Livestream of Microsoft's Build 2018 keynote from Seattle
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What to expect at Google I/O 2018: updates to Assistant, Home, and Material Design, more details on Android P, Wear OS, Google News, Chromecast gaming, and more
What we're expecting from Google's big show Joe Maring / Android Central : What we're hoping to see from Android P at Google I/O Alexandra Arici / AndroidGuys : Google Lens in Assistant now available ...
Microsoft says 700M+ devices now run Windows 10, up from 500M this time last year, and says Office 365 now has 135M MAUs, up from 120M last October
At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced that over 700 million devices now run Windows 10. Almost exactly a year ago, that number stood at 500 million.
Android Auto to get support for RCS, group messaging, better integration with 3rd-party apps, more; new Volvos to have built-in Google Maps, apps, and Assistant
Plus, some new features for Android Auto — Google's previously announced integration with Volvo cars is finally solidifying.
Sources: Cambridge Analytica said it had completely wiped Facebook user data in 2016, which may be true, but it retained models derived from that data into 2017
and what Mark told Congress. @facebook : We remain determined to audit Cambridge Analytica so we can confirm what data they still have - and we're working with the UK Information Commissioner to make ...
Microsoft announces a new Your Phone app for Windows 10, Windows Timeline coming to iPhone via Edge, and Microsoft Launcher for Android to get Timeline support
Having given up on Windows 10 Mobile and Windows Phone, Microsoft has turned its attention to how best to embrace Android and iOS.
Warner Music Group has sold 75% of its stake in Spotify for ~$400M; Sony said last week it sold about half of its Spotify shares for ~$750M
First Sony, now Warner Music Group. — As Spotify was getting its subscription music service off the ground, the world's biggest music labels took equity stakes in the company.
Microsoft announces Project Kinect for Azure, powered by Azure AI and a custom sensor package, to help devs offering features like high-fidelity spatial mapping
Kinect is back. Yes. — After ending production of the original Kinect hardware for Xbox One last year and the Kinect adapter …
Microsoft announces that Project Brainwave, its system for running AI models with FPGA chips, is now available in limited preview on Azure
Microsoft's project to run fast AI tasks on FPGAs in Azure is starting to come to fruition, with testers starting to get access to the first pieces now.
Nokia has acquired SpaceTime Insight, a California-based IoT startup that provides predictive analytics based on machine learning algorithms
Nokia last week said that it was selling off its digital health business, after failing to develop it into a substantial business itself …
Japanese financial watchdog introduces new regulations for cryptocurrency exchanges, including tougher registration and stricter management standards
Financial watchdog's tough new registration standards aim to promote compliance and protect customer assets
Christopher Wylie describes in detail how Cambridge Analytica used ML and Facebook data to micro target US voters, creating 253 predictions per profiled record
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie explains the science behind Cambridge Analytica's mission to transform surveys and Facebook data into a political messaging weapon
House Democrats are preparing to release 3,000 Russia-linked Facebook ads, including their images, target groups, cost, and the number of users who viewed them
Lawmakers on House Intelligence Committee could release trove of ads as soon as this week — Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee …
How an infosec director at Multi-State Lottery Association spoofed random number generator software and almost pulled off the largest lottery scam in US history
The file landed on Rob Sand's desk with something less than a thud. Despite holding the contents of an investigation still open … Tweets: @briankrebs , @rlove , and @reidforgrave Tweets: @briankrebs ...
Profile of Tsinghua University, the “MIT of China”, which has produced 192 startup founders in the last three years
Wang Haili was facing the dire prospect of shutting down his semiconductor business when he reached out to a mentor at Tsinghua University, where he read his PhD in computer science and technology. Th...
Robocall blocking service YouMail says there were 3.4B robocalls in April in US, up 900M/month YoY, despite efforts of regulators and lawmakers to stop them
at best annoying disturbances and at worst costly financial scams — are getting worse. http://www.nytimes.com/...
New code in AOSP suggests Android P will restrict apps from monitoring phone's network activity, a serious privacy hole, but only for apps targeting Android P
Mishaal Rahman / XDA Developers :
After opsec errors, researchers link many hacker groups active for a decade and previously thought to be independent, to China's govt, name them Winnti Umbrella
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica :
Reuters/Ipsos poll: despite Cambridge Analytica, half of Facebook's US users say they didn't reduce their Facebook use, a quarter say they use Facebook more
Inside New York City Cyber Command, which is about a year old and leads the city's cyber defense, following cybersecurity reforms in cities like Los Angeles
a government agency most people know nothing about” http://www.businessinsider.com/ ... State and local is key gap area in cybersecurity, with only the largest cities able to afford
A look at what Hollywood insiders are using cryptocurrencies for: investing, financing and distributing films, and, in one instance, a plot point in a romcom
Natalie Jarvey / Hollywood Reporter :
Lyra Health, which is creating a smart network for treating mental health problems and is headed by former Facebook CFO Ebersman, raises $45M Series B
Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch :
Stories, made popular by Snapchat and Instagram, might be the first media format native to the smartphone and could be the dominant format of the future
Why India Is the New Battleground Between Walmart and Amazon Tweets: Craig Mod / @craigmod : If the Timeline was essentially curated narcissism, Stories are an unfiltered infinitude of narcissism: htt...
Crowdstrike report: Nigerian scammers, now evolved into syndicates, are using malware, phishing, and social engineering to better effect than ever before
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @lilyhnewman , and @lennyzeltser Tweets: @wired : Email scammers posing as Nigerian royalty are so successful that a Nigerian singer even wrote a rap song g...
A central custodian of our personal data, which can be a government or a private firm like Apple, under regulations like GDPR, may solve today's privacy woes
as we've seen — so let's just give it to them because “privacy is dead” anyway. A thread, reluctantly. http://www.techmeme.com/... @wsjbusiness : ‘Group privacy’ is an idea whose time has come. What i...
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