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Sources: US tech companies, including Intel and Micron, have found ways to sell millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite the Trump administration's ban — SHANGHAI — A number of the United States' biggest chip makers have sold millions of dollars of products to Huawei despite …
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Tweets: @matthewstoller, @shaunrein, @chadbown, @msbshoshani, @davidjoachim, @econgeopoltech, @nytimesbusiness, and @paulmozur
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
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| Axios: |
Apple says it has acquired autonomous driving startup Drive.ai, hiring dozens of Drive.ai engineers and, per sources, taking over its autonomous cars — Apple bought Drive.ai, an autonomous driving startup once valued at $200 million, Apple confirmed to Axios on Tuesday, and has hired dozens of Drive.ai engineers.
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Reuters, Gizmodo, Fast Company, The Verge, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Patently Apple, San Francisco Chronicle, Vox, The Mac Observer, TechNode, Digital Trends, iPhone Hacks, Telegraph, MacRumors, CNBC, Engadget, AppleInsider, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, SlashGear, MACお宝 …, Crunchbase News, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Electrek
Tweets: @meliarobin, @jonsakoda, @axios, @matthewhughes, @inafried, @danprimack, and @inafried. Thanks:@inafried
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Executives at seven of Facebook's Libra partners say the companies have only signed nonbinding agreements and have not yet paid to join the Libra Association — SAN FRANCISCO — One of the biggest selling points of Facebook's ambitious plans for its new cryptocurrency, Libra …
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Wired, InsideBitcoins.com, The Block, The Next Web, and Reuters
Tweets: @mayazi, @robaeprice, @nathanielpopper, @dealbook, @nikhileshde, @kyletorpey, and @nathanielpopper
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
StockX, an online marketplace for sneakers, raises $110M Series C led by DST Global, General Atlantic, and GGV Capital and names Scott Cutler CEO — StockX is one of several online marketplaces that have turned resales of shoes into a big — and highly valued — business.
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FinSMEs, TechCrunch, Crunchbase News, PR Newswire, Forbes, Glossy, and PE Hub Blog
Tweets: @delrey and @cutlerscott
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Oppo demos an under-screen selfie camera with a display using a custom transparent material, plans to launch in a commercial phone “in the near future” — Coming to a commercial phone ‘in the near future’ — The past couple of years of smartphone design have been dominated …
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Engadget, 9to5Mac, PCWorld, Gizmodo, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Android Police, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Pocketnow, Android Central, TechSpot, Firstpost Tech, Cult of Mac, Mashable, MSPoweruser, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, BGR, CNET, Gizchina, Inquirer, and Engadget 中文.
Tweets: @oppomobileindia and @oppo
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Bill Gates says his “greatest mistake” was Microsoft losing the platform opportunity to Android on mobile, in an interview at VC firm Village Global — Gates calls Microsoft's smartphones failure a “$400 billion” loss. — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently gave …
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Tweets: @arstechnica, @terrajobst, @rachaelrad, @harrymccracken, and @firstadopter
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Social media verification scams are rampant because the verification process is opaque and arbitrary; platforms need to rebuild the whole system — Travis Hawley was scrolling through the comments sections of LeBron James's Instagram posts recently when he noticed some postings from other athletes.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @birdyword, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @anildash, and @taylorlorenz
| Wall Street Journal: |
Report: tests of ~10K firmware images from 500+ Huawei telecom devices found 55% had at least one vulnerability, much higher than that of its rivals — Top U.S. officials say research confirms fears of risks, but report stops short of accusing the company of deliberately building flaws into system| Reuters: |
Chinese state-sponsored hackers, notably APT10, broke into eight IT service providers including HPE, IBM, and their client networks in a years-long invasion — Eight of the world's biggest technology service providers were hacked by Chinese cyber spies in an elaborate and years-long invasion, Reuters found.| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the NSA collected metadata about calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last October, in a second such incident — The National Security Agency collected records about U.S. calls and text messages that it wasn't authorized to obtain last year, in a second such incident …
Tweets: @dnvolz, @jakelaperruque, and @maggienyt
| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Classical music has been an awkward fit for major streaming platforms because their metadata schemes and algorithms are mostly designed to favor pop music — When Roopa Kalyanaraman Marcello, a classical music aficionado in Brooklyn, asked her Amazon Echo for some music recently …
