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| Nate Lanxon / Bloomberg: |
UK Parliament publishes 250+ redacted pages of sensitive, internal Facebook documents seized last month from founder of Six4Three, a company suing Facebook — - Documents were released by U.K. parliamentary committee — Lawmaker Collins says publication was lawful in U.K.
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Facebook responds to UK Parliament document dump, giving an explanation for API whitelisting, scraping Android call and SMS records, how it uses Onavo, and more — As we've said many times, Six4Three — creators of the Pikinis app — cherrypicked these documents from years ago as part …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Months after Facebook was shown to surreptitiously collect Android call and SMS records, emails show Facebook's growth team added the feature amid “PR” fears — Internal emails show Facebook weighing the privacy risks of collecting call records — then going ahead anyway
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Internal Facebook docs show how Facebook worked out data sharing agreements with companies and how Zuckerberg personally approved shutting off access for Vine — The UK Parliament today released a 250-page cache of previously sealed Facebook documents, revealing internal deliberations …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Internal Facebook emails show how the company used VPN app Onavo, which it later acquired, to closely track WhatsApp's rise before its $19B acquisition — In February 2014, Facebook purchased the messaging service WhatsApp for $19 billion. The acquisition price was staggering for an app …
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| Globe and Mail: |
Canada has arrested Huawei's global CFO, who now faces extradition to the US on suspicion she violated US trade sanctions against Iran — Canada has arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies who is facing extradition to the United States on suspicion she violated U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Impressions from a test ride in Waymo One, the first commercial self-driving taxi service, launching next week in Phoenix for Waymo's Early Rider members — Going on a coffee run with Waymo One — It is late afternoon in Chandler, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona, and I'm getting jittery waiting …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Sources and chat logs show Facebook's internal tensions are reaching a boiling point, as one ex-employee says staff are “hoping for a Sundar or Dara moment” — “It's the bunker mentality. These people have been under siege for 600 days now. They're getting tired, getting cranky …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft refreshes Outlook for iOS with a new design and other subtle changes, available today, with a dark mode coming in a future update — A dark mode is coming in a future update — Microsoft is launching a new version of its Outlook mobile app for iOS today.
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
In an open letter, a group of Google employees demands more equitable conditions for part-time and contract workers, after last month's changes for full-timers — - ‘TVC’ workers describe second-class status at Google — Some workers say they weren't told of vital safety information
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 12.1.1, macOS Mojave 10.14.2, and tvOS 12.1.1 with some FaceTime enhancements, bug fixes, and improvements to security — Apple has released iOS 12.1.1 for iPhone and iPad today with a handful of notable improvements. The latest software update includes improvements to FaceTime …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's board says it was “entirely appropriate” for Sheryl Sandberg to investigate if George Soros shorted Facebook after he made negative comments — A letter from the board said Sandberg was being truthful about her knowledge of a public-relations firm's work into the investor| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Ming-Chi Kuo: Google and Amazon will launch AirPods competitors in H2 2019; Apple could add health sensors to AirPods and integrate them with the Apple Watch — There are already a number of AirPods alternatives on the market - but noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes we're about to get more.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Microsoft study of US internet usage shows 162.8M people don't use the internet at broadband speeds, while the FCC says broadband is not available to 24.7M — Ferry County in northeastern Washington spans more than 2,200 square miles of mostly forestland, rivers and lakes.| Brent Wistrom / AustinInno: |
Austin-based Aceable, which offers online training courses in driver's ed, real estate, and more, raises $47M Series B, bringing total raised to $55.7M — Aceable is graduating to the next level. The edtech startup's roots are in Austin, and it secured a big chunk of its initial funding from Austin-based venture capital firms.
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| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Apple's Safari Technology Preview 71 supports the WebAuthn protocol, which lets websites authenticate identity with a hardware security key in a USB port — Helping us fix the flaws of passwords, Apple has begun testing support for hardware security keys in its Safari web browser.
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| Mark Harris / Wired: |
Behind EyeDetect, a controversial eye-scanning lie detector powered by a proprietary algorithm that its makers claim has 86% accuracy, higher than the polygraph — SITTING IN FRONT of a Converus EyeDetect station, it's impossible not to think of Blade Runner.
Tweets: @wired, @marion_infolaw, @jaycstanley, and @andreawiggins
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Facebook's ranking drops from No. 1 to No. 7 in Glassdoor's 2019 list of best places to work in the US chosen by employees; Google is 8th and Microsoft is 34th — Career website Glassdoor today released its 11th annual Employees' Choice Awards, a list of the 100 best companies to work for in the coming year.
| New York Times: |
Sources: as Uber prepares to resume testing cars in autonomous mode in Pittsburgh, the cars still face issues, raising safety concerns — SAN FRANCISCO — Eight months after one of Uber's self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, the ride-hailing company is close to putting … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Russian search giant Yandex launches Yandex.Phone, its first smartphone, with 5.65-inch display, 4GB RAM, Android, and Snapdragon 630 for ~$270 — Yandex, the internet titan often referred to as the Google of Russia, has launched its first smartphone. — Yandex.Phone, as the device is called …
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Qualcomm gives details on Snapdragon 855, its smartphone chipset: X24 modem, which isn't 5G compatible, 7 nanometer for 20% better graphics, and AI improvements — Qualcomm calls it an AI powerhouse — Qualcomm officially took the wraps off the Snapdragon 855, its next generation processor, yesterday at the SnapDragon Tech Summit.
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Google says it will stop working on Allo and instead focus on Messages; Allo will stop working March 2019 — Google has officially announced that it's shutting down Allo, ending the run of yet another failed Google chat app experiment. The news isn't entirely unsurprising …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC shares broadband speed test data for the first time in two years in appendices of another report, finds some DSL still doesn't get promised “up-to” speeds — Long-delayed report shows DSL ISPs are still bad at providing advertised speeds. — The Federal Communications … Sponsor Posts
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