Author: Tech Support

    • Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts, put up to 120M accounts for sale for $0.10/each; Facebook blames third party browser extensions (Andrei Zakharov/BBC)

    Andrei Zakharov / BBC: Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts, put up to 120M accounts for sale for $0.10/each; Facebook blames third party browser extensions  —  Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users’ accounts. Hackers publish private messages from 81K Facebook accounts, put up to

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    • HPE's Spaceborne Computer, the first commercial off-the-shelf computer launched into orbit to run a teraflop in zero gravity, now available for scientific use (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: HPE’s Spaceborne Computer, the first commercial off-the-shelf computer launched into orbit to run a teraflop in zero gravity, now available for scientific use  —  Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) — the business-focused division within HP — announced in August 2017 the Spaceborne Computer experiment … HPE's Spaceborne Computer, the first commercial off-the-shelf

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    • As India revives its ban on 827 porn websites following a court order, users complain of moral policing and say the ban violates Indian net neutrality laws (Rachel Chitra/Times of India)

    Rachel Chitra / Times of India: As India revives its ban on 827 porn websites following a court order, users complain of moral policing and say the ban violates Indian net neutrality laws  —  HIGHLIGHTS  — Users feel the government should take strong action against child porn, rape porn and BDSM but not against more

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    • A detailed look at Apple's new maps for iOS 12 covering San Francisco and the Bay Area with seemingly better road data than Google Maps but worse location data (Justin O'Beirne)

    Justin O’Beirne: A detailed look at Apple’s new maps for iOS 12 covering San Francisco and the Bay Area with seemingly better road data than Google Maps but worse location data  —  HAS APPLE CLOSED THE GAP WITH GOOGLE’S MAP?  —  TAP OR CLICK ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE  —  Perhaps the biggest surprise about Apple’s

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    • Profile of Asana, a provider of collaboration software for teams that has roots as a popular task management tool for Facebook's engineering department (Simone Stolzoff/Quartz)

    Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: Profile of Asana, a provider of collaboration software for teams that has roots as a popular task management tool for Facebook’s engineering department  —  There’s work, and then there’s the work that goes into doing your work.  And a lot of workers spend more time on the latter. Profile of Asana,

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    • Investigation finds that 12 Facebook campaigns masked sponsorship of political issue ads, exposing a gap in enforcement of Facebook's disclosure policy (Jeremy B. Merrill/ProPublica)

    Jeremy B. Merrill / ProPublica: Investigation finds that 12 Facebook campaigns masked sponsorship of political issue ads, exposing a gap in enforcement of Facebook’s disclosure policy  —  A Facebook ad in October urged political conservatives to support the Trump administration’s rollback of fuel emission standards … Investigation finds that 12 Facebook campaigns masked sponsorship of

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    • Testing of battery life on flagship phones, including iPhone XS and Pixel 3, shows newer phones die faster than older ones, likely due to screen tech like OLED (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)

    Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: Testing of battery life on flagship phones, including iPhone XS and Pixel 3, shows newer phones die faster than older ones, likely due to screen tech like OLED  —  Despite some notable exceptions, many 2018 smartphone batteries can’t keep up.  Here’s why — and what we can do about

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    • Sources describe inappropriate relationships and misleading business claims at Apttus, with the CEO leaving in July after a sexual assault claim settlement (Becky Peterson/INSIDER)

    Becky Peterson / INSIDER: Sources describe inappropriate relationships and misleading business claims at Apttus, with the CEO leaving in July after a sexual assault claim settlement  —  Apptus; iStock; Skye Gould/Business Insider  — Kirk Krappe, the longtime CEO of $1.86 billion startup Apttus, left the company in July. Sources describe inappropriate relationships and misleading business

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