In an open letter, 60 Google employees join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel Project Dragonfly, its censored search engine for China
We are Google employees and we join Amnesty International in calling on Google to cancel project Dragonfly, Google's effort to create …
Uber fined ~$1.17M by British and Dutch authorities for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed the personal details of 2.7M British and 174K Dutch users
- Uber was fined a combined $1.17 million by British and Dutch authorities Tuesday for a 2016 data breach and cover-up that exposed …
AWS introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, AWS Graviton Processor, and claims 45% lower costs for some workloads
After years of waiting for someone to design an Arm server processor that could work at scale on the cloud, Amazon Web Services just went ahead and designed its own.
Apple unveils Entrepreneur Camp to help female founders of app-driven companies with training, support, and more, hosted at Apple Park for two weeks quarterly
Apple wants to help give female developers a boost when it comes to iOS apps. — The company on Monday unveiled …
Amazon announces AWS Global Accelerator to boost performance across regions and AWS Transit Gateway, a tool to simplify network architecture and reduce overhead
The AWS Global Accelerator is expected to boost performance of global workloads and the AWS Transit Gateway is aimed at simplifying network architecture.
Microsoft details three independent root causes behind last week's worldwide MFA outage that affected Azure, Office 365, Dynamics, and other Microsoft users
Microsoft has posted a root cause analysis of the multifactor authentication issue which hit a number of its customers worldwide last week.
Google buys a 51.8 acre Mountain View business park with 12 buildings for $1B, in what is the Bay Area's largest real estate purchase so far in 2018
MOUNTAIN VIEW — In an unexpected mega-deal, Google has paid $1 billion for a huge Mountain View business park, a head-spinning acquisition …
Investigation: 8 apps with a total of 2B+ downloads from Google Play, including 7 from Cheetah mobile, exploit user permissions in an ongoing ad fraud scheme
Eight apps with a total of more than 2 billion downloads in the Google Play store have been exploiting user permissions as part …
Hacker gains access to the repo of Event-Stream, a JS library with 2M+ weekly downloads on npm, to inject BitPay's wallet apps with code that steals funds
Users of BitPay's Copay desktop and mobile wallet apps are affected. An update has been released earlier today that doesn't contain the malicious code.
WhatsApp's chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces he is leaving after seven years at the company
WhatsApp's chief business officer is leaving the company, the latest executive to flee since the messaging service was bought by Facebook. — Neeraj Arora, once tipped …
Current and former employees of news orgs sponsored by the blockchain startup Civil say they haven't received the compensation they were promised when hired
Civil was supposed to create a more transparent and democratic model for journalism. But so far, journalists working on its platform …
Amazon says it's making the same machine learning courses it uses to teach its own engineers available for free to all developers through AWS
It's Cyber Monday and Amazon has one deal for its customers that's a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available …
Adobe: total sales through phones on Cyber Monday hit $2.2B, up from $1.4B last year, as total traffic to online stores from mobile phones rose to 47%
The darling of retailers this holiday season is the smartphone. — Following years of less-than-stellar sales through mobile devices …
Facebook launches Watch Party, its group viewing feature where users can see and comment on the same video at the same time, to all profiles and Pages worldwide
Facebook Watch has failed to capture viewers with its content, so it's hoping to differentiate through the company's core strength: social.
Pixel Slate review: nice hardware, including great speakers, but its Chrome OS software is riddled with bugs, and Android app integration still needs work
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UK Parliament says it hopes to publish the internal Facebook documents seized this weekend “within the next week”, after fully reviewing them
The UK's Parliament said on Tuesday that it hopes to publish documents relating to Facebook's business practices “within the next week.” Tweets: @profcarroll . Thanks: @katiecollins Tweets: David Carr...
Facebook says its working on a fix for a bug that resurfaces older messages in the Messenger tab on Facebook.com for some users
and people are calling it a ‘cringe-fest’ Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web : Facebook Messenger bug resurfaces chats from years ago (Update: it's fixed) Johnny Lieu / Mashable : Weird Facebook bug see...
PhishLabs report: in Q3 2018, 49% of phishing sites displayed the padlock security icon next to the site's domain name in a browser address bar, up 25% YoY
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Tencent partners with Line to offer payment services via WeChat Pay to small businesses in Japan, starting in 2019 with processing fees waived through July 2021
Yoichiro Hiroi / Nikkei Asian Review :
During a hearing SCOTUS justices appeared open to letting Apple App Store antitrust lawsuit proceed; the plaintiffs have backing from 30 state attorneys general
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Lime launches in the UK, starting with dockless electric bikes in Milton Keynes, says it plans to expand into more UK cities in the next few weeks
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Stock trading app Robinhood has hired Jason Warnick, an Amazon veteran who joined the company in 1999 and was most recently VP of finance, as its new CFO
Jason Warnick has presumably had a lot of job offers since joining Amazon in the 20th century. — The stock-trading startup Robinhood … Tweets: @teddyschleifer and @alexeheath Tweets: Teddy Schleifer...
Google Maps rolls out a feature on Android that lets users include hashtags in business reviews
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Facebook disbands its widely publicized “War Room”, says it wasn't a permanent solution, touts Strategic Response Team as its way to handle future crises
Mark Zuckerberg is in a crisis of leadership. Fortune : Data Sheet—Bitcoin Bites It Casey Newton / The Verge : The UK's inquiry into fake news is focused on a long-dead bikini-finding app Mike Godwin ...
How data tagging firms in China are using cheap labor to apply labels to troves of images and surveillance footage to help train AI systems across the country
Li Yuan / New York Times :
Securitize, which helps companies issue asset-backed security tokens, raises $12.75 Series A from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Ripple's Xpring fund
Jon Russell / TechCrunch :
Facebook's YouTube competitor Watch is pivoting to older audiences as teens tune out and the company pares down the number of shows it purchases
Michelle Castillo / CNBC :
Airbnb says it has hired Dave Stephenson, VP and CFO of Amazon's Worldwide Consumer Organization, as its CFO, ahead of a potential IPO in 2019
This Time as CFO Frank Catalano / GeekWire : Long-time Amazon exec Dave Stephenson to join Airbnb as its new CFO Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg : Airbnb Poaches Amazon Executive for New CFO to Lead It to...
Amazon debuts RoboMaker, a cloud-based service to let coders develop, test, and deploy their robotics applications using the open source Robot Operating System
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Logitech says it has ended talks to acquire Plantronics; Logitech was rumored to have offered $2.2B to buy the maker of headsets and other communication devices
NBCUniversal debuts a machine learning tool to help brands place ads around scenes relevant to their product, by analyzing scripts, CC data, visual descriptors
Patrick Kulp / Adweek :
China-based Horizon Robotics, which makes chips optimized to run neural networks, is raising up to $1B in a Series B, valuing it between $3B-$4B
Louise Lucas / Financial Times :
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