Leaked memo: ARM has told staff it must suspend business, including all active contracts, support entitlements, and pending engagements, with Huawei
UK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.
Federal judge rules in favor of FTC in antitrust case against Qualcomm, says its licensing practices for modem chips have strangled competition; stock drops 10%
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States has won the first round of litigation against Qualcomm.
Sources: US is considering blacklisting as many as five Chinese video surveillance companies, including Hikvision and Dahua Technology, from buying US tech
- Hikvision and Dahua accused of being part of Uighur crackdown — Rubio and others say they are part of a massive crackdown
Google says it stored some G Suite passwords in plaintext due to an error dating back to 2005, found another set of unhashed passwords in 2019, both now fixed
Google says a small number of its enterprise customers mistakenly had their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext.
Valve launches a dedicated Steam Chat app for iOS and Android, which includes many key features of the desktop chat client such as Invite Links and Group Chats
Valve announced that the new Steam Chat mobile app has gone live as a free chat app iOS and Android platforms.
Huawei reiterates that it has been working on its own mobile OS; sources: Huawei has been pitching app makers and European carriers on its own mobile app store
Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg :
The “tech cold war”, escalated by recent actions against Huawei, started over a decade ago when China began restricting US services companies in its market
Tim Culpan declared at Bloomberg that The Tech Cold War Has Begun after the Trump administration barred companies viewed …
Google begins rolling out an updated mobile search design with a black “ad” label and favicons for all organic results
The new look brings some branding to the search results, and preps the mobile search for more types of content and actions for users to take right from the search results.
Inside the war against Huawei, led by Australia and the US, who fear Beijing's 5G domination could be used for espionage and sabotage of critical infrastructure
In early 2018, in a complex of low-rise buildings in the Australian capital, a team of government hackers was engaging in a destructive digital war game.
UNESCO says AI assistants are reinforcing gender stereotypes by mostly defaulting to female-sounding voices, urges better safeguards against gendered language
Female-sounding default voices perpetuate antiquated, harmful ideas about women — Artificial intelligence-powered voice assistants …
Apple unveils Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution, a new web technology aimed at preserving user privacy without reducing effectiveness of ad campaigns
For years, the web has been largely free thanks to online ads. The problem is that nobody likes them.
TransferWise discloses a new $292M secondary round led by Lead Edge Capital, Lone Pine Capital, and Vitruvian Partners at a $3.5B valuation
TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service, is disclosing a new $292 million secondary round that sees investors value the company at $3.5 billion.
After eight months of alpha testing, the first official version of Tor Browser for Android has been released on the Play Store
After eight months of alpha testing, Tor Browser for Android is now ready for rollout. — Today, the Tor Project released on the Google Play Store the first stable version of the Tor Browser for Andr...
EE says it will roll out the UK's first 5G network on May 30, beating Vodafone by a month, in six cities, including London, Edinburgh, and Belfast
Coming to six cities at launch — EE's 5G network will launch in the UK next week on May 30th, four days before Vodafone launches its rival service on July 3rd.
All but the largest Apple device resellers have vanished from Amazon's marketplace six months after Apple cut a deal with the retail giant
A small online business owner from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bumstead specializes in refurbishing and selling old MacBooks, models he typically buys from recyclers and fixes up himself.
Apple says the new iteration of its butterfly keyboard uses “new materials” in the switch mechanism that should reduce double- and missed-key presses
A ‘new material’ will be put into third-generation repaired keyboards — Apple is announcing an update to its keyboard repair program today.
Google and UCSD research: of the 27 hacking service providers contacted online to hijack test Gmail accounts, ten never replied and only five launched attacks
Survey of 27 hacker-for-hire services found that only five launched attacks against victims. — Hacker-for-hire services available online …
Transport for London says it will roll out default WiFi device tracking on the Underground this summer, after a trial in 2016, to improve analytics and more
Transport for London will roll out default wi-fi device tracking on the London Underground this summer, following a trial back in 2016.
Apple updates 13" and 15" MacBook Pros with improved keyboards and 9th-generation Intel CPUs with up to 8 cores, expands its Keyboard Service Program coverage
like the 2018 MacBook Pro refresh — are only gracing the company's Touch Bar models. That means the 13-inch MacBook Pro without a Touch Bar (also known as the “MacBook Escape") will not get a refresh....
