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TikTok CEO to testify before Congress in March 2023-01-30 16:35:47
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to appear before Congress in March to face questions from lawmakers over US user safety and security on the popular video app, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The Energy and Commerce Committee confirmed the hearing in a press release Monday announcing that the TikTok chief […]
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What’s Stripe’s deal? • TechCrunch 2023-01-29 15:16:03
Welcome to The Interchange! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. […]
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Apple search would be Google’s ‘get out of jail free’ card 2023-01-28 16:00:00
Rumor has it that Apple is going to debut its own search engine “sooner rather than later.” This is good news for consumers as competition between Apple and Google means more resources would be spent to do search even better, but oddly enough it’s also good news for Google on one front — the battle […]
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Weekly Authority: 👀 Pixel Tablet Pro deets leak 2023-01-28 12:11:50
⚡ Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 229th edition is here with Pixel Tablet Pro leaks, Samsung’s big news ahead of Galaxy Unpacked, a OnePlus tablet, Dead Space reviews, and real-life tractor beams. 🤮 This week, I attempted to […]
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Apple Brings Mainland Chinese Web Censorship To Hong Kong 2023-01-27 18:00:00
An anonymous reader shares a report: When Safari users in Hong Kong recently tried to load the popular code-sharing website GitLab, they received a strange warning instead: Apple’s browser was blocking the site for their own safety. The access was temporarily cut off thanks to Apple’s use of a Chinese corporate website blacklist, which resulted […]
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Digesting 2022 – O’Reilly 2023-01-10 13:37:13
Although I don’t subscribe to the idea that history or technology moves in jerky one-year increments, it’s still valuable to take stock at the start of a new year, look at what happened last year, and decide what was important and what wasn’t. We started the year with many people talking about an “AI winter.” […]
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RSA’s demise from quantum attacks is very much exaggerated, expert says 2023-01-26 01:15:50
Three weeks ago, panic swept across some corners of the security world after researchers discovered a breakthrough that, at long last, put the cracking of the widely used RSA encryption scheme within reach by using quantum computing. Scientists and cryptographers have known for two decades that a factorization method known as Shor’s algorithm makes it […]
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Microsoft Investigating Widespread Teams, Outlook, OneDrive Outages 2023-01-25 10:00:26
Microsoft is investigating a networking issue after tens of thousands of users around the world have reported being unable to access services like Teams and Outlook. In a series of tweets posted on the Microsoft 365 Status Twitter account, Microsoft said it was taking steps to isolate the problem, but did not mention how widespread […]
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Samsung Galaxy S23: release, specs, price, rumors, and news 2023-01-24 20:25:11
The Galaxy S23 — one of 2023’s most-anticipated smartphones — remains unofficially announced by Samsung. We still have some waiting to do before the S23 lineup is revealed, but the seemingly constant stream of leaks and rumors surrounding the smartphone have already painted a pretty good picture of what fans can expect from it. As […]
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How to Standardize Software Delivery With OCI Artifacts, ORAS, and Docker Hub 2023-01-24 01:48:13
Docker Hub is the best known registry for distributing and sharing container images. Docker Hub and other OCI-compliant registries can now do more than just container images, though. The ORAS (OCI Registry As Storage) project transforms registries into generic artifact stores, capable of publishing any asset relevant to your application. In this article, you’ll learn […]
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