In email to staff, Musk alleges an employee sabotaged Tesla, including changing OS code under false usernames and sending sensitive data to unknown 3rd parties
- Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an e-mail to all employees on Sunday night alleging there was a saboteur within the company's ranks.
Amazon is rolling out Alexa for Hospitality, a version of Alexa for hotels that can help order room service, request housekeeping, and more, by invite
Order room service, request housekeeping, or play some tunes — Amazon is today introducing Alexa for Hospitality …
Apple ordered to pay AU$9M fine by Australian court for telling customers they weren't entitled to a refund after the Error 53 bug that bricked some iOS devices
The time has come for Apple to pay for the infamous Error 53 that bricked iPhones and iPads taken to a third party for repairs.
Google rolls out web interface for Android Messages to enable texting from desktop and says GIF search, Smart Reply, and more features are coming by next week
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A look at Tim Cook's relationship with the Trump administration and Chinese government; source says Trump admin told Cook it won't place tariffs on iPhones
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Experts say macOS' Quick Look feature has for years created and insecurely cached preview thumbnails and more for files in encrypted containers and USB drives
Security researchers are warning of almost a decade old issue with one of the Apple's macOS feature which was designed …
Google Podcasts launches for Android with personalized recs and listening progress auto-sync; closed captions and language translation features are planned
Finally taking podcasts seriously — Google today is introducing its first standalone podcast app for Android.
Verizon pledges to stop selling customers' location data to data brokers, like LocationSmart and Zumigo, which it says passed along the info to ~75 other firms
Verizon is pledging to stop sales through intermediaries of data that pinpoints the location of mobile phones to outside companies, the Associated Press has learned.
Ex-CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who allegedly leaked Vault 7 hacking tools to WikiLeaks, charged with violations of the Espionage Act and related crimes
Federal prosecutors charged a former CIA employee Monday with violations of the Espionage Act and related crimes in connection with the leak …
After Microsoft pulled reference on its site touting work with ICE, it reemerged after inquiry; Microsoft says it's “dismayed” by ICE's child separation policy
“An employee briefly deleted the blog after seeing commentary in social media. This was a mistake and as soon …
In a sharp rebuke of the Trump administration, Senate votes 85-10 on an annual defense policy bill that included a measure to reinstate penalties on ZTE
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted on Monday to reinstate tough penalties on ZTE, a Chinese telecom company accused of violating American sanctions …
An overview of the EU's proposed new copyright law that will require internet platforms to automatically filter uploaded content, ahead of Wednesday's vote
A proposed new European copyright law could make memes illegal and threaten the future of the internet as we know it. Time to panic?
IBM unveils IBM Debater, an AI-powered debating program six years in the making that can perform tightly structured debates with humans on around 100 topics
SAN FRANCISCO — A match between an Israeli college debate champion and a loquacious IBM computer program demonstrated on Monday …
Yahoo updates Yahoo Mail for mobile web and releases an app for Android Go, as it seeks new users on lower-end devices
The days for Yahoo Messenger are now numbered, but Yahoo and its parent Oath (which also owns TC) are still counting on growth for other communications services, specifically Yahoo Mail.
Adobe improves Adobe Scan for Android and iOS with its Sensei machine learning tech and introduces new PDF integrations with Microsoft Office 365
Adobe today announced a slew of updates and integrations across Adobe Document Cloud, its suite of cloud-based apps for converting and processing PDFs.
Brex, a fintech startup that provides a credit card for startups and is backed by PayPal cofounders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, raises $50M Series B led by YC
Brex, a fintech startup backed by PayPal cofounders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, has raised $50 million in new venture capital, the company announced Tuesday.
Inside the crypto world's biggest scandal: how the Tezos story unfolded into a tragedy after raising $232M in the largest ICO at the time
Arthur and Kathleen Breitman thought they held the secret to building a new decentralized utopia. On the way, they plunged into a new kind of hell. Tweets: @henryfarrell , @wired , @lucas_lclc , @lau...
