FAA sent airlines a reminder to follow 2016 safety instructions that ban goods with recalled batteries, like recently recalled MacBook Pros, from the planes
- FAA says some MacBook Pros shouldn't be taken on airplanes — Apple recently recalled select laptops over battery fire risk
Fingerprints of 1M+ people and biometric info from a system used by banks, London police, and defense contractors, discovered on a publicly accessible database
Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019
WeWork on Wednesday filed to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering, although the ultimate offering amount is expected to be at least three times larger.
Microsoft patches four wormable BlueKeep-like bugs in Remote Desktop Service, two of which can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction
Most Microsoft Windows (ab)users probably welcome the monthly ritual of applying security updates about as much as they look forward …
Twitter to soon let users follow interests, starting with sports, and create separate timelines for different topics; topics will be curated by Twitter using AI
A new way to explore interests on Twitter — Twitter will begin letting users follow interests, the company said today …
Sources: Facebook paid hundreds of contractors to transcribe user audio; FB says it's stopped the work, which affected users who wanted voice chats transcribed
- Social network says it paused human review of conversations — Apple, Amazon, Google have been scrutinized for similar work
Interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on how the Tumblr acquisition came about, what's next for Tumblr, adult content in apps, and more
Blogging is back, hopefully — It's been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers. Tweets: @reckless , @reckless , and @reckless See also Mediaga...
Amazon says it has added “fear” to the range of emotions that its Rekognition facial recognition software can now detect
Release follows amid immigration protests — AWS has added “fear” to the range of emotions identified by its Amazon Rekognition facial analysis service …
WordPress.com owner Automattic says it will buy Tumblr from Verizon, take on ~200 staffers, and keep the porn ban; source says Automattic paid less than $10M
It is not surprising that the news … Ana Valens / The Daily Dot : Tumblr's getting a new owner; does that mean porn is back? Natasha Mascarenhas / Crunchbase News : A Brief On Tumblr's Funding History...
Sources: technicians from Huawei have, in at least two cases, personally helped African governments spy on their political opponents
Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services to protect against spam and spoofed robocalls
AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services for their subscribers. That means the companies will now be able notify …
Sources: Coinbase and Barclays end UK partnership, started in early 2018; Coinbase partners with ClearBank, which may have asked the exchange to drop Zcash
The most prestigious banking relationship in crypto has ended. — Barclays, the London-based global bank, is no longer working …
Misfit's Vapor X smartwatch with Wear OS, a 1.19-inch AMOLED display, and a Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor, goes on sale today for an initial price of $200
Thanks to more RAM and newer chipsets, things are finally looking up for Wear OS in the performance department.
A closer look at what Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, hopes to accomplish beyond the existing work in this field
Neuralink will probably fail in interesting and worthwhile ways. — When Elon Musk first started talking about launching a brain-computer interface company … Tweets: @arstechnica and @arstechnica Twe...
Shopify launches a web chat feature called Shopify Chat to let customers talk to merchants, says it plans to expand it to SMS and Android in the future
Shopify's cohort of more than 800,000 merchants and small businesses have a new way to speak to customers today with the introduction of Shopify Chat.
Sources: Engineer.ai, which claims to offer human-assisted AI to automate app development, doesn't use AI, and instead relies on human engineers in India
SoftBank-backed startup offers ‘human-assisted’ artificial-intelligence; current, former employees say company inflates its tech expertise Tweets: @tomgara and @carnage4life . Thanks: @parmy Tweets: T...
How a scammer ran a decade-long crowdfunding operation that raised ~$6M on Indiegogo and from other investors to build an ambitious phone/tablet/laptop device
The crowdfunded phone of the future was a multimillion-dollar scam — In 2014, Jeffrey Tschiltsch opened an email from Indiegogo and saw the future of computing. Tweets: @verge , @ron_miller , @thede...
