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Internal docs show Facebook gave ~150 companies access to more user data than disclosed; some could read private DMs; Facebook says it didn't violate FTC decree — Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people's data than it has disclosed.
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Facebook says it shared data with integration partners only when users signed in with their Facebook accounts to access features on other platforms and devices — Today, we're facing questions about whether Facebook gave large tech companies access to people's information and, if so, why we did this.
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AG for District of Columbia Karl Racine files lawsuit against Facebook over allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, access to users' information — The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Facebook for allowing Cambridge Analytica …
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Apple rolls out iOS 12.1.2 for iPhone with eSIM bug fixes and China-specific changes to address Qualcomm injunction, including a new app closing animation — Apple on Monday released iOS 12.1.2 exclusively for iPhones. The software update fixes bugs related to eSIM activation on the iPhone XR …
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Google repeatedly pushes the web in a proprietary direction to improve its services on Chrome making Microsoft's adoption of Chromium a loss for the open web — Analysis: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place. — With Microsoft's decision to end development … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
NASA reveals data breach of employee information including Social Security numbers in October; scope of breach and number of impacted employees still unclear — Hack took place in October 2018. Agency still doesn't know the number of impacted employees. — The US National Aeronautics …
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Researchers discover breach at EU's diplomatic communications network, which yielded over 1,100 cables, and 100+ other orgs, likely occurring over several years — WASHINGTON — Hackers infiltrated the European Union's diplomatic communications network for years, downloading thousands … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Nvidia researchers show how far AI image generation has advanced in recent years in creating realistic and customizable faces — Those people on the right aren't real; they're the product of machine learning — Developments in artificial intelligence move at a startling pace — so much so that it's often difficult to keep track.| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
An overview of how deep convolutional neural networks have gotten good at recognizing images, after a landmark 2012 paper called AlexNet transformed the field — A landmark 2012 paper transformed how software recognizes images. — Right now, I can open up Google Photos, type “beach,” …
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Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running apps in isolation, for users running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise build 18301 and later — Microsoft's coming ‘Windows Sandbox’ feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation.
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Facebook open sources its DeepFocus VR research, which aims to create ultra-realistic visuals for eye-tracking headsets — Facebook is releasing public code and formally open sourcing its DeepFocus research into ultra-realistic visuals for VR headsets. — The DeepFocus approach … | Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Even with location tracking turned off, Facebook uses IP addresses, check-ins, and cities on profiles to approximate user locations for ads and other services — Aleksandra Korolova has turned off Facebook's access to her location in every way that she can.
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Hackers steal personal data including credit card information of ~300K people across 46 cities, using a vulnerability in government payment software Click2Gov — Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it's even worse when hackers have compromised your town's payment system.
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CyberScoop, Gemini Advisory, FedScoop, ZDNet, PYMNTS.com, and DataBreaches.net. Tweets: @jeffjohnroberts
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Match fires Tinder comms VP Rosette Pambakian, others; emails show Pambakian blames lawsuit, CEO says Pambakian's refusal to talk without lawyer led to firing — The Verge obtained an email exchange between her and Match's CEO — Multiple Tinder employees who sued the dating app's parent company … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Microsoft Surface Go LTE review: ultra portable, great keyboard, and LTE is very convenient but the extra $130 is hard to justify and it has poor battery life — A little of the future with too much of the past — The Surface Go is not a fast computer, but it's familiar.| Mallory Locklear / Engadget: |
Facebook posts a six-month update on its civil rights audit: 2018 changes included voting encouragement and banning voting disinformation — In May, Facebook agreed to conduct a civil rights audit, and now the company has released an update of its progress.
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Blockstream expands its satellite service, which lets users transfer bitcoin through leased satellites, to Asia Pacific and adds support for lightning payments — Bitcoin users' ability to send transactions through outer space has just been given a boost. — Blockchain technology firm … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Zwift, which turns indoor cycling workouts into multiplayer games, raises $120M Series B led by Highland Europe — Fitness and gaming have been two of the most popular categories of apps for years, and now a startup founded out of London that has combined the two in a unique way has picked … | Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Cambridge Mobile Telematics, which develops a platform for measuring driving performance, raises $500M from SoftBank's Vision Fund — Last month, Xconomy asked tech CEOs what $100 million in venture capital can buy. How about $500 million? — Cambridge Mobile Telematics said Wednesday morning … | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Blythe Masters, CEO of blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings and a former JPMorgan executive, will step down as CEO but remain on its board — Blythe Masters left her job as a high-flying JPMorgan Chase executive in 2014, and soon after became CEO of Digital Asset, a blockchain startup that caters to banks and startups.
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