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The Home Pod gets a price cut,

Facebook user records were exposed,

and Altaba shuts down.

Here's your daily crunch for April 4th, 2019. First up, Apple's Home Pod has gotten a $50 price cut.

Announced in mid-2017 and released in early 2018, the Siri-powered product brought a very apple approach to the category dominated by

Amazon and Google, with premium sound and design at a premium price of $349.

The $50 price drop puts the product under $300, though it's still pretty steep, so far as the category goes.

Apple has confirmed with Tech Crunch that this is a permanent price cut.

In security news, researchers have found 540 million

Facebook user records on exposed servers. According to the researchers write-up,

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