DOJ charges two ex-Twitter employees, arresting one, with spying for Saudi Arabia by snooping on kingdom critics; one allegedly accessed 6,000 accounts in 2015
The Justice Department has charged two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia in a case that raises concerns …
Court filing demanding subpoenaed docs reveals California has been probing Facebook's disclosure of user data to Cambridge Analytica and others for 18 months
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - California is investigating Facebook Inc's disclosure of user data to Cambridge Analytica and other partners …
If its Sprint merger goes through, T-Mobile says it will offer free 5G to first responders for a decade and free broadband to 10M households with children
It's been more than a year and a half since T-Mobile and Sprint announced their $26.5 billion merger in a bid to revamp the US wireless industry.
Sources: Google has been holding internal meetings on changing its political ad policy, and plans to share more information with employees soon
Discussions come after Twitter said it would bar most political ads amid spread of misinformation — Alphabet Inc. GOOG -.02% 's Google …
Google says it is open sourcing the phone-based VR software of Cardboard, less than a month after the company discontinued its Daydream View VR headset
Maybe the last nail in the coffin for phone-based VR — In October, Google officially discontinued its Daydream View VR headset …
Court docs: Facebook execs discussed a plan in 2012 to cut off access to user data for developers seen as future rivals while pushing a user privacy narrative
to no avail Sebastian Klovig Skelton / ComputerWeekly.com : Lawmakers study leaked Facebook documents made public today Adrian Potoroaca / TechSpot : Court filings show Facebook leveraged its data pol...
Microsoft starts shipping its $3,500 HoloLens 2 to preorder customers in the US, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK
New gesture controls and a bigger field of view — Microsoft's HoloLens 2 mixed reality headset is shipping today after being announced earlier this year.
OpenAI releases the full version of GPT-2 text generation AI, which it previously said was too dangerous to share, after finding “no strong evidence of misuse”
The lab say it's seen ‘no strong evidence of misuse so far’ — The research lab OpenAI has released the full version …
Sources: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund invested $400M in Travis Kalanick's CloudKitchens in January, valuing the “ghost kitchen” operator at about $5B
The sovereign-wealth fund—also an early investor in Uber—poured $400 million into CloudKitchens in January
Source: Alphabet is probing execs, including Chief Legal Officer David Drummond, over inappropriate relationships, hiring an outside law firm
- The board of Google parent company Alphabet is conducting an investigation into sexual misconduct by executives, and has hired a law firm to assist.
An investigation into I'm Shmacked, which exploited thousands of students by inducing them to provide viral videos of college parties to earn Instagram fame
The chief executive of I'm Shmacked promises students Instagram fame, then silences them with threats. Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @jimswiftdc , @katierosman , @taylorlorenz , and @nytimes Tweets: Taylor ...
AMD unveils two new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs in 24-core and 32-core versions, built using its 7nm “Zen 2” architecture, available Nov. 19 for $1,399 and $1,999
Need CPU power? AMD has you covered with new 24-core and 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper processors.
Photoshop for iPad has met with a lackluster reception and a review rating of 2.3 out of 5 stars, prompting Adobe exec to defend this first version
Adobe Inc. debuted its most important mobile application ever this week when it finally released Photoshop for Apple Inc.'s iPad.
Square says it processed $148M in Q3 bitcoin sales, up 244% YoY, for a profit of $2M, flat QoQ, and debuts new fee structure for Cash App bitcoin transactions
Square processed $148 million in bitcoin sales in the third quarter of 2019. — The payments company, founded …
An inside account of Cloudflare's defeat of Blackbird's lawsuit by publishing “prior art” that could help others, and attacking the patent troll business model
Remember 2016? Pokemon Go was all the rage, we lost Prince, and there were surprising election results in both the UK and US.
Skeptics say the effectiveness of online advertising is overhyped since ad marketers optimize ever more for people who would have bought anyway
Mel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California. Tweets: @frolleinjune , @wolfiechristl , @radio...
Inside Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, where dozens of engineers and analysts track state-sponsored hacking groups, ~70 with names and many more without
From Russian Olympic cyberattacks to billion-dollar North Korean malware, how one tech giant monitors nation-sponsored hackers everywhere on earth. Tweets: @howelloneill , @khabirm , and @techreview T...
