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US CBP says photos of travelers into and out of the country were accessed in breach of subcontractor, first learned of on May 31, fails to say how many affected — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has exposed the photos of travelers and vehicles traveling in and out of the United States.
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| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Washington Post: |
The US government and airlines are scanning faces of people not suspected of crimes, normalizing faces as data that can be kept, tracked, and inevitably, stolen — What's face recognition at the airport really about? Immigration policy and efficiency. — NEW YORK — You won't need …
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn says it has enough capacity to make all US iPhones outside of China if required should the trade war escalate further — - Main assembler Foxconn says it's got enough non-China capacity — Apple has so far not asked its Taiwanese partner to shift gear| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon will shut down its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the US on June 24, after closing in the UK late last year — Amazon will shutter its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the U.S. later this month, GeekWire has learned. — Amazon Restaurants first launched in Seattle back in 2015.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has no plans to add more backward compatible titles for Xbox One, but says Project Scarlett will run games from all four Xbox generations — No more Xbox 360 and Xbox additions to the catalog — Microsoft is winding down new additions to its Xbox backward compatibility catalog.
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| Jeff Jarvis / Whither news?: |
Publishers, lobbying for laws around the world that will help them extract payments from platforms like Google for linking to news, are ruining the internet — Around the world, news industry trade associations are corruptly cashing in their political capital — …
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| VICE: |
Facebook has quietly made changes to limit Graph Search over the weekend, following privacy scandals, says it will work with researchers affected by the changes — Facebook's Graph Search allowed anyone to search a wealth of public data on Facebook in very specific ways …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces general availability of Amazon Personalize, its fully-managed AI-powered recommendation service for AWS customers, starting in select regions — Delivering personalized experiences to customers just got easier, thanks to Amazon. The Seattle company today announced …
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| Lewis White / MSPoweruser: |
Microsoft announces updates to Xbox gamertags, including ten new alphabets and Discord-like hashcodes that will allow gamers to select any gamertag — MrStark#0528, I don't feel so good. — Major Nelson has confirmed that Xbox's iconic Gamertag system will be changing in the future.
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| Liz Pelly / The Baffler: |
How Spotify's vast access to mood-related data is valuable to brands and advertisers, allowing them to target its listening audience by their emotional states — Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit — MUSIC IS EMOTIONAL, and so our listening often signals something deeply personal and private.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Larry Page and Sergey Brin made an appearance at Google's “Thank God It's Friday” event on May 30 after a six month absence from the weekly meetings — Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have long been the stars of the search giant's weekly “TGIF” town hall meetings.| Meagan Simpson / BetaKit: |
H&R Block to acquire Toronto-based Wave Financial, which develops accounting, invoicing, and receipt-tracking software for small business owners, for $405M — Toronto-based Wave Financial, a financial planning platform for small business owners, is set to be acquired … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Intel acquires Barefoot Networks, which specializes in making programmable networking chips; Barefoot had raised ~$155M from Tencent, Alibaba, HPE, and others — When it launched out of stealth just three years ago, Barefoot Networks was hailed as a company that would transform the way a generation … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
A look at Grover, an AI system that is skilled at writing convincing fake news on myriad topics, which researchers created in order to reliably detect fake news — “To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” — One of the biggest problems in media today is so-called “fake news,” …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
RapidAPI, which developers use to search for, pay and connect to public APIs, raises $25M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 — APIs — the lightweight programming interfaces used by developers to integrate other applications with theirs, or to help their apps integrate with others …
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
New form factors for Portal video chat devices are coming this fall, Facebook VP of AR/VR Andrew “Boz” Bosworth says — KEY POINTS — Andrew “Boz” Bosworth, Facebook vice president of AR/VR, spoke on stage at the Code Conference in Phoenix. — A LinkedIn photo of Facebook exec Andrew “Boz” Bosworth.
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki apologizes to the LGBTQ community, says that demonetizing but leaving Steven Crowder's channel on the platform was the right decision — ‘Context really, really matters’ — YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is apologizing to the LGBTQ community in the wake …
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| Zachary Crockett / The Hustle: |
How one restaurant owner asked for 1-star Yelp reviews in 2014 and became famous as a vigilante hero among small business owners who were unhappy with Yelp — How one small business owner flipped the online review ecosystem on its head. — In 2014, chef Davide Cerretini advertised a special …
Tweets: @ingodwetryst, @ritholtz, @dejanseo, @aatishb, and @nabeelazeezdxb
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
A look at the rise of Facebook “blessings groups”, peer-to-peer aid groups where people ask for small amounts of money for help with pressing needs — About a month ago, Heather Wiley, a new mom, was scrolling through a Facebook group for mothers when she came across a post that made her heart break.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz and @taylorlorenz
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Brex, which provides corporate credit cards to tech startups, raises $100M round led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund at a $2.6B valuation — It has been a whirlwind 12 months for fledgling fintech startup Brex, which launched last June with $57 million in funding from some big-name investors …
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| CNBC: |
Digital imaging company Shutterfly says it has agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, in a deal that values the company at $2.7B — This is breaking news. Please check back for updates. — TRENDING NOW — Subscribe to CNBC PRO Licensing & Reprints Join …
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| South China Morning Post: |
Inside Huawei's seven-year quest to build its own OS, which, sources say, started in 2012 as a precaution against the possibility of US ban — The OS issue took an extra urgency after the US government in mid-May placed Huawei and its affiliates on a trade blacklist One of the biggest technical challenges … Sponsor Posts
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