Sources: Trump has rebuffed efforts to improve security around his phone use, has gone as long as five months without having phone checked by security experts
The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.
Microsoft and Google disclose Speculative Store Bypass CPU flaw that exploits speculative execution and is similar to Spectre and Meltdown
New firmware updates are on the way — Microsoft and Google are jointly disclosing a new CPU security vulnerability that's similar to the Meltdown …
Sources: US and China reach broad outline of a deal to settle ZTE controversy that would lift US sales ban in exchange for major management changes and fines
Deal would lift the ban on U.S. companies selling components and software to ZTE — The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline …
Instagram is rolling out a new feature that allows users to mute others in their feed without having to unfollow them
Instagram just announced a desperately needed feature: a mute button. … Previously, it was possible to mute someone's Stories (tap and hold their profile icon), but not their photos in your main feed.
Civil rights groups concerned as FOIA request shows cities' law enforcement adopted Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech without prior public discourse
Amazon has been providing facial recognition tools to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando for only a few dollars a month …
Adobe announces $1.68B deal to buy e-commerce platform Magento Commerce alongside a $8B common stock buyback program through 2021
- Company also announces $8 billion share repurchase plan — Acquisition will help it compete against Salesforce, Oracle
Epic Games, maker of popular Fortnite, commits $100M over next 12 months to prize pools for the game's competitions, dwarfing other games' esports prize money
Epic Games had $100 million burning a hole in its proverbial pocket, and the company has decided to use that cash to begin building …
Researcher Karan Saini finds a bug in Comcast's website that leaks Xfinity users' info, including home address where the router is located and Wi-Fi credentials
Exclusive: A bug in Comcast's website leaks sensitive customer information. — A bug in Comcast's website used …
Instagram is testing a mid-feed alert that tells users they are caught up on all new posts from the past 48 hours
Without a chronological feed, it can be tough to tell if you've seen all the posts Instagram will show you. That can lead to more of the compulsive, passive …
Counterpoint Research: in Q1 2018, US smartphone sales dropped 11% YoY to 38.7M, yet Apple shipped a record 16M iPhones, an increase of 16% YoY
Six out of the top ten smartphone model SKUs were from Apple with iPhone 8 & X 64 GB versions the most popular.
Google Photos is adding a new star-shaped Favorites button for your own photos starting today, and a heart-shaped Like button coming next week for shared photos
Twitter swapped out its Favorite star icon for an appreciation-focused heart icon instead, but Google Photos is embracing both icons with an update rolling out now.
Uber plans to launch its first taxi-hailing pilot service in Japan that will connect passengers to other taxi providers; the pilot will run through March 2019
TOKYO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies plans to launch its first taxi-hailing pilot service in Japan that will connect passengers …
The scandals around LocationSmart and Securus, dealers of millions of Americans' real-time cell location data, should be a bigger deal than Cambridge Analytica
Wireless carriers are sharing your real-time location with shady third parties—and a bug lets anyone use that data to track you.
In the murky world of online rehab promotion, marketers find captive audiences in addiction groups on Facebook, sometimes running groups without full disclosure
Huge groups of vulnerable people looking for help are a rehab marketer's dream — When Laurie Couch first joined the Affected …
Intel and Micron launch their jointly-developed QLC NAND flash memory that trades write performance and endurance for lower cost
Intel and Micron are announcing today that their jointly-developed QLC NAND flash memory is now available, and Micron is now shipping the first solid state drive based …
Comcast launches xFi Pods, its Wi-Fi extender devices nationwide, following its investment in mesh router maker Plume last year; a six pack will cost $199
Comcast today is officially launching its own Wi-Fi extender devices called xFi Pods that help to address problems with weak Wi-Fi signals …
Microsoft shows off how its social chat bot Xiaoice, which is in use across platforms in China, can place phone calls to humans, similar to Google's Duplex
Similar to Google Duplex, but only in China — Google demonstrated a jaw-dropping new capability in Google Assistant earlier this month …
American Customer Satisfaction Index: customer satisfaction of streaming video services is 75% on average, far better than cable, satellite, telco TV rivals
U.S. cable and satellite TV sector falls to 11-year low on ACSI's index — This won't come as a huge shock …
London-based Realeyes, which uses AI and a front-facing camera to read viewers' emotions, raises $16.2M Series A led by Draper Esprit
One of the more interesting applications of AI to the world of advertising and marketing has been in how it's being used to help measure and ultimately shape campaigns. Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: I...
Inside WhiteBoxDating, the “wordpress for dating” catering to any niche, comes pre-loaded with many fake “users”, and is home to Trump.dating, NeverTrump.dating
Earlier this year, the media got very excited about Trump.dating, a site for the pro-Donald set that promised to “make dating great again.” Tweets: @joshconstine , @cariatidaa , @mawnikr , @malwarejak...
After CNN report, nine members of Congress sent CEOs of Uber, Lyft, and others a letter asking about protocols for sexual assault reports, driver training, more
Sara Ashley O'Brien / CNNMoney :
Email authentication service Valimail raises $25M Series B led by Tenaya Capital, bringing its total amount of funding raised to $38.5M
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch :
As companies flood EU residents' inboxes ahead of GDPR rollout, experts say many of those consent emails are unnecessary and some may be even illegal
Alex Hern / The Guardian :
Acer to pre-install Alexa on its PC lineup, starting with Spin 5 laptops, and roll the feature out to compatible Acer models over the next few weeks
First laptops with Alexa Jon Martindale / Digital Trends : Alexa makes herself at home on a variety of new Acer laptops
Sales automation startup Outreach raises $65M Series D led by Spark Capital, CEO says at $500M valuation, with SAP's Sapphire Ventures joining as a new investor
Julie Bort / Business Insider :
Amazon debuts Marketplace Appstore, to provide 3rd-party tools for pricing, inventory, and advertising to professional sellers, rolling out in North America
Ben Fox Rubin / CNET :
Microsoft launches SharePoint Spaces so users can view company content in mixed reality and says that 400K organizations now use SharePoint, up about 100% YoY
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Cuebiq, a US location intelligence and consumer insights firm, raises $27M Series B with Nasdaq Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs participating
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Inside Project Indigo, the quiet info-sharing program between banks and US Cyber Command that helps the government respond quickly to online attacks
Chris Bing / Cyberscoop :
Twitter risks ostracizing its longtime and more influential users by killing its native Mac app twice and squeezing 3rd-party apps to death via API changes
M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words :
China, signaling thaw with US over trade, approved sale of Toshiba's lucrative microchip unit last week to a consortium led by Bain Capital
New York Times : Tweets: @nytimes Tweets: @nytimes : Chinese officials have finally approved the sale of a majority stake in Toshiba's huge microchip business to a group led by an American investment...
Facebook and Qualcomm partner to develop high-speed Terragraph WiFi for cities, will begin field trials in 2019 using 60GHz technology from Qualcomm
Mark Hachman / PCWorld :
NY-based TradingView, developer of social networking and data analysis tools for financial markets, raises $37M in Series B led by Insight Venture Partners
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
After last week's Google resignations, a look at how big tech firms' employees feel about their employers' defense contracts, from indifference to activism
Nitasha Tiku / Wired :
Chinese state-run media says the country's social credit system has blocked people from taking over 11M flights and 4M train trips; full rollout coming by 2020
Tara Francis Chan / Business Insider :
Alibaba and SenseTime to co-finance HKAI Lab, a not-for-profit AI research lab in Hong Kong
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
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