In a wide-ranging interview, Reed Hastings says Netflix's spending on content will grow and defends cutting an episode of Hasan Minhaj's show in Saudi Arabia
Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings tackled a wide array of issues surrounding the streaming giant during a packed 30-minute keynote session …
Court documents: Mark Zuckerberg and other executives repeatedly called messaging apps a threat to Facebook, in the months before acquiring WhatsApp
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @robinwauters Tweets: Robin Wauters / @robinwauters : Well, yeah. That was sort of obvious at the time. https://twitter.com/...
Qualcomm reports fiscal Q4 revenue of $4.8B, profits of ~$500M, beating estimates on strong income from licensing division which generated ~$1.16B in revenue
- Qualcomm stock shot up 6% in extended trading after the company beat revenue and earnings estimates.
Apple's weather app stopped showing air quality index data for Chinese cities, source says due to Weather Channel changing how it collects that data in China
When it comes to many of Apple Inc.'s latest services, iPhone users in China are missing out. Podcast choices are paltry.
Following SoftBank's first loss in 14 years, CEO Masayoshi Son says his WeWork bet was a mistake, describing it as a “harsh lesson”, and vows to move forward
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Filing: Uber says it “will likely” need to change its autonomous driving software or sign a deal with Waymo after an expert found Uber still uses Waymo tech
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Uber (UBER.N) said it “will likely” have to strike a licensing deal with Waymo or opt …
After the deaths of five people at a “party house”, Airbnb unveils new safety policies: verifying 100% of listings, a 24/7 “neighbor hotline”, and more
Earlier today, Airbnb Co-Founder … Maxwell Strachan / VICE : Airbnb Promises to Verify All 7 Million Listings After VICE Report Exposes Scam New York Times : DealBook Conference Live Updates: Airbnb P...
Google debuts App Defense Alliance, a partnership with ESET, Lookout, Zimperium to catch Android malware early by streamlining and boosting data sharing efforts
ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium—to scan apps before they hit the Play Store. https://www.wired.com/... @eset : ESET is proud to be joining forces with @google as a founding member of the App Defense Alli...
Square reports Q3 revenue of $1.27B, up 44% YoY, as gross payment volume grows to $28.2B, up 25% YoY, and Cash App revenue more than doubles to $159M
C Nivedita / Reuters :
Ghost Locomotion emerges from stealth with $63.7M and says its self-driving kit will work with some cars made from 2012 onwards when it launches in 2020
Self-driving cars have countless obstacles to contend with on the road, chiefly drivers who don't always act predictably — or responsibly. Tweets: @rabois Tweets: Keith Rabois / @rabois : Extraordinar...
Apple and the US Department of Veterans announce that veterans can now access their health records on their iPhone via Apple's Health app
Christina Farr / CNBC :
Tumblr launches group chats feature in its app, says each chat can hold up to 100 members and all chats are publicly viewable
Tumblr Staff :
WhatsApp begins rolling out an update that lets users block specific individuals from adding them to Groups
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
HP Inc. confirms it received an acquisition proposal from Xerox on Tuesday
Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC :
Nightfall, which offers an AI-based platform to detect and prevent data leakage from cloud-based apps and services, comes out of stealth with $20.3M
Sensitive data leakage is one of the biggest negative side-effects of cloud-based apps and services. Today, a startup that has built …
LogRocket, which develops a platform to help companies quickly identify and fix website or app bugs, raises $15M Series B led by Battery Ventures
LogRocket is a startup on a mission to help companies root out and fix website app errors quickly and efficiently, and it seems to be going well.
Indian startup Rupeek Fintech goes to users' homes to pickup jewelry and heirlooms, enabling them to avoid the ignominy of being seen pawning family jewelry
Bloomberg : Tweets: @sanvai and @_ananddaniel Tweets: SanthanamVaidya / @sanvai : Rupeek Fintech keeps transactions discreet by coming to your home to pick up jewelry and heirlooms. https://www.bloom...
Avaaz: false stories on Facebook had 158M views in 2019, greater than before the 2016 election, with 86M views in the last 3 months, up 3x over the prior 3
Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat :
How Google changed in the aftermath of a walkout by 20K employees, which helped inspire a new wave of tech worker activism across the tech industry
Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times : Tweets: @mattdpearce , @latimes , @latimes , @jmbooyah