Huawei says its homegrown Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones or an alternative to Android, but is for industrial use instead
Huawei board member and senior Vice President Catherine Chen said here on Thursday that the company's Hongmeng operating system is not for smartphones …
Sources: the FTC has finalized a multimillion dollar settlement with Google in an investigation into YouTube for violating federal data privacy laws for kids
The Federal Trade Commission has finalized a settlement with Google in its investigation into YouTube for violating federal kids …
Chrome and Firefox extensions with up to 4M installs leaked sensitive data, including names and passwords, to marketing intelligence service Nacho Analytics
Have your tax returns, Nest videos, and medical info been made public? — When we use browsers to make medical appointments …
Sources: Equifax is nearing a ~$700M settlement to resolve federal and state probes and a national class-action lawsuit over the breach disclosed in Sept. 2017
Credit-reporting firm nears deal to settle investigations into 2017 hack that exposed millions of Americans' personal data
London Met Police blames a breach of news distributor MyNewsDesk for bizarre messages appearing on its website, Twitter account, and in emails to subscribers
The Metropolitan Police's website has been hit by hackers who posted a series of bizarre messages.
Former NSA contractor Harold Martin sentenced to nine years in prison for the theft of 50TB+ of classified government files
Former NSA contractor Harold T. Martin was sentenced Friday to 9 years in prison for his role in a massive theft of classified documents.
Sources: NSO Group claims it can read authentication tokens on phones infected with its spyware to access victims' data on iCloud and other cloud services
The Israeli company whose spyware hacked WhatsApp has told buyers its technology can surreptitiously scrape all of an individual's data …
Tinder is testing letting users pay it directly in its Android app, bypassing the Play Store and avoiding Google's 30% cut
- Match Group, Netflix and Spotify side-stepping to avoid costs — More tech companies are likely to follow suit, analyst says
Profile of Calibra's head of strategy Morgan Beller, previously a partner at a16z, and the original driving force behind Facebook's push into cryptocurrency
KEY POINTS — Morgan Beller is one of three people — all Facebook employees — listed as a co-creator of the proposed Libra digital currency …
How Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are racing for dominance as cloud platforms for game streaming, as the gaming industry is set to generate $152B in 2019
Streaming video games promises to be an all-out brawl among companies with the internet infrastructure to back it up. At stake? Tweets: @gamestreamertv , @chona_kasinger , @transmit , @pierrebeaujuge...
Medallia, a customer experience management platform, closes up 76% on its first day trading, after raising $326M at a valuation of $2.5B in its IPO
Kate Clark / TechCrunch :
French drone maker Parrot continues to shift away from consumer sales, dominated by DJI, says it will only make business focused Anafi drone line
Sean O'Kane / The Verge :
Instagram “tag cleaners” have flooded a murdered user's tagged photos with pleasant images to combat trolls and drown out tagged images of gore
Over the last few days, a teenager named Taylor has spent more than a dozen hours uploading north of 900 photos to Instagram. Tweets: @megan_nicolett , @megan_nicolett , and @kevinroose Tweets: Megan ...
US Department of Education: hackers breached an ERP system of 62 colleges, created student accounts, and used them “almost immediately for criminal activity”
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Source: Oyo founder and CEO Ritesh Agarwal to pay $2B at a $10B valuation to up his stake in Oyo from 10% to 30%; Lightspeed and Sequoia India sold some shares
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The app Who's in Town shows how much sensitive location data users unwittingly share on Instagram and how much the aggregated data reveals
By aggregating data from geotagged posts and stories, Who's in Town can paint a detailed picture of the habits and haunts of anyone with a Instagram account.
A look at the growing use of connected home fitness devices, as some users say convenience outweighs qualms about constantly looking at screens
Natt Garun / The Verge :
Huawei says 28 out of its 50 commercial 5G infrastructure contracts are in Europe
Li Tao / South China Morning Post :
The panic over FaceApp highlighted how public attitudes about the internet have changed amid a widespread reckoning over data privacy and election interference
But Its Privacy Policy Has People Worried Charlie Warzel / New York Times : FaceApp Shows We Care About Privacy but Don't Understand It Jeff Elder / Avast EN : Is FaceApp safe? Clearing up confusion a...
CB Insights: VC investment in blockchain startups is on pace to decline by ~60% YoY in 2019; as of July 1, blockchain companies have raised $784M via 227 deals
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg :
BMW and Tencent partner to launch a computing center in China that will help develop autonomous driving solutions adapted to Chinese roads
Norihiko Shirouzu / Reuters :
Twitter's redesign, which rebuilt the desktop website as a progressive web app, solves none of its problems, but will help the famously slow company move faster
so it can move on to making the sorts of substantive changes that could really make a difference.” https://twitter.com/... Will Oremus / @willoremus : The long-awaited redesign of https://twitter.com/...
Researchers say they were able to trick cybersecurity firm Cylance's AI-based antivirus engine into thinking programs like WannaCry and other malware are benign
Kim Zetter / VICE :
A look at 5 initiatives Spotify has abandoned: original video content, its hateful conduct policy, Spotify apps, direct music distribution, and Spotify Running
Tim Ingham / Rolling Stone :
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