Facebook will now ban anyone who violates its “most serious policies” from using Facebook Live for a set period of time, starting with their first offense
San Francisco (CNN Business)Two months after the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand was live-streamed by the accused gunman …
Several security researchers say iOS security controls have made it really hard to analyze whether an iPhone has been compromised without jailbreaking it first
A recent vulnerability in WhatsApp shows that there's little defenders can do to detect and analyze iPhone hacks.
A side-channel flaw called ZombieLoad affects nearly all post-2011 Intel chips; Apple, Microsoft, Google release fixes today that, like Spectre, hit performance
Security researchers have found a new class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips which, if exploited, can be used to steal sensitive information directly from the processor.,
San Francisco passes a ban on the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies, the first ban of its kind for a major American city
On Tuesday, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to approve a ban on the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies.
Explaining the Hulu/Disney/Comcast breakup: as media companies get bigger to compete with tech, many shows will scatter from Netflix and Hulu to rival services
All the big media companies want their own streaming service. Big question: Do you want to subscribe to lots of streaming services?
Ajit Pai proposes a new rule that would allow carriers to block robocalls by default and lets customers block calls from numbers not on their contacts list
‘The American people are fed up with illegal robocalls’ — On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission announced a new measure …
Rivet, a free app from Google's workshop for experimental projects, helps kids learn to read with speech processing, AI, and a library of 2,000+ free books
Reading is one of the most important skills students will learn in their lives. After the third grade, students who have mastered reading use …
Google is combining its travel-related products, including Google Trips, Google Flights, and Google Hotel Search, under a singular tool called Trips
Not to be confused with Google Trips, its offline travel app — Google is combining its travel-related products — the mobile Google Trips app …
Uber is rolling out new options for Uber Black, its luxury car service, including a “quiet preferred” mode, help with luggage, and preferred temperature
Tired of chatty drivers? Uber is finally giving users its most requested feature: an in-app way to request minimal conversation during your ride.
Microsoft warns of major WannaCry-like Windows security exploit affecting older versions like XP that could spread malware via RDS protocol, releases patches
Windows 10 and Windows 8 are safe — Microsoft is warning users of older versions of Windows to urgently apply a Windows Update today …
Google to revamp Shopping hub, giving users more options on how and where to buy products, and will soon let you buy products via YouTube videos, coming in 2019
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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance says it is back online and has resumed trading activity, after being hacked for $40M+ in bitcoin
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has resumed trading activity. Users can now cancel open orders, deposit crypto assets into their Binance account, and of course buy and sell cryptocurrencies.
Google announces Discovery ads, with a visual format that runs across YouTube home feed, Gmail, and the Discover feed, rolling out globally later this year
SAN FRANCISCO — “A key theme this year is discovery,” Google's Brad Bender, who leads its display and video advertising business …
American Express is acquiring restaurant reservation platform Resy, which says it is used by 4,000 restaurants in 154 US cities and 10 countries
Though Anthony Bourdain championed the idea that reservations aren't necessary, at most popular restaurants, you still need them.
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry
We have graduated, along with oil, real estate, insurance, and finance, to the big T. Trillions of dollars. Trillions! Get to that number any way you like: Sum up the market cap of the major tech co...
Google says it will begin featuring ads on the homepage of its mobile website later this year, amid tough questions around growth
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WH will not sign “Christchurch call to action”, a commitment by governments and social media companies to fight online extremism, citing free speech concerns
The White House will not sign an international call to combat online extremism brokered between French and New Zealand officials …
Bitfinex CTO confirms that the crypto exchange raised nearly $1B in a private token sale
The issuance of the exchange tokens, dubbed LEO, was planned to cover the $850 million currently frozen in several accounts controlled by the payment processing company Crypto Capital …
A 14-year-old girl with 800,000 YouTube followers is sharing far-right content, highlighting how the platform can push kids to extremism as they build audiences
“Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform. The site's executives only have themselves to blame.
Q&A with AI pioneer and Turing Award winner Geoffrey Hinton on the evolution of neural networks, consciousness, teaching computers to dream, future plans, more
Geoffrey Hinton is one of the creators of Deep Learning, a 2019 winner of the Turing Award, and an engineering fellow at Google. Tweets: @jgvfwstone , @skdh , and @nxthompson Tweets: James V Stone / @...
Cybersecurity company Crowdstrike files for IPO, seeking to raise up to $100M, says it had a $140M net loss on $249.8M in revenue for the year ending Jan. 31
KEY POINTS — Security software company Crowdstrike on Tuesday filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “CRWD.”
Big data startup Tealium raises $55M Series F, bringing the total raised to $160M, says it is close to profitability and expects revenues of $100M this year
The average enterprise today uses about 90 different software packages, with between 30-40 of them touching customers directly or indirectly.
