The joint US-Russia working group on cybersecurity mostly serves Russia, will make it harder for congress to purge Kaspersky Lab products from federal networks
Man oh man did Vladimir Putin hand Trump his ass in their meeting the other day. While most the focus has been on Trump's apparent refusal …
After burying elimination of free plan in ToS update, Photobucket starts demanding $400/year for hosted images, kills client links on Amazon, eBay, other sites
Denver photo-sharing site says it needs to find “sustainable business” … Denver-based Photobucket on Thursday …
After controversial vote, W3C announces it will publish Encrypted Media Extensions, a type of DRM for web video, without protection for security researchers
Early today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body publicly announced its intention to publish Encrypted Media Extensions …
Waymo drops 3 of 4 patent infringement claims against Uber, says Uber no longer uses infringing tech; bulk of the case related to trade secrets theft remains
Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car division, dropped three of four patent infringement claims in its lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc …
Samsung Electronics forecasts record quarterly profit of ~$12B in Q2, up 72% year-over-year
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) on Friday said its second-quarter operating profit likely rose 72 percent from a year earlier to a new record, beating analyst estimates, as strong memory chip p...
Facebook proposes Willow Campus, “mixed-use village” expansion to its Menlo Park campus with office buildings, housing, retail space, and a grocery store
The proposed village includes offices, home, a grocery store, and parks and plazas — MENLO PARK — Aiming …
How spammers, ripoff artists, and even superstars juice their numbers on Spotify with covers, tricky song titles, silent tracks, and large albums
A few weeks after the release of Kendrick Lamar's “Humble,” the hard-charging lead single on his fourth album Damn., the song landed at No. 1 on Billboard's streaming chart.
Magistrate judge ruling orders Waymo to disclose details of its deal with Lyft to Uber
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Google and Facebook confirm they will join other companies in a July 12 “day of action” opposing the FCC's plan to change net neutrality rules
The fight over net neutrality just got more interesting as two tech giants said they will step off the sidelines and join a so-called …
Waymo files a preliminary list of 461 questions for Anthony Levandowski, expecting him to invoke his Fifth Amendment right in response to many
On Friday, Waymo filed a list of 461 questions it intends to ask Anthony Levandowski — a former employee it's accusing of downloading 14,000 proprietary files …
Sources: Trump will delay and ultimately rescind a rule scheduled to go into effect July 17 that would let entrepreneurs immigrate to US to start companies
In the coming days, the Trump administration will take steps to delay and ultimately rescind an Obama administration rule allowing …
Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois departs amid layoffs; Kurt DelBene named chief digital officer
Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President … Jack Wilkinson / On MSFT : Microsoft's Chief Information Officer departs, and Kurt DelBene replaces him Boyd Chan / Neowin : Microsoft's Jim DuBois...
Paris, Airbnb's biggest single market, will require that Airbnb hosts register their property, making it harder to exceed the 120 day legal rental limit
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DJI is updating firmware on its drones to prevent hackers from circumventing flight restrictions
The tension between drone pilots who want complete control over their aircraft that they bought and DJI, the world's biggest consumer grade drone maker, has come to a head.
Dark web market AlphaBay down since Tuesday, prompting fears of law enforcement action or theft of user funds; admins claim the site is down for maintenance
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Qualcomm asks US ITC to ban imports of certain iPhone models using Intel components due to infringement of 6 patents that it claims are not standard-essential
Wall Street reacts to the escalating fight between Apple and Qualcomm Eric Born / The Tech Report : Qualcomm seeks a US import ban on some iPhones and iPads Ashley King / Phandroid : Qualcomm wants to...
Sources: Tencent to launch its most successful mobile game, Honour of Kings, in US, France, Italy, Spain, and Germany
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Comma.ai announces Panda, an $88 OBDII dongle that records car performance data, cloud dashcam app Chffr, and Cabana software to interpret collected data
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How the US military is making weapons, surveillance systems, and information systems smarter by leveraging software
As software-based weapons and information systems start to touch all phases of conflict, military leaders are grappling with a new set of challenges. Thanks: @annelisemcgough
After a total of $20M in VC funding, Omise raises $25M in an ICO to build new Ethereum-based p2p payments platform Omise Go
interesting to see one capped at just $25M despite potential to raise $100M+ http://twitter.com/...
Xiaomi shipped 23.16M smartphones in Q2 2017, up 70% from Q1, says CEO in letter to employees; sales in India increased 328% YoY in first six months of the year
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How UberRush, Uber's local delivery service, failed to make Uber a FedEx rival and got overshadowed by UberEats and Uber Freight
Biz Carson / Business Insider : Tweets: @ktbenner . Thanks: @lexnfx Tweets: Katie Benner / @ktbenner : Before Uber investors bid up the co's valuation on China & self driving cars, they banked on Ube...
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