Techmeme: PayPal's looking into unauthorized transactions that appear to stem from its Google Pay integration; researcher says it may involve a bug reported but not fixed (Catalin Cimpanu/ZDNet)

Bug in Cypress and Broadcom Wi-Fi chips meant billions of devices, many now patched, left comms open to eavesdropping; Apple, Amazon, and others were affected — Cypress and Broadcom chip bug bit iPhones, Macs, Android devices, Echoes, and more. — SAN FRANCISCO — Billions of devices …

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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Plume, which develops an AI-powered adaptive home Wi-Fi mesh network system, raises $60M Series D at a $510M valuation, bringing its total raised to $127M

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

At Apple's shareholder meeting, Tim Cook says it will open its online store in India this year, with physical stores in 2021, and addresses COVID-19 concerns — - CEO hints wearables sales $40 billion; equal to Marriott, Visa — Company plans to open retail stores in India next year

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Tweets: @markgurman, @jacknicas, and @markgurman

Reuters:

Ex-Apple employees and supply chain experts say preparation for new iPhone production, which usually starts early in the year, may be delayed due to COVID-19

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Tweets: @danwwang and @stephennellis

Amal S / Reuters:

Google says it will spend $10B on offices and data centers in the US this year, focusing on 11 states including MA and NY, down from $13B in 2019 — (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it would invest more than $10 billion in offices and data centers across the United States this year.

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Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast:

Clearview AI, provider of facial recognition search to police, says an intruder accessed its entire list of customers and how many searches they have conducted — Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got …

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Taylor Soper / GeekWire:

Jury convicts ex-Microsoft engineer of 18 felonies after he stole $10M in digital currencies from the company and used it to make extravagant purchases — A former Microsoft worker was convicted of 18 federal felonies after he stole $10 million worth of digital currency from his ex-employer …

More: U.S. Department of Justice, Business Insider, Micky, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, ZDNet, The Block, and Renton Reporter. Tweets: @counternotions

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Declassified study: NSA system to analyze American domestic call and text logs cost $100M from 2015 to 2019 and yielded only one significant investigation — A disputed program that allowed the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts yielded …

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Tweets: @faizapatelbcj, @snowden, and @jameeljaffer

Nick Statt / The Verge:

Google adds five new languages to Translate, including Uyghur, Turkmen, and Tatar, its first additions in four years, bringing its total to 108 — Five new languages for a total of 108 — Google Translate is adding support for five new languages today, bringing its total to 108 languages.

More: The Keyword, Android Police, BetaNews, 9to5Google, and ZDNet

Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:

PayPal's looking into unauthorized transactions that appear to stem from its Google Pay integration; researcher says it may involve a bug reported but not fixed — All signs point to an attack exploiting PayPal's Google Pay integration. … Hackers have found a bug in PayPal's Google Pay integration …

More: CyberNews, Forbes, Spyware news, Computing, NFCW, HackRead, TechRadar.com, and BleepingComputer

Tweets: @iblueconnection, @iblueconnection, @forbeseurope, @grannyclear, @chey_cobb, @norton, @chey_cobb, and @metacurity

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

D-Wave launches Leap 2, the latest version of its quantum cloud service for developers that can handle problems with up to 10,000 variables — D-Wave today announced the launch of Leap 2, the latest version of its quantum cloud service that gives developers real-time access to its hardware quantum systems.

More: VentureBeat, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, and HPCwire

Rob Price / Business Insider:

Facebook says it will now ban ads that promise to cure or prevent COVID-19, or attempt to “create a sense of urgency” about it — - Facebook is tightening up its rules on ads that reference the coronavirus outbreak. — It is banning ads that mentioned it if they attempt to …

More: The Verge, The Next Web, Tech Times, TechSpot, Engadget, Inc42 Media, CNET, Input, Mashable, and PhoneArena

Tweets: @sarah_mojarad, @iamslick, @paddycosgrave, @jason_kint, @fabiochiusi, and @karlitaliliana

Karandeep Singh / Android Police:

Samsung says the S20 series came with its first dedicated security chip, called the Secure Element, separating memory from main storage — Our mobile operating systems are protected with adequate software-based security measures to keep the miscreants away, but there's always more that can be done.

