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Facebook dating is now available in the US. Here’s how it works

Rollout includes new updates, including safety features, more Instagram integration.

Promotional image for Facebook Dating app.

Facebook has long been the place where everyone from college students to divorcées scope out their romantic interests. Now Facebook users in the United States can officially use the social network as a dating service—complete with specialized profiles, a matchmaking algorithm, and more. Facebook Dating, which began rolling out in other countries last year and launches in the US today, gives users ages 18 and up access to a suite of features designed to help them find a meaningful relationship. Plenty of them will be familiar to anyone with experience on other dating apps, but a few options take unique advantage of Facebook's biggest asset—its extensive cache of data on you and all your friends.

Facebook Dating lives within the existing Facebook app, but to use it you need to set up a separate profile. The only information carried over is your name and age. The service will present you with potential matches based on your location, indicated preferences, and other factors. You can also choose to match with people who attend the same Facebook events or are part of the same Facebook groups. One thing it won't show you are your existing Facebook friends—that option is turned off by default.

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Apple takes flak for disputing iOS security bombshell dropped by Google

Apple statement alienates the security community when the company needs it most.

Apple is taking flak for disputing some minor details of last week’s bombshell report that, for at least two years, customers' iOS devices were vulnerable to a sting of zeroday exploits, at least some of which were actively exploited to install malware that stole location data, passwords, encryption keys, and a wealth of other highly sensitive data.

Google’s Project Zero said the attacks were waged indiscriminately from a small collection of websites that “received thousands of visitors per week.” One of the five exploit chains Project Zero researchers analyzed showed they “were likely written contemporaneously with their supported iOS versions.” The researcher’s conclusion: “This group had a capability against a fully patched iPhone for at least two years.”

Earlier this week, researchers at security firm Volexity reported finding 11 websites serving the interests of Uyghur Muslims that the researchers believed were tied to the attacks Project Zero identified. Volexity’s post was based in part on a report by TechCrunch citing unnamed people familiar with the attacks who said they were the work of nation—likely China—designed to target the Uyghur community in the country’s Xinjiang state.

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6Wunderkinder: Entwickler möchte Wunderlist von Microsoft zurück

Zwischen 100 und 200 Millionen US-Dollar hat Microsoft für die in Berlin programmierte To-do-App Wunderlist bezahlt. Nun möchte einer der Entwickler die Anwendung zurückhaben. (6Wunderkinder, Microsoft)

Lenovo Thinkbook 13s review: ThinkPad influences at a great price

Almost anyone can appreciate this solid Windows laptop that starts at under $750.

Lenovo's ThinkPad family has a lot of fans, but not everyone can spend ThinkPad money on a laptop. Designed for small business customers (and regular consumers who want a more privacy-focused machine), Lenovo's new Thinkbooks seem like an experiment to boil the essence of a ThinkPad down into its most important parts and put those pieces in a more affordable package.

On paper, it seems Lenovo has done just that: the new Thinkbook 13s has a stress-tested aluminum body, comfortable keyboard, webcam privacy shutter, fingerprint reader, and other things that you'd find on a ThinkPad machine. But the Thinkbook's attractive starting price of $734 truly helps it stand out as an option for anyone who wants not just a ThinkPad alternative but a relatively affordable Windows machine as well.

Look and feel

Specs at a glance: Lenovo Thinkbook 13s
	Worst	Best	As reviewed
Screen	13.3-inch 1920×1080p anti-glare IPS non-touch
OS	Windows 10 Home 64
CPU	Core i5-8265U	Core i7-8565U	Core i5-8265U
GPU	Intel UHD Graphics 620
RAM	4GB	16GB	8GB
Storage	128GB PCIe SSD	512GB PCIe SSD	256GB PCIe SSD
Networking	802.11AC (2 x 2), Bluetooth 5.2
Ports	2 x USB-A 3.1, 1 x USB-C, 1 x HDMI, 1 x headphone jack, 1 x power port
Size	12.11×8.52×0.63 inches (307.6×216.4×15.9 mm)
Weight	2.95 pounds (1.34 kg)
Price	$734.30	$1,154.30	$832.30
Other perks	Webcam shutter, fingerprint reader on power button

Lenovo Thinkbook 13s

$734.30 from Lenovo

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Lenovo tried to give a ThinkPad machine the "modern ultrabook" makeover, and the result is the updated Thinkbook. That's not a derogatory statement—the Thinkbook 13s is quite attractive, and I wouldn't guess that it's a notebook with a $734 starting price. It has a slate gray color scheme that uses a lighter gray color on its anodized aluminum chassis, a darker gray on its keycaps, and shiny accents on the edges of the trackpad and a few other locations. Overall, it looks most akin to an IdeaPad notebook with some design influences from the ThinkPad X lineup.

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Mobilfunk: Scheuer plant “Weiße-Flecken-Auktionen”

Eine neue Mobilfunkstrategie des auch für Digitales und Infrastruktur zuständigen Bundesverkehrsministeriums unter Andreas Scheuer sieht unter anderem Auktionen für unterversorgte Gebiete vor. (5G, Mobilfunk)

Garmin: Vivomove bekommt bessere Displays und mehr Funktionen

Echte Zeiger, darunter ein Display: Das ist die Idee hinter der Vivomove von Garmin. In der überarbeiteten Serie gibt es bessere Bildschirmchen und wesentlich mehr Funktionen. (Garmin, OLED)

DDoS: Wikipedia über Stunden lahmgelegt

Unbekannte haben Wikipedia in Teilen von Europa stundenlang durch massive DDoS-Attacken lahmgelegt. Angeblich ein Test – der dann angekündigte Angriff auf Twitch und die Overwatch League hatte allerdings keine oder kaum spürbare Folgen. (Wikipedia, Twi…

Unbekannte haben Wikipedia in Teilen von Europa stundenlang durch massive DDoS-Attacken lahmgelegt. Angeblich ein Test - der dann angekündigte Angriff auf Twitch und die Overwatch League hatte allerdings keine oder kaum spürbare Folgen. (Wikipedia, Twitter)

Mondmission: Indischer Lander geriet außer Kontrolle und stürzte ab

Indiens Mondlander Vikram ist abgestürzt. In der zweiten Bremsphase ging die Kontrolle verloren und der Lander war nicht mehr zu retten. Es folgten Stille und demonstrative Versuche, doch noch eine Verbindung mit dem Lander herzustellen. Von Frank Wund…

ISPs: Pirate Site Blocking Threatens Freedom of Expression

The Internet Service Providers’ Association of South Africa believes that site blocking isn’t the right answer to piracy. The group describes the measure as “limited” and “blunt,” while stressing that it could threaten people’s rights to freedom of expression and access to information.

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Online piracy is an international problem for the content industries, one that’s particularly hard to curb.

Pirate site blocking appears to be the preferred countermeasure, which has been rolled out in dozens of countries over the years.

While industry reports and academic research have shown signs that this can indeed be effective, it’s certainly no a silver bullet.

With few other options to hand, rightsholders do see it as one of their best bets for now. As such, they frequently push lawmakers to lay the groundwork for ISP blocking, if that’s not available.

It’s also a topic of interest in South Africa at the moment, where the Government has been working on a new ‘Cybercrimes Bill. The proposed legislation doesn’t have any blocking requirements, but there have been calls from industry groups to require ISPs to block blatantly-infringing pirate sites.

While this doesn’t come as a complete surprise considering the global trend, local Internet providers are fiercely against any type of piracy enforcement. Speaking with MyBroadband, the Internet Service Providers’ Association of South Africa (ISPA) describes site blocking as ineffective and concerning.

“Blocking is technically complicated and subject to false positives, yet it is relatively trivial for consumers and content providers to bypass the blocks, bringing its effectiveness into question,” ISPA said.

“There are also complex freedom of expression concerns which are not for ISPs or copyright associations to resolve and which need to be properly ventilated through the courts,” the group added.

The ISP association points out that new technologies such as Encrypted DNS could render website blocking pretty much useless, without the need to use proxies or a VPN.

The group doesn’t deny that blocking may have a marginal anti-piracy effect but says that it’s unsure whether the positive impact of such as “blunt and limited” measure will outweigh the potential negative consequences.

“It is not clear that there will be any significant benefit to copyright holder associations and their members from this approach and certainly no indication that any positive impact will outweigh the risks to freedom of expression and access to information outlined above, as well as the cost of implementation,” ISPA noted.

There is currently no indication that the Government is seriously considering implementing any blocking-related obligations. However, it’s always possible that rightsholders will try to have such measures put in place through the judicial route.

ISPA didn’t comment on this option specifically, but going through the court will at least mean that the interests of the public at large will be carefully weighed.

Finally, ISPA also commented on some scaremongering which suggested that, under the new Cybercrimes Bill, ISPs will have to report all pirates to the authorities.

According to ISPA, this is an incorrect interpretation of the bill. The group stressed that current law makes it clear that ISPs don’t have to monitor their customers. In fact, doing so may be illegal.

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Doctors aghast at Groupon deals for medical care

The deals are actually pretty good, even if they show how broken the system is.

Coupons from the advertising section of a Sunday newspaper

Doctors online expressed shock and dismay after realizing that patients are using Groupon deals to access medical services, such as chest CT scans and mammograms, at discount rates, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.

Such deals illustrate how broken the US healthcare system is, according to Paul Ketchel, CEO and founder of MDsave, a site that offers discount-priced vouchers on bundled medical treatments and services.

That said, after their initial astonishment over the deals wore off, some doctors noted that the discounts were actually pretty good.

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