Huawei has filed a motion for summary judgement in its lawsuit against the US, in a bid to expedite an outcome without the costs and time of a full trial (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
Apple's former head of App Store approvals, Phillip Shoemaker, discusses the review process, app rejections, competition between Apple and developers, and more (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Experts say ransomware victims like Baltimore have not taken sufficient measures to protect against the EternalBlue exploit two years after it first leaked (Joseph Marks/Washington Post)
Chinese food delivery apps generated an estimated 1.6M tons of packaging waste in 2017, a ninefold jump from two years before, growing to ~2M tons in 2018 (New York Times)
Intel unveils Honeycomb Glacier, a concept gaming laptop with a 15.6" 1080p primary screen and a 12.3" 1920x720 secondary screen lifted up by a double hinge (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Flipboard says hackers had access to its servers for 9+ months and stole some customers' info, including digital tokens linking profiles to 3rd-party services (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)
HP unveils its revamped VR Backpack with an 8th-gen Intel Core i7 CPU, an Nvidia RTX 2080 GPU, and swappable batteries, coming this summer for $3,300 (Sam Rutherford/Gizmodo)
FireEye acquires Verodin, a startup that assesses the effectiveness of an organization's cybersecurity, for $250M; Verodin had raised $33M+, per Crunchbase (Ron Miller/TechCrunch)
LinkedIn acquires Drawbridge, a startup that helps companies with identity management using machine learning; Drawbridge has raised nearly $69M (Alex Wilhelm/Crunchbase News)
Twitch temporarily disables the ability for new accounts to livestream after trolls streamed porn, illegal content, and hateful imagery on a section of the site (Julia Alexander/The Verge)
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