Sunday, November 15, 2020
Why it may be tough for both Apple and Huawei in China
His Dark Materials Season 2 Review: Sifting Through the Dust
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)
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 of its 95 million users?
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)
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.
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)
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 …
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)
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 about to disappear forever.
Thoughtexchange, which hosts large group conversations while shielding participants' identities to reduce gender and ethnicity biases, raises $34M Series B (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.
Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain (Cyrus Farivar/NBC News)
Report: most major tech companies in Silicon Valley have kept paying their thousands of unionized blue-collar workers for now, but future remains uncertain — Nora Morales, 57, an overnight janitor at Google's main campus in Mountain View, California, knows better than anyone else how empty Silicon Valley's offices have become.
Internet Firms Could Face Bans If They Breach Rules: EU Industry Chief
A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency (Phil Vachon/Security Embedded)
A deep dive into OCSP responder Apple uses to verify integrity of Mac apps, which is a critical part of macOS security, but could benefit from more transparency — On November 12, 2020 Apple released macOS Big Sur. In the hours after the release went live, somewhere in Apple's infrastructure …
Airbnb says 1.4M users have rejected its non-discrimination agreement, foregoing their use of the platform, since it implemented the policy in 2016 (Whitney Kimball/Gizmodo)
Airbnb says 1.4M users have rejected its non-discrimination agreement, foregoing their use of the platform, since it implemented the policy in 2016 — In the four years since it implemented an agreement to promote equitable treatment of its users, Airbnb claims that 1.4 million individuals …
Turkey fines Google ~$26M for violating fair competition rules and abusing market dominance by placing text ads above organic search results (Menekse Tokyay/Arab News)
Turkey fines Google ~$26M for violating fair competition rules and abusing market dominance by placing text ads above organic search results — Turkey's competition authority has given Google six months to fix the problem and terminate its “unfair” advertisement strategy. (Reuters) — Short Url
Conservative Social Media Platform Parler Gets Mercer Backing: Report
Zoom to Temporarily Lift 40-Minute Meeting Limit on Thanksgiving Day
Chinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19% in its Hong Kong debut, giving it a ~$4.6B market cap, after raising ~$727M, the latest Hong Kong AI IPO (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)
Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg : Chinese optical transceiver maker Ligent jumps 19% in its Hong Kong debut, giving it a ~$4.6B market cap, after ...
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Amid government scrutiny over its various trade practices, the firm has been able to hold on to a set of consumers looking for cheaper goods...
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Robert Hackett / Fortune : Profile of Kathryn Haun, a former prosecutor who created US' first federal “digital currency task force” a...
