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Apple suspends Siri response grading, where contractors reviewed Siri queries without explicit user consent, promises update that will allow users to opt in — In response to concerns raised by a Guardian story last week over how recordings of Siri queries are used for quality control, Apple is suspending the program world wide.
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Google will let Android users in Europe choose their default search engine starting in 2020; inclusion on the choice screen will be determined via auction — Only the top-three bidders will appear alongside Google on the choice screen — Starting in early 2020, Google will present …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
FTC is looking into the Amazon/Apple deal that kicked many small resellers off Marketplace, has interviewed at least one reseller of refurbished MacBooks — Experts say the deal raises serious antitrust concerns — Last year, Amazon cut a deal with Apple to bring direct iPhone sales to its platform for the first time.
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FTC asks that the 147M people affected by the Equifax breach take free credit monitoring as only $31M of the $575M+ Equifax settlement is allocated to consumers — After “overwhelming” public interest, the FTC now urges users to settle for free credit monitoring instead.
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Google to add an automated text-to-speech feature for emergency calls made via the Pixel Phone app to help relay location information to first responders — The new feature will automatically describe the kind of emergency and exact address to first responders
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| Mark Harris / The Guardian: |
FCC filing: Pentagon tests high-altitude balloons in Midwest for a “surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats” — Exclusive: the high-altitude balloons promise a cheap monitoring platform that could follow multiple cars and boats for extended periods| New York Times: |
Records show the NYPD has uploaded arrest photos of juveniles into a facial recognition database since 2015, despite higher risk of false matches in young faces — With little oversight, the N.Y.P.D. has been using powerful surveillance technology on photos of children and teenagers.
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash agrees to acquire Caviar, Square's food delivery business, for $410M in cash and preferred DoorDash stock — DoorDash has reached an agreement with Square to purchase on-demand food delivery and catering business Caviar . DoorDash has agreed to pay Square $410 million in cash and preferred DoorDash stock.
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| Will Knight / MIT Technology Review: |
Researchers developed AI that learned chess not by playing but analyzing reactions of expert commentators in text form to evaluate the quality of the moves — Machines that appreciate “brilliant” and “dumb” chess moves could learn to play the game—and do other things—more efficiently.
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| Rae Hodge / CNET: |
Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduces a bill that would give voters five rights, including the right to be notified when campaigns obtain their data — Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday introduced a bill prompted by Cambridge Analytica's misuse of Facebook users' private data.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC says ISPs must provide geospatial maps of where they provide service, instead of just listing census blocks, will let the public comment on their accuracy — ISPs will have to submit geospatial maps of broadband service areas. — The Federal Communications Commission voted today … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the Federal Reserve examined a Virginia Amazon cloud facility in spring, the first of what is expected to be ongoing oversight of big cloud providers — Visit was made in April to Amazon facility in Virginia — The Federal Reserve conducted a formal examination this spring …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google's Project Zero says 95.8% of the 1,585 security flaws it reported since July 2014 were fixed before its 90-day deadline for a public disclosure — Google Project Zero: Disclosing technical bug reports and PoCs help defenders more than attackers. — The Google Project Zero team … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Poshmark, an online clothes marketplace with 50M+ users, says some user info, including names and hashed passwords, was taken by an unauthorized third party — Poshmark, an online marketplace for buying and selling clothes, has reported a data breach. — The company said in a brief blog post …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Babylon Health raises $550M Series C at $2B+ valuation from Saudi Arabia's PIF, Kinnevik, and others to expand its AI-based health services to the US and Asia — Babylon Health, the UK-based startup that has developed a number of AI-based health services, including a chatbot used …
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| Dell Cameron / Gizmodo: |
Amazon's Ring says that it receives some real-time 911 call data, including addresses, from police, which helps it curate crime news posts for its Neighbors app — Amazon-owned home security company Ring is pursuing contracts with police departments that would grant it direct access to real …
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| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
Hong Kong startup Tink Labs, which has raised $160M to provide free-to-use smartphones in hotel rooms, is shutting down in many markets, undergoing mass layoffs — Handy is a smartphone service operated by Tink Labs that equipped hotels globally with in-room handsets for guests Tink Labs informed employees …
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