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October 12, 2020

CrowdTangle: unlike Facebook, liberal messaging flourishes on Instagram, with recent posts on climate change getting 20.3M interactions vs. 6.9M on Facebook (Axios)

Axios: CrowdTangle: unlike Facebook, liberal messaging flourishes on Instagram, with recent posts on climate change getting 20.3M interactions vs. 6.9M on Facebook — While Facebook continues to take heat over being a tinderbox for conservative media, data shows that liberal … CrowdTangle: unlike Facebook, liberal messaging flourishes on Instagram, with recent posts on climate change

October 12, 2020

Here are 10 deals on charging accessories you can score before Prime Day

TLDR: Get the jump on Prime Day with 10 deals of chargers, charging stations and power banks at similar huge discounts. Because you don’t live trapped in a cave under an ocean, we’ll assume you’re aware that Oct. 13 and 14 is Amazon Prime Day. The uber-retailer’s monster annual sale cutting prices on hundreds of

Get a Lenovo Smart Clock for $39 – CNET

That’s even cheaper than Amazon’s Echo Show 5 (which is also on sale). Get a Lenovo Smart Clock for – CNET Source: CNet

Best Prime Day 2020 Apple deals so far: Save $150 on MacBook Air and $50 on AirPods Pro – CNET

Some of the best Apple deals of the year have now arrived. Best Prime Day 2020 Apple deals so far: Save 0 on MacBook Air and on AirPods Pro – CNET Source: CNet

October 12, 2020

A coalition of tech companies, including Microsoft and Symantec, orchestrate a takedown of the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: A coalition of tech companies, including Microsoft and Symantec, orchestrate a takedown of the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers — FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown. A coalition of tech companies, including Microsoft and Symantec, orchestrate a

October 12, 2020

A look at possible antitrust action against Big Tech following the release of reports from both the Democrats and Republicans last week (Will Oremus/OneZero )

Will Oremus / OneZero : A look at possible antitrust action against Big Tech following the release of reports from both the Democrats and Republicans last week — Democrats aren’t the only ones ready to rewrite the antitrust rules for internet platforms — Never in world history has one sector of the global economy risen …

PC, dead? Shipments just hit a new high – and you can guess why

COVID-19 second wave and investments in remote working spur PC market to highest levels in a decade. PC, dead? Shipments just hit a new high – and you can guess why Source: ZDNet Microsoft

October 12, 2020

The best Prime Day deals you can already get

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Amazon Prime Day 2020 begins in the early hours of Tuesday, October 13th, lasting through Wednesday night. That’s when you’ll see some of the year’s best deals go live, but there are plenty of worthwhile sales happening already. If you want to see what Amazon and other retailers

Astronomers see a black hole 'spaghettify' a star in real time – CNET

Coming too close can mean being instantly transformed into some very unpleasant pasta. Astronomers see a black hole 'spaghettify' a star in real time – CNET Source: CNet

Microsoft Takes Down a Risk to the Election, and Finds the U.S. Doing the Same

Fearing Russian ransomware attacks on the election, the company and U.S. Cyber Command mounted similar pre-emptive strikes. It is not clear how long they may work. Microsoft Takes Down a Risk to the Election, and Finds the U.S. Doing the Same Source: NY Times Tech

October 12, 2020

Privacy advocates warn that Amazon's Ring Always Home Cam drone and biometric payment system, Amazon One, will normalize aggressive new forms of data collection (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Privacy advocates warn that Amazon’s Ring Always Home Cam drone and biometric payment system, Amazon One, will normalize aggressive new forms of data collection — Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection. Privacy advocates warn that Amazon's

Trucks and SUVs are mega popular and here's why – Roadshow

From driver vanity to outright capability, there are many reasons why these vehicles dominate the market. Trucks and SUVs are mega popular and here's why – Roadshow Source: CNet

