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Sources: US tech companies, including Intel and Micron, have found ways to sell millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite the Trump administration's ban — SHANGHAI — A number of the United States' biggest chip makers have sold millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite …
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Tweets: @matthewstoller, @shaunrein, @chadbown, @msbshoshani, @davidjoachim, @econgeopoltech, @nytimesbusiness, and @paulmozur
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
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| Axios: |
Apple says it has acquired autonomous driving startup Drive.ai, hiring dozens of Drive.ai engineers and, per sources, taking over its autonomous cars — Apple bought Drive.ai, an autonomous driving startup once valued at $200 million, Apple confirmed to Axios on Tuesday, and has hired dozens of Drive.ai engineers.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Executives at seven of Facebook's Libra partners say the companies have only signed nonbinding agreements and have not yet paid to join the Libra Association — SAN FRANCISCO — One of the biggest selling points of Facebook's ambitious plans for its new cryptocurrency, Libra …
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Wired, InsideBitcoins.com, The Block, The Next Web, and Reuters
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| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
StockX, an online marketplace for sneakers, raises $110M Series C led by DST Global, General Atlantic, and GGV Capital and names Scott Cutler CEO — StockX is one of several online marketplaces that have turned resales of shoes into a big — and highly valued — business.
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| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Oppo demos an under-screen selfie camera with a display using a custom transparent material, plans to launch in a commercial phone “in the near future” — Coming to a commercial phone ‘in the near future’ — The past couple of years of smartphone design have been dominated …
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Bill Gates says his “greatest mistake” was Microsoft losing the platform opportunity to Android on mobile, in an interview at VC firm Village Global — Gates calls Microsoft's smartphones failure a “$400 billion” loss. — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently gave …
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Tweets: @arstechnica, @terrajobst, @rachaelrad, @harrymccracken, and @firstadopter
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Social media verification scams are rampant because the verification process is opaque and arbitrary; platforms need to rebuild the whole system — Travis Hawley was scrolling through the comments sections of LeBron James's Instagram posts recently when he noticed some postings from other athletes.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @birdyword, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @anildash, and @taylorlorenz
| Wall Street Journal: |
Report: tests of ~10K firmware images from 500+ Huawei telecom devices found 55% had at least one vulnerability, much higher than that of its rivals — Top U.S. officials say research confirms fears of risks, but report stops short of accusing the company of deliberately building flaws into system| Reuters: |
Chinese state-sponsored hackers, notably APT10, broke into eight IT service providers including HPE, IBM, and their client networks in a years-long invasion — Eight of the world's biggest technology service providers were hacked by Chinese cyber spies in an elaborate and years-long invasion, Reuters found.| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the NSA collected metadata about calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last October, in a second such incident — The National Security Agency collected records about U.S. calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last year, in a second such incident …
Tweets: @dnvolz, @jakelaperruque, and @maggienyt
| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Classical music has been an awkward fit for major streaming platforms because their metadata schemes and algorithms are mostly designed to favor pop music — When Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a classical music aficionado in Brooklyn, asked her Amazon Echo for some music recently …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers have discovered OSX/Linker malware exploiting an unpatched macOS flaw that would allow a malicious binary to bypass the Gatekeeper scanning process — Researchers find new OSX/Linker malware abusing still-unpatched macOS Gatekeeper bypass. — Mac malware developers have jumped …
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The Mac Security Blog, Lifehacker, Threatpost, The Mac Observer, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Security Affairs, MacDailyNews, Inquirer, and The Hacker News. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Bloomberg: |
Airbnb launches Airbnb Luxe, a new luxury tier of 2,000 listings with an average price of $14K a week to as high as $1M a week for a private atoll — Gone are the days of air mattresses on the floor. Airbnb Inc. is now catering to the mega-wealthy with a new tier of luxury rentals.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU opens formal antitrust investigation of Broadcom for suspected exclusivity practices and seeks an interim order to prevent anti-competitive behavior — The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into US chipmaker Broadcom which it suspects of restricting competition via … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Vulcan Cyber, which aims to automate security patching efforts, raises $10M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures and YL Ventures, bringing total raised to $14M — Many software vulnerabilities are already known, and vendors have even issued patches, but the problem is there are so many patches …
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FinSMEs, VentureBeat, Globes Online, and SiliconANGLE
| Corinne Abrams / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo, which has more rooms in China than in India, as it faces a bumpy rollout in the US, where it has 50+ hotel partners — A rare emerging-market unicorn aims to upend the hospitality business—but first it has to fix that runaway ceiling fan
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The Economic Times and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @doubleeph, @ericbellmanwsj, @bsomaia, @rishad, @wsj, and @drorpoleg
| ProPublica: |
Some US schools are using microphones equipped with “aggression detection” algorithms, which critics say are unreliable, raising concerns about surveillance — Headphones recommended. … Ariella Russcol specializes in drama at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens …
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Gizmodo. Tweets: @erinscafe, @poppy_haze, @pedroliveira_, @rustin3000, @c_emilydurbin, @johnsonmirandab, @jessicahuseman, @torproject, @adamgoldmannyt, @eatinginmycar, @propublica, @jackgillum, @sisiwei, @propublica, and @eff
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Image sharing platform Imgur says it has raised $20M from Coil, a micropayments tool that Imgur will build into its service ahead of a forthcoming premium tier — Meme creators have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes props up social networks …
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Agam Shah / Wall Street Journal: |
MLPerf, a consortium of 40 tech companies including Facebook and Google, releases a set of benchmarks for evaluating the performance of AI tools — Metrics cover AI performance in image recognition, object detection and voice translation — A consortium of tech companies …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils OneDrive Personal Vault, which protects folders with 2FA and is expected by year end, and ups OneDrive's $1.99/mo plan from 50GB to 100GB — Available to everyone by the end of the year — Microsoft is adding a new secured storage area to OneDrive where users can store more sensitive files.
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Tweets: @dcuthbert, @jaredhaight, @jsnover, and @tomwarren
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
FTC and DOJ announce their latest crackdown on robocallers, taking 94 actions against several companies and people blamed for a recent wave of spam calls — Federal authorities have announced its latest crackdown on illegal robocallers — taking close to a hundred actions against several companies …
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