YouTube says it has resolved widespread access issues that also affected YouTube TV and YouTube Music
Google's services are ubiquitous enough that it's pretty noteworthy when they go down. Tonight, it seems multiple services are suffering an outage, including YouTube …
Advertisers allege in suit that Facebook didn't disclose key video metric error for over a year and that scale of miscalculation was far worse than understood
Facebook knew of problems with how it measured viewership of video ads for more than a year before it revealed them in 2016, according to a complaint filed by advertisers.
Google launches Chrome 70 with option to disable linked sign-ins, which are enabled by default, support for PWAs on Windows and an AV1 decoder, and more
Google today launched Chrome 70 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The release includes an option to disable linking Google site and Chrome sign-ins …
After saying last week no data collected through Portal would be used to target users with ads, Facebook now says the data can be used to target ads
Who you call and what apps you use could determine what ads you see. — Facebook announced Portal last week, its take on the in-home …
Twitter has published data sets of millions of tweets, images, videos, and thousands of accounts linked to Russia and Iran meddling for analysis by researchers
- Data includes images and videos from thousands of accounts — Tech firms remain under fire from lawmakers in EU, U.S.
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced a unified plan to deprecate the use of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in their web browsers in early 2020
Almost everyone has now migrated to TLS 1.2, and a few have moved to TLS 1.3. — Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced …
Skydio's R1 self-flying drone can now be launched, controlled, or manually flown entirely from an Apple Watch
Skydio, the California-based drone maker that specializes in self-flying software, is announcing a new update today that will let owners of its R1 drone launch, control …
After criticism from FCC's Pai and Florida Gov. Scott, Verizon offers 3-month credit to customers hit hardest by Hurricane Michael; AT&T also giving credits
Since the landfall of Hurricane Michael last week, Verizon has been under scrutiny for its seemingly poor efforts to restore service in the Florida Panhandle.
Samsung acquires Spanish network analytics company Zhilabs, which uses AI to monitor carriers' network performance and data traffic across myriad services
Samsung has announced that it has acquired Zhilabs, a Spanish network analytics company that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) …
Twitter bans ~1,500 accounts, source says for spreading misleading election-related content; the “NPC” accounts were 4chan and Reddit users posing as activists
Twitter has barred hundreds of right-wing users for posing as soulless, “nonplayable” liberal activists.
Apple rolls out an updated privacy portal website, first trialed in the EU in May, that lets customers search the information Apple has on them
- Apple's new privacy website launch fulfills a company promise of making it easier and faster for customers to find what personal information is kept by Apple.
Sources: Uber is considering taking minority stake investments to help finance its costly self-driving car unit amid pressure from investors ahead of its IPO
Uber is considering taking minority stake investments to help finance its costly self-driving car unit amid pressure from investors ahead …
Apple says devs can now sell 10 apps in a bundle, create app bundles for Mac apps, and make bundles that include free apps with auto-renewable subscriptions
Apple today announced expanded features for App Store bundles, introducing support for both Mac apps and free apps with subscriptions for the first time.
Anonymous Amazon employee says 450+ employees signed letter to Bezos and other execs asking them to stop selling Rekognition to police and kick Palantir off AWS
When a company puts new technologies into the world, it has a responsibility to think about the consequences.
Interview with Vitalik Buterin, Vlad Zamfir, Joseph Lubin, and others in the Ethereum community looking at the birth, current state, and future of blockchain
Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world. Tweets: @zackvoell and @amandagutterman Tweets: Zack Voell / @zackvoell : Wow, glad to read s...
Google Chromecast 2018 review: still $35, improved design, slightly faster performance, can stream 1080p at 60 fps but not 4K capable, not worth the upgrade
Little in the way of new features — Google didn't say a word about its newly refreshed Chromecast onstage in New York last week.
Profile of GEDmatch, a genealogy website that has helped crack more than a dozen cold cases after it was used to uncover the identity of the Golden State Killer
Fifteen murder and sexual assault cases have been solved since April with a single genealogy website. Tweets: @nytscience and @nytimes Tweets: @nytscience : One man is 80. The other is 67. They didn't...
Fitbit Charge 3 review: great design and battery life with reliable workout tracking, but third-party apps and notifications are limited
At a distance, the $149.99 Charge 3 looks similar to the Charge 2; it's not quite the same drastic overhaul between the Charge HR and the Charge 2.
Source: NY AG subpoenas 14 trade groups, businesses, and advocacy organizations over its investigation into fake net neutrality comments on FCC website
an astonishing example of advocacy fraud. Nick Confessore / @nickconfessore : NEW: @NewYorkStateAG has subpoenaed 14 trade groups, businesses, and advocacy organizations as part of her investigation i...
Stanford study: of the 800,000+ unique comments submitted to the FCC concerning repeal of net neutrality, 99.7% of them opposed what the FCC did
A new study has once again confirmed that the vast, vast majority of the public opposed the FCC's ham-fisted repeal of net neutrality.