Star Trek: Discovery jumps past canon into strange new worlds – CNET

By jumping 930 years into the future, Discovery gets out of the constraints of previous Star Trek series and, at the same time, gives itself a shot in the arm. Star Trek: Discovery jumps past canon into strange new worlds – CNET Source: CNet

AI helps produce world’s largest 3D map of the universe

{$inline_image}Scientists at the University of Hawaii’s Mānoa Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have used AI to produce the world’s largest 3D catalog of stars, galaxies, and quasars. The team developed the map using an optical survey of three-quarters of the sky produced by the Pan-STARRS observatory on Haleakalā, Maui. They trained an algorithm to identify celestial objects

October 12, 2020

Twilio confirms it is buying customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal, expected to close in Q4 2020 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Twilio confirms it is buying customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal, expected to close in Q4 2020 — Twilio today announced its biggest acquisition to date, spearheading a strong move into customer data management alongside its existing API-based tools … Twilio confirms it is buying customer

Microsoft and others orchestrate takedown of TrickBot botnet

FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown. Microsoft and others orchestrate takedown of TrickBot botnet Source: ZDNet Microsoft

October 12, 2020

A look at the competition to develop new encryption standards to guard against quantum-computing attacks and replace public-key cryptography methods like RSA (Sara Castellanos/Wall Street Journal)

Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal: A look at the competition to develop new encryption standards to guard against quantum-computing attacks and replace public-key cryptography methods like RSA — The world’s top cryptographers are competing to develop algorithms that can withstand attacks from an ultrafast quantum computer A look at the competition to develop new

Microsoft disrupts Russian criminal botnet it fears could seek to sow confusion in the presidential election

The software giant won a court order to seize servers used by TrickBot, a network of infected computers that could have been used to lock up systems crucial to delivering election results. Microsoft disrupts Russian criminal botnet it fears could seek to sow confusion in the presidential election Source: Washington Post Tech

October 12, 2020

5G alone won’t be enough to justify buying an iPhone this year

This week, Apple will announce this year’s new iPhones. We’re expecting there to be four of them: the iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12, and a smaller one that might be called the iPhone 12 mini. Apple’s invitation for its Tuesday event included the catchphrase “Hi, Speed.” Weird capitalization decisions aside, the

HALWOP Recreates Retro Style with the Raspberry Pi

{$inline_image} Modern computers are incredible feats of engineering, but there are many that still yearn for the simpler times. When keyboards clacked and a desktop computer quite literally dominated the top of your desk. There’s a whole community of folks who scratch that itch by restoring vintage computers, but not everyone has the time, money,

Windows 10 graphics: GPU-powered AV1 video compression coming soon, says Microsoft

But you’ll need expensive new hardware from Intel, AMD or Nvidia to get AV1/AVIF video compression. Windows 10 graphics: GPU-powered AV1 video compression coming soon, says Microsoft Source: ZDNet Microsoft

October 12, 2020

Give me a remote or give me death: a tale of the new Chromecast

This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. Autumn — the most distinguished of seasons — brings with it predictable trends: steaming pumpkin spiced lattes, slippery leaves layered across pavements, and a deluge of companies announcing new shit in the run up to Christmas.

October 12, 2020

Grounded airline planes turned into pop-up restaurants sell out in 30 minutes

All the joy of plane food, without having to leave the ground. | Image: Singapore Airlines Amidst plunging revenues due to the pandemic, Singapore Airlines is turning two of its Airbus A380 planes parked at Changi Airport into impromptu restaurants on October 24th and 25th, and it’s proved surprisingly popular. Bloomberg reports that all seats

QAnon is tearing families apart

More than 28,000 people whose relationships have been affected by Qanon swap stories and find support on Reddit. QAnon is tearing families apart Source: Washington Post Tech

Government kept to sidelines as Google got big. Now it has chance to rein company back in.

Google’s merger with a travel software company made it a travel leader. It was just one of the many times the company has been reviewed by the feds. Government kept to sidelines as Google got big. Now it has chance to rein company back in. Source: Washington Post Tech

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