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Facebook and Twitter pull out of the SXSW conference citing COVID-19 concerns; event organisers say the conference is proceeding as planned — Twitter pulled out earlier today — Facebook has pulled out of the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin, TX, according to a company statement given to Business Insider.
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Tweets: @eladgil, @carlquintanilla, @danprimack, @balajis, @mckaycoppins, and @jasonthinks
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Waymo raises $2.25B from Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, parent-company Alphabet, and others to scale up its autonomous vehicles operations — Waymo, the autonomous vehicles division of Google parent company Alphabet, just got a massive capital infusion from a coterie of investors.
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Tweets: @waymo, @stevekovach, @katies, @ronamadeo, @lebeaucarnews, @sundarpichai, @ericjhonsa, @gwestr, @mhbergen, @stevekovach, and @johnkrafcik
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Report: senior management at Apple rebuffed some operations execs' suggestion to relocate part of its manufacturing from China to Vietnam as early as 2015 — Production on Apple's devices has been stymied in recent weeks due to delays caused by the coronavirus outbreak in China.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google updates Pixel phones with new Motion Sense gesture controls, emoji, AR effects, car crash detection for its Personal Safety app, photo and video features — One of the benefits of owning a Pixel smartphone is that it improves over time as Pixels are first to receive updates that deliver the latest fixes and improvements.
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The Keyword, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Android Headlines, PCWorld, TechRadar.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Thurrott, KnowTechie, and Yahoo Finance. Tweets: @madebygoogle
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Apple agrees to pay up to $500M to settle a US class-action lawsuit accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has agreed to pay up to $500 million to settle litigation accusing it of quietly slowing down older iPhones as it launched new models …
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Tweets: @machinerypete, @jeffjohnroberts, and @obarcala
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Behind Facebook's rewrite of Messenger, going live today, that has shrunk the iOS app's size from 130MB to 30MB and its codebase from 1.7M to 360K lines of code — To make its iPhone messaging app run better—especially on older phones—Facebook rewrote it from the ground up. The new version is going live now.
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Tweets: @sandofsky, @jota, @cmuratori, @browniefed, @krausefx, @tomocchino, @dhh, @mengxilu, @koush, @wongmjane, @fb_engineering, @kantrowitz, and @schemetrical. Thanks:@technologizer
| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple and its suppliers are among the 83 big companies benefitting from China's abusive labor transfer programs for Uyghur Muslims and other minorities — A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute think-tank has named Apple among 83 other major companies benefiting …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
US sanctions two Chinese nationals for allegedly laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea's Lazarus Group, which has hacked two crypto exchanges since 2018 — Two Chinese men laundered funds from two hacked cryptocurrency exchanges. — The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions today …
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| Bloomberg: |
Robinhood says it has been experiencing a “system-wide outage” today that it is affecting “all functionalities” on the platform — - Issue has been identified and fix is under way, company says — Some customers of online broker couldn't access their accounts
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @yoda, @bw, @markets, @bloombergasia, @shaig, @finplan, and @danberger
| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
ACLU sues ICE for its algorithm used to recommend if people arrested for immigration violations should be let go, argues it's rigged to detain nearly everyone — In 2013, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly began using a software tool to recommend whether people arrested …
Tweets: @theintercept, @chadloder, and @jvagle
| Steve Stecklow / Reuters: |
Internal Huawei documents from 2010 show that the company shipped prohibited US computer equipment to Iran's largest mobile-phone operator despite sanctions — LONDON (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies, which for years has denied violating American trade sanctions on Iran … | Chris Welch / The Verge: |
AT&T TV launches across the US after rolling out in over a dozen markets last year, with prices that start at $49.99/month but go up dramatically after a year — AT&T's next big TV play has a problem: pricing — AT&T TV is launching nationwide today after initially rolling out to over a dozen markets last year.
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Tweets: @matthewkeyslive, @patiencehaggin, @matthewkeyslive, @georgeslefo, @wsj, and @backlon
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
BMC to acquire its longtime mainframe software competitor Compuware from Thoma Bravo for an undisclosed sum; Thoma Bravo bought Compuware in 2014 for $2.4B — Together they plan to focus on mainframe operations, cybersecurity, application development, data, and storage.| About Facebook: |
Facebook to begin publishing a monthly report on coordinated inauthentic behavior, says it took down 467 Facebook accounts and 1,245 Instagram accounts in Feb. — We're constantly working to find and stop coordinated campaigns that seek to manipulate public debate across our apps.
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CyberScoop. Tweets: @benimmo, @benimmo, @benimmo, @moorehn, @benimmo, @slpng_giants, @benimmo, @benimmo, @emilybell, and @benimmo
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Procore, provider of construction management software, files for IPO, reveals revenue of $289.2M in 2019, up 55% YoY, on net loss of $83.1M vs. $56.7M in 2018 — Late Friday afternoon, construction management software provider Procore Technologies filed an S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.| CNBC: |
Apple shares jumped 9.3% today, closing at $298.81, with the Dow up 5.1% and Nasdaq up 4.5%, as the market rebounded from last week's coronavirus-fueled selloff — Tim Anderson: I don't see how cutting rates is going to solve problem — Stocks rose sharply in volatile trading on Monday …
Tweets: @davezatz, @gregbensinger, and @heytammybruce
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
US private equity group Thoma Bravo has closed the acquisition of UK-based cybersecurity company Sophos for $3.9B; the deal was first announced in Oct. 2019 — Thoma Bravo announced today that it had closed its hefty $3.9 billion acquisition of security firm, Sophos, marking yet another private equity deal in the books.
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IT Brief Australia, CRN, Sophos News, infosecurity-magazine.com, and Channel Futures
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A look at WireGuard, a lightweight and simple open source VPN tool and protocol that will soon be part of the Linux kernel — The virtual private network software from security researcher Jason Donenfeld wins fans with its simplicity and ease of auditing. — VPNs, or virtual private networks …
Tweets: @wired and @martijn_grooten
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Verge survey of 1,123 US adults: 72% said Facebook has too much power; 51% said Google and YouTube should be split up into separate companies — Ahead of the election year, we polled Americans about which big tech companies they trust with their personal information …
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Tweets: @doublejake, @reckless, @caseynewton, @verge, @verge, @robaeprice, @verge, @privacymatters, @waltmossberg, @verge, @praeclarum, @tomcrath, @mattnavarra, @bowelsurgeon, @emilybell, @tomkarlo, @backlon, @andyjayhawk, and @mattnavarra
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