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    • For the first time since at least Q1 2016, "Hardware" is not the most in-demand hiring category at Apple, being eclipsed by "Software and Services" (Joshua Fruhlinger/Thinknum Media)

    Joshua Fruhlinger / Thinknum Media: For the first time since at least Q1 2016, “Hardware” is not the most in-demand hiring category at Apple, being eclipsed by “Software and Services”  —  Apple ($NASDAQ:AAPL) started as a hardware company.  Its first product was a kit: a box of hardware that customers had to assemble on their

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    • Facebook has urged users to enable phone number-based 2FA, but the numbers are used in a user lookup feature with no opt out and to target ads, sparking outcry (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: Facebook has urged users to enable phone number-based 2FA, but the numbers are used in a user lookup feature with no opt out and to target ads, sparking outcry  —  Users are complaining that the phone number Facebook hassled them to use to secure their account with two-factor authentication … Facebook

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    • Super League Gaming, which hosts amateur esports competitions, priced its IPO at $11/share and raised $25M on Feb. 25, but its stock closed at $8.99 on Friday (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)

    Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Super League Gaming, which hosts amateur esports competitions, priced its IPO at $11/share and raised $25M on Feb. 25, but its stock closed at $8.99 on Friday  —  Super League Gaming raised $25 million in an initial public offering on Nasdaq.  But shares in the opening round have fallen 12.3 percent

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    • McAfee shares findings from a government-provided command server used by N. Korean-linked Lazarus hackers to run "Sharpshooter" malware campaign from Sept. 2017 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

    Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: McAfee shares findings from a government-provided command server used by N. Korean-linked Lazarus hackers to run “Sharpshooter” malware campaign from Sept. 2017  —  In a rare move, government officials have handed security researchers a seized server believed to be used … McAfee shares findings from a government-provided command server used by

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    • Warner Music's lawsuit against Spotify in India underscores music labels' worry over music streaming services doing more direct deals with artists in the future (Peter Kafka/Recode)

    Peter Kafka / Recode: Warner Music’s lawsuit against Spotify in India underscores music labels’ worry over music streaming services doing more direct deals with artists in the future  —  Big Tech and Big Music are used to being frenemies.  Now things are getting feistier.  —  The music business is booming, for real. Warner Music's lawsuit

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    • Light, which has been known for its 16-lens DSLR rival, unveiled partnerships with Nokia, Sony, and Xiaomi at MWC, with the 5-camera Nokia 9 featuring its tech (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

    Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Light, which has been known for its 16-lens DSLR rival, unveiled partnerships with Nokia, Sony, and Xiaomi at MWC, with the 5-camera Nokia 9 featuring its tech  —  This year’s MWC has been very much the beginning of a new phase for Light .  Until now, the Palo Alto startup has

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    Hackaday Links: March 3, 2019

    In this week’s edition of, ‘why you should care that Behringer is cloning a bunch of vintage synths’, I present to you this amazing monstrosity. Yes, it’s a vertical video of a synthesizer without any sound. Never change, Reddit. A bit of explanation: this is four Behringer Model Ds (effectively clones of the Moog Minimoog,

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    • Coinbase exec says they felt compelled to buy Neutrino quickly to bring blockchain analytics in-house, because Coinbase's vendors were selling its clients' data (Messari)

    Messari: Coinbase exec says they felt compelled to buy Neutrino quickly to bring blockchain analytics in-house, because Coinbase’s vendors were selling its clients’ data  —  In an alarming interview on Cheddar, Coinbase Director of Institutional Sales, Christine Sandler, suggested … Coinbase exec says they felt compelled to buy Neutrino quickly to bring blockchain analytics in-house,

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    • Sources: Rakuten, which owns a 13% stake in Lyft, made the investment in 2015 after data from it's consumer purchase tracker Slice showed Lyft was undervalued (Ari Levy/CNBC)

    Ari Levy / CNBC: Sources: Rakuten, which owns a 13% stake in Lyft, made the investment in 2015 after data from it’s consumer purchase tracker Slice showed Lyft was undervalued  —  – Rakuten invested $300 million in Lyft in 2015, when the ride-hailing company was trying to avoid being crushed by Uber. Sources: Rakuten, which

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