Face ID has upsides and downsides on both security and usability and isn't less secure than a PIN or Touch ID in practice
I was wondering recently after poring through yet another data breach how many people actually use multi-step verification. I mean here we have a construct …
Equifax announces its Chief Security Officer Susan Mauldin and Chief Information Officer David Webb are retiring effective immediately
The departures of the company's chief information officer and chief security officer come in the wake of a massive data breach
Google allowed advertisers to target racist and bigoted keywords, suggested more similar keywords, and allowed campaigns using those keywords to run
Google, the world's biggest advertising platform, allows advertisers to specifically target ads to people typing racist and bigoted terms …
Interview about Face ID with Apple's SVP of software engineering Craig Federighi, who says no data from Face ID is sent to the cloud
Face ID is easily the most hot-button topic to come out of Apple's iPhone event this week, notch be damned. As people have parsed just how serious Apple is about it …
Twitter says it has fixed a “bug” that allowed advertisers to target users based on racist and derogatory terms like the n-word and “Nazi”
tech companies just need to care more Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair : Silicon Valley deserves enormous blame for the role it played … Tim Peterson / Marketing Land : Facebook yanks education, employment, ...
Source: Facebook handed over data on Russian ad buys to special counsel Mueller under search warrant, including ad copies, targeting info, and account details
What $100,000 can buy you on Facebook — Special counsel Robert Mueller and his team are now in possession of Russian-linked ads run …
New App Store guidelines crack down on iOS “virus scanners”, require Face ID unlock alternatives for kids under 13, allow P2P cash gifts without Apple's 30% cut
Apple has updated its developer app review guidelines for the iPhone and iPad App Store this week with new clauses addressing …
Apple says Safari's upcoming “Intelligent Tracking Prevention”, criticized by ad groups, will only block re-targeting, allow cookies from visited sites, more
Apple introduced a new technology to intelligently block browser cookies in Safari, which brought criticism from a number of advertising organizations.
Source: Beijing city regulator told bitcoin exchanges to inform users about trading halt; OkCoin, Huobi, others say they will comply and stop trading by Oct 31
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have ordered Beijing-based cryptocurrency exchanges to stop trading and immediately notify users …
Social Capital and Hedosophia raised $600M in IPO for holding company they say will invest in late-stage startups to help them avoid IPO process
- Chamath Palihapitiya, a “Midas touch” investor, has raised $600 million in the initial public offering for his new firm, Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings.
Google has spent $1.1B on its self-driving car project since its inception in 2009 through 2015, Waymo employee's deposition in Uber trial implies
Google has never publicly shared how much it spends on its self-driving cars. At first, Project Chauffeur was hidden away in Google's ultra-secret X moonshot program.
Chrome will no longer autoplay videos with sound starting from January 2018
Here's Why You Should Be Worried Ryan Whitwam / ExtremeTech : Google Chrome Will Block Autoplaying Video With Sound Next Year David Matthews / TechSpot : Chrome is finally doing something about those ...
Online radio service Slacker Radio acquired for $50M by LiveXLive, a streaming service focused on live music
Micah Singleton / The Verge :
Washington Post's automated Heliograf tool has written ~850 stories in one year, including 500 on 2016 election that got 500K+ clicks
It's been a year since The Washington Post started using its homegrown artificial intelligence technology, Heliograf, to spit out around 300 short reports and alerts on the Rio Olympics.
Instagram now autoplays video sound once turned on until you close the app
Autoplay audio can be annoying or convenient depending on the situation. Luckily Instagram has found a happy medium between defaulting autoplay video sound on or off. — This weekend TechCrunch spot...
Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins says the streaming service will spend ~$2.5B on content in 2017, less than half of the $6B Netflix says it's spending this year
PIN Los Angeles Business Journal : Hulu to spend $2.5 billion on content in 2017 Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Hulu to spend $2.5 billion on content in 2017, add 7 more original series Geoff Weiss / Tube...
SoFi CEO Mike Cagney resigns effective immediately; Executive Chairman Tom Hutton is named interim CEO
Haley Britzky / Axios :
Gab.ai sues Google for removing Gab's app from Play Store, says Google violated federal antitrust laws
Hamza Shaban / Washington Post :
Angry Birds maker Rovio sets price range for IPO at €10.25-11.50 per share, which would value the company between €802-896M
Live-streaming video chat service YouNow to launch new Rize app that will use Ethereum-based tokens, called “Props”, to incentivize community members
Robert Hackett / Fortune :
Users' reactions to “disputed” labels on Facebook are largely irrelevant as those labels are more about reducing reach of false stories and training algorithms
Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed :
Interview with Pavel Durov, Telegram creator, on US government-funded secure messaging apps, privacy, and the FBI's attempt to bribe his team into being moles
Yasha Levine / The Baffler :
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