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• SHEIN fashion retailer announces breach affecting 6.42 million users

  24-09-2018 23:57 via zdnet.com
  Hack took place somewhere in June, but the company only discovered the breach in late August.
  
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• Walmart implements IBM's blockchain for food traceability

  24-09-2018 21:00 via zdnet.com
  The aim is to track food from farm to store in near real time using blockchain's distributed ledger system.
  
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• Enter to win* a fully-equipped hybrid for pros!

  24-09-2018 21:00 via zdnet.com
  We're giving away a Microsoft Surface Pro bundle including the tablet, keyboard case, stylus and more. This giveaway ends October 14, 2018.
  
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• Microsoft to bring multi-user virtualization to Windows and Office with Windows Virtual Desktop service

  24-09-2018 20:43 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft's new Windows Desktop Virtualization service will allow enterprise subscription customers to run Windows, Office and third-party apps in Azure virtual machines.
  
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• US ISP RCN stores customer passwords in cleartext

  24-09-2018 20:25 via zdnet.com
  Company is investigating the issue with customer support representatives having access to users' passwords in cleartext.
  
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• Slack buys Astro, eyes tighter email integration on its platform

  24-09-2018 20:23 via zdnet.com
  Astro makes the popular Astrobot plugin that lets users check their email and calendar from directly within Slack.
  
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• It's not about devices for Amazon and Alexa, it's about attention

  24-09-2018 19:02 via zdnet.com
  The new devices got all the attention at last week's event, but Amazon is more interested in getting your attention.
  
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• Google Clips: An exclusive look at the smart camera's latest improvements

  24-09-2018 18:34 via zdnet.com
  Google has continued to quietly update its smart camera, with the latest update set for release this week.
  
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• Apple MacOS Mojave zero-day privacy bypass vulnerability revealed

  24-09-2018 18:21 via zdnet.com
  The latest update of the Mac operating system is expected to hit today -- potentially alongside a zero-day bug which circumvents OS privacy controls.
  
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• Microsoft starts rolling out Office 2019 for Windows and Mac

  24-09-2018 18:02 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is starting to roll out Office 2019, its on-premises Office suite for Windows and Mac, and will be delivering the Office 2019 servers within the coming weeks.
  
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• Apple completes Shazam purchase, takes app ad free

  24-09-2018 17:58 via zdnet.com
  Shazam's models are likely to make Apple's services smarter in areas behind music.
  
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• How to decide: Picking the 2018 iPhone that's right for you

  24-09-2018 17:16 via zdnet.com
  This year, Apple is selling a ton of iPhone models. The differences between all those models is less than obvious. In our 2018 edition of our iPhone decider article, we'll help you choose.
  
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• Apple Watch's Walkie-Talkie is practically useless

  24-09-2018 16:56 via zdnet.com
  It's a great idea, but the implementation is just plain awful.
  
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• ​Amazon's Hindi website shows how badly e-commerce needs India's non-English-speaking shoppers

  24-09-2018 16:29 via zdnet.com
  Having squeezed the last drops from the country's English speakers, e-commerce outfits in India now realise that it is Indian language users who will provide the bulk of the boom that is yet to come.
  
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• iPhone XS launch: 3 days in the life of an Apple store

  24-09-2018 15:57 via zdnet.com
  To observe the atmosphere in an Apple store at launch time, I went to the same store three days in a row at the same time. The people-watching was sublime.
  
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• China shuts down 4,000 websites in purge on 'improper values'

  24-09-2018 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  It says it targeted "harmful" online content, spreading "improper values, vulgarity or obscenity".
  
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• Salesforce, Apple forge iOS mobile app development partnership

  24-09-2018 15:46 via zdnet.com
  Salesforce's mobile app for CRM will be revamped with native features for Apple's iOS platform.
  
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• Adobe launches AI Assist, weaves it through analytics, clouds

  24-09-2018 15:30 via zdnet.com
  AI Assist took three years of development with the aim of bringing quality insights across multiple Adobe clouds.
  
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• Ex-Google CEO: An internet with Chinese rules is coming your way

  24-09-2018 15:26 via zdnet.com
  Get ready for an internet with Chinese rules outside China, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
  
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• Google turns 20: Things you didn’t know about the search engine giant

  24-09-2018 15:15
  
  As the search engine giant enters its third decade, we bring you an assortment of facts about the company
  
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• Microsoft tries again to win developers with new Cortana Enterprise Skills Kit

  24-09-2018 15:01 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is working on a new enterprise-focused skills kit for Cortana, based on its Bot Framework, which can be used to build skills and agents for business use.
  
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• What's next for Teams, Microsoft's 'fastest growing business app' in company history

  24-09-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is building more industry-specific and role-based features into Teams, as well as adding more meeting capabilities and AI-powered options to the anchor of its Office 365 suite.
  
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• The big data odyssey of SQL Server 2019, and more data and AI news from Microsoft Ignite

  24-09-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Ignite, Microsoft's annual IT Pro and Developer confab kicks off today, with a slew of news in the data, analytics and AI areas of the company's stack, both in-cloud and on-premises.
  
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• Microsoft to unify search across Windows 10, Office 365 and Bing with Microsoft Search

  24-09-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is both refining and expanding its unified search mission, so as to deliver a single smart search box across Windows 10, Office, Bing, Edge and more.
  
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• Microsoft staggers rollout of Surface Hub 2, with hardware in 2019; new software in 2020

  24-09-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft's new plan is to launch Surface Hub 2 in two phases, with the new conferencing system hardware coming in Q2 2019 and the new system software for it in 2020.
  
