Joseph Menn / Reuters: Jon Callas, co-founder of Silent Circle, Blackphone, and PGP Corp, has left his senior security role at Apple to take a job at the ACLU  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A senior Apple Inc security expert left for a much lower-paying job at the American Civil Liberties Union this week …

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    • Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full admin privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster; patched versions are available (Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols/ZDNet)

    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full admin privileges on any compute node being run in a Kubernetes cluster; patched versions are available  —  There’s now an invisible way to hack into the popular cloud container orchestration system Kubernetes. Flaw discovered in Kubernetes lets any user gain full

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    • Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a $27.5M Series B with investors including Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Monex Group (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

    Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a $27.5M Series B with investors including Bitmain, ConsenSys, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq Ventures, and Monex Group  —  Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a Series B funding round that raised $27.5 million, the company said Tuesday. Crypto trading platform ErisX has closed a .5M Series

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    • Following Verizon, AT&T says it too will sell an as-yet unannounced 5G Samsung handset in the first half of 2019 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

    Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Following Verizon, AT&T says it too will sell an as-yet unannounced 5G Samsung handset in the first half of 2019  —  Samsung announced yesterday that it’s set to bring a 5G phone to market in the first half of next year, name-checking Verizon in the promise. Following Verizon, AT&T says it

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    • A look at how Facebook was used to organize and promote Yellow Vests protests in France, which became violent as over 280,000 took to the streets this weekend (Casey Newton/The Interface)

    Casey Newton / The Interface: A look at how Facebook was used to organize and promote Yellow Vests protests in France, which became violent as over 280,000 took to the streets this weekend  —  I had an excellent time talking about social media with Kara Swisher and her precocious 16-year-old son, Louie, on the 300th

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    • Apple discounts iPhone XR by up to $300 for trading in older iPhones, a rare step for new models; source: some marketing staff were reassigned to boost sales (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

    Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple discounts iPhone XR by up to $300 for trading in older iPhones, a rare step for new models; source: some marketing staff were reassigned to boost sales  —  – ‘Fire drill,’ trade-in deals come after signs of waning demand  — Analysts look again for what’s next beyond the iPhone Apple

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