Israeli startup Cognata, which provides a true-life simulation platform for autonomous vehicles, raises $18.5M led by Scale Venture Partners
Cognata has raised $18.5 million in a funding round led by Scale Venture Partners, fresh capital that the Israeli autonomous simulation startup …
Unifonic, dubbed the “Twilio of emerging markets”, raises $21M Series A led by Saudi Technology Ventures
Those of you familiar with the incredible rise of Twilio, which came along to utterly disrupt the communications world, will be interested to hear that another player plans to do the same …
Chartbeat: traffic to publishers from Facebook down nearly 40% since January 2017, but direct mobile traffic to publishers' websites and apps has grown 30%+
Facebook and Twitter are declining as news and media referral sources on mobile, according to a report from traffic analytics company Chartbeat … Tweets: @monroeschultz See also Mediagazer Tweets: Jor...
Social music startup Smule raises $20M from the VC arm of Indian media conglomerate The Times Group, after raising $54M in May 2017
App maker turned music social network Smule has raised another $20 million. The latest round follows a $54 million raise in May of last year, led by Tencent … Tweets: @timesbridge Tweets: @timesbridg...
ARM and cybersecurity firm Cybereason, both backed by SoftBank, partner to help secure IoT home devices like connected lightbulbs and thermostats
SoftBank-backed Arm and Cybereason are teaming up to protect some of the cyberworld's most vulnerable targets Tweets: @wsj and @mpatrickshea Tweets: @wsj : Unlike PCs or smartphones, connected “things...
Profile of Kris Goldsmith, an Army veteran who catalogues questionable Facebook Pages, some with millions of followers and links to Russia and Iran
Kris Goldsmith has become the cybersleuth for the Vietnam Veterans of America, hunting fake Facebook pages that sow discord and often have roots overseas Tweets: @dnvolz , @carter_pe , @mattyglesias ,...
Netflix Q3: streaming revenue of $3.91B, up 36% YoY, and global membership surpassing 130M paid and 137M total; stock up 13%+ after hours
Michelle Castillo / CNBC :
Coinbase now lets users buy and sell ZRX, the token representing the 0x Project, joining BTC, BCH, ETC, ETH, and LTC a week after adding ZRX to Coinbase Pro
Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch :
Research: CIA, NSA, DOD among federal agencies that have yet to implement DMARC email security on all their domains, despite a DHS directive to do so by Tuesday
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
In EU, Google to start charging OEMs for Play Store and Google apps, offer separate licenses for Search and Chrome, let OEMs make devices with forked Android
for a fee Cohen Coberly / TechSpot : Google will soon charge European Android device makers licensing fees to use its apps Tweets: Nilay Patel / @reckless : Google is going to start charging a license...
Israel-based WhiteSource, which tracks open source code for security vulnerabilities, raises $35M led by Susquehanna Growth Equity
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Source: Lyft has hired JP Morgan to lead its IPO, scheduled for early 2019, which could value company at more than $15B
$120 billion sounds nuts but isn't. —even a successful IPO at that stratospheric valuation doesn't answer whether Uber is a viable, lasting business. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Greg Bensinger / @gr...
Baidu joins the Partnership on AI, led by US companies like Apple and Google, becoming the first Chinese company to join an AI ethics group
Cate Cadell / Reuters :
UK cryptocurrency exchange Coinfloor becomes the first company to gain a licence to operate under Gibraltar's new blockchain-specific legislation
Hannah Murphy / Financial Times :
Journalism blockchain network Civil says the sale of its CVL token fails to hit $8M goal, buyers will be offered full refunds, and another token sale in works
and then another sale Matthew Beedham / The Next Web : ICO of blockchain platform that wanted to ‘fix’ journalism fails Corin Faife / BREAKER : ConsenSys Will Pick Up the Tab for Civil's Newsrooms in ...
Lyft launches All-Access Pass subscription plan for $299 per month for 30 rides costing up to $15 each, for single-passenger trips and carpooling rides
saves at most 33%, at cost of use it or lose it and if average fare is < $10 it's actually more. If it was 40 rides instead of 30 it could replace driving to work — especially if structured as a work ...
GitHub debuts Actions for devs to automate workflows and build, share, and execute code inside containers, security alerts for Java and .NET projects, and more
the first-party pipeline I've always wanted in almost every engineering org; full automation after you commit code. http://github.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Facebook says it will demote links in the News Feed to websites that illicitly scrape and republish content from other sources with little or no modification
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died at age 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
and a great friend. I will miss him https://twitter.com/... Sundar Pichai / @sundarpichai : We lost a great technology pioneer today - thank you Paul Allen for your immense contributions to the world ...
Hands-on with Huawei's fitness-focused Watch GT, which has two versions for €199 or €249, a 1.39" OLED display, GPS, and runs a proprietary OS called LiteOS
Vlad Savov / The Verge :
Irish Data Protection Commission says about 3M Europeans were affected by Facebook's security breach, announced in Sept., where personal info was accessed
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
As the scandal of Khashoggi's disappearance grows, Silicon Valley is mostly quiet on its connections to Saudi Arabia, the largest funding source for US startups
AI Is Getting Baked Into Everything From Tech Companies Tweets: Ragp Soylu / @ragipsoylu : SIGNIFICANT #Khashoggi updates: • Turkish official tells CNN that Khashoggi was cut into pieces • Turks to AJ...
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