Sources: House investigators asked Google about plans to implement DNS-over-HTTPS in Chrome; ISPs fear the protocol will prevent them from tracking user data
New standard could alter web's competitive landscape, cable and wireless companies say — Congressional antitrust investigators …
A look at how tech firms and government keep failing to curb the sharing of child sexual abuse images, long after the PROTECT our Children Act was passed in '08
Online predators create and share the illegal material, which is increasingly cloaked by technology.
A VC narrative that software-enabled companies like Uber should be valued at 10x+ revenue is falling apart but is still valid for startups with margins of 75%+
Dan Primack wrote in his friday newsletter: … While all of this is true, I think it is a lot simpler than that.
HP updates HP Spectre x360 13 with 10th-gen Intel CPUs, 4K OLED display, up to 22 hours battery life, optional LTE, available in October starting at $1,099
A smaller, faster 2-in-1 laptop — HP's Spectre x360 13 has undergone a fairly drastic makeover for 2019.
WeWork says it will withdraw its S-1 filing as it seeks to postpone its IPO
- WeWork has announced it will withdraw its S-1 filing as it seeks to postpone its highly-anticipated initial public offering. — The future of the IPO had been in question after WeWork moved to delay...
A look at the fast declining morale at Uber amid budget cuts for basic amenities, mass layoffs, and a 30% decline in stock price since its IPO
Uber's CEO told staff: “We need to ship more quickly and operate more effectively and efficiently than we are today.” Tweets: @carnage4life , @hipster_trader , @mikeisaac , @faizsays , @thestalwart , ...
Revolut partners with Visa to expand into 24 new markets including the US and Japan by the end of 2019, plans to increase staff from 1500 to 5000 by next summer
LONDON (Reuters) - British-based digital banking app Revolut is set to hire around 3500 staff as it expands into 24 new markets thanks …
Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, had a revenue of $7B-$8.4B in H1 2019, and posted a profit in June after operating at a loss in H1 2019
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's ByteDance, owner of video-sharing app TikTok and one of the world's most valuable unicorns …
Checkm8 creator says his iPhone exploit requires physical device access and lacks persistence after reboot, but will make jailbreaking more accessible and safer
@dangoodin001 interviews @axi0mX and gets all the details on the new iOS bootrom exploit. https://arstechnica.com/... Dan Goodin / @dangoodin001 : The jailbreaking exploit released Friday prompted lot...
Sources: Nasdaq tightens restrictions and slows approvals for small Chinese firms' IPOs, which increasingly raise a majority of capital from Chinese investors
(Reuters) - Nasdaq Inc (NDAQ.O) is cracking down on initial public offerings (IPOs) of small Chinese companies by tightening restrictions …
Sources: Facebook is planning to pay only about a quarter of the 200 publishers that will be featured in its news tab, set to launch as soon as the end of Oct.
Social-media giant plans to pay about a quarter of news organizations whose content will be featured
Crypto exchanges including Coinbase, Kraken, Circle, and Bittrex form the Crypto Ratings Council to rate digital assets on whether they are securities
Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal :
Sources: Venezuela is evaluating if it can count cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin it may have received from oil sales, toward the country's international reserves
Bloomberg :
German police arrest seven people and shutter a data center in a former NATO bunker that hosted dark web sites and launched an attack on Deutsche Telekom in '16
Geir Moulson / Associated Press :
Berlin-based Amboss, a knowledge platform for medical professionals, raises €30M Series B led by Partech's growth fund
Amboss, the Berlin-based ‘medtech’ startup that originally offered a learning app for students but has since pivoted to a knowledge platform for medical professionals …
After a September 24 Windows 10 update, Microsoft's BitLocker uses software encryption by default even for SSDs that offer their own hardware-based encryption
Nathaniel Mott / Tom's Hardware :
Verizon to acquire the software and technology assets of VR startup Jaunt XR, which raised $100M in funding from Disney, GV, and others; Jaunt is pivoting to AR
- The start-up develops tools that enable brands and consumers to make high-quality VR content, among other things.
The Chernin Group buys a majority stake in Food52 for $83M, valuing the ecommerce and media startup which offers recipes and home-improvement tips at $100M+
Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal :
WaPo's Arc CMS, run by ~250 staff, is now used across ~600 sites, up from ~100 last year, including Tribune Publishing, now adds BP as first non-media customer
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg :
Domino's Pizza is asking the Supreme Court to review a site accessibility lawsuit, amid a lack of Justice Department accessibility regulations and enforcement
Abrar Al-Heeti / CNET : Tweets: @cnet Tweets: @cnet : If the Supreme Court takes the case, it could decide the extent to which the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to websites. https://www.cne...
Global Disinformation Index study finds that adtech companies spend ~$235M per year running ads on sites found by fact-checkers to publish misinformation
Poynter : Tweets: @zimbalist , @dpfunke , @karlbode , and @michellemanafy See also Mediagazer Tweets: Michael Zimbalist / @zimbalist : About those ad-supported disinformation sites: Google served abo...
A look at historian Margaret O'Mara's new book The Code, which traces how our uneasy present deviated from the rosy future the tech industry promised
and the spaces that have nurtured it, like Silicon Valley—is testament to the shifting politics of our time. Inchoate and uncertain though this discomfort may be, it is an expression of desire for a n...
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