Facebook updates a March blog post to say it stored passwords of millions of Instagram users in plain text, not tens of thousands as first announced
This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared. — On the same morning Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report …
Emtek announces it will shut down BBM for consumers on May 31, but BlackBerry's enterprise-grade service, BBM Enterprise, will become available to individuals
Consumer BBM users encouraged to switch to BBM Enterprise — Back in 2016, BlackBerry announced a new partnership …
Google Home and Assistant-powered speakers get a free ad-supported version of YouTube Music with limited functionality, in 16 countries including the US and UK
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Facebook says it unintentionally collected email contacts of 1.5M users who used email password verification, will notify affected users and delete contacts
the data was also utilised to “improve ads.” Rob Price / @robaeprice : SCOOP: Facebook harvested 1.5 million people's email contacts without their consent. It says it “unintentionally uploaded” them a...
Amazon Music launches an ad-supported tier for Alexa-enabled devices in the US, allowing users to listen to Amazon Music's top playlists and stations for free
Amazon Music today basically soft-launched its free streaming tier, in which U.S. customers of its Alexa voice assistant …
Sources: macOS 10.15 to get Siri Shortcuts support for Marzipan apps, Screen Time, and a new Apple ID management panel
Apple is working on bringing the Mac and iOS closer together with the introduction of macOS 10.15 and iOS 13. Siri Shortcuts, Screen Time, and more are expected …
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan, an immigrant from China who was denied a US visa eight times, is now a billionaire after his company debuted on Nasdaq
When Eric Yuan was in his early 20s, he heard a speech from then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates about the promise of the internet …
Zoom closes up 72% on its first day of public trading, valuing the company at $15.9B after it raised $356.8M in its IPO
up 75% — which would mean its market cap has soared to $16.1 billion and Yuan's net worth to $3.3 billion. A reminder: Zoom only raised about $160 million in VC, much late. https://www.forbes.com/... ...
Several journalists have reported their Samsung Galaxy Fold review unit's screen breaking after a day or two of use
Yikes — Look closely at the picture above, and you can see a small bulge right on the crease of my Galaxy Fold review unit. It's just enough to slightly distort the screen, and I can feel it under ...
Facebook's subtle disclosure about storing millions of Instagram passwords in plain text before a holiday weekend shows it has mastered the art of the news dump
San Francisco (CNN Business)On the Thursday before a major holiday weekend, and an hour before the much-anticipated Mueller report …
Sources: FTC probe into Facebook's privacy practices is also looking at past statements by Zuckerberg and weighing whether to seek oversight of his leadership
Federal regulators investigating Facebook for mishandling its users' personal information have set their sights on the company's chief executive …
Samsung Galaxy Fold review: awkward as a phone and has many issues, in addition to screen breaking, like “jelly scroll” where one side scrolls faster than other
The future is still very fragile — This is going to be a weird review. — It'll be weird because …
Netflix is opening an NYC production hub, will lease about 161,000 square feet for six sound stages in Brooklyn and also will expand its Manhattan office
The streamer also will expand its Manhattan office and create 127 high-paying jobs by 2024. — Amazon's loss is Netflix's gain.
Pinterest closes up 28% on its first day of trading after raising $1.43B in its IPO and is now valued at nearly $13B, above the $12B valuation at its last raise
- Pinterest begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “PINS,” debuting at $23.75, up 25% from its IPO price.
Report: 3.2M+ Indian card records posted for sale online in 2018; India expected to surpass the UK in 2019, taking second place for stolen cards, behind the US
Prices for stolen Indian payment cards has also gone up by 150% in 2018 to around $17/card. — Due to a booming cybercrime scene …
Apple's butterfly keyboard has failed and the company owes customers an apology, but it still claims that only a small percentage of users experience trouble
Its butterfly keyboard design has failed, but Apple has yet to substantially admit that it has made a very big mistake.
Mozilla's open source IoT platform for monitoring and controlling connected devices graduates from its experimental phase, launching as Mozilla WebThings
For the better part of two years, the folks at Mozilla have been chipping diligently away at Project Things, an open implementation …
Binance says it has launched its Binance Chain blockchain and will activate its BNB cryptocurrency on it on April 23; BNB runs on Ethereum now
Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk :
Head of Memento Labs, the new company that acquired spyware vendor Hacking Team, says they're “starting from scratch”, but will keep their existing customers
The head of Memento Labs, the new company that acquired infamous spyware vendor Hacking Team, admitted there's a lot …
Uproar among some fans of Steam over Epic Store's exclusive game deals is the latest battle in a long war over DRM and copy protection in PC gaming
Earlier this month, PC gaming fans learned that the long-awaited Borderlands 3 would initially launch exclusively on the Epic Store …
Kuo: 2019 iPhones will feature a 12MP front camera; the 6.5" and 5.8" OLED iPhones will have a rear-facing triple-camera system with a new super-wide 12MP lens
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac :
Winklevoss Capital settles with ex-BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem; Winklevoss Capital had alleged Shrem stole 5K bitcoin in 2012, worth ~$26M at today's prices
Marc Hochstein / CoinDesk :
Microsoft acquires Express Logic, which claims its real-time operating system for IoT and edge devices called ThreadX RTOS has over 6.2B deployments worldwide
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Google and Amazon end their streaming video spat: YouTube will come to Fire TV and Prime Video will work with Chromecast and Android TV
Nathan Ingraham / Engadget :
Uber is testing new push alerts and Lyft rolls out continuous driver background checks after a woman was murdered allegedly by a man posing as her Uber driver
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Uber confirms it has raised $1B for its autonomous driving unit from SoftBank Vision Fund, Toyota, and Denso, at a valuation of $7.25B
Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios :
Super, a startup providing an online subscription service for home maintenance and repairs, raises $20M Series B led by Aquiline Technology Growth
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Mueller report provides more details, not available in previous indictments, about how DNC and DCCC were hacked and the stolen information disseminated
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
USDA launches a two-year pilot program in New York state that lets SNAP food stamp recipients shop for groceries at online retailers like Walmart and Amazon
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Paris-based Bankin', whose money management app uses algorithms to detect savings opportunities, raises €20M Series B, bringing its total raised to €28M
Mary Loritz / EU-Startups :
Life360, an SF-based startup that makes a family tracking app, announces IPO in Australia, plans to raise A$145M, valuing the company at ~A$689M
Paulina Duran / Reuters :
Report: VCs invested ~$850M in blockchain startups in Q1 2019; Coinbase UK had $173M in revenue in 2018, accounted for about a third of Coinbase's total revenue
Tom Wilson / Reuters :
Hacker shares source code of tools from Iranian cyber-espionage unit APT34, alleged personal info of Iranian intelligence officers, and more on Telegram
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
T-Mobile's no-fee mobile-first checking account, T-Mobile Money, rolls out nationwide, offers T-Mobile customers 4% interest rate on the first $3,000 deposited
Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo :
Returnly, which offers users instant store credit when they decide to return items bought online, raises $19M Series B from Craft Ventures and Max Levchin
Lauren Debter / Forbes :
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