Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for 2019, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera, and the successor to the iPhone XR with a dual-camera
Three new iPhone models planned for 2019, including one with a triple rear camera — Apple Inc. AAPL .32% is planning to release three …
AT&T and T-Mobile say they will stop selling customers' location data to 3rd-party service providers by March; Verizon says it's winding down sharing agreements
AT&T said Thursday it will stop selling its customers' location data to third-party service providers after a report this week …
Shareholder sues Alphabet's board of directors, claiming they breached fiduciary duty by covering up sexual misconduct by execs and giving Andy Rubin a payout
- Investor accuses Alphabet directors of abusing their power — Android creator allegedly got $90 million payout amid probe
Unity says Improbable's claims are “incorrect” and game devs using SpatialOS are not affected by Unity's TOS update; Improbable says it was a “misunderstanding”
Unity CTO Joachim Ante said Improbable's warning that SpatialOS could not longer be used with Unity was ‘incorrect.’
Poland has searched the Warsaw offices of Huawei and Orange, arrested a Chinese manager at Huawei and charged him with espionage on behalf of China
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's Internal Security Agency has charged a Chinese manager at tech giant Huawei in Poland and one of its own former officers …
US government websites including NASA's and the DOJ's are inaccessible to public after 80+ expired TLS certificates were not renewed due to government shutdown
Over 80 government websites are down after TLS certificates and there's nobody on hand to renew them.
IDC reports global PC shipments in Q4 were down 3.7% YoY, while Gartner estimates a 4.3% YoY decline, amid CPU shortages and the US-China trade war
IDC and Gartner market share stats illustrate how trade wars and CPU shortages hurt fourth quarter sales for PC makers.
Some Twitter users in China, of which there are 3.2M, face detention and threats in Beijing's broad and punitive new censorship push
SHANGHAI — One man spent 15 days in a detention center. The police threatened another's family. A third was chained to a chair for eight hours of interrogation.
The resumes of 202M+ Chinese users, with personal data including home addresses and mobile numbers, were exposed online on an unsecured MongoDB database server
Data appears to have originated from a data scraping app that collected resumes from Chinese job portals.
Videolan says it expects VLC to surpass 3B downloads on Friday and that Airplay support is coming to the main VLC app, possibly arriving in about a month
Open source video player app VLC was mere hours away from surpassing 3 billion downloads Friday, and the Videolan team celebrated …
Improbable and Epic Games partner to establish $25M fund to help devs transition away from Unity to “more open engines, services, and ecosystems”, after debacle
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Sources say Amazon is developing a game streaming service, but it isn't likely to launch until next year at the earliest
Amazon is developing a service for streaming videogames over the internet, joining Microsoft, Google and other companies that are building similar offerings …
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview that reserves ~7GB of disk space for updates, apps, and more to ensure critical OS functions always have space
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview with improvements to disk space management, Reset this PC, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
TiVo to launch Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV apps in Q2 and Q3, letting people watch live or recorded video on multiple TVs without buying a separate TiVo Mini
TiVo is launching apps for the Roku, Fire TV, and Apple TV streaming devices later this year, letting people watch live or recorded video …
Sources: Slack is planning to go public through a direct listing, likely to debut in the second quarter
Messaging company, recently valued at $7 billion, aims to debut in the second quarter — Slack Technologies Inc. is planning to go public through a direct listing …
Munich court rules that Amazon's Dash buttons do not provide consumers with sufficient information about a purchase in breach of consumer e-commerce rules
Amazon's Dash buttons have been found to breach consumer ecommerce rules in Germany. — The push-to-order gizmos were debuted by Amazon in 2015 …
Ford is shutting down Chariot, the startup it acquired in 2016 that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and in London
Chariot, the Ford-owned transportation startup that operates commuter shuttle services in nine North American cities and internationally in London, is shutting down.
Survey: 41% of Americans somewhat or strongly support AI development, 82% want AI carefully managed, universities and US military most trusted to build AI
In 2018, several high-profile controversies involving AI served as a wake-up call for technologists, policymakers, and the public.
US Secret Service memo warns that card thieves are avoiding detection while carrying multiple counterfeit cards by relying on the Fuze smart card
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Massachusetts man sentenced to over 10 years in prison and ordered to pay ~$443K in restitution for a DDoS attack on Boston Children's Hospital in 2014
Nate Raymond / Reuters :
Amazon's IMDb launches Freedive, an ad-supported streaming service offering movies and TV shows in the US; site now lists 130+ free movies and 29 shows
with ads Erin Carson / CNET : FreeDive, new streaming service from Amazon's IMDb, offers free films, TV Matt Novak / Gizmodo : IMDB Launches Free Movie and TV Streaming Service Called Freedive Richard...
Mondelez sues insurer for refusing to pay $100M claim for NotPetya damages in the first major legal battle over cost recovery from state sponsored cyberattacks
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Sources: Amazon-owned Ring gave its teams in Ukraine and the US unfiltered cloud access to unencrypted home security camera videos and live feeds
Sam Biddle / The Intercept :
Spotify outlines its strategy for podcasts that includes bringing talent in-house or exclusively licensing content and selling ads within its podcasts
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Ahead of its expected IPO, Postmates has raised a $100M investment, which a source says values the company at $1.85B, up from $1.2B in September
Examining Facebook's Strengths and Blind Spots Biz Carson / Forbes : Postmates Adds $100 Million In Funding As Food Delivery Co. Prepares For Potential IPO Kate Clark / TechCrunch : Postmates lines up...
Researchers say it is easy to find child porn images on Bing, which also actively suggests related keywords and images; Microsoft says it is working on fixes
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Analysts and fund managers speculate about how the Bezos divorce could affect Amazon, with the couple holding a roughly 16% ownership stake
David Randall / Reuters :
Quartz's AI Studio has developed bots to help journalists with data analysis tasks, using machine learning to identify patterns in records and more
Marcela Kunova / Journalism.co.uk :
Samsung announces its next Unpacked event will be held in San Francisco on February 20 at 11AM PT, hints at launch of Galaxy S10 series
Sam Byford / The Verge :
Producers of French TV shows agree to give Salto, an OTT service for French content, extensive and exclusive content rights, blocking sales to Netflix, others
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
Researchers develop tool that can predict where Twitter users live with 92.5% accuracy using GPS data from geotagged tweets posted prior to April 2015
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Tweets: @issielapowsky , @issielapowsky , @wired , and @alexwhitcomb Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : Twitter changed its policy in 2015 but all the GPS data from be...
Sources: Alibaba-backed AI startup Megvii, owner of facial recognition developer Face++, is considering an IPO in Hong Kong that could raise as much as $1B
Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg :
Adviser to EU court backs Google, says search engines shouldn't be forced to apply “right to be forgotten” beyond the bloc's borders
Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal :
A reconstruction of the cyberattack on the US power grid from 2016 to 2018, which targeted contractors and trade publications, and which the US blamed on Russia
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @dnvolz , @ericgeller , and @amy_siskind Tweets: Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : NEW: @WSJ investigation reconstructs Russia's 2017 campaign of cyber intrusions into the U.S. el...
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