Box revamps its workplace automation tool Relay, launched with IBM in 2016, and updates Box Tasks and File Request Links
Box debuted Relay, a business process automation tool designed to string together recruiting, budgeting, and sales activities across a range of systems, back in September 2016.
Sources: Circle has cut its $250M fundraising goal that was reported in March to $150M; the company has raised $246M to date, according to Crunchbase data
Crypto startup Circle's revised fundraising goal is 40% lower than the $250 million it was reportedly set to raise in March, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Source says Medium has 200K-400K paying subscribers, which at $50 per user amounts to a minimum of $10M per year from subscriptions alone
For Medium CEO Ev Williams, building a profitable business isn't an immediate concern. — “We're focused on building revenue and building a subscription business … Tweets: @rafat and @alexeheath See ...
A close look at Apple's Taptic Engine and how it uses software integration and resonance to make haptic feedback feel better in its devices than the competition
In its endless quest to produce an iPhone that has even fewer physical features than the last, Apple made its iconic home button virtual … Tweets: @kevinpurdy , @bjorn , and @ifixit Tweets: Kevin Purd...
Circle, which owns trading platform Poloniex, equity crowdfunding site SeedInvest, and the USDC stablecoin with Coinbase, lays off ~30 people, ~10% of its staff
Zack Seward / CoinDesk :
Avaaz study finds extensive far-right disinformation networks on Facebook ahead of EU elections; Facebook says it removed 77 Pages and 230 accounts in response
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch :
Source: Comcast's upcoming health device to focus on monitoring the motion of elderly people at home; Comcast has no plans for a direct-to-consumer launch
Matt Novak / Gizmodo :
Microsoft officially rolls out the Windows 10 May 2019 update, which includes Windows Sandbox and unified search across Windows, Office, Bing, and more
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet :
Craig Wright, who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, filed for the US copyright for the original Bitcoin white paper and most of the original Bitcoin code
Thomas Simms / Cointelegraph :
After backlash, Google to require abortion services advertisers in the US, UK, and Ireland to declare in their ads whether or not they provide abortions
Vivian Ho / The Guardian :
Percepto, which provides autonomous drone solutions in industries like energy, oil, and gas, raises $15M Series A led by USVP and Arkin Holdings
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
To reduce the tedium of work and increase productivity at its warehouses, Amazon has created several video games where workers compete by fulfilling real orders
Greg Bensinger / Washington Post :
Federal court ruling affirmed the right to share copyrighted material for criticism and helped EFF protect a Reddit commenter's anonymity
Alex Moss / Electronic Frontier Foundation :
Sources: Indian ride-hailing service Ola is suspending its food delivery business and laying off ~40 employees, about 18 months after acquiring Foodpanda India
Pure Storage misses with Q1 revenue of $326.7M, up 28% YoY, and a net loss of $27.6M, up 70% YoY from $16.2M; stock down 19%+ after hours
Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE :
KaiOS, which provides the OS for feature phones from OEMs like Nokia and Jio, raises $50M led by Cathay Innovation, says 100M handsets are now powered by its OS
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
The 016, a small social network with no algorithmic feed, seeks to connect local media, organizations, and businesses with the citizens of Worcester, MA
it's all decided by the user https://www.niemanlab.org/... Joshua Benton / @jbenton : Does anti-Facebook fervor mean it's a good time to create...a local social network? Built around news? @InThe016 i...
Insiders say Facebook and Google pressured EU's expert group on disinformation to soften fake news regulations and avoid discussing their abuse of market power
openDemocracy :
Slack updates its S-1 filing, registers about 117M of its Class A shares, and says it expects to raise $196.5M in its direct listing on the NYSE
Nivedita Balu / Reuters :
UK-based Wagestream, which works with employers to give employees access to monthly earned wages via an app, raises $51M Series A in equity and debt financing
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch : Tweets: @ingridlunden Tweets: Ingrid / @ingridlunden : When you open Twitter and see something about SV startups making $10 cereal, it's heartening to know there are some...
A look at “cloud” or “dark” kitchens that only serve delivery customers such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo, and how investing strategies in the space diverge
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times : Tweets: @tim , @ckwitt3 , and @aliya__ram Tweets: Tim Bradshaw / @tim : “I'm fairly convinced that 20 years from now, we will mostly not make our own food,” says @Nas...
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