What to expect from Microsoft's event on October 2: Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, an ARM-based Surface, and at least a teaser of a dual-screen device
Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3, and some mysterious new hardware — Microsoft is holding a big Surface hardware event in New York City on Wednesday, October 2nd.
In leaked audio from open meetings in July, Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's challenges and potential breakup, politics, competitors, content moderators
In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government.
Block.one settles with the SEC for $24M in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale; Block.one had raised ~$4.1B via ICO over a one-year period
EOS maker Block.One must pay $24 million in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …
GoPro Hero8 Black review: doesn't require special housing for mounts, has even better image stabilization, but the camera gets hot while recording
Let's start with the body. Since the Hero 5, GoPro cameras have been waterproof up to 33 feet without the need of an additional housing …
Leaked images reveal the upcoming Surface Pro 7, Surface Laptop 3 (13-inch and 15-inch), and an ARM-powered Surface 2-in-1 device
Well dang, there they are — Microsoft's new Surface lineup appears to have leaked almost in its entirety, thanks to product images obtained by journalist and leaker Evan Blass.
Microsoft rolls out its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop globally, with a WVD client app available for Windows, Android, Mac, iOS, and HTML 5
Microsoft is rolling out its Azure-based Windows Virtual Desktop service and readying some new capabilities around Teams support and MSIX App Attach which could make it even more useful.
Microsoft now lets OneDrive users expand 1TB storage in 200GB increments and launches OneDrive Personal Vault, to protect folders using 2FA, available globally
Microsoft announced two major features for OneDrive back in June: Personal Vault and expandable storage. Both of the features are launching worldwide today.
Former Yahoo engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of about 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A former Yahoo software engineer has pleaded guilty to hacking into the accounts of some 6,000 Yahoo users in search of sexual photos and videos.
Confiant: a bug in Webkit has allowed 1B+ malicious ads to exploit code that's redirected users to hostile websites, affecting primarily iOS and macOS users
Flaw rendered ad-sandboxing protections “entirely useless,” researchers say. — Attackers have bombarded the Internet …
GoPro unveils $399 Hero8 Black and $499 Hero Max cameras, available for preorder today, shipping in October, and three modular add-ons
and That's What Makes It Great James Trew / Engadget : GoPro Max is the company's second take on a 360 camera James Trew / Engadget : GoPro Hero 8 Black review: Minor redesign, major pay-off Karissa B...
Uber is testing a safety feature to let passengers record and send audio to the company if they are “uncomfortable” during a ride
Uber is testing “Record Audio” in case the rider is uncomfortable with the ride https://twitter.com/...
EU top court rules that active consent is needed for non-essential cookies, like tracking cookies for targeted ads, rendering pre-checked consent boxes illegal
Europe's top court has ruled that pre-checked consent boxes for dropping cookies are not legally valid.
Google confirms it is testing Duplex-powered Assistant for Chrome, initially with movie ticket booking websites like AMC and Fandango
Back at I/O, Google announced a major expansion to its Assistant-based concierge automation engine, Duplex. Up until then, it would help people book restaurant tables …
Khatabook, which helps small Indian businesses record financial transactions digitally, raises $25M Series A from investors including GGV Capital, Sequoia India
Even as tens of millions of Indians have come online for the first time in recent years, most businesses in the nation remain offline.
Twitter is rolling out a filter that moves unwanted DMs containing questionable language or spam to an “additional messages” folder on Android, iOS, and the web
Twitter is quickly acting on plans to filter potentially offensive direct messages. It's rolling out the filter to all users on Android, iOS and the web.
