Internal docs show Facebook gave ~150 companies access to more user data than disclosed; some could read private DMs; Facebook says it didn't violate FTC decree
Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people's data than it has disclosed.
Apple rolls out iOS 12.1.2 for iPhone with eSIM bug fixes and China-specific changes to address Qualcomm injunction, including a new app closing animation
Apple on Monday released iOS 12.1.2 exclusively for iPhones. The software update fixes bugs related to eSIM activation on the iPhone XR …
Facebook says it shared data with integration partners only when users signed in with their Facebook accounts, to access features on other platforms, devices
Today, we're facing questions about whether Facebook gave large tech companies access to people's information and, if so, why we did this.
Even with location tracking turned off, Facebook uses IP addresses, check-ins, and cities on profiles to approximate user locations for ads and other services
Aleksandra Korolova has turned off Facebook's access to her location in every way that she can.
NASA reveals data breach of employee information including Social Security numbers in October; scope of breach and number of impacted employees still unclear
Hack took place in October 2018. Agency still doesn't know the number of impacted employees. — The US National Aeronautics …
Microsoft announces Windows Sandbox, a desktop environment for running apps in isolation, for users running Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise build 18301 and later
Microsoft's coming ‘Windows Sandbox’ feature is a lightweight virtual machine that allow users to run potentially suspicious software in isolation.
Google repeatedly pushes the web in a proprietary direction to improve its services on Chrome making Microsoft's adoption of Chromium a loss for the open web
Analysis: Microsoft adopting Chromium puts the Web in a perilous place. — With Microsoft's decision to end development …
Nvidia researchers show how far AI image generation has advanced in recent years in creating realistic and customizable faces
Those people on the right aren't real; they're the product of machine learning — Developments in artificial intelligence move at a startling pace — so much so that it's often difficult to keep track...
Blockstream expands its satellite service, which lets users transfer bitcoin through leased satellites, to Asia Pacific and adds support for lightning payments
Bitcoin users' ability to send transactions through outer space has just been given a boost. — Blockchain technology firm …
Anthony Levandowski launches self-driving truck startup Pronto.ai, which plans to ship level 2 automated driving systems in 2019 starting at $4,999
Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo …
Blythe Masters, CEO of blockchain startup Digital Asset Holdings and a former JPMorgan executive, will step down as CEO but remain on its board
Blythe Masters left her job as a high-flying JPMorgan Chase executive in 2014, and soon after became CEO of Digital Asset, a blockchain startup that caters to banks and startups.
Facebook posts a six-month update on its civil rights audit: 2018 changes included voting encouragement and banning voting disinformation
In May, Facebook agreed to conduct a civil rights audit, and now the company has released an update of its progress.
Match fires Tinder comms VP Rosette Pambakian, others; emails show Pambakian blames lawsuit, CEO says Pambakian's refusal to talk without lawyer led to firing
The Verge obtained an email exchange between her and Match's CEO — Multiple Tinder employees who sued the dating app's parent company …
Hackers steal personal data including credit card information of ~300K people across 46 cities, using a vulnerability in government payment software Click2Gov
Paying parking tickets or municipal water taxes is never fun—and it's even worse when hackers have compromised your town's payment system.
Sources: AG for District of Columbia files lawsuit against Facebook over allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, access to users' information
The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Facebook for allowing Cambridge Analytica …
Microsoft Surface Go LTE review: ultra portable, great keyboard, and LTE is very convenient but the extra $130 is hard to justify and it has poor battery life
A little of the future with too much of the past — The Surface Go is not a fast computer, but it's familiar.
Zwift, which turns indoor cycling workouts into multiplayer games, raises $120M Series B led by Highland Europe
Fitness and gaming have been two of the most popular categories of apps for years, and now a startup founded out of London that has combined the two in a unique way has picked …
Public blockchain network Waves Platform raises $120M led by financial services firm Dolfin as it rolls out its Vostok system aimed at companies and governments
Ilya Khrennikov / Bloomberg :
Amnesty International calls Twitter a “toxic place for women” in a study of 288,000 tweets aimed at 778 female journalists and politicians from the US and UK
as in, did not mention once—jewish women experiencing antisemitic harassment. i n c r e d i b l e http://twitter.com/... Nicole Chung / @nicole_soojung : “...black women were 84 percent more likely to...
In leaked memo, Chinese bike sharing startup Ofo's founder says it is facing immense cash flow pressure and has considered applying for bankruptcy
Ofo, the Alibaba-backed bike-sharing service, has “immense” cash flow problems and has considered applying for bankruptcy, according to the company's founder.
Facebook says it has taken down 425 Pages and 150 more Facebook and Instagram accounts linked to the Myanmar military for posting anti-Rohingya messages
Kurt Wagner / Recode :
An overview of how deep convolutional neural networks have gotten good at recognizing images, after a landmark 2012 paper called AlexNet transformed the field
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Tweets: @iveccc , @binarybits , @binarybits , @binarybits , and @binarybits Tweets: Ivan Vecerina / @iveccc : A truly excellent article on the recent history of machin...
Munich-based Price f(x), which offers a cloud-based pricing platform, raises €25M Series B led by Digital + Partners
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
Uber says it has been given approval by Pennsylvania officials to restart its self-driving car tests on public roads in Pittsburgh
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Spectrum's parent Charter reaches $174.2M settlement in New York AG's speed fraud lawsuit, which alleged that the ISP's speeds were 80% slower than advertised
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
On January 8, Oath, which was created from Verizon's acquisitions of Yahoo and AOL, will be rebranded as Verizon Media Group
Guru Gowrappan / Verizon :
Cambridge Mobile Telematics, which develops a platform for measuring driving performance, raises $500M from SoftBank's Vision Fund
Jeff Engel / Xconomy :
Truecaller report: worldwide spam calls increased 300% YoY, reaching 17.7B in 2018; Brazil led with more than 37 spam calls per user per month
Manish Singh / VentureBeat :
iPhone prices are unpalatable in India, where reports say its marketshare has shrunk to ~1%, and a source says it's taking in <50% of the revenue once hoped for
Wall Street Journal :
EU court rejects Yelp and Consumer Watchdog's application to intervene in Google's appeal of its 2017 $2.7B EU antitrust fine; other Google rivals also rejected
1 By application lodged at the Court Registry … Foo Yun Chee / Reuters : Yelp, Consumer Watchdog lose Google intervention bid
Inside Audi's autonomous driving unit, which has ~150 employees, is testing 12 autonomous vehicles on public roads, and aims to debut self-driving taxis by 2021
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Lip-syncing app TikTok, which is popular with children and teens, struggles to remove blatant, violent white supremacy and Nazism
Joseph Cox / Motherboard : Tweets: @carnage4life , @orensegal , and @josephfcox Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Tik Tik, the lip syncing app aimed at teens, also has a problem with hate speec...
As EU debates Article 13, which would require sites to have an “upload filter”, a look at the failures of YouTube's sophisticated ContentID system
Mike Masnick / Techdirt : Tweets: @mmasnick Tweets: Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : As a bunch of entertainment industry lobbyists continue the push for #Article13, let's just see how the world's most exp...
NPR's podcast measurement technology RAD has sparked debate within the industry, with Overcast's Marco Arment expressing concerns about tracking and privacy
Mathew Ingram / Columbia Journalism Review : Tweets: @cjr , @mathewi , @marcoarment , @marcoarment , and @marcoarment Tweets: @cjr : “Goers says one of the groups NPR really wanted to help was smalle...
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