Sources: Uber board expected to vote on CEO today; Jeff Immelt and another candidate presented visions for the firm, but some members still favor Meg Whitman
Jeff Immelt and another candidate presented to directors, while Meg Whitman sat on the sidelines awaiting key smoke signals from the board.
Eight out of 28 of Trump's Homeland Security cybersecurity panel resign, citing “insufficient attention” to the issues, Charlottesville comments, more
Board members also condemned the president's response to racist violence in Charlottesville, Va.
Germany's self-driving car ethics guidelines: prioritize human life over animals or property in accidents, don't choose whom to save based on age, and more
New auto rules approaching in the land of Das Auto — Germany's government has answered the car ethics question once and for all …
Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt says he is no longer vying to be Uber CEO
Former GE head Jeff Immelt has pulled out of the race to become Uber CEO. He just tweeted his withdrawal. Immelt is currently in Northern California and presented his vision for the car-haling giant...
Drones with AI-powered shark detection software to patrol Australian beaches; studies show humans are 20-30% accurate at spotting sharks, AI is ~90% accurate
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Drones equipped with a shark detection system powered by artificial intelligence will start patrolling …
Facebook debuts On This Day-style monthly or seasonal memory recaps and friendship milestones
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Sources: Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com invests ~$100M in Indonesian ride-hailing startup Go-Jek, which aims to raise up to $1B at a ~$2.5B pre-money valuation
HONG KONG (Reuters) - JD.com Inc has invested in Indonesian ride-hailing startup Go-Jek, people familiar with the matter told Reuters …
Facebook's “People You May Know” recommends a relative a reporter didn't know she had, raising privacy questions; Facebook, citing privacy, won't offer details
Rebecca Porter and I were strangers, as far as I knew. Facebook, however, thought we might be connected.
Uber abandons plans for new 380K square foot Oakland headquarters to cut costs and is exploring various options including a sale of the building
Uber has abandoned plans to move into a massive building in Oakland, California and is instead “exploring several options” for the site, including a sale.
Chrome team is experimenting with an option to permanently mute sound on specific websites
Ryan Whitwam / Android Police :
A look at projects by Mozilla and Google to make large, open-source datasets containing crowdsourced voice samples available to developers
The voice-control platform wars are getting open sourced. — Flickr user Internet Archive] A voice-controlled virtual assistant-Siri, Alexa …
Node.js forks again after a third of technical steering committee members quit over failure to remove a committee member for allegedly violating code of conduct
The Node.js community faces … Rod Vagg : The Truth About Rod Vagg Thomas Claburn / The Register : Node.js forks again - this time it's a war of words over anti-sex-pest codes of conduct Tweets: John M...
UK government to test convoys of semi-automated trucks on public roads by the end of 2018, allocating £8.1M for the project
Gwyn Topham / The Guardian :
Microsoft's Lee Holmes on the company's recent efforts to bolster security of the PowerShell framework, which has long been a high-profile target for hackers
THE TRICKBOT MALWARE that targets bank customers. Password harvesters like Mimikatz. “Fileless malware” attacks.
Twitter CMO Leslie Berland is also taking over human resources as the new ‘Head of People’
Plus, Twitter hired another HR exec from American Express, where Berland used to work. — Twitter has found someone to take over its top human resources role that's been empty for almost six months …
How sports manager Rudy Cline-Thomas and his investment partner Andre Iguodala of the Golden State Warriors are helping athletes invest in tech
About three years ago, in February 2014, Andre Iguodala spent an off-day during the NBA season at the offices of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz … Tweets: @pt and @elisabeth Tweets: Parker Th...
Cubic Telecom raises $46.5M Series C, sources say at $215M valuation, from Audi, Qualcomm, and others to build out its global connectivity service for cars
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Facebook hires Liz Spayd, former New York Times public editor, as a consultant to help with its “transparency” efforts
FB: You're hired. Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : this is likely a totally futile job. FB not interested in meaningful transparency b/c would show how powerful it is https://www.recode.net/... Happy / @al...
Amazon Cash comes to UK as Amazon Top Up, letting users load between £5 and £250 onto their Amazon UK account at certain retailers
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Judge dismisses lawsuit by a group of Uber drivers against Seattle's unionization law, lifts injunction, allowing city to proceed with implementation
Nat Levy / GeekWire :
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain interface startup, has raised $27M, SEC filing shows
and is looking for plenty more Heather Mack / Wall Street Journal : Musk-Backed Startup Neuralink Raises First Funding Alex Heath / Business Insider : Elon Musk has raised $27 million to link human br...
After long ignoring many influencers, Snapchat is starting to verify and proactively engage more internet celebrities
Alex Heath / Business Insider :
Majority of donations to Marcus Hutchins' legal defense fund came from fraudulent sources, lawyer managing the fund says; all donations will be refunded
Kevin Collier / BuzzFeed : Tweets: @kevincollier Tweets: Kevin Collier / @kevincollier : All cc donations for @MalwareTechBlog's fund to be returned because carders spammed $150,000 in fraudulent mon...
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