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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: more than half of the state attorneys general in the US are preparing an antitrust investigation into Google, scheduled to be announced on September 9 — More than half of the nation's state attorneys generals are preparing to announce an antitrust investigation into Google next week.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Android 10 launches today, with the update available to all Pixel phones — After six betas over six months, the newest version of Android is finally out. — Android 10 is finally finished! The next big Android update, which we've been examining for most of the year as the “Android Q Beta,” starts rolling out to devices today.
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| Ravie Lakshmanan / The Next Web: |
Report: scammers used commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate a German company's boss, tricking a manager into transferring $243K — It's already getting tough to discern real text from fake, genuine video from deepfake. Now, it appears that use of fake voice tech is on the rise too.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 69 arrives and now blocks third-party tracking cookies, fingerprinting, and cryptomining by default — Mozilla today launched Firefox 69 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Firefox 69 blocks third-party tracking cookies and cryptomining by default.
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| Facebook: |
Facebook says its facial recognition tech will no longer identify new users in their photos by default; all users can now opt out via a Face Recognition setting — Facebook has always given you control over whether we use face recognition technology to recognize you in photos.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Flaws found in Supermicro motherboards could let hackers remotely mount virtual USB drives; patch issued, but 47,000+ potentially exposed devices found online — A newly disclosed vulnerability in Supermicro hardware brings the threat of malicious USBs to corporate servers.
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Samsung plans to unveil a 6.7-inch phone, which will shrink to a pocketable square when folded inward like a clamshell, early next year — - Coming in 2020, it will close inward like a classic flip phone — Collaboration with designer Thom Browne to push luxury appeal
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Financial Times, Engadget, SamMobile, MSPoweruser, CNBC, PCWorld, iPhone in Canada Blog, Neowin, TechSpot, Business Insider, Gizmodo, XDA Developers, Cult of Mac, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks, Tom's Guide, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, GeekWire, Mashable, KnowTechie, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Android Central, Firstpost Tech, ZDNet, Android Headlines, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Thurrott, The Verge, Phandroid, Fast Company, TizenHelp, Seeking Alpha, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, and Slashdot. Tweets: @vladsavov
| YouTube Blog: |
YouTube has removed 100K+ videos and 17K channels for hate speech, ~5x more than in Q1, since implementing changes to its hateful content policies in June — Over the past several years, we've redoubled our efforts to live up to our responsibility while preserving the power of an open platform.
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| Raymond Zhong / New York Times: |
Huawei says, without evidence, that the US targeted its networks with cyberattacks, and that FBI agents have pressed Huawei staffers at home for info on Huawei — BEIJING — The Chinese technology giant Huawei said on Tuesday, without providing evidence, that the United States government … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
SoftBank is $600M+ underwater on its early-2018 Uber investment as the stock hits an all-time low; because of a CFIUS review, it may not get board seats — KEY POINTS — SoftBank backed Uber in early 2018, buying shares from existing investors for $48.77 a piece and purchasing new shares at just under $33.
Tweets: @dee_bosa and @mattrosoff
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts Neural Structured Learning, a TensorFlow-compatible open source framework that specializes in training neural nets with graphs and structured data — Google today introduced Neural Structured Learning (NSL), an open source framework that uses the Neural Graph Learning method …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Zero-day exploit broker Zerodium increases the price of a “zero-click” exploit chain for Android to $2.5M, eclipsing iOS' top prize for the first time — Exploit broker Zerodium increases zero-day prices for Android, now worth more than iOS. — Zerodium, a company which claims …
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