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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Phil Schiller, in an email to a user, says screen-time apps Apple restricted used MDM feature only intended for enterprises, creating privacy and security risks — Earlier today, a report from The New York Times highlighted Apple's removal of a number of App Store apps that had allowed users …
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| Nicholas Thompson / Wired: |
Yuval Noah Harari and Fei-Fei Li discuss the challenges AI poses to society as the merger of biological knowledge and tech may enable hacking of humans at scale — THIS WEEK, I interviewed Yuval Noah Harari, the author of three best-selling books about the history and future of our species …
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| Roger Parloff / Yahoo Finance: |
Profile of Chris Cox, who, despite being chief product officer for years, never drew the attention for Facebook's scandals that Zuckerberg and Sandberg did — In late 2003, during his senior year at Stanford, Chris Cox, the future Chief Product Officer at Facebook (
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Uber will pitch an Amazon-like growth story during IPO roadshow, but a filing shows Q1 revenue growth was 20%, less than half of what it was a year ago — SAN FRANCISCO — Pop quiz: Which technology company does Uber, the ride-hailing giant on the cusp of an initial public offering, consider itself to be the most like?
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| steve cheney: |
Advances in 3D image processing and image sensors, which are progressing at a Moore's Law-like pace, will make lidar redundant for self-driving cars in 3 years — Last week when Tesla launched its dedicated autonomy ASIC, a lot of the focus was on this new hardware which allowed redundancy and incredibly fast neural processing.
Tweets: @louisgray, @stevecheney, @stevecheney, @stevecheney, and @stevecheney
| New York Times: |
How the boom in Chinese bike-share companies like Ofo and Mobike was quickly followed by a bust, wiping out many investors and littering towns with unused bikes — Bike-sharing start-ups brought prosperity to Wangqingtuo. Now residents are dealing with the mess they left behind.
Tweets: @drinksolapop, @absurdistwords, @gregcipes, @jotted, @nytimesbusiness, @jotted, @sanjay__bakshi, and @jotted
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
GoDaddy resets passwords for several hundred compromised accounts and takes down 15,000+ subdomains of otherwise-legitimate sites, used by hackers for scams — GoDaddy resets passwords for several hundred compromised accounts. — Web hosting provider and domain registrar GoDaddy has taken … | Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
Hertz sues Accenture for delays, poor design, security vulnerabilities and performance problems of its website and mobile app redesign, for which it paid $32M — Rental firm fuming after consultancy ‘never delivered a functional site or mobile app’ — Car rental giant Hertz is suing over a website redesign from hell.
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Tweets: @johnwilson, @lissijean, @jelleprins, @rob_knight, and @bazscott
| Kiran Stacey / Financial Times: |
Industry veterans say the US ceded its supremacy in telecom equipment to companies like Huawei with choices that the government and companies made in the '90s — The UK's decision to allow Huawei to supply equipment for its 5G networks has disappointed officials in Washington.
Tweets: @gnat, @alantonelson, @mytechmusings, @financialtimes, @ali_wyne, @hare_brain, and @adam_tooze
| FinSMEs: |
Payrix, which provides marketplaces, SaaS businesses, and ISOs with flexible payment solutions, raises $22M led by Blue Star Innovation Partners — Payrix Payments Technology, a Dallas, TX-based technology platform for flexible payment facilitation, received $22m in funding.| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Brazilian startup Omie raises $20M Series B to expand its QuickBooks-like business management cloud platform; Riverwood Capital was the round's sole investor — Omie, a Brazilian startup focused on providing SMBs (small and medium-sized businesses) with a business management platform, has closed on a $20 million Series B.| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Docker discovers unauthorized access to a Docker Hub database that exposed info of ~190K users; the info included access tokens for GitHub and Bitbucket repos — An unauthorized person gained access to a Docker Hub database that exposed the the user names and hashed passwords for approximately 190,000 users.
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Docker, Motherboard, iTWire, Microsoft Azure Cloud …, Graham Cluley, ZDNet, and The Hacker News
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