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A large number of mostly late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro users are reporting that macOS Big Sur update is bricking their computers (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: A large number of mostly late 2013 and mid 2014 MacBook Pro users are reporting that macOS Big Sur update 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. A

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Apple responds to privacy concerns of checking macOS apps' Developer ID certs over OCSP, has ceased logging IP addresses, will launch encrypted protocol in 2021 (Gary Ng/iPhone in Canada Blog)

Gary Ng / iPhone in Canada Blog: Apple responds to privacy concerns of checking macOS apps’ Developer ID certs over OCSP, has ceased 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 … Apple responds to privacy concerns

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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 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)

Thomas Brewster / Forbes: 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  —  Bumble prides itself on being one of the more ethically-minded dating apps.  But is it doing enough to protect the private data

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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 (Frank McShan/MacRumors)

Frank McShan / MacRumors: 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. Results uploaded to Geekbench

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SpaceX launch live updates: Dragon Crew-1 capsule, with 4 astronauts aboard, on way to ISS

SpaceX has launched four astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is the first privately owned and operated spacecraft to be certified by NASA for human spaceflight, a certification SpaceX received only days ago. SpaceX launch live updates: Dragon Crew-1 capsule, with 4 astronauts aboard, on way to ISS Source: Washington Post

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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 (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / 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  —  MindTickle, a startup that is helping hundreds of small and large firms improve their sales through its eponymous sales readiness platform … Sales readiness

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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)

Barry Collins / Forbes: A year after promising to create a way for people to memorialize accounts of deceased users, Twitter has yet to launch such a system  —  When Twitter threatened to automatically close inactive accounts, it sparked a furious response from users who feared the accounts of their dead friends and family were

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Hackaday Links: November 15, 2020

Now that we drive around cars that are more like mobile data centers than simple transportation, there’s a wealth of data to be harvested when the inevitable crashes occur. After a recent Tesla crash on a California highway, a security researcher got a hold of the car’s “black box” and extracted some terrifying insights into

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Thoughtexchange, which hosts large group conversations while shielding participants' identities to reduce gender and ethnicity biases, raises $34M Series B (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Thoughtexchange, which hosts large group conversations while shielding participants’ identities to reduce gender and ethnicity biases, raises $34M Series B  —  Thoughtexchange, a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada-based advanced platform for scaling conversations, received an investment from HarbourVest Partners. Thoughtexchange, which hosts large group conversations while shielding participants' identities to reduce gender and ethnicity biases,

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