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| 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 …
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| 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.
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HackerOne, SecurityWeek, The Next Web, and Business Insider
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| 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 …
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CyberNews, Forbes, Spyware news, Computing, NFCW, HackRead, TechRadar.com, and BleepingComputer
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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 …
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| 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.
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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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| 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.
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| Karandeep Singh / Android Police: |
Samsung says the S20 series come 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.
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| 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 — Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) today announced that Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO of Salesforce and Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO of the company.
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| 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 …
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| 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 — SAN FRANCISCO/TAIPEI (Reuters) - Travel restrictions to China because of the coronavirus have come just as Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) …
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Market Realist, International Business Times, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, iPhone Hacks, Bloomberg, Tom's Guide, AppleInsider, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, and 9to5Mac
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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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 — Plume, a Comcast-backed startup that develops an AI-powered adaptive home Wi-Fi mesh network system, has raised $85 million in a mixture of equity and debt financing.
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Ars Technica, FinSMEs, and Light Reading
| 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.
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| 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: @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @mattrosoff, @jason_kint, @ericnewcomer, and @alex
| Hannah Gilberstadt / Pew Research Center: |
Pew: 74% of US adults have little or no confidence in tech companies like Facebook and Google preventing misuse of their platforms to influence 2020's election — Nearly three-quarters of Americans (74%) express little or no confidence in technology companies like Facebook …
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KnowTechie, TechCrunch, Axios, International Business Times, and OpinionToday.com newsletter
Tweets: @facttank, @pewresearch, and @helloitsthao
| 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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CNBC, NTSB, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, CCN.com, iMore, MacRumors, Engadget, Protocol, iPhone Hacks, SiliconANGLE, Game Rant, BGR, Business Insider, Digital Trends, and Houston Chronicle
Tweets: @counternotions, @chrisgailus, @pauldoroshenko, @quinnypig, @mattoyeah, and @jwilliamsap
| 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.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, ZDNet, and MSPoweruser
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Unqork, which develops a no-code platform for enterprise insurance and financial services, says it has extended its $80M Series B to $131M, led by CapitalG — Three-year-old New York-based software company Unqork, which is developing a no-code platform for enterprise insurance and financial services …
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FinSMEs, Bloomberg, and StreetInsider.com
| Matt Novak / Gizmodo: |
US DOD has adopted a series of ethical principles for the use of AI, says recommendations came after 15 months of consultation with “leading AI experts” — The U.S. military has adopted new ethics guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in its futuristic robot tanks … | 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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The Keyword, CNET, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, 9to5Google, Axios, CNBC, Android Central, and Slashdot. Tweets: @sundarpichai
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
A look at US schools' growing use of mobile phone tracking tech from companies like Inpixon, using scanners to pick up Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and cell signals — Teachers often lament that phones can be a distraction in classrooms. Some governments have even banned phones outright in schools.
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The Next Web and ZDNet
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