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A mother reported FaceTime bug to Apple over a week ago after her 14-year-old son discovered the flaw; Apple asked her to send report via developer account (Nicole Perlroth/New York Times)

Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: A mother reported FaceTime bug to Apple over a week ago after her 14-year-old son discovered the flaw; Apple asked her to send report via developer account  —  SAN FRANCISCO — On Jan. 19, Grant Thompson, a 14-year-old in Arizona, made an unexpected discovery: Using FaceTime … A mother

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Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure Government Cloud saw global authentication outage affecting new sessions on Tuesday; Microsoft says it is now resolved (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure Government Cloud saw global authentication outage affecting new sessions on Tuesday; Microsoft says it is now resolved  —  Office 365, Dynamics 365, Azure Government Cloud impacted by authentication issue.  —  Microsoft engineers can’t seem to catch a break. Office 365, Dynamics 365, and Azure Government

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Alphabet's Jigsaw expands its free Project Shield service to organizations across EU, including journalists, to defend against DDoS attacks ahead of elections (Lie Junius/The Keyword)

Lie Junius / The Keyword: Alphabet’s Jigsaw expands its free Project Shield service to organizations across EU, including journalists, to defend against DDoS attacks ahead of elections  —  Our work to prevent election-related abuse ahead of and during elections means teams and subject matter experts across Google are working closely together. Alphabet's Jigsaw expands its

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Source: Stripe has raised an additional $100M from Tiger Global, bringing its valuation to $22B+, up from its $20B valuation in September 2018 (The Information)

The Information: Source: Stripe has raised an additional $100M from Tiger Global, bringing its valuation to $22B+, up from its $20B valuation in September 2018  —  Payments startup Stripe has raised an additional $100 million from Tiger Global Management, boosting the firm’s valuation to more than $22 billion … Source: Stripe has raised an additional

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Intel will invest $10B alongside a $1B state grant to expand its chip fab in Israel, adding 1,000 jobs to its nearly 13,000-strong workforce in the country (Reuters)

Reuters: Intel will invest $10B alongside a $1B state grant to expand its chip fab in Israel, adding 1,000 jobs to its nearly 13,000-strong workforce in the country  —  JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Intel Corp will receive a grant of about $1 billion from the Israeli government for its latest investment plan … Intel will invest

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Investigation finds that Facebook has been paying people to install a "Facebook Research" VPN to gather data on phone use habits, which may violate Apple policy (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Investigation finds that Facebook has been paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN to gather data on phone use habits, which may violate Apple policy  —  Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” … Investigation finds that Facebook has been

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WhatsApp hires EFF counsel Nate Cardozo and Facebook hires Open Technology Institute counsel Robyn Green, both as privacy policy managers (Taylor Hatmaker/TechCrunch)

Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: WhatsApp hires EFF counsel Nate Cardozo and Facebook hires Open Technology Institute counsel Robyn Green, both as privacy policy managers  —  In an effort to bolster its public credibility in the wake of a very rough year, Facebook is bringing a fierce former critic into the fold. WhatsApp hires EFF counsel

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IT security and cloud data management firm Rubrik leaves server online without password, exposing tens of GBs of data, customer names, contact info, case work (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: IT security and cloud data management firm Rubrik leaves server online without password, exposing tens of GBs of data, customer names, contact info, case work  —  A server security lapse has exposed a massive database of customer information belonging to Rubrik, an IT security and cloud data management giant. IT security

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Samsung says One UI, its redesigned mobile UI, is rolling out now to US Galaxy S9 and S9+ phones on Xfinity Mobile and to other carriers in the coming days (Marrian Zhou/CNET)

Marrian Zhou / CNET: Samsung says One UI, its redesigned mobile UI, is rolling out now to US Galaxy S9 and S9+ phones on Xfinity Mobile and to other carriers in the coming days  —  Samsung aims to make it easier for people to navigate their phones. Samsung says One UI, its redesigned mobile UI,

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