Uber and Lyft driver in St. Louis has live-streamed hundreds of rides on Twitch without passenger consent; Uber and Lyft say the practice is legal in Missouri
It's legal — An Uber and Lyft driver in St. Louis, Missouri has given around 700 rides since March 2018 …
Venmo says user transaction history is public by default because it's fun to share info with friends and the option to go private is clearly marked in the app
If you haven't noticed, your Venmo transaction history is public by default. Unless you change the settings, people can see when you buy things.
As Google translates nonsensical messages into garbled religious prophecies, researchers blame AI algorithm trained on religious texts as some users see demons
Google Translate is moonlighting as a deranged oracle—and experts say it's likely because of the spooky nature of neural networks.
UpGuard: sensitive documents from 100+ companies including VW, Toyota, and Tesla were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics
Automakers like Tesla, Toyota and Volkswagen go to great lengths to keep their technical information confidential.
Android malware authors have been increasingly using “droppers”, which use a multiple-stage infection process, to sneak malicious apps into the Play Store
For the past year, Android malware authors have been increasingly relying on a solid trick for bypassing Google's security scans …
Coinbase's Federal Election Commission filing says it has formed a political action committee (PAC) to raise money to spend on U.S. elections
Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney :
Egypt's new law allows state to block social media accounts and blogs with 5K+ followers on sites like Facebook and Twitter, requires licenses for new websites
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists held to be publishing fake news. Tweets: @sub8u and @monaeltahawy ...
“Confidential Mode” feature in Gmail is misleading because the emails are not end-to-end encrypted and “expired” messages can be retrieved via the sent folder
in our opinion—misleading. There is nothing confidential about email that Google can still read. http://www.eff.org/... @eff : Each of Gmail's new “security” features comes with serious security probl...
Sources: in August 2017, Google sent a letter suggesting changes to Android OEM contracts and apps distribution; offer was rebuffed by EU as too little too late
- Company offered to tweak Android contracts to placate EU — Vestager says the peace offering didn't come quickly enough Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : Google has learned that the cost of wa...
Huawei executive says the company shipped 100M smartphones this year as of July 18 and is now aiming for shipments of 200M units by the end of 2018
Huawei has maintained fast growth momentum despite headwinds for broader industry shipments this year — Huawei Technologies …
Sources: French IT infrastructure services company Atos may acquire US-based rival Syntel for between $3.5B and $4B; the deal may be announced as soon as Monday
France's Atos nears $4 billion deal for Syntel, part of strategy to expand geographic footprint Tweets: @wsj Tweets: The Wall Street / @wsj : The move, if successful, would give Atos access to some of...
Tel Aviv-based AI startup AnyVision, which is working on face, body, and object recognition tech, has closed $28M Series A led by Bosch
As image recognition advances continue to accelerate, startups with a mind towards security applications are seeing some major interest to turn surveillance systems more intelligent.
With EU Android fine, some see futile effort to curb Google's dominance; others see first steps to check Google's data hoovering and guaranteed ad distribution
The tightly knit package of services Google has assembled around its Android smartphone software has supported one of the tech world's most profitable businesses.
Telecommunications company Orange has acquired Basefarm Holding, a Norway-based cloud infrastructure and critical application services company, for €350M
Major European telecom operator Orange has acquired Basefarm Holding AS, a Norwegian-founded cloud infrastructure …
Facebook plans to launch Athena, likely a constellation of small internet-delivering satellites, starting in 2019, after downgrading a drone project last month
Louise Matsakis / Wired :
Sources: event-planning company Eventbrite has filed confidentially for an IPO; the company has raised more than $350M and was valued at more than $1B in 2014
Wall Street Journal :
Google says it got duck.com after buying video compression startup On2 in 2010, will now redirect domain to a page with links to DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and more
Sean Hollister / CNET :
Indian telecoms regulator mandates that all smartphone users should be able to install its anti-spam app by January; iPhone could be in breach of the regulation
Javed Anwer / India Today :
Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, and CMC are in early-stage discussions about buying roughly 20% of WPP China, valuing the business between $2B and $2.5B
Mark Kleinman / Sky News :
Interview with Roku's CEO about how the company is growing its ad business and software licensing to OEMs, which generated more revenues than device sales in Q1
Chris Welch / The Verge :
Banks are increasingly looking to mobile-only offerings to grab market share among younger, lower-income consumers and to boost their presence in new cities
Bloomberg :
Inside Fox Sports, The Times, and Le Figaro's efforts to use AI, Alexa voice actions, and automation for their World Cup reporting
Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network :
NYC sues Airbnb to force compliance with city's subpoena on listings; Airbnb says it didn't comply because subpoena was too broad and asked for unrelated info
Bloomberg :
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