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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Fingerprints of 1M+ people and biometric info from a system used by banks, London police, and defense contractors, discovered on a publicly accessible database — Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
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vpnMentor, Forbes, Inquirer, BBC, ZDNet, The Register, Engadget, The Verge, ComputerWeekly.com, Apple Must, Silicon Republic, SlashGear, IT PRO, Computer Business Review, Tech.co, and TechRepublic
Tweets: @briankrebs, @tomsamaki, @kylerankin, @axbom, and @michaelgmadden
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019 — WeWork on Wednesday filed to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering, although the ultimate offering amount is expected to be at least three times larger.
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Business Insider, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Fortune, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Crunchbase News, TechCrunch, New York Times, PYMNTS.com, and CNBC
Tweets: @rstephens, @djtgallagher, @seldo, @annawiener, @ericnewcomer, @ranimolla, @anthony, @kateclarktweets, @tculpan, @zerohedge, and @zerohedge
| Bloomberg: |
FAA sent airlines a reminder to follow 2016 safety instructions that ban goods with recalled batteries, like recently recalled MacBook Pros, from the planes — - FAA says some MacBook Pros shouldn't be taken on airplanes — Apple recently recalled select laptops over battery fire risk
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iMore, Business Insider, Computerworld, The Register, EASA, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, NPR, Inquirer, iPhone in Canada Blog, Lifehacker, The Points Guy, The Verge, Softpedia News, The Mac Observer, Fast Company, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, Patently Apple, Android Authority, SlashGear, Firstpost Tech, AppleInsider, O'Grady's PowerPage, Pocket-lint, Engadget, Macworld, Cult of Mac, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, Fast Company, MacRumors, CNET, and Neowin
Tweets: @patrickmoorhead, @snazzyq, @markgurman, @anildash, and @tomwarren
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Facebook paid hundreds of contractors to transcribe user audio; FB says it's stopped the work, which affected users who wanted voice chats transcribed — - Social network says it paused human review of conversations — Apple, Amazon, Google have been scrutinized for similar work
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Axios, Threatpost, USA Today, Silicon Republic, BBC, ZDNet, Bloomberg, MIT Technology Review, Politico, KnowTechie, Voicebot, CoinGeek, TechCrunch, Inquirer, CNET, VICE, Softpedia News, Slate, news.com.au, AppleInsider, The Register, TechSpot, BetaNews, Coinspeaker, Bitcoinist.com, The Overspill, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Adweek, CCN Markets, Neowin, Boing Boing, Pocket-lint, iMore, MacRumors, Lifehacker, Mashable, The Next Web, and Telegraph
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter to soon let users follow interests, starting with sports, and create separate timelines for different topics; topics will be curated by Twitter using AI — A new way to explore interests on Twitter — Twitter will begin letting users follow interests, the company said today …
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on how the Tumblr acquisition came about, what's next for Tumblr, adult content in apps, and more — Blogging is back, hopefully — It's been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers.| Ursula Perano / Axios: |
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services to protect against spam and spoofed robocalls — AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services for their subscribers. That means the companies will now be able notify …
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T-Mobile, TechCrunch, CNET, The Verge, and Android Central
| John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
A closer look at what Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, hopes to accomplish beyond the existing work in this field — Neuralink will probably fail in interesting and worthwhile ways. — When Elon Musk first started talking about launching a brain-computer interface company …
Tweets: @arstechnica and @arstechnica
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft patches four wormable BlueKeep-like bugs in Remote Desktop Service, two of which can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction — Most Microsoft Windows (ab)users probably welcome the monthly ritual of applying security updates about as much as they look forward …
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Microsoft Security …, Wired, Naked Security, The Next Web, Zero Day Initiative, ZDNet, Neowin, The Hacker News, IT PRO, BleepingComputer, OpenSecurity.global, Security Affairs, Computer Business Review, WinBuzzer, ZDNet, Qualys Blog, Forbes, PCMag, and The Register
Tweets: @msftsecresponse, @daveaitel, @metr0, @arstechnica, @n0x08, @briankrebs, @thezdi, @goretsky, @dangoodin001, and @campuscodi
