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    • Researcher: since at least October, source code for thousands of Instagram profiles leaked the user's contact info when loaded in a web browser; fixed in March (Laura Hautala/CNET)

    Laura Hautala / CNET: Researcher: since at least October, source code for thousands of Instagram profiles leaked the user’s contact info when loaded in a web browser; fixed in March  —  Instagram’s website leaked user contact information, including phone numbers and email addresses, over a period of at least four months, a researcher says. Researcher:

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    • IHS reports cloud-based gaming earned $387M in 2018, with Sony's Playstation Now responsible for 36% of that total, and predicts it will grow to $2.5B by 2023 (Giancarlo Valdes/VentureBeat)

    Giancarlo Valdes / VentureBeat: IHS reports cloud-based gaming earned $387M in 2018, with Sony’s Playstation Now responsible for 36% of that total, and predicts it will grow to $2.5B by 2023  —  Cloud-based gaming is starting to heat up.  In a new report from market research firm IHS Markit, cloud gaming earned $387 million in

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    • Indiegogo CEO and President David Mandelbrot steps down, citing personal reasons, will be replaced by Andy Yang, former Reddit core product lead and 500px CEO (Bijan Stephen/The Verge)

    Bijan Stephen / The Verge: Indiegogo CEO and President David Mandelbrot steps down, citing personal reasons, will be replaced by Andy Yang, former Reddit core product lead and 500px CEO  —  Reddit’s Andy Yang takes over  —  David Mandelbrot is out as CEO of crowdfunding site Indiegogo, citing “personal reasons” in his farewell LinkedIn post.

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    • Samsung files emergency motion to redact details of its settlement with Qualcomm last year, revealed to be $100M, made public in the FTC v. Qualcomm ruling (Camilla Hodgson/Financial Times)

    Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: Samsung files emergency motion to redact details of its settlement with Qualcomm last year, revealed to be $100M, made public in the FTC v. Qualcomm ruling  —  Phonemaker Samsung on Wednesday filed an emergency motion to redact “highly sensitive and confidential” details of its settlement … Samsung files emergency motion

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    • Software maker Panic unveils Playdate, a Game Boy-like device with a hand crank control and 12 bundled games released over time, coming in 2020 for $149 (Andrew Webster/The Verge)

    Andrew Webster / The Verge: Software maker Panic unveils Playdate, a Game Boy-like device with a hand crank control and 12 bundled games released over time, coming in 2020 for $149  —  Little, yellow, different  —  Panic made its name through high-end Mac software, but more recently, the company moved into gaming … Software maker

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    • Researcher shares zero-day Windows 10 local privilege escalation exploit that grants full control over files reserved for full-privilege users (Tara Seals/Threatpost)

    Tara Seals / Threatpost: Researcher shares zero-day Windows 10 local privilege escalation exploit that grants full control over files reserved for full-privilege users  —  A Windows zero-day exploit dropped by developer SandboxEscaper would allow local privilege-escalation (LPE), by importing legacy tasks from other systems into the Task Scheduler utility. Researcher shares zero-day Windows 10 local

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    • Modsy, which combines computer vision tech with human designers to help users design their homes, raises $37M Series C led by TCV, bringing total raised to $70M (Lucas Matney/TechCrunch)

    Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: Modsy, which combines computer vision tech with human designers to help users design their homes, raises $37M Series C led by TCV, bringing total raised to $70M  —  Modsy has raised some new cash as the computer vision startup looks to get physical and build more of the furniture it recommends.

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    • Instawork, a platform that connects hospitality workers with employers, raises $18M round led by Spark Capital, GV, and Burst Capital to expand across the US (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Instawork, a platform that connects hospitality workers with employers, raises $18M round led by Spark Capital, GV, and Burst Capital to expand across the US  —  More than a third of U.S. workers — about 57 million people — are part of the so-called gig workforce, according to a recent Gallup

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