Since January, Trump's campaign has posted 2,000+ immigration-focused Facebook ads that use the word “invasion”; report suggests the ads cost $1.25M
Some of President Trump's re-election ads have repeated his inflammatory claims about an “invasion” on the southern border …
The Apple Card, issued in partnership with Goldman Sachs, begins a preview rollout to randomly selected US customers today
Wide availability by the end of the month — Apple CEO Tim Cook said the Apple Card would arrive in August on the company's last earnings call, and here it is …
8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors
"It's DNS. It's always DNS." Matt Binder / Mashable : Inside the fight to keep 8chan offline Oscar Gonzalez / CNET : 8chan owner says El Paso shooter didn't post manifesto Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :...
Trump tweets a video of a Lou Dobbs interview with a fired Google engineer, who had proposed a Richard Spencer fundraiser and suggested skinheads rebrand
On Monday morning, President Donald Trump finally took the time to issue a (hollow and thoroughly unconvincing) denunciation …
Microsoft says it blocked Russia-linked hacking group Fancy Bear from using compromised IoT devices to breach enterprise networks in April
Microsoft said it detected Strontium (APT28) targeting VoIP phones, printers, and video decoders. — One of Russia's elite state-sponsored hacking groups …
Leaked UN report: North Korea has generated an estimated $2B using widespread and sophisticated cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using …
Sources: on Google's internal forum, a memo viewed by 10,000+ alleges retaliation by managers for being pregnant and that things got worse when HR was contacted
The memo, titled “I'm Not Returning to Google After Maternity Leave, and Here is Why," has been read by more than 10,000 employees at the company.
A look at the 14 US states that used paperless voting machines in 2018, which experts say can easily be hacked, and the slow and uneven efforts to replace them
Paperless voting devices are a gaping weakness in the patchwork U.S. election system, security experts say.
DOJ charges Pakistani man with bribing AT&T employees over $1M to install malware on the company's network, in a scheme that unlocked more than 2M devices
DOJ charges Pakistani man with bribing AT&T employees more than $1 million to install malware on the company's network, unlock more than 2 million devices.
Google says it's shutting down its Trips app for mobile and will incorporate many of the features into its Travel site, Maps app, and Search
Google is shutting down its Trips app for mobile phones, but incorporating many of the functionality from the service into its Maps app and Search features …
Android Security Bulletin for August 2019 patches QualPwn bugs that could have allowed attackers to compromise devices with Qualcomm chips over a Wi-Fi network
Patches for the QualPwn vulnerabilities have been released earlier today by both Qualcomm and the Android team.
Report: Japan's FTC is investigating Apple over whether it pressured Japanese parts makers and abused its power in violation of antimonopoly rules
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Fair Trade Commission is investigating Apple Inc (AAPL.O) over its pressure on Japanese parts makers and whether …
Late last year, Yelp's app quietly started routing restaurant customers' take out and delivery phone calls through Grubhub for tracking and marketing purposes
The phone numbers add tracking before connecting to a restaurant so that Grubhub can bill for a marketing fee.
IBM says cyberattacks against industrial targets have doubled in the last six months; when an enterprise is hit, 12,000+ workstations are damaged on average
12,000 workstations on average will be damaged in cases of destructive malware. — Cyberattacks designed to cause damage …
Cybereason, an endpoint detection and response platform, raises $200M Series E led by SoftBank at a $900M valuation
Cybereason, a cloud-based cybersecurity company and Forbes 2019 Next Billion-Dollar Startups honoree announced Tuesday $200 million in new funding.
Microsoft debuts Azure Security Lab, to let researchers test Azure infrastructure in a contained environment, and expands Azure bug bounty rewards up to $40K
Researchers can earn up to $40,000 for reporting Azure vulnerabilities. — Microsoft is pushing for enhanced security …
Uber and Lyft publish research from 6 US cities, excluding NYC, that finds their cars cause less congestion than personal vehicles but impact core areas heavily
and half of the time, they're not even carrying passengers. https://www.citylab.com/... Jeff Bercovici / @jeffbercovici : Congratulations to Uber and Lyft for dropping this terrible news about how the...
Klarna, which provides e-commerce payment services for merchants and shoppers, raises $460M at a $5.5B valuation ahead of a potential IPO
Klarna has become the largest private fintech start-up in Europe after a new funding round valued the Swedish payments group at $5.5bn ahead of a potential stock market flotation.
