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Report: hidden adware in 238 Play Store apps with 440M+ installs by China-based CooTek made phones nearly unusable; apps now pulled or updated to remove adware (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Report: hidden adware in 238 Play Store apps with 440M+ installs by China-based CooTek made phones nearly unusable; apps now pulled or updated to remove adware  —  Carefully concealed plugin bombarded users with ads during inopportune times.  —  If the prevalence of abusive Google Play apps … Report: hidden adware

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Apple's Dashboard has reportedly been removed from macOS Catalina; the feature has been disabled by default since OS X 10.10 Yosemite (Nick Statt/The Verge)

Nick Statt / The Verge: Apple’s Dashboard has reportedly been removed from macOS Catalina; the feature has been disabled by default since OS X 10.10 Yosemite  —  Goodbye widgets, you were always sort of useful  —  Apple’s Dashboard is getting quietly removed from the company’s upcoming macOS Catalina update … Apple's Dashboard has reportedly been

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Source: the FTC has been questioning Amazon's competitors about Amazon Prime's bundling of services and how Amazon competes with its own marketplace sellers (Jason Del Rey/Vox)

Jason Del Rey / Vox: Source: the FTC has been questioning Amazon’s competitors about Amazon Prime’s bundling of services and how Amazon competes with its own marketplace sellers  —  The government regulator has been questioning Amazon’s competitors about its Prime service and how it competes with its own marketplace sellers. Source: the FTC has been

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Salesforce beats with Q1 revenue of $3.74B, up 24% YoY, net income of $392M, and subscription and support revenues of $3.5B, up 24% YoY (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Salesforce beats with Q1 revenue of $3.74B, up 24% YoY, net income of $392M, and subscription and support revenues of $3.5B, up 24% YoY  —  The CRM giant reported non-GAAP earnings of 93 cents per share, compared to the 61 cents expected by Wall Street.  —  Salesforce delivered significantly better …

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Here’s what the Vatican, US Evangelicals, and Satanists say about AI

The religious have been contemplating the existential threat of artificial intelligence for millennia. Long before Alexa listened in on our conversations or deepfakes threatened women’s safety, Judaism’s Golem and Greek mythology’s automatons roamed religious texts. Today, religious leaders are bushwhacking their way through the ethical implications of modern AI and, in many respects, they’re more

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Australian National University says its systems were hacked in late 2018, with staff, student, and visitor data exposed, affecting ~200,000 (ABC)

{$inline_image} ABC: Australian National University says its systems were hacked in late 2018, with staff, student, and visitor data exposed, affecting ~200,000  —  The Australian National University has been hit by a massive data hack, with unauthorised access to significant amounts of personal details dating back 19 years. Australian National University says its systems were

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