Sunday, November 15, 2020

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.



SpaceX Launches 4 Astronauts to ISS Aboard Crew Dragon 'Resilience'

Four astronauts were successfully launched on the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience" to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first of what the US hopes will be many routine missions following a... https://ift.tt/32NBARL

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 …



Why it may be tough for both Apple and Huawei in China

The numbers suggest that handset demand is weak despite China's recovery from the novel coronavirus and that Apple Inc and its local rivals, such as Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, will compete in a shrinking market. https://ift.tt/2UxKXjT

Microsoft warns hackers from Russia and North Korea targeting COVID-19 vaccine makers: All you need to know

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His Dark Materials Season 2 Review: Sifting Through the Dust

Our review of His Dark Materials season 2, based on the second book "The Subtle Knife" in Philip Pullman's trilogy. His Dark Materials season 2 release date is November 16 on HBO and HBO Max in... https://ift.tt/3pqzqRw

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 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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

Europe's industry chief Thierry Breton has said that technology companies' services could be banned from the European market if they do not follow EU regulation. Breton will announce the new draft... https://ift.tt/3ppCIo6

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)

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)

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 …



Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid western sanctions after its Ukraine invasion (Financial Times)

Financial Times : Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payments system amid weste...