Carro, a Singapore-based automotive marketplace and financing startup, closes $90M Series B after $30M extension, acquires Indonesia-based marketplace Jualo
Carro, an automotive marketplace and car financing startup based in Singapore, said it has raised $30 million to extend and close …
Cockroach Labs, developer of the open source distributed database project CockroachDB, raises $55M Series C co-led by Altimeter Capital, Tiger Global, and GV
Cockroach Labs, the New York-based developer of the open source distributed database project CockroachDB, today announced …
TickPick, a ticket markeplace which focuses on eliminating hidden fees, raises $40M from PWP Growth Equity, says it will hit $200M in transactions in 2019
TickPick was founded back in 2011, but it never raised any institutional funding — until now, with the announcement of a $40 million investment from PWP Growth Equity.
Google says that by 2020 all shipments going to or from customers will be carbon neutral; by 2022, all Made by Google products will include recycled materials
Adele Peters / Fast Company :
As US-China trade tensions rise, shares of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook dropped between 3% and 5.2% Monday, losing a combined $162B in value
The Ledger Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch : U.S. Treasury just designated China as a currency manipulator, so expect more economic shocks Clare Duffy / CNN : The trade war with China is coming for the ...
Teralytics, which provides analytics data from telecom networks to mobility providers, raises $17.5M led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital
Teralytics AG, a Zurich, Switzerland-based mobility analytics company, raised $17.5m in funding round. — The round was led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH …
YouTube removes account of Soph, a girl who attracted 800K+ subs through racist and anti-Muslim videos, after uploading an anti-LGBTQ video alluding to violence
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News :
Antitrust experts say Amazon's practice of making items harder to find if they're priced lower on other platforms, influencing sellers, will draw scrutiny
to leverage its power up the supply chain. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Matt Day / @mattmday : Amazon warns sellers whose products are listed for less on other sites that they may lose prime placemen...
Vonage acquires the team and IP of Over.ai, which focuses on conversational AI for enterprises, to build out its speech to text and natural language algorithms
Larry Dignan / ZDNet :
Sources: Walmart's Flipkart plans to start a free video streaming service by September, ahead of Diwali season, for members of its Flipkart Plus loyalty program
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg :
Financial services marketplace CompareAsiaGroup, which claims 60M users in Asia, raises $20M Series B1 led by Experian, bringing its total raised to $90M+
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch :
A deep dive into the methods used to unmask confidential sources in seven Justice Department cases against US government whistleblowers
Micah Lee / The Intercept : Tweets: @rsingel , @freedomofpress , @trevortimm , @micahflee , @theintercept , and @theintercept Tweets: Ryan Singel / @rsingel : Jesus this is scary. It makes clear that...
Custom t-shirt and merch company CafePress appears to have been hacked in February, leaking 23M email addresses along with some mailing addresses and more
In February 2019, the custom merchandise retailer … Stephen E. Arnold / Beyond Search : CafePress: Just 23 Million Customer Details May Have Slipped Away Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE : 23M CafePress cu...
As Germany's economy slows, a look at efforts to compensate for its outdated internet infrastructure by aggressively rolling out 5G and gigabit internet
Sara Germano / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @julie_c_smith , @mmqwalker , and @marceldirsus Tweets: Julianne Smith / @julie_c_smith : Because I hadn't lived in Germany since 2000 and had always stay...
Fossil announces Gen 5, its latest smartwatch running Wear OS, with an updated Snapdragon chipset, 44mm case, and a built-in speaker, available now for $295
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google :
Penta, an online business banking provider for SMEs, which was recently acquired by German company builder Finleap, raises €8M+ led by HV Holtzbrinck Ventures
Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch :
HPE to acquire MapR Technologies' assets, does not disclose financial details or say how many employees would join HPE, but it will continue servicing customers
Paul Gillin / SiliconANGLE :
Inside Israeli startup Infibond, which says it's using AI to create psychological profiles and is valued at $1.25B despite no publicly available product
an intriguing long read from @Siftedeu @orr_hirsch 'Talking to the dead, psychological profiling and a trail of lawsuits: Inside one of Israel's most valuable startups' https://sifted.eu/... #startups...
Chinese state media: Huawei is testing a ~$288 smartphone running its self-developed Hongmeng OS, which could go on sale later this year
Josh Horwitz / Reuters :
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