Facebook's conservative bias “audit” draws criticism from both sides after relying on interviews with 130 unnamed conservatives over internal data
Neither Republicans nor civil rights groups are happy.
Google and Mozilla say they will block the root certificate issued by the Kazakhstan government, which could be used to monitor users, in Chrome and Firefox
Google and Mozilla are taking action against the government of Kazakhstan's efforts to launch a surveillance operation against its own citizens.
Intel unveils 10th-gen Comet Lake CPUs with up to 6 cores for thin and light laptops, based on its Skylake CPU architecture and 14nm process
Capping off a busy few weeks for processors for Intel, today the company is announcing the second half of their product stack for their low-power 10th generation Core processors.
Facebook debuts first findings from conservative bias audit led by former GOP senator, says it influenced policy changes like creating a content oversight board
fb apparently gave Kyl free reign to investigate for quite some time because fb continues to fear harming its relationship with conservatives https://www.wsj.com/... Natalie Martinez / @natijomartinez...
Contrary to conservatives' claims, data from 2018-19 shows right-leaning Facebook pages with over 500,000 likes consistently outperform left-leaning rivals
because such data doesn't exist. The existing data is clear: Right-wing, pro-Trump content is thriving on Facebook — even when it violates Facebook's rules. https://www.mediamatters.org/ ... https://t...
Apple is delaying its plans to limit third-party tracking and ads in kids' apps, which it planned to implement in Sept., after some developers raised concerns
Apple plans to change the rules it has for kids apps, raising concerns among some app developers about the way the tech giant wields power unilaterally over its App Store.
YouTube says it is shutting down its Messages feature for mobile and web, introduced in 2017, to encourage usage of posts, comments, and stories
In August 2017, YouTube introduced a “Messages” feature for its mobile apps and later the web. Two years later, the Google video site announced …
Amazon says it is opening an office in Hyderabad, India, which will house over 15,000 employees, making it the company's biggest campus in the world
HYDERABAD (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday launched its biggest campus in the world in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad …
Adult website Luscious left data of 1M+ users exposed, including user email addresses, location data, the content they uploaded, liked, and shared
A popular hentai porn site that promises anonymity to its 1.1 million users left a user database exposed without a password, allowing anyone to identify users by their email addresses.
Google says it has started rolling out AI-powered real-time spelling and grammar check features on Gmail for all G Suite users
Ever been stumped by spelling or sentence syntax while pecking out an email to colleagues? Fortunately for G Suite users, Google will soon introduce improved spelling …
LinkedIn says it blocked or removed 21.6M fake accounts in the first half 2019, of which 19.5M were blocked at the registration stage
LinkedIn blocked or removed 21.6 million fake accounts on its platform from January to June of this year, a sign that the Microsoft-owned social network …
Sources: Alibaba has delayed its up to $15B listing in Hong Kong, initially set to launch in late August, amid growing political unrest
HONG KONG/NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has delayed its up to $15 billion listing …
Apple announces that Apple Card is now available to all iPhone users in the United States, with a 3% cashback offer for Uber and Uber Eats
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Twitter says it proactively suspended ~200K “spammy” accounts, before they became “substantially active”, alongside its initial ban of 936 China-linked accounts
Instead of a narrative of Hong Kong prospering under Chinese rule, it has just shown itself like a bully https://www.nytimes.com/... Alex Stamos / @alexstamos : Working on something longer with @noUps...
Apple Music launches a new chart, the Shazam Discovery Top 50, powered by Shazam data and featuring songs trending in the US and 10+ other countries
Apple continues to make use of Shazam, the music recognition app it acquired for $400 million in 2018. Earlier this month …
A roundup of the 82 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Day 2, including logistics, e-commerce, real estate, and crypto startups
Team TechCrunch was back for Day 2 of Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Days where we heard from another massive chunk of startups …
Waymo releases a self-driving open data set with 1,000 segments of 20-second footage in a range of driving conditions, free for non-commercial research
Waymo is opening up its significant stores of autonomous driving data with a new ‘Open Data Set’ it's making available for the purposes of research.
After announcing the Clear History privacy tool over a year ago, Facebook finally begins rolling it out in Ireland, South Korea, and Spain
from the news they read, to the shopping websites they visit, to, yes, the porn they watch https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Geoffrey A. Fowler / @geoffreyfowler : Using Facebook's new “Off-Facebook A...
Box unveils Box Shield, a set of native security controls with machine learning-powered threat detection for customers' cloud content, in private beta
With Box Shield, customers get machine learning-powered threat detection, as well as the ability to set classification-based security policies.
Lyft has been sued at least seven times in August by women alleging sexual assault by drivers and little action from the company
The ride share giant has been sued at least seven times this month related to rides that allegedly ended with rape or sexual assault. Tweets: @aishacs and @jason_koebler Tweets: Aisha Saeed / @aishacs...
Sources: to satisfy regulators, YouTube officials are finalizing plans to end targeted advertisements on videos kids are likely to watch
even though they're not supposed to. Clear now? https://www.bloomberg.com/... via @technology @mhbergen Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : YouTube is finalizing plans to end targeted ads on videos kids are lik...
RubyGems team found a backdoor in 11 Ruby libraries, including rest-client, that could leak data and issue commands remotely, say it was abused for cryptomining
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Source: the European Commission is “investigating potential anti-competitive behavior” and use of consumer data related to the Libra digital currency project
Bloomberg :
Google Go, the lightweight search app that takes up only ~7MB of phone storage, launches to Android users worldwide, is optimized to save about 40% on data
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Uganda partners with Huawei to debut a facial recognition, AI-powered surveillance system, as part of Huawei's Safe City program, now in 200+ cities
Financial Times :
DoorDash buys Scotty Labs, which raised $6M in VC funding to help remotely control self-driving cars, quietly hires co-founders of high precision map maker Lvl5
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Without evidence or any attempt at further explanation, Trump accuses Google of manipulating millions of votes in 2016's election, says Google “should be sued”
a website devoted to bias that was unabashedly pro-Trump, had pushed anti-Obama birther conspiracies & once had “black crime” as a story tag — as an inferior news source to the New York Times, that's ...
Tala, a PayPal-backed startup that provides uncollateralized loans in emerging markets, raises $110M Series D led by RPS Ventures to expand into India
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Crossbeam, which builds a platform for potential partner companies to compare data, raises $12.5M Series A led by FirstMark Capital
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Sources: PlusAI, which develops self-driving trucks and is backed by Sequoia Capital, is close to raising ~$200M at a valuation of $1B+
Bloomberg : Tweets: @drboycewatkins1 and @luluyilun Tweets: Dr Boyce Watkins / @drboycewatkins1 : If you're into trucking, be mindful. This is coming down the pipeline https://www.bloomberg.com/... L...
WeWork offices use the same WiFi password across many locations and employ the weak WPA2 Personal security protocol, creating potential for abuse
Sean Captain / Fast Company : Thanks: @mariedomingo
How companies like McDonald's and Facebook use podcasts, such as Gizmodo-produced The Sauce, as subtle brand-building efforts meant to entertain and persuade
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times : Tweets: @sameepa and @nytimes See also Mediagazer Tweets: Sameepa Shetty / @sameepa : “there are now as many as 750,000 podcasts..major companies are creating t...
Internal raises $5M seed round from David Sacks' Craft Ventures to help companies deploy consoles to manage employee access to sensitive customer data
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