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Apple cares about privacy, unless you work at Apple. Jacob Preston was sitting down with his manager during his first week at Apple when he was told, with little fanfare, that he needed to link his personal Apple ID and work account. The request struck him as odd. (Zoe Schiffer via The Verge)
Meet the little-known genius who Helped make Pixar possible. In 2007 a new documentary called The Pixar Story screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival. It covered the wild antics of the studio's founders as they crafted a new kind of movie—a fully computer-animated picture bursting with riotous… (Steven Levy via WIRED)
Calls for a Covid probe plunged Australia into a hacking nightmare. A few days after Prime Minister Scott Morrison called for an independent international probe into the origins of the coronavirus, Chinese bots swarmed on to Australian government networks. (Jamie Tarabay via Bloomberg)
Afghan Militants Fire Rockets at Kabul Airport as U.S. Nears Withdrawal. Afghan militants fired rockets at Kabul's airport as the U.S. rushed to complete its evacuation mission in Afghanistan before Tuesday's deadline to leave the country, with U.S. counter-rocket defenses deployed to intercept them. (Alan Cullison via Wall Street Journal)
PayPal is exploring a stock-trading platform for its U.S. customers. PayPal is exploring a possible stock-trading platform. After rolling out the ability to trade cryptocurrencies last year, the payments giant has been exploring ways to let users trade individual stocks, according to two sources familiar with the plans. (Kate Rooney via CNBC)
Telegram tops 1 billion downloads. The Dubai-headquartered app, which was launched in late 2013, surpassed the milestone on Friday, the mobile insight firm told TechCrunch. As is the case with the app’s chief rival, WhatsApp, India is the largest market for Telegram. (Manish Singh via TechCrunch)
Fujitsu says stolen data being sold on dark web 'related to customers'. Data from Japanese tech giant Fujitsu is being sold on the dark web by a group called Marketo, but the company said the information 'appears related to customers' and not their own systems. (Jonathan Greig via ZDNet)
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