More: Samsung Global Newsroom, Android Authority, Android Authority, Neowin, and Android Authority

Aaron Harris / Y Combinator:

YC shares learnings across 190 Series As for founders with a term sheet that's the “fairest one possible”, an extensive Series A Guide, and more — We started YC's Series A Program two years ago to fix a problem faced by every startup raising an A: VCs understand how Series A's work and founders do not.

More: TechCrunch. Tweets: @alexisohanian, @mwseibel, and @ycombinator

Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet:

HackerOne reports hackers on its platform, which doubled to 600K in 2019, received $40M in bounties in 2019, $82M total since 2012, with 7 hackers passing $1M — The bug bounty platform doubled in size in just a year. Its new report shows that ethical hacking is becoming a lucrative pastime.

More: VentureBeat, HackerOne, WeLiveSecurity, SecurityWeek, The Next Web, and Business Insider

Tweets: @hacker0x01 and @campuscodi

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:

An in-depth look at what India's internet blackout looks like in Kashmir: social control with select media allowed, businesses crippled, the vulnerable isolated — Like the snowcapped mountains and grassy meadows, men with guns are part of the landscape in Kashmir.

More: Slashdot. Tweets: @r_d, @sanasaeed, @matthewchampion, @mattzeitlin, @mattzeitlin, @scottlucas, and @pranavdixit

Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News:

Connected fitness startup Tempo, which uses AI to tailor workouts, raises $17.5M Series A from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and others — The connected fitness space just keeps growing. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily — Tempo is the latest company to join the pack …

More: The Verge and VentureBeat

Rebekah Valentine / GamesIndustry.biz:

Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, developer of Asgard's Wrath, for an undisclosed amount; the game studio will remain independent under Oculus Studios — Studio behind Asgard's Wrath to join Oculus Studios and continue VR development — Facebook has acquired Asgard's Wrath developer Sanzaru Games for an undisclosed amount.

More: Oculus Blog, Game Rant, VRFocus, Market Realist, Road to VR, Business Insider, Wccftech, GameSpot, Engadget, Social Media Today, PC Games Insider, Input, TechCrunch, Hollywood Reporter, Road to VR, Android Central, Gamasutra, and UploadVR

Tweets: @scobleizer, @boztank, @ericflo, @wumpagem, and @vtnvivi

Bloomberg:

Autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai says it has raised $462M in its latest funding round led by Toyota at a valuation of more than $3B — Toyota Motor Corp. invested $400 million in Pony.ai to strengthen its ties with the Chinese provider of driverless-car systems.

More: The Verge, International Business Times, Silicon Valley Business …, and Reuters. Tweets: @johnlilic

Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg:

Sources: Invite Media reduced its assets before Google's $80M acquisition in 2010 to avoid requiring FTC approval, the kind of deal the FTC is now re-examining — The 2010 acquisition of Invite Media could come up for new scrutiny — Something unusual was underway in early 2010 at Invite Media …

Tweets: @mattrosoff, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @jason_kint, @ericnewcomer, and @alex

Jordan Novet / CNBC:

Salesforce acquires Vlocity, a provider of cloud and mobile software built atop Salesforce, for $1.33B, and beats with Q4 revenue of $4.85B, up 35% YoY — - Keith Block became co-CEO alongside Marc Benioff less than two years ago. — Salesforce announced the $1.33 billion acquisition of Vlocity in addition to the departure.

More: diginomica, Seeking Alpha, Vlocity, Salesforce.com, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Enterprise Times, coinspeaker.com, cloudpro.co.uk, and Computer Business Review. Tweets: @teddyschleifer

Salesforce:

Salesforce says Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO but will still advise Marc Benioff; Gavin Patterson named President and CEO of Salesforce International

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet, TheStreet, Enterprise Times, Silicon Valley Business …, SiliconANGLE, IT Management, and Axios

Tweets: @sallyshin, @parkerharris, @benioff, and @wsj

Tom Krisher / NBC Bay Area:

NTSB says the driver in a 2018 Tesla accident was distracted by a game on his phone and that the NHTSA's hands-off approach to self-driving tech is “misguided” — Just before the crash, the Tesla steered to the left into a paved area between the freeway travel lanes and an exit ramp

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Tweets: @chrisgailus, @pauldoroshenko, @counternotions, @quinnypig, @mattoyeah, and @jwilliamsap

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