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• Microsoft readies previews of Azure Digital Twins, Azure Sphere secure-edge service

  24-09-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft is starting to test a new Azure digital-twinning service, while also making generally available its Azure Sphere and Microsoft IoT Central services.
  
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• Adobe brings new AI features to Experience platform

  24-09-2018 15:00 via zdnet.com
  The features draw upon Adobe's Sensei AI framework to let businesses analyze customer datasets, improve mobile experiences, and create custom data models.
  
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• Can cloud storage replace your onsite storage?

  24-09-2018 14:50 via zdnet.com
  Cloud providers offer lots of different storage services, but none of them are ideal for most applications - which is keeping enterprise storage vendors in business. Will cloud vendors ever be able to replace on-site storage for critical apps?
  
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• Pennsylvania Senate Democrats paid $700,000 to recover from ransomware attack

  24-09-2018 14:45 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft was paid $703,697 to help Pennsylvania Senate Democrats rebuild IT systems after 2017 ransomware incident.
  
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• Windows update problems: Microsoft reveals why recent patches broke some PCs

  24-09-2018 14:24 via zdnet.com
  Microsoft will now label all Windows 7 servicing stack updates as security updates, even though they're not.
  
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• What Microsoft, Apple, Facebook and Google believe about themselves can explain a lot

  24-09-2018 13:54 via zdnet.com
  The stories these companies tell themselves are the key to understanding how they behave.
  
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• Apple doesn’t want sex or violence in its original shows, report says

  24-09-2018 13:22
  
  Tim Cook’s demands for family-friendly content has reportedly delayed the release of Apple’s new streaming service
  
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• Cisco: We've killed another critical hard-coded root password bug, patch urgently

  24-09-2018 13:17 via zdnet.com
  This time a 9.8/10-severity hardcoded password has been found in Cisco's video surveillance software.
  
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• Google quietly logs users into Chrome without consent

  24-09-2018 13:06
  
  Latest Chrome update has created a "user-unfriendly login policy", according to a security expert
  
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• YubiKey 5: First multi-protocol security keys with FIDO2 support

  24-09-2018 13:00 via zdnet.com
  Replace weak, outdated password-based methods with strong hardware-based authentication.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy Watch: How to adjust settings and configure your personal preferences

  24-09-2018 12:59 via zdnet.com
  The Samsung Galaxy Watch is a fantastic smartwatch and to get the most out of it you have to dive into the settings and configure the watch to your preferences. We are going to help you out in this article.
  
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• Two Japanese space robots land on asteroid 200 million miles away

  24-09-2018 12:22 via zdnet.com
  The Hayabusa 2 mission is using ion engines and other tech straight out of sci fi to explore an astroid
  
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• How easy is it to break the new Apple iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max?

  24-09-2018 12:00 via zdnet.com
  While the new iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max seem to be tougher than the iPhone X, glass is still glass.
  
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• WhatsApp appoints grievance officer after mob killings in India

  24-09-2018 11:58
  
  WhatsApp has been threatened with legal charges if it remains a “mute spectator” to killings connected to misinformation on social media
  
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• Siemens launches innovation center for livestock in Brazil

  24-09-2018 11:34 via zdnet.com
  A world-first for the company, the facility will focus on technologies supporting meat production processes.
  
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• Freelance workers targeted in new malware campaign

  24-09-2018 11:34 via zdnet.com
  Malicious macros are being spread in a campaign targeting job seekers on freelance and casual work platforms.
  
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• 3D-printed gun pioneer bailed after sex assault charge

  24-09-2018 11:12 via bbc.co.uk
  Cody Wilson has been released from prison in Houston after being charged with the sexual assault of an under-age girl.
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to hacking police surveillance cameras

  24-09-2018 10:20 via zdnet.com
  A chase around Europe led to the extradition of a 28-year-old who infected police equipment with ransomware days before Trump's inauguration.
  
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• The biggest insights and trends in digital transformation for 2019

  24-09-2018 10:13 via zdnet.com
  Many organizations have embarked on the journey of digital transformation over the last several years to sustainably reinvent themselves in modern terms. The first crop of lessons learned should now be evident but have been challenging to isolate and capture until recently. It's also clear that those lessons learned have been hard won, so we must build on them. Here's what we know so far.
  
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• Adwind Trojan circumvents antivirus software to infect your PC

  24-09-2018 10:00 via zdnet.com
  A spam campaign spreading the RAT uses a number of tricks to fool signature-based antivirus solutions.
  
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• Apple macOS Mojave, First Take: Eye-candy and productivity in equal measure

  24-09-2018 09:39 via zdnet.com
  Mojave focuses on the Mac's traditional strengths of simplicity and ease-of-use, while also bringing some of its newer mobile technologies onto the platform for the first time.
  
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• Western Digital resolves year-old password bypass bug in My Cloud NAS devices

  24-09-2018 09:37 via zdnet.com
  The vulnerability can be exploited to give unauthenticated hackers full access to a device.
  
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• Telstra and Optus call for clarity in anti-encryption laws

  24-09-2018 08:46 via zdnet.com
  The big telcos don't want their operations disrupted. They want more consultation, and protection for their downstream customers.
  
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• Monday briefing: JAXA's hopping robots have safely landed on asteroid Ryugu

  24-09-2018 08:35
  
  The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has successfully landed its asteroid-exploring rovers, microtask work via Amazon and others is underpaid and psychologically damaging, alcohol causes 5 per cent of all deaths worldwide
  
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• Women harassed after seeking sperm donors online

  24-09-2018 08:13 via bbc.co.uk
  One woman says a potential donor turned out to be married and had undergone a vasectomy.
  
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