Apple updates MacBook Air with True Tone display, lowers price to $1,099, and updates base MacBook Pro with new processors, Touch ID, Touch Bar, and True Tone
Students Can Purchase MacBook Air for $999 and the 13-inch MacBook Pro for $1,199 — Cupertino, California …
Apple stops selling 12-inch MacBook and previous generation MacBook Air
Along with updating its Retina MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks today, Apple has discontinued its 12-inch MacBook and previous generation MacBook Air. The refreshed lineup now consists of the Re...
Researcher discloses zero-day exploit in Zoom's Mac client that lets any malicious site force a user into a Zoom call with video enabled without user permission
A vulnerability in the Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission.
YouTube officially returns to Fire TV and Amazon's Prime Video is launching today with support for Chromecast and other Android TV devices
Amazon and Google have mostly made up — YouTube is officially back on Fire TV devices starting today, almost a year and a half after Google pulled …
Spotify Lite, which requires only 10MB of storage, is now available on Android in 35 countries across Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Africa, and in Canada
Spotify has been testing a smaller, lighter version of its app since mid-2018 in hopes of expanding its reach to regions …
UK's ICO fines British Airways a record £183M fine for the data breach in 2018 that affected ~500K customers
could your business be next? Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : UK's ICO swings $230 million stick at British Airways for major data breach John Oates / The Register : UK privacy watchdog threatens British...
Instagram is rolling out warnings to users about to post an offensive comment, starts testing Restrict, an option to block abusive users without notifying them
Our mission is to connect you with the people and things you love, which only works if people feel comfortable expressing themselves on Instagram.
Federal appeals court rules that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter
President Trump cannot block his critics from the Twitter feed he regularly uses to communicate with the public, a federal appeals court said Tuesday, in a case with implications …
UK's regulator ICO to fine Marriott ~$123M over GDPR violations related to the Starwood Hotels breach, disclosed in 2018, that affected 380M+ guests
The intent to fine Marriott comes a day after the ICO announced a $230 million GDPR fine against British Airways.
Twitter updates its rules against hateful conduct, will now remove tweets that dehumanize people on the basis of their religion
We create our rules to keep people safe on Twitter, and they continuously evolve to reflect the realities of the world we operate within.
IBM closes its $34B acquisition of Red Hat, its largest deal ever, announced in October 2018
IBM closed its $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, the companies announced Tuesday. — Shares of IBM were up slightly during premarket trading, while Red Hat shares were halted.
Cisco to acquire Acacia Communications, optical interconnect equipment maker, for $70/share or $2.6B, a 46% premium to Acacia's Monday closing price
Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to buy Acacia Communications Inc. for about $2.6 billion, the technology giant's latest acquisition …
Interview with Instagram's Adam Mosseri about using AI to deal with bullying on the platform, reassessing its core incentives, breaking up big tech, and more
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IDC: out of 2,473 organizations using AI in their operations, only 25% have a broad AI strategy, and most report some failures among their AI projects
Despite enterprises' best efforts, painless AI deployments appear destined to remain elusive for all but the most dogged adopters.
Facebook will start taking a 30% cut from fan subscriptions via desktop starting 2020 and a 15% fee for second year subscriptions via mobile platforms
Facebook will take a cut of up to 30% on fan subscriptions, beginning on January 1, 2020. — The social network is revealing its plans …
Tencent-backed Chinese video game live-streaming platform DouYu, which delayed its IPO in May, restarts IPO, looking to raise as much as $944M
Yueqi Yang / Bloomberg :
FBI and ICE have access to 641M photos including driver's license photos from 21 states for facial recognition searches, internal docs and GAO report show
Drew Harwell / Washington Post :
Microsoft says Azure SQL is launching soon and SQL Server 2019 preview is coming later this month, as it ends support for SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2
Andrew Brust / ZDNet :
IQM, which builds hardware that it says can fix quantum errors and drive greater adoption of quantum computing, raises $13M seed funding round
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Menlo Security, which offers an isolation platform that separates enterprise networks from the public web, raises $75M led by JP Morgan Asset Management
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE :
Medallia, which offers a customer experience management platform, sets IPO range at $16 to $18/share, will raise $247M at a valuation of $2.8B at the mid-point
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Signpost, which helps SMBs collect reviews and marketing collateral like their bigger rivals, raises $52M from HighBar Partners and BMO Bank of Montreal
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Q&A with Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman on his role as the main architect of Facebook's Oversight Board for content decisions and problems it likely faces
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company :
Two years on, WannaCry remains in thousands of networks globally, despite available patches; researcher: “kill switch” stopped ~60M WannaCry detonations in June
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
After Tokyo abruptly tightened export controls to South Korea, chipmakers like Samsung and SK Hynix are struggling to find necessary supplies elsewhere
Researcher finds unsecured ElasticSearch server owned by a Chinese public security department that leaked databases with 90M+ records of people and businesses
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer :
Singapore-based Taiger, which helps automate complex cognitive tasks using AI, raises $25M Series B led by PacificBridge Asset Management at a $110M valuation
Manuel Baigorri / Bloomberg :
Tech workers aiming to unionize face challenges, as some managers dismiss organizers and some companies have the resources to settle labor cases brought to them
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Superhuman still allows spying, even after last week's privacy fixes, as recipients of Superhuman emails don't know their actions are tracked or sent to senders
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Microsoft refutes report from last week that it is moving manufacturing out of China, says there currently aren't any plans to do so
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