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Financial Times. Tweets: @stevelohr, @larrysmiller, @nytimesmusic, @dada_drummer, @matthausk, @gjrietveld, @zoecello, @mikehuppe, and @bruce_2b
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researchers have discovered OSX/Linker malware exploiting an unpatched macOS flaw that would allow a malicious binary to bypass the Gatekeeper scanning process — Researchers find new OSX/Linker malware abusing still-unpatched macOS Gatekeeper bypass. — Mac malware developers have jumped …
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The Mac Security Blog, Lifehacker, Threatpost, The Mac Observer, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Security Affairs, MacDailyNews, Inquirer, and The Hacker News. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Bloomberg: |
Airbnb launches Airbnb Luxe, a new luxury tier of 2,000 listings with an average price of $14K a week to as high as $1M a week for a private atoll — Gone are the days of air mattresses on the floor. Airbnb Inc. is now catering to the mega-wealthy with a new tier of luxury rentals.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
EU opens formal antitrust investigation of Broadcom for suspected exclusivity practices and seeks an interim order to prevent anti-competitive behavior — The European Commission has opened a formal investigation into US chipmaker Broadcom which it suspects of restricting competition via … | Corinne Abrams / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo, which has more rooms in China than in India, as it faces a bumpy rollout in the US, where it has 50+ hotel partners — A rare emerging-market unicorn aims to upend the hospitality business—but first it has to fix that runaway ceiling fan
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The Economic Times and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @doubleeph, @ericbellmanwsj, @bsomaia, @rishad, @wsj, and @drorpoleg
| ProPublica: |
Some US schools are using microphones equipped with “aggression detection” algorithms, which critics say are unreliable, raising concerns about surveillance — Headphones recommended. … Ariella Russcol specializes in drama at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens …
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Gizmodo. Tweets: @erinscafe, @poppy_haze, @pedroliveira_, @rustin3000, @c_emilydurbin, @johnsonmirandab, @jessicahuseman, @torproject, @adamgoldmannyt, @eatinginmycar, @propublica, @jackgillum, @sisiwei, @propublica, and @eff
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
A look at Facebook's and Twitter's plans to combat disinformation ahead of the Democratic presidential debates on Wednesday and Thursday — Ctrl + N — Silicon Valley will face its first big test of its readiness to fight disinformation in the 2020 campaign when the Democratic presidential debates kick off tonight.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Image sharing platform Imgur says it has raised $20M from Coil, a micropayments tool that Imgur will build into its service ahead of a forthcoming premium tier — Meme creators have never gotten their fair share. Remixed and reshared across the web, their jokes props up social networks …
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Agam Shah / Wall Street Journal: |
MLPerf, a consortium of 40 tech companies including Facebook and Google, releases a set of benchmarks for evaluating the performance of AI tools — Metrics cover AI performance in image recognition, object detection and voice translation — A consortium of tech companies …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils OneDrive Personal Vault, which protects folders with 2FA and is expected by year end, and ups OneDrive's $1.99/mo plan from 50GB to 100GB — Available to everyone by the end of the year — Microsoft is adding a new secured storage area to OneDrive where users can store more sensitive files.
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Microsoft 365 Blog, TechCrunch, Inquirer, Pureinfotech, Neowin, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup, TechRadar.com, Liliputing, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, WinBuzzer, BleepingComputer, Yahoo Finance, PCWorld, Windows Central, OnMSFT.com, ZDNet, SlashGear, GeekWire, Thurrott, VentureBeat, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @dcuthbert, @jaredhaight, @jsnover, and @tomwarren
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
FTC and DOJ announce their latest crackdown on robocallers, taking 94 actions against several companies and people blamed for a recent wave of spam calls — Federal authorities have announced its latest crackdown on illegal robocallers — taking close to a hundred actions against several companies …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
New Silex malware has begun bricking several hundred poorly secured IoT devices per hour, using default credentials to log in and then wipe devices — Over 2,000 devices have been bricked in the span of a few hours. Attacks still ongoing. — A new strain of malware is wiping the firmware …
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Gizmodo, CNET, Security Affairs, Boing Boing, and Tehrani.com
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Vulcan Cyber, which aims to automate security patching efforts, raises $10M Series A led by Ten Eleven Ventures and YL Ventures, bringing total raised to $14M — Many software vulnerabilities are already known, and vendors have even issued patches, but the problem is there are so many patches …
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