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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, MIT Technology Review, Forbes, Android Central, Dark Reading, BBC, TechSpot, The Verge, Mashable, Inquirer, Apple Must, Silicon Republic, Computer Business Review, ZDNet, SlashGear, Engadget, The Register, IT PRO, Tech.co, and ComputerWeekly.com
Tweets: @briankrebs, @lessin, @zackwhittaker, @kylerankin, @profcarroll, @tomsamaki, @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.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Court documents allege that the Capital One hacker took “terabytes of data” from over 30 companies, educational institutions, and other entities — New court documents reveal the government is investigating the Capital One hacker for 30+ other breaches.| 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.| 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
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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| 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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Tweets: @patrickmoorhead, @snazzyq, @tomwarren, @anildash, and @markgurman
| 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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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
About 200 Google employees sign a petition, saying they “refuse to be complicit” in potential cloud computing work for the US Customs & Border Protection agency — Workers are circulating a petition — Google employees are demanding that the company not bid … | Jordan Davis / Facebook: |
Facebook simplifies Groups' privacy settings, to public and private; “secret” Groups are now private and hidden, and “closed” Groups are now private and visible — As Mark Zuckerberg laid out earlier this year, social networks can serve as the digital equivalent of a town square or a living room.
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Microsoft updates privacy policy to say employees or contractors may listen to recordings from Cortana and Skype Translator, after reports revealed the practice — The change comes after Motherboard found that Microsoft hired contractors to listen to some Skype phone calls.
Tweets: @josephfcox and @josephfcox
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Course Kit, its toolkit for teachers launched last year, will now be called Assignments and be able to detect plagiarism — Google is introducing a handful of updates to its Google for Education program today — including a new tool that helps teachers check students' work for possible plagiarism.
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The Keyword, TechCrunch, ZDNet, 9to5Google, G Suite Updates Blog, and EdSurge. Tweets: @caseynewton
| 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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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook AI Research, DeepMind, NYU, and University of Washington debut SuperGLUE, a series of AI benchmarks to measure natural language processing performance — Facebook AI Research, together with Google's DeepMind, University of Washington, and New York University, today introduced SuperGLUE …
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| 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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Threatpost, CNN, Microsoft Security …, BleepingComputer, Naked Security, SlashGear, Dark Reading, Security Boulevard, IT PRO, Computer Business Review, The Next Web, ZDNet, Security Affairs, WinBuzzer, Neowin, The Hacker News, and OpenSecurity.global
Tweets: @msftsecresponse, @daveaitel, @metr0, @tomwarren, @malwarejake, @arstechnica, @n0x08, @briankrebs, @goretsky, @thezdi, @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, Boing Boing, and CBS News
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Slack announces new administrator features for Plus and Enterprise customers, including announcement channels and workflow automation — Slack is making it easier for administrators to limit how employees talk to each other with notification channels that form a new kind of Slack chat space.| 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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TechCrunch, Engadget, Digital Trends, Android Police, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, and TechRadar.com
| 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
| 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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| Catherine Perloff / Forbes: |
Mason, which helps businesses like Outback Steakhouse design and manufacture custom hardware like tablets, raises $25M Series A and says it's profitable — Start a company today, and there's a playbook to follow. Need in-app messaging and phone calls? Plug in Twilio.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Shopify launches a web chat feature called Shopify Chat to let customers talk to merchants, says it plans to expand it to SMS and Android in the future — Shopify's cohort of more than 800,000 merchants and small businesses have a new way to speak to customers today with the introduction of Shopify Chat.
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