A distorted video of Speaker Pelosi, in which her speech is made to appear slurred, has 2M+ views on Facebook; YouTube says it has removed uploads of the video
too many of us are willing to believe the worst in people that we disagree with.” https://twitter.com/... @jbwolfsthal : The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 2019 statement called out new technologie...
First American Financial's site exposed 885M files that included bank account numbers, mortgage and tax records, SSNs, wire transactions, drivers license pics
The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions …
Facebook decides to let the misleading Nancy Pelosi video remain on its platform indefinitely, but with a fact check, says it will limit the video's reach
Nancy Pelosi, the 79-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, has been a frequent target for President Donald Trump and his political allies.
Sources: Facebook is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency and a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by Q1 2020
Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year. — It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020.
YouTube announces API changes that will hide live subscriber counts starting in August, sparking YouTuber protests to save analytics providers like Social Blade
Why one analytics site matters — To those outside of YouTube, Social Blade is just another analytics site that tracks subscriber growth or loss.
Apple acquired Tueo Health, a small startup developing an app that works with commercial breathing sensors to help manage asthma symptoms in sleeping children
KEY POINTS — Apple bought Tueo Health, which was working on a solution to help parents monitor asthma symptoms in children using …
Q&A with PlayStation's Dominic Mallinson on the future of VR, challenges of wireless, gaze tracking tech, foveated rendering, need of content, and AR
PlayStation is winning the high-end VR battle. Sony has sold 4.2 million PlayStation VR headsets as of March, as Dominic Mallinson …
Source: Robinhood is close to raising $200M+ in new funding in a round valuing the company at $7B+; it last raised $363M in May 2018 at a valuation of $5.6B
- Round values the fintech startup at more than $7 billion — Talks with investors are ongoing and the round could grow
Wi-Fi Alliance, semiconductor standards body JEDEC, and SD Association suspend Huawei's membership, limiting Huawei's future ability to shape these standards
Membership limited or suspended in associations for Wi-Fi, SD cards and chips — NEW YORK/TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies …
SEC filing: Ryan Graves, Uber's first employee and first CEO, is leaving the company's board on Monday, May 27
Ryan Graves was Uber's first full-time CEO and employee, who was last senior vice president of global operations before announcing he would step down in August 2017.
MacBook Pro keyboard tweaks include a membrane from a new nylon-like material that may better repel dust and minor changes to key switches that register presses
from left to right: 2015, 2018, 2019 Check out our teardown to see what “new material” we found in the #MacBookPro: https://www.ifixit.com/... https://twitter.com/... Michael Gartenberg / @gartenberg ...
Profile of the activist behind Inside Airbnb, a site that highlights illegal listings in big cities, whom Airbnb has debated with both online and in-person
Murray Cox chuckled when he was invited to a meeting with Airbnb representatives in downtown Manhattan in February. Tweets: @hulchanski and @livcarville Tweets: David Hulchanski / @hulchanski : Meet M...
SpaceX successfully launches first batch of 60 Starlink satellites of nearly 11,000 planned into a low orbit above Earth to provide global internet connectivity
its ‘heaviest payload’ ever, Elon Musk says Jackie Wattles / CNN : SpaceX will launch its first 60 satellites to deliver internet from space Miriam Kramer / Axios : SpaceX launches 60 internet-beaming...
Microsoft's xCloud game streaming service, in testing among its employees, can stream 3,500+ Xbox games without developers making any changes to their titles
this hints that it won't just be a US service at launch” So they're matching Project Stadia here https://twitter.com/... @colteastwood : XCloud has the capability to play 3,500 Xbox One library games,...
How GCHQ, the UK's intelligence service, has adapted to evolving tech and security threats and the challenges in recruiting and retaining its ~6,000 staff
Five years ago, Rob, a 38-year-old father of two, was fitting kitchens and bathrooms for a living. Now he is a digital spy. Tweets: @hoofnagle , @hare_brain , @estherbintliff , and @djbond6873 Tweets...
Microsoft's Windows Defender Application Guard extensions, which open untrusted web pages in a virtual container, now generally available for Chrome and Firefox
Eric Avena / Microsoft Security :
An overview of major quantum computing approaches as IBM, Google, Microsoft, and others work towards making quantum computers a reality
Quantum computing could help companies address problems as huge as supply chains and climate change. Here's how IBM, Google, Microsoft … Tweets: @intelnews , @vkopytoff , @cocquyt , @fitzdavidson , a...
Source: Snap in talks to license the catalogs of Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Music, which will allow Snapchat users to include songs in their posts
Todd Spangler / Variety :
Motionsoft, a SaaS platform used by 2,900+ fitness and wellness clubs and 8M+ club members, raises $17M; Motionsoft has raised $60M to date, per Crunchbase
Google adds group video calls for up to eight people to its Duo video calling app for iOS and Android users worldwide
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat :
Researchers: mobile Chrome, Safari, and Firefox failed to show phishing warnings between mid-2017 and late 2018 due to a Google Safe Browsing API issue
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Proxima Media, founded by Hollywood producer Ryan Kavanaugh, says it has raised $100M for Proxicoin, a token that enables fractional ownership of film projects
Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk :
Hacker breaches Perceptics, which makes license plate readers for cities and the US government, dumps internal files on the dark web; Perceptics confirms breach
How License Plate Readers Are Being Used … Tweets: @theregister : ICYMI: Supply chain security matters. The manufacturer of license-plate recognition systems used extensively at US borders, and elsewh...
Airship global mobile apps study: businesses send 36 notifications per user per month on average, up 18.4% since last year, 67% of users opt in to notifications
Greg Sterling / Marketing Land :
Sources: Palantir's 2018 revenue grew ~40% YoY to ~$1B, as losses fell to ~$30M; Palantir wants to show two consecutive years of growth before expected 2020 IPO
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg :
JumpCloud raises $50M from General Atlantic, Foundry Group, and OpenView Partners for its SaaS platform that centralizes and simplifies identity management
GnosticPlayers claims to have hacked graphic design service Canva and stolen names, usernames, email addresses of 139M users, and 61M strongly hashed passwords
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @evolvable , @krishnan , and @campuscodi Tweets: Graham Lea / @evolvable : Ouch. Bit of a punch in the guts for Canva after their recent raise. Sounds like the hacke...
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