Boatsetter, a peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace, raises $10M Series A extension round led by WestCap Group and Valor Equity, bringing total raised to $31M
Obviously, not everyone owns their boat, and boat ownership is far more unique than car ownership - which makes it maybe …
Snap announces Spectacles 3 with an updated design and a second HD camera to create depth perception, going on sale in November for $380
Today we're excited to introduce … Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Snapchat Announces New Version of Spectacles, with Improved Camera Capacity Andy Walker / Memeburn : Spectacles 3 is Snapcha...
Property owners and hosts, including eight people who dealt with bedbugs in their rentals, say Airbnb doesn't have a systematic procedure to handle outbreaks
there are lawyers who specialize in bedbug cases. Also, ick https://www.cnet.com/... via @CNET Connie Guglielmo / @techledes : Exclusive: Some hosts & guests tell their stories to @darakerr. While A...
Tencent beats estimates with Q2 profit of $3.44B, up 35% YoY, on revenue of $12.65B, up 21% YoY, with smartphone gaming revenue up 26% YoY to $3.16B
Sijia Jiang / Reuters :
Slack announces new administrator features for Plus and Enterprise customers, including announcement channels and workflow automation
Slack is making it easier for administrators to limit how employees talk to each other with notification channels that form a new kind of Slack chat space. Tweets: @sameerpatel Tweets: Sameer Patel / ...
Nvidia says it has broken records for real-time conversational AI, training the industry-standard BERT model in 53 minutes and then inferring responses in ~2ms
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch :
JD.com reports Q2 revenue of ~$22B, up 23% YoY, and net income of ~$90.1M, beating analyst expectations of a $6.3M net loss on $20.9B revenue
Daniel Strauss / Business Insider :
Scoop, which provides a carpooling service for enterprises, raises $60M round led by Activate Capital, bringing its total raised to $106M
Enterprise carpooling startup Scoop just closed a $60 million round led by Activate Capital with participation from Goldman Sachs, NGP Capital …
Indian budget hotel booking startup Oyo says it will invest €300M in its vacation home rental business, as it looks to expand its footprint in Europe
Indian budget hotel booking startup Oyo will invest 300 million euros ($335 million) in its vacation home rental business …
A look at Snapchat's community of about 100 official lens creators, who make custom AR lenses for people and brands, with Snap helping connect them to buyers
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Kobo360, a Nigerian freight logistics startup, raises $20M Series A led by Goldman Sachs and $10M in working capital financing from Nigerian commercial banks
Jake Bright / TechCrunch :
Berlin-based PaulCamper, a sharing platform for renting and lending RVs, raises €7M Series A led by Adevinta
Ana Wolsztajn / Tech.eu :
Alegion, which provides labeling and annotation services for enterprise data science teams, raises $12M Series A led by RHS Investments
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Verizon sues Rochester, NY to avoid paying fees the city levied over its 5G deployments, uses the FCC's controversial order limiting such fees to argue its case
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :
Trump delayed tariffs for some products like laptops and cellphones, sending Apple's stock up, but Airpods, Watches, and more were not included in the reprieve
23 job search websites in Europe allege anti-competitive behavior from Google in antitrust complaints to the European Union competition commissioner
A look at Senior Planet, a tech-themed community center that helps seniors and entrepreneurs over 65 use technology to work and make money
Lauren Smiley / MIT Technology Review : Tweets: @55fakingnormal Tweets: Elizabeth White / @55fakingnormal : “Hacking our way through a world conspiring to keep us sidelined....” Here's what fighting ...
Netflix is quickly expanding its global property portfolio, which includes 30+ offices and studios, as it ramps up its global content production
and exporting its unique corporate culture in the process http://thr.cm/... Matthew Belloni / @thrmattbelloni : The scope of Netflix's physical expansion over the past five years is pretty stunning. h...
Database from hacker community Cracked.to posted at rival site Raidforums, leaking users' IPs, email addresses, and DMs, many of which shared software exploits
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Tweets: @campuscodi and @thirdemily Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : The last time something like this happened, PoodleCorp/LizardSquad members ended up in prison h...
OpenSpace, which uses AI to create navigable, 360-degree images of building sites using photos from cameras attached to builders' hats, raises $14M Series A
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