Sources: years after FBI began tracking Russian disinformation efforts and US intelligence agencies drew up counter operations, the US still equivocates
The first email arrived in the inbox of CounterPunch, a left-leaning American news and opinion website, at 3:26 a.m. — the middle of the day in Moscow.
Baidu is suing its former autonomous driving chief Wang Jing and his startup JingChi for alleged intellectual property theft
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As residential neighborhoods near highways struggle with the traffic sent by navigation apps like Waze, Leonia, NJ is closing 60 of its streets to outsiders
LEONIA, N.J. — It is bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see, the kind of soul-sucking traffic jam that afflicts highways the way bad food afflicts rest stops.
Sources: Uber to sell US subprime auto-leasing business, Xchange Leasing, to car marketplace Fair.com; net book value of Xchange's 30K+ vehicles was ~$400M
Ride-hailing firm had planned to wind down the business after losses — Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to sell …
SingularityNET raises $36M in 60 seconds in an ICO to build out its decentralized blockchain-based marketplace for AI algorithms
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Google unveils proposal for 1M+ square feet of new offices in Sunnyvale, which the company says could accommodate 4,500 employees by 2021 at the earliest
SUNNYVALE — Google on Wednesday unveiled its plans for a striking new development in Sunnyvale's Moffett Park, where thousands …
How CareCoach uses remote contractors, customized software, and avatars on a tablet to watch over, interact with, and help provide care for the elderly
ARLYN ANDERSON GRASPED her father's hand and presented him with the choice. “A nursing home would be safer, Dad,” she told him, relaying the doctors' advice. Tweets: @nxthompson and @wired Tweets: Ni...
London Metropolitan Police's head of digital forensics says it will use AI to scan for child abuse images on suspects' devices within two or three years
But It Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes Lauren Tousignant / New York Post : This AI system keeps mistaking desert snaps for child porn Inquirer Technology : British police AI keeps tagging desert...
History shows the best time for startups to out-innovate incumbents in tech is when incumbents have achieved extreme product-market-fit and seem unassailable
One of the most interesting challenges in building an enterprise startup is navigating around, through, under, or over the big tech companies. Tweets: @rfflores , @stevesi , @mattrosoff , @timbeejones...
In 2017, YouTube's business grew while its public image suffered after lacking protections against hate speech and disturbing kids' videos
Will YouTube's mounting scandals ever slow the business down? — 2017 was a wild year for YouTube. It continued to extend its dominance … Tweets: @loudmouthjulia Tweets: @loudmouthjulia : I quite li...
CNN ends its daily Snapchat news show, The Update, launched just four months ago, saying it couldn't make enough money from advertising
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Uber's new COO Barney Hartford talks about his plans to make Uber more efficient by reining-in promotions and discounts, reducing ride drop rates
Uber's newly appointed chief operating officer, Barney Harford, is planning to reduce costs and “bring a dose of financial discipline” … Tweets: @financialtimes , @raju , and @lesliehook Tweets: @fina...
Local media reports a Chinese man was sentenced to 5½ years and fined $76,000 for running a VPN business without a license since 2013 in southern China
Prison sentence comes amid Beijing's crackdown on internet censorship — A man in southern China was sentenced to 5½ years … Tweets: @greatfirechina Tweets: @greatfirechina : Man jailed 5½ years, fin...
Xinhua state news agency: China has closed 13K+ websites for breaking the law since 2015, suspended 10M+ telecom accounts lacking real names over last 5 years
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Passport, which provides backend management software for public transport systems, raises $43M Series C from Bain Capital Ventures
Passport, company that's managing much of the technical aspects of how people pay to use public transportation resources in cities like London, Miami and Los Angeles, has just raised $43 million.
An informal band of researchers is working over Christmas to prevent hackers from disrupting online services, following PlayStation and Xbox incidents in 2014
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @csoandy and @julieiskow Tweets: Andy Ellis / @csoandy : “To my wife's dismay, I'm going to be bringing my laptop to my in-laws' house in Maine,” he sa...
The infosec community has undergone a post-Weinstein cultural shift, as evidenced by the soul-searching following allegations against Morgan Marquis-Boire
of women using the tools that they're accused of not being competent to handle to share information about harassers— is beautiful. https://www.theverge.com/... pic.twitter.com/lSkRc3Vdt5 Sarah Jeong ...
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