Ajit Pai's proposal to kill net neutrality argues the FCC should not have tried to stop Comcast from blocking BitTorrent in 2008
This is what happens when you're honest about killing net neutrality — FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released his proposal to kill net neutrality today …
Facebook to roll out new tool that lets users check if they Liked or followed Russia-linked accounts; users won't be able to check if they saw Russian ads
So far, Google and Twitter have not detailed their plans. — Facebook is trying to alert some U.S. users that they fell victim …
NY AG says the FCC has ignored multiple requests for logs and records amid NY's investigation of the flood of fake net neutrality comments to the federal agency
otherwise we get service bundle plans like in Portugal and Australia http://continuations.com/... http://twitter.com/... David Beard / @dabeard : How can @FCC ditch #NetNeutrality when entire FCC comm...
YouTube details steps it's taking in ongoing effort to clamp down on videos that exploit children, will ramp up removal of offensive material, halt monetization
Across YouTube, an unsettling trend has emerged: Accounts are publishing disturbing and exploitative videos aimed …
Facebook confirms it's testing a Snapchat-like streak feature in Messenger that shows how many consecutive days users have been chatting with friends
Streaks aren't just for Snapchat, anymore. — Facebook is now testing a version of a similar feature in Messenger, the company confirmed with Mashable.
Source: Samsung plans to showcase Galaxy S9 and S9+ at CES in January; phones will have similar appearance to S8, same screen size, more RAM, second back camera
EXCLUSIVE: — Samsung is planning to show off its next-generation Galaxy S handsets a bit earlier than usual …
PC vendors scramble to issue patches after Intel announced firmware flaws allowing remote code execution affecting a wide range of chips and millions of devices
Millions of computers could be remotely hijacked through bug in firmware code. — Intel has issued a security alert …
As the FCC seeks to kill net neutrality, Comcast, Charter, and cable trade group NCTA vow not to block, throttle, or interfere with lawful sites or activities
Look to calm critics suggesting FCC Title II rollback would lead to such conduct — ISPs were renewing their pledges not to block …
Sources: Kalanick and CSO Joe Sullivan ordered $100K ransom to be paid; Uber tracked the hackers, pushed them to sign NDAs, disguised the payment as bug bounty
> Two attackers accessed a private GitHub … Tweets: @mikeisaac : lot of rumination in security community about Uber's willingness to pay the hacker ransom. many feel gray area, and some are for it, in...
California DMV website shows Lyft has secured a permit to test self-driving cars
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UK government says it'll charge a 20% tax on companies' earnings that are held offshore from April 2019, a move widely seen to be aimed at tech companies
- The Treasury is cracking down on big tech firms like Amazon, Facebook, Google, and Apple that shift UK profits offshore to minimise their tax bills.
ProtonMail debuts encrypted contacts manager with digital signatures that verify integrity of data, aimed at journalists and others who want to protect sources
Swiss-based encrypted email services provider ProtonMail announced on Tuesday the launch of a new tool designed to help users securely manage their contacts.
Filing shows Lyft is raising an additional $500M in funding, one month after announcing $1B raise led by Alphabet's CapitalG, at an $11.5B post-money valuation
Ride-hail company Lyft is raising up to $500 million in additional funding, according to a share authorization document filed yesterday in Delaware.
Lawyers for Peter Thiel file a motion to block efforts that have prevented him from bidding on Gawker.com assets during bankruptcy proceeding
In a federal bankruptcy court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for venture capitalist Peter Thiel objected to the ongoing sale process of Gawker.com …
UK government debuts Autumn Budget with new tech-focused initiatives: looser rules for testing self-driving cars, AI advisory body, £2.5B+ investment fund, more
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UK Digital Minister Matt Hancock says Uber's October 2016 hack affected UK citizens and the government plans to publish a report in the coming days
Digital Minister Matt Hancock speaks in U.K. parliament — Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million individuals
Amazon's AWS updates its Rekognition service to detect and recognize text within images, perform real-time face searches, and more
Amazon Web Services announced a series of updates to its Recognition service, which provides machine learning-based computer vision capabilities to cloud customers.
Casa Systems, maker of cable, wireless, and optical network gear and software, files for $150M IPO on Nasdaq
Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News :
Locus Robotics, maker of automated warehouse robots, raises $25M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners
Bloomberg :
London-based Seedcamp announces new £41M fund, almost double its ~£21M 2015 fund, to invest in early stage startups as it celebrates its 10 year anniversary
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Profile of Makan Delrahim, the DoJ's antitrust chief, confirmed on Sept. 27, who is leading the lawsuit against AT&T over its proposed merger with Time Warner
Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal :
Scalyr raises $20M Series A led by Shasta Ventures to analyze infrastructure logs, claims users of its platform can search up to 1TB of log data per second
Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE :
Sources say Iconiq Capital, a $7B asset management firm linked to many Silicon Valley elites, plans to refocus on tech investments, including buyouts
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @jasonlk , @cezary , @shitfund , @chriswitkowsky , @preetatweets , and @ddayen Tweets: Jason M. Lemkin / @jasonlk : Translation: some of the ultra-smartest late stage in...
EU agrees to abolish geoblocking restrictions on some goods on e-commerce sites by end of 2018; proposal excludes copyrighted content like streaming services
Lily Cusack / Reuters : Tweets: @johnmu Tweets: @johnmu : Interesting EU plans: “Companies will no longer be able to re-direct consumers to a country-specific website without their consent.” http://w...
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