Amazon breaks ground on its $1.5B Prime Air hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport with enough room for 100 planes, scheduled to open in 2021
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hopped into a front-end loader to “move some earth” as the tech giant broke ground Tuesday …
Report details Apple's “long and painful divorce” with Intel, says Apple's custom 5G modems may not arrive until 2025
The Information is out today with a detailed report on the falling out between Intel and Apple over the last few years that led to settling with Qualcomm … Source: The Information .
An examination of the opaque data collection practices in mobile games, which have largely escaped the level of scrutiny applied to social media companies
Seemingly simple mobile games made us all way too comfortable with giving away our personal information. — Angry Birds is so 2009, you might say.
Alibaba beats estimates with Q4 profit of $3.84B on revenue of $13.9B, up 51% YoY, says annual active consumers reached 654M, mobile MAUs 721M
BABA) today announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2019. — “More and more, Alibaba is becoming synonymous …
Wikimedia says all language editions of Wikipedia have been blocked in China since late April; previously, China only blocked the Chinese language version
All language editions of Wikipedia have been blocked in mainland China since April, the Wikimedia foundation has confirmed.
Some theories around why Bitcoin has surged above $8,000, from increased adoption and technological advances to good old-fashioned price manipulation
Bitcoin is now trading at around $8,130, up a whopping 60.84 percent over the past month, with the price surging $3,086.14 over the period.
Indian online grocery delivery service Grofers raises $200M+ led by SoftBank Vision Fund at a valuation of almost $1B
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Tencent beats estimates with Q1 profit of $3.95B, up 17% YoY, on revenue of $12.42B, up 16% YoY; WeChat had 1.11B MAUs, up 6.9% YoY
but the slowest revenue growth since going public in 2004. So is the worst over? https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology @luluyilun
Google settles class action lawsuit with owners of original Pixel and Pixel XL alleging it knowingly sold Pixels with defective mics, could pay up to $500/owner
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Canadian digital alternative banking startup Koho raises $42M Series B led by Portag3 Ventures, sources say at $100M+ valuation, bringing total raised to $52.6M
Douglas Soltys / BetaKit :
Behind Twitter's plan to fix the problems like disinformation, harassment, and outrage through its new prototype app twttr
In March, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone tweeted a screenshot of an iPhone homescreen along with a message: “Notice our new prototype? ...
Coinbase says it is expanding trading in the dollar-pegged stablecoin USDC to 85 nations globally
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Apple Pay now accepted for iTunes, App Store, Apple Music, and iCloud purchases in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Russia, Ukraine, and the UAE
Joe Rossignol / MacRumors :
AT&T has cut 23K jobs since the corporate tax cut passed in 2017, after it lobbied for it by promising an additional $1B in investment in 2018 and 7K new jobs
it cut 23,000 jobs instead” per @jbrodkin in @arstechnica. It is SHOCKING that @ATTPublicPolicy did the opposite of what it said it would do in order to get a handout. Unprecedented! https://arstechni...
Twitter launches tool for searches about vaccines directing users to vaccines.org, says it will extend tool to other health-related search terms in the future
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In an advice memo, the National Labor Relations Board says Uber drivers are independent contractors, not employees; a federal judge ruled similarly last year
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Federal district court in SF rules in favor of EFF's FOIA lawsuit seeking records of how and when the FBI lifts gag orders issued with National Security Letters
Electronic Frontier Foundation : Tweets: @eff and @eff Tweets: @eff : Victory! Court orders FBI to disclose names of companies that have received NSL termination notices. @eff : Victory: Court reject...
Samsung claims it will deliver 3nm chips with gate-all-around transistor tech in 2021, promising they'll be 35% faster and use 50% less power than its 7nm chips
but they'll be more expensive. https://www.cnet.com/... @cnetnews : Shrinking chip circuitry down to 3 nanometers will boost speed 35% while cutting power use 50% in 2021 so your phone battery lasts l...
Facebook restores the “View as Public” feature that was disabled in Sept. due to a security breach affecting 50M+ users but no word on “View as Specific Person”
Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge :
Twitter's new Developer Labs offers beta access to rebuilt APIs, which have stagnated for many years, as the company hopes to lure devs into paid plans
developers both inside and outside the company creating better experiences for all. Awesome work, @TwitterDev! https://blog.twitter.com/... @crtr0 : Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on...
More Democrats are considering a breakup of Facebook, with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris the latest to say they're thinking it over, joining Elizabeth Warren, others
Casey Newton / The Verge : Tweets: @reckless Tweets: Nilay Patel / @reckless : I think this @CaseyNewton read on how antitrust enforcement might lead to better privacy and security is exactly right h...
Sources: Google email warns that accessing internal info without permission can result in termination; activist employees complain about “need to know” language
Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @ceodonovan , @technologypoet , @mcmillen , and @johnpaczkowski Tweets: Caroline O'Donovan / @ceodonovan : the latest on what's going on with employee act...
Adobe says it is working with Amazon on a new program called Branded Stores for Amazon Sellers to let smaller merchants create branded storefronts
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