Dozens of government websites rendered insecure or inaccessible due to 80+ expired TLS certificates that haven't been renewed due to the US government shutdown
As the U.S. federal shutdown continues, dozens of U.S. government websites have been rendered either insecure or inaccessible due …
Leaked docs: Verizon is alpha testing a game streaming service called Verizon Gaming, currently running on the Nvidia Shield TV, eventually expanding to Android
Verizon Gaming is already running on the Nvidia Shield — and soon Android — Verizon is currently conducting alpha testing …
Bird sends dubious DMCA takedown notice to Boing Boing over a post explaining how to legally buy an abandoned Bird scooter and convert it to a personal scooter
Every now and then we have to remind someone that it's not illegal for people to report facts that they dislike.
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 …
Google has stopped making its Chromecast Audio streaming adapter, focusing on smart speakers instead
Google has stopped making its Chromecast Audio streaming adapter, and is instead focused on smart speakers going forward. A company spokesperson confirmed Friday that Chromecast Audio …
During FTC vs Qualcomm trial, Apple supply chain exec Tony Blevins details “Project Antique”, the company's search for a second modem supplier, starting in 2013
(Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) considered tapping Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) and MediaTek Inc (2454.TW) …
Sources: Apple plans three new iPhones for this fall, including a high-end one with a triple rear camera and an iPhone XR successor with a dual-camera system
Examining Facebook's Strengths and Blind Spots Henry T. Casey / Tom's Guide : Apple Will Offer A Trio Of 2019 IPhones, One With 3 Cameras (Report) Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : 2019 iPhones May Suppor...
Lime suspends its scooter service in Switzerland after reports of some of its e-scooters halting mid-ride, throwing off and injuring passengers
Just as on-demand electric scooters are trying to pick up speed in Europe, one of the scooter market's most ambitious startups has halted operations …
Chinese tech companies at CES say the US-China trade war has adversely impacted their business but, despite the lower margins, the US market remains important
- Times are tough in 2019 thanks to the US-China trade war and an escalating war of words between Washington and Beijing over tech leadership
A look back at the evolution of RSS and why it lost out to centralized information silos on the web controlled by corporations, despite being an open format
Before the internet was consolidated into centralized information silos, RSS imagined a better way to let users control their online personas. Tweets: @derektmead , @wingedpig , @drandrewthaler , and ...
Sources: Viacom in talks to acquire Tubi TV, an ad-supported streaming service partly owned by MGM and Lionsgate; one source estimated a cost of around $300M
Nearly every major media company in recent years has launched video streaming services that cost viewers a few dollars a month and don't carry ads … Tweets: @cityofthetown Tweets: Tom Dotan / @cityoft...
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
Washington Post :
ThreeKit, a startup that helps ecommerce clients turn static images into interactive 3D presentations, raises $10M seed round
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
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
Janko Roettgers / Variety :
Sources: social media platforms are preparing to fight sweeping new rules to remove “unlawful” content within 24 hrs, proposed by the Indian govt late last year
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Global social media and technology giants are gearing up to fight sweeping new rules proposed … Tweets: @greatfirechina Tweets: @greatfirechina : American internet companies when...
Some Twitter users in China, of which there are 3.2M, face detention and threats in Beijing's broad and punitive new censorship push
Paul Mozur / New York Times :
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
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
The resumes of 202M+ Chinese users, with personal data including home addresses and mobile numbers, were exposed online on an unsecured MongoDB database server
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Discussing the decline of TV, Viacom CEO Bob Bakish says driverless, 5G-connected cars would add viewing minutes in the same way the bedroom TV did
Viacom CEO Bob Bakish isn't ready to celebrate victory just yet. “I wouldn't ever say mission accomplished, and certainly not in the changing world …
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
Bloomberg :
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
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
In a court filing, Meta, maker of the Meta 2 AR headset, says its assets have been sold off by a lender and it is insolvent; Meta had raised $73M in VC funding
Adario Strange / Next Reality :
In a follow-up to its 2013 plan to back 100 startups, Xiaomi to invest ~$1.5B in “AIoT”, IoT devices enhanced by AI via Xiaomi's platform, over the next 5 years
Rita Liao / TechCrunch :
British man sentenced to 2+ years in prison for DDoS attack that took down internet connectivity in Liberia in 2016, after an ISP hired him to attack a rival
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Sources: Commerce Department signals it will not renew export license for Futurewei Technologies, Huawei's Silicon Valley-based R&D unit
Wall Street Journal :
Microsoft has avoided the scrutiny over privacy issues that has ensnared rivals by working with regulators and advocating its own solutions
Daria Solovieva / Fast Company : Tweets: @dariasolo and @dariasolo Tweets: @dariasolo : “They've been around the block, they've been the evil perpetrator before, and they've already learned how to pl...
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