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Capital One announces breach affecting ~106M US and Canadian customers, with most info accessed from credit card applications; FBI has arrested suspected hacker — Capital One, the Virginia-based bank with a popular credit card business, announced Monday that a hacker had accessed …
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Pixel 4 will come with face unlock and radar-powered Motion Sense features to let you skip songs, snooze alarms, and more by waving your hand over the device — As we shared last month, Pixel 4 is in the works1. Today we're giving you an early look at the technology behind two new features coming …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google says it used field research that offered people $5 to scan their faces, to improve accuracy of face unlock; research data will be kept for 18 months — It's ensuring that the Pixel 4 will work on a wide range of faces — Google just announced a face unlock feature for the upcoming Pixel 4 …
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Microsoft acquires BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance startup; BlueTalon had raised about $27.4M, per Crunchbase — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired BlueTalon, a data privacy and governance service that helps enterprises set policies for how their employees can access their data.
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| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Uber says it laid off ~400 people across 75 offices from its 1,200-person marketing team, as the ride-hailing company tries to streamline its operations — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber said it laid off around 400 people from its marketing team on Monday, as the ride-hailing company tries to cut costs …
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| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
As identity fraud schemes plague Facebook, the company seems unable or unwilling to address accounts that use others' photos as their own profile pictures — Renee Holland sent her Facebook friend thousands of dollars. She became entwined in a global fraud that the social network …
Tweets: @jacknicas, @matthewkeyslive, @kashhill, @nytimes, @johnwilson, @taylorlorenz, @nytimes, @kevinroose, and @puiwingtam
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Huawei and Google were working together on a Huawei-branded smart speaker slated for September release, but that work ended after Trump's ban in May — China's Huawei and Google were working together on a new Huawei-branded smart speaker right before President Donald Trump restricted Huawei's access … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google announces expanded partnership with VMware, will support VMware Cloud Foundation, which helps enterprises deploy and run hybrid clouds, on Google Cloud — Google today announced a new partnership with VMware that will make it easier for enterprises to run their VMware workloads on Google Cloud.
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Researchers: Wind River's popular VxWorks' real-time operating system for embedded devices has had serious flaws for the past 13 years; patches are available — Almost a dozen serious vulnerabilities have been sitting for the past 13 years in the VxWorks real-time operating system (RTOS) …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Maryland-based Trinity Cyber raises $23M from Intel and others for its real-time threat mitigation services and hires ex-DHS Advisor Tom Bossert as CSO — Bowie, Maryland-based Trinity Cyber, a cybersecurity startup developing a platform that combines detection with “adversary inference” …
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| Corinne Reichert / CNET: |
AT&T wins $984M DOJ contract to move DOJ employees to a new communications platform that includes cybersecurity, cloud services, and access to AT&T's FirstNet — AT&T has won a $984 million, 15-year contract to help upgrade the US Department of Justice's technology systems.
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Swedish startup Minut, which makes a camera-less security device that relies on sensors including infrared motion detection and a mic, raises $8M Series A — Minut, a Swedish startup that has developed a camera-less home security device that it claims protects privacy better than competitors, has raised $8 million in Series A funding.
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Qualcomm and Tencent Games announce strategic partnership to create digital entertainment, including Snapdragon-based mobile gaming devices, AR/VR, and 5G games — I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. — Today, Qualcomm announced a sweeping …
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AppViewX, which offers a “low-code” platform that helps manage and automate application delivery, certificate lifecycles, and more, raises $30M Series A — Seattle-based company AppViewX just raised $30 million to help expand its networking automation technology, GeekWire has learned.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU's top court rules that sites with embedded Facebook Like buttons are responsible for data collected, must obtain user consent before data is sent to Facebook — Europe's top court has made a ruling that could affect scores of websites that embed the Facebook ‘Like’ button and receive visitors from the region.
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Reuters, CNET, BetaNews, ZDNet, Engadget, AdExchanger, SiliconANGLE, MSPoweruser, Fossbytes, TechSpot, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @mattnavarra, @jason_kint, @sally_hubbard, and @glenngabe
| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
How the West has misinterpreted the scope of China's social credit system, which is currently a patchwork of regional pilots and experimental projects — IN OCTOBER 2018, Vice President Mike Pence paid a visit to the Hudson Institute—a conservative Washington D.C. think tank …
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| Edward Ongweso Jr / VICE: |
Self-proclaimed “YouTubers Union” and IG Metall, Europe's largest trade union, launch a campaign to voice concerns about video monetization and distribution — The YouTubers Union has joined forces with Europe's largest trade union to fight for a fairer platform. — JÖRG SPRAVE| Caroline Haskins / VICE: |
According to notes from an Amazon webinar, Ring has partnered with 200+ local police departments in US, which can directly ask Ring owners for camera footage — Ring's partnerships with law enforcement could be far more more widespread than previously reported.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Profile of ATPCO, an airline-owned business that has handled fare data for the airline and travel industry for 50+ years, as it begins moving operations to AWS — For more than half a century, one airline-owned business has handled fare data for the whole industry.| TechCrunch: |
GitHub confirms it is blocking developers in Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Crimea from accessing private repositories and paid accounts due to sanctions — The impact of U.S. trade restrictions is trickling down to the developer community. GitHub, the world's largest host of source code …
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