Collaborative presentation software startup Pitch launches in private beta and raises $30M Series B led by Thrive Capital
The software industry is no spring chicken, and that fact that brought us to an interesting moment in technology: some of the biggest legacy apps — ubiquitous as they may be …
Pandora unveils a revamped mobile app with a new For You tab that recommends music, podcasts, and more
Pandora is doubling down on personalization and revamping its app in order to better compete with rivals like Spotify and Apple Music. Today, the company is introducing a new mobile experience …
Armor: over 500 US schools and colleges have been hit by ransomware in 2019, with 100 schools across fifteen school districts attacked in the last two weeks
Fifteen US school districts, accounting for 100 schools, were hit in the past two weeks alone. — In the first nine months of the year …
Appeals court upholds FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality, but also rules the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations
But the 200-page ruling says the FCC can't stop states from setting their own regulations — A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed …
Hacker claims to have breached Zynga and stolen info on Words with Friends players; Zynga has started notifying users but has not disclosed size of breach
Words with Friends — game players' login information, including email IDs and passwords. https://thehackernews.com/... #Zynga admitted the breach, revealing it also exposed data for another popular ga...
Videos of owners trying Tesla's new Smart Summon feature, which show Teslas autonomously driving to owners with varying degrees of success, go viral
new Smart Summon feature Fred Lambert / Electrek : Tesla owners are already doing dumb things with ‘Smart Summon’ Tweets: Daniel Tunkelang / @dtunkelang : Summoning spells are not for the faint of hea...
Apple releases iOS 13.1.2 and iPadOS 13.1.2 with fixes for several bugs including those affecting Camera, iCloud Backup, shortcuts on HomePod, and flashlight
has there been any iOS release that has been buggier than this? I hope introduction of iPadOS hasn't affected the dev team, that was already thin, further. That, at this point, looks to be a strong po...
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: Facebook plans to let opinion pieces and satire be exempted from its fact-checking program, preventing such content from being labeled false
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal :
Twitter to leave up a tweet about a “full-blown ‘hot’ civil war” by a far-right militia with almost 24,000 followers; the militia was quote-tweeting Trump
Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News : Tweets: @mat , @sivavaid , @monteiro , @kantrowitz , @dangillmor , @buzzfeednews , @retail_risk , and @peterme Tweets: Mat Honan / @mat : With Twitter's decision toda...
Rapyd, which helps companies integrate payment and related services into their platforms, raises $100M led by Oak HC/FT, sources say at a ~$1B valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Dave, which offers money management tools to let its 4M users avoid overdraft fees, raises $50M, says it now has a valuation of $1B+
Two years after the Los Angeles-based fintech startup Dave launched with a suite of money management tools to save consumers from overdraft fees … Tweets: @iankar_ and @pottsjustin Tweets: Ian Kar / @...
Nextdoor's verification requirement excludes homeless people from neighborhood discussions, leading to echo chambers that demonize them
Rick Paulas / OneZero :
Coalition of creators and researchers accuses YouTube of automatically demonetizing videos with LGBTQ-related words in metadata and titles, which YouTube denies
a collaboration with two other YouTubers — looking at two months worth of data. Collected 15,300 terms and found that every single video that used “gay” or “lesbian” in a title was automatically demon...
Momentum behind tech companies posting transparency reports has faded, with some like Charter stopping the practice as others like Amazon make them more opaque
TikTok can tell you a lot about internet culture, but the massively popular Chinese-owned social-media app doesn't seem to know much about Hong Kong protests. Tweets: @theatlantic and @eff Tweets: @th...
Dave Willner, who helped put together Facebook's content standards over a decade ago, says its exemption of politicians' hate speech is “cowardice”
Steven Levy / Wired : Tweets: @stevenlevy , @slpng_giants , and @wired Tweets: Steven Levy / @stevenlevy : Dave Willner was key to writing Facebook's content rules. He thinks the new politician exemp...
Revolut partners with Visa to expand into 24 new markets, including the US and Japan, by year's end, plans to increase staff from 1,500 to 5,000 by next summer
Lawrence White / Reuters :
Apple News+ expands for the first time since launch, to the UK and Australia for £9.99 and AU$14.99 per month respectively, with over 150 publications on board
Juli Clover / MacRumors :
China approves PayPal's acquisition of a 70% equity stake in GoPay, making PayPal the first foreign payment platform to provide online payment services in China
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Sources: Nasdaq tightens restrictions and slows approvals for small Chinese firms' IPOs, which increasingly raise a majority of capital from Chinese investors
Reddit revises its policies to broaden the definition of threats, harassment, and bullying and now lets anyone report violations of its rules, not just victims
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
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
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
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