Researchers warn about critical flaws in PGP and S/MIME that can reveal the plaintext of encrypted emails, recommend uninstalling those tools from email clients
The flaws, can expose e-mails sent in the past and “pose an immediate threat.” — The Internet's two most widely used methods …
Facebook suspends ~200 suspicious apps as part of investigation and audit of apps, out of “thousands” reviewed so far
Did you just notice a Facebook app has gone AWOL? After reviewing “thousands” of apps on its platform following a major data misuse scandal that blew up in March …
HP unveils Envy all-in-one PCs with built-in Alexa support, updates Envy and Elite device lineup with new designs, faster processors, and better displays
Better graphics, 700-nit brightness screens, and more define HP's newest PCs. — HP announced a slew of updates to its premium lines …
Wi-Fi Alliance introduces Wi-Fi EasyMesh certification that aims to ensure interoperability between wireless mesh routers from different manufacturers
The Wi-Fi Certified EasyMesh program that the Wi-Fi Alliance announced today promises to do for mesh networks what the Alliance has long done …
Sources: about a dozen Google employees resign in protest over the firm's continued involvement in providing image classification AI to Pentagon's Project Maven
It's been nearly three months since many Google employees—and the public—learned about the company's decision …
Trump tweets that Commerce Department has been instructed to help China's ZTE, which had to stop operations after US companies were banned from selling to it
in China? This is new. http://www.nytimes.com/... http://twitter.com/... Max Kennerly / @maxkennerly : The Commerce Dept banned exports to ZTE because it repeatedly violated U.S. sanctions limiting ex...
Uber users can now rate their trip mid-ride with categorized and written feedback, instead of having to wait for the end of the trip
“Last year was pretty hard, I'm not gonna lie” says Peter Deng, Uber's head of rider experience. But as part of new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's push …
HSBC claims it has completed the world's first trade-finance interbank transaction using blockchain technology with Dutch bank ING
HONG KONG (Reuters) - HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) said on Monday it had performed the world's first trade finance transaction using blockchain technology …
Qualcomm exec says the company is building a chipset “designed from the ground up for a no-compromises smartwatch experience” to be announced this fall
A much-needed shot in the wrist — Wear OS is in an awkward spot. Having recently rebranded the smartwatch OS formerly known …
Cofounder of ASIC-maker Obelisk on the state of PoW mining: challenges of ASIC-resistant hard forks, many new coins are optimized for secret ASIC designs, more
For those new to the blog, I am the lead developer of Sia, a blockchain based cloud storage platform.
Favstar to shutdown on June 19 with creator Tim Haines blaming upcoming Twitter API changes that will discontinue user streams
As Twitter develops an ever-closer hold on how it manages services around its real-time news and social networking service, a pioneer in Twitter analytics is calling it quits.
There has been a bubble in adtech, a bloated industry that undermines brands' value and remains at odds with consumer privacy and security, and GDPR will pop it
In The Big Short, investor Michael Burry says “One hallmark of mania is the rapid rise in the incidence and complexity of fraud.”
Southeast Asia-based Craigslist-like mobile listings startup Carousell raises $85M Series C co-led by Rakuten Ventures and Singapore's EDBI
Carousell, the Singapore-based mobile listing service that operates across Southeast Asia, has pulled in an $85 million Series C fund as it seeks …
Didi Chuxing receives permit to test self-driving cars in California, becoming the 53rd company to receive such a permit from the state's DMV
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times :
Messaging and video conferencing startup Fuze raises $150M; PitchBook: the raise was done at a $400M valuation, compared to previous raise at $765M
Theodore Schleifer / Recode :
PumaPay raises $117M in an ICO, to launch its merchant-friendly Pull Payment Protocol, which it says 30 adult entertainment firms have agreed to use
Stewart Rogers / VentureBeat :
Winklevoss' Gemini exchange to add support for Zcash on May 19, along with Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash at a later date, after receiving approval from NY regulator
Michael del Castillo / Forbes :
Profile of Open Observatory of Network Interference, an organization collecting evidence of internet censorship in 200+ countries with help from ~50K volunteers
Matthew Braga / CBC News : Tweets: @torproject . Thanks: @mattbraga Tweets: The Tor Project / @torproject : As network filtering and censorship technology become easier to obtain and use, data collec...
Unisound, a Beijing-based voice recognition, language processing, and big data startup, raises $100M Series C as it is about to release its own AI chip
Yimian Wu / China Money Network :
Inside the community behind Pi-hole, an open source software package designed to run on a Raspberry Pi for blocking ads and web trackers at the network level
Adrianne Jeffries / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : The $200 billion digital ad industry should fear the brotherhood of the ad blockers http://www.bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.c...
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