| Ed Targett / Computer Business Review: |
Amazon says it has added “fear” to the range of emotions that its Rekognition facial recognition software can now detect — Release follows amid immigration protests — AWS has added “fear” to the range of emotions identified by its Amazon Rekognition facial analysis service …
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CNBC, Amazon Web Services, Inc., CNET, Engadget, VICE, The Next Web, CBS News, Boing Boing, and Mashable
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Misfit's Vapor X smartwatch with Wear OS, a 1.19-inch AMOLED display, and a Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor, goes on sale today for an initial price of $200 — Thanks to more RAM and newer chipsets, things are finally looking up for Wear OS in the performance department.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Sources: Coinbase and Barclays end UK partnership, started in early 2018; Coinbase partners with ClearBank, which may have asked the exchange to drop Zcash — The most prestigious banking relationship in crypto has ended. — Barclays, the London-based global bank, is no longer working …
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CryptoGlobe, CoinGeek, The Next Web, ALTCOIN MAGAZINE, Coinspeaker, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @cryptosqueeze, @icodrops, @jswihart, and @murphsicles
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Boatsetter, a peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace, raises $10M Series A extension round led by WestCap Group and Valor Equity, bringing total raised to $31M — Obviously, not everyone owns their boat, and boat ownership is far more unique than car ownership - which makes it maybe …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
How a scammer ran a decade-long crowdfunding operation that raised ~$6M on Indiegogo and from other investors to build an ambitious phone/tablet/laptop device — The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam — In 2014, Jeffrey Tschiltsch opened an email from Indiegogo and saw the future of computing.
Tweets: @ron_miller, @verge, @thedextriarchy, @tayvano_, and @chetfaliszek
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Scoop, which provides a carpooling service for enterprises, raises $60M round led by Activate Capital, bringing its total raised to $106M — Enterprise carpooling startup Scoop just closed a $60 million round led by Activate Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs, NGP Capital …
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FinSMEs and VentureBeat
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: technicians from Huawei have, in at least two cases, personally helped African governments spy on their political opponents — Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
Tweets: @counternotions, @smith_jeffreyt, and @mtthwrose
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Engineer.ai, which claims to offer human-assisted AI to automate app development, doesn't use AI, and instead relies on human engineers in India — SoftBank-backed startup offers ‘human-assisted’ artificial-intelligence; current, former employees say company inflates its tech expertise| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian budget hotel booking startup Oyo says it will invest €300M in its vacation home rental business, as it looks to expand its footprint in Europe — Indian budget hotel booking startup Oyo will invest 300 million euros ($335 million) in its vacation home rental business … | Jake Bright / TechCrunch: |
Kobo360, a Nigerian freight logistics startup, raises $20M Series A led by Goldman Sachs and $10M in working capital financing from Nigerian commercial banks — Nigerian freight logistics startup Kobo360 has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Goldman Sachs and $10 million …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia says it has broken records for real-time conversational AI, training the industry-standard BERT model in 53 minutes and then inferring responses in ~2ms — Nvidia's GPU-powered platform for developing and running conversational AI that understands and responds to natural language requests …
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ZDNet, NVIDIA Newsroom, Inquirer, NVIDIA Developer Blog, and Neowin
Tweets: @ctnzr, @stanfordnlp, @piotrczapla, and @sanhestpasmoi
| Lauren Smiley / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at Senior Planet, a tech-themed community center that helps seniors and entrepreneurs over 65 use technology to work and make money — Inside Senior Planet, the tech-savviest retirement community on earth. — “All these microaggressions people talk about?” Tom Kamber says.
Tweets: @55fakingnormal
| Ana Wolsztajn / Tech.eu: |
Berlin-based PaulCamper, a sharing platform for renting and lending RVs, raises €7M Series A led by Adevinta — PaulCamper, a sharing platform for renting and lending RVs, has closed a Series A financing round of €7 million. The round was led by Adevinta with participation …
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