WikiLeaks releases 8K+ alleged CIA classified docs from 2013 to 2016 describing malware, zero-day exploits targeting iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux
Press Release Today, Tuesday 7 March 2017, WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.
After the BBC investigates Facebook's failure to remove sexualized images of children, Facebook reports BBC journalists to UK's National Crime Agency
Facebook has been criticised for its handling of reports about sexualised images of children on its platform.
DoNotPay, a free bot service for appealing parking tickets, can now help refugees fill out asylum applications for the US, Canada, and the UK
‘Robot lawyer’ DoNotPay is giving free legal aid to refugees seeking asylum in US and Canada, and asylum support in UK
Twitch debuts Pulse, a Twitter-like service where broadcasters can share videos, images, and text with their friends and followers
This is what disruption looks like — Whenever I wonder what will eventually happen to Twitter, which is something I think about literally every day …
HP Enterprise to acquire flash storage vendor Nimble Storage for about $1B in cash, about 41% above Nimble's roughly $700M market value as of Monday
Hewlett Packard Enterprise hopes the acquisition of the flash-storage systems maker will boost sales — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co …
Adobe's Lightroom apps for Android and iOS can now shoot RAW HDR photos on iPhone 7, 6S, SE, 9.7" iPad Pro, Pixel, Pixel XL, Galaxy S7, and S7 Edge
Lightroom mobile's in-app camera is getting an update today that'll let it capture RAW HDR photos. — Adobe says the photos are made by stitching together three RAW images.
Verizon announces it will offer 25Mbps FiOS fiber-optic internet as a pre-paid service in select East Coast markets at $60 a month
Verizon announced on Monday that it is making its FiOS fiber-optic data, voice and television package available as a pre-paid service.
CA Technologies announces it will acquire cybersecurity firm Veracode for $614M in cash
Burlington security software company Veracode will be acquired by CA Technologies for $614 million in cash, the companies announced Monday. — The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarte...
Google's AI-powered translation system expands to Russian, Hindi, and Vietnamese
Last fall, Google introduced a new system for machine-assisted language translations, Google Neural Machine Translation system (GNMT), which takes advantage of deep neural networks to translate entire...
Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, raises $50M Series C round led by Sequoia Capital
Confluent, the company behind open source streaming data project Apache Kafka, closes a Series C round that more than doubles its total financing.
Samsung Pay goes live in India, supports Paytm wallets, MasterCard or Visa debit and credit cards from Axis, HDFC, ICICI, SBI, and Standard Chartered banks
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Media rendering firm Thinkbox announces that it has been acquired by Amazon, to join AWS
Amazon Web Services has acquired Thinkbox Software, which makes technology used by media and entertainment architects and engineers to manage render farms — large systems for processing computer-gener...
IBM, Salesforce announce strategic AI partnership where Salesforce customers will gain access to Watson services, and IBM will use Einstein internally
All these partnerships are making my head hurt. Ian Barker / BetaNews : IBM and Salesforce partner to help businesses make smarter decisions WebProNews : Einstein and Watson Team Up Andrew Nusca / For...
Fitbit unveils Alta HR with heart rate monitoring, available at the end of March for $150; Alta HR, Blaze, and Charge 2 get improved sleep tracking
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MuleSoft sets range for its IPO at $12 to $14 a share, which at midpoint of range would raise $169M and give company a fully diluted market value of $1.8B
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Profile of Sidewire, a social network that vets users, giving access to experts only; around 100 of its 800 “verified experts” are in its tech vertical
The closed discussion platform shuts out the noise of Twitter's eggs and trolls and is betting on — gasp! … Tweets: @niemanlab , @whoisbenchang , and @janebsinger . See also Mediagazer Tweets: @nieman...
Maersk and IBM pilot using blockchain tech to track global supply of shipping containers, aims to add 10M to this blockchain by end of year
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Twitch co-founder Justin Kan leaves partner role at Y Combinator to launch his own startup incubator program called Zero-F
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MeetMe announces it will acquire if(we), owner of social networking sites Tagged and Hi5, for $60M
Today we're excited to announce a new chapter in if … Thanks: @gregtseng
Consumer Reports will begin assessing cyber security and privacy safeguards when scoring products, publishes first draft of standards for the new testing
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Mark Zuckerberg early last year imposed a two-month “lockdown” on 100+ employees to roll out Facebook Live; $100M was budgeted to pay media talent, says source
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iflix, a streaming service targeting emerging markets, raises $90M from Liberty Global, Sky, others; the company recently let 50 employees go
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How GV's 2013 investment of $258M in Uber, now regarded as a great success, began a complex and tense relationship between Alphabet and Uber that's since soured
Reuters : Tweets: @byjulialove Tweets: Julia Love / @byjulialove : Lawsuit causes a stir, but Google-Uber relationship was tense from the start, sources say. Story w @heathersomervil http://www.reute...
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