SaaS endpoint protection firm CrowdStrike raises $200M Series E at a $3B+ valuation co-led by General Atlantic, Accel, and IVP
CrowdStrike, the developer of a security technology that looks at changes in user behavior on networked devices and uses that information to identify potential cyber threats …
Amazon officially announces Hub, its package delivery lockers, and says over 500,000 have access to them as more roll out across US
Amazon on Tuesday talked up some of the early successes of its new delivery lockers for apartments, called Hub. — The e-commerce giant last July launched the program …
WHO to add gaming addiction as a medical condition to the International Classification of Diseases, its highly regarded compendium of medical conditions
but there's reason to be skeptical Kevin Loria / Business Insider : ‘Gaming disorder’ has been classified as a mental health condition by the World Health Organization … Larry Dignan / ZDNet : WHO see...
Japanese flea market app startup Mercari, which raised $1.2B in its IPO, closes up 77% in its debut on the Tokyo stock exchange, valuing it at as much as $7.4B
TOKYO (Reuters) - Flea market app operator Mercari Inc's shares surged 77 percent in their Tokyo stock market debut on Tuesday …
Tech giants and automakers form Partnership for Transportation Innovation and Opportunity (PTIO) group to explore the impact of self-driving cars on human jobs
A crisis in labor is brewing, and the big AV companies are on it — Driverless vehicles could eliminate millions of jobs in the future …
Cisco buys location services company July Systems, which was founded in 2001 and has raised almost $60M from Sequoia Capital, Intel Capital, and others
Customer experience management is about getting to know your customer's preferences in an online context, but pulling that information …
A look at how China is pushing dozens of regulations and technical standards to wrest control of the entire internet ecosystem from the West
Xi Jinping wants to wrest control of global cyber governance from the market economies of the west. — It's never been a worse time to be a Chinese telecom company in America. Tweets: @handrewschwart...
Xiaomi will postpone its application for a mainland China depository receipts offering until after it completes its IPO in Hong Kong
Google Maps on Android removes ability to hail an Uber from within the app, after adding the integration in January 2017
Killian Bell / Android Police :
Bancor to launch a new blockchain service in Kenya to foster the creation of community currencies that use tokens for local commerce and P2P payments
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
Microsoft acquires Flipgrid, a video discussion platform used by 20M+ students and teachers in 180 countries, and makes it free for schools to use
and makes it free Pradeep / MSPoweruser : Microsoft acquires Flipgrid to bring video-based social learning to everyone
Privacy leak found in Google Home and Chromecast that would let a malicious site find a user's precise location from Wi-Fi info; Google to fix leak within weeks
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Fujifilm sues Xerox for $1B+ after Xerox abandoned the planned merger with Fujifilm due to pressure from activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :
Sources: Roku plans to launch a video subscription marketplace to allow customers to sign up for and watch subscription services without separate apps
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
In letters to Jeff Bezos, nearly 20 Amazon shareholder groups, ACLU, and others call for halt of selling Rekognition facial recognition tech to law enforcement
Matt McFarland / CNNMoney :
UK-based cybersecurity startup Panaseer, which wants to improve “cyber hygiene” of firms by mapping assets like people, devices, and apps, raises $10M Series A
Mary Loritz / Tech.eu :
How advances from Google's Medical Brain team, which is building AI tools to predict disease symptoms, risk of death, more, could help it break into healthcare
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg :
How a team of 150 at Square made the $999 Square Register, a two-screen Android device with its own secure enclave chip, aiming to be SMBs' preferred PoS device
Lauren Goode / Wired :
Datally, Google's Android app for monitoring and managing mobile data, updated with new features including daily limits, guest mode, unused apps, and a WiFi map
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Domo updates IPO range to $19-$22/share, which would value it at roughly $511M, far below its previous valuation of $2.28B, now expects to raise $233M in IPO
and even that figure will be hard to sustain. http://twitter.com/...
Viva Republica, startup behind popular Korean P2P payments app Toss, raises $40M from GIC and Sequoia China, says Toss processes $10B in transactions per month
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Filing suggests Travis VanderZanden, founder of scooter rental startup Bird that has raised $450M to date, has sold tens of millions of dollars worth of stock
The Information : Tweets: @dailydirtnap , @adamsinger , @alexisohanian , @eliotwb , @nikillinit , @mdudas , @bryce , @danprimack , and @coryweinberg Tweets: Jared Dillian / @dailydirtnap : What kind ...
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