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Reddit files to go public — at last

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Social media giant Reddit filed to go public today. Its long-awaited S-1 filing will see it approach the public markets potentially at the head of a long column of richly valued technology startups and private companies that need to find an exit this year. The timing of Reddit’s IPO is not a surprise. The company’s got … Read more

Chinese firm’s leaked files show vast international hacking effort

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A trove of leaked documents from a Chinese state-linked hacking group shows that Beijing’s intelligence and military groups are carrying out large-scale, systematic cyber intrusions against foreign governments, companies and infrastructure — exploiting what the hackers claim are vulnerabilities in U.S. software from companies including Microsoft, Apple and Google. The cache — containing more than … Read more

How I purged over 175GB of files from my Mac in under a minute (and you can too)

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Macpaw’s CleanMyMac highlighting a lot of purgeable files on my MacBook Pro. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Recently, I noticed my MacBook Pro was performing sluggishly, not during routine tasks like browsing or word processing, but with more demanding applications such as Adobe’s Premiere Pro and Photoshop. Opening and saving large files became laggy, a delay that hadn’t … Read more

Boutique e-motorcycle startup Cake files for bankruptcy

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Electric motorcycle startup Cake filed for bankruptcy February 1, CEO Stefan Ytterborn has confirmed to TechCrunch. The Swedish company was in the middle of a funding round, just prior to the filing, but apparently the withdrawal of an investor was what tipped the company over the edge, according to Swedish media reports. Ytterborn declined to … Read more

Prosecutors in classified files case say Trump team’s version of events ‘inaccurate and distorted’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Prosecutors in the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump told a judge Friday that defense lawyers had painted an “inaccurate and distorted picture of events” and had unfairly sought to “cast a cloud of suspicion” over government officials who were simply trying to do their jobs. The comments came in … Read more

Here’s the best way to transfer large files between your laptop and desktop

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PashaIgnatov/ZDNET If you do a lot of video and photo editing on location, you know what a hassle it is to move media files between your laptop and your desktop PC or Mac.  So, what’s the best way to transfer those files from one device to another? As with just about every tech-related question ever, … Read more

Jay Leno Files for Conservatorship Over Wife Mavis Due to Her Dementia

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Jay Leno has filed for conservatorship over his wife, Mavis Elizabeth Leno, because she suffers from dementia. According to court documents obtained by ET, the late-night TV legend filed the petition Friday in Los Angeles County Superior Court requesting that the judge make him the conservator so that he can structure her living trust and other … Read more

Jay Leno Files For Conservatorship Over Wife Mavis, She Suffers From Alzheimer’s

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Jay Leno is taking steps to manage his wife’s affairs … in the form of a conservatorship. The comedian filed legal docs Friday to become conservator of his wife Mavis Leno’s estate … according to court records. A source with direct knowledge tells TMZ … Jay’s wife suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. The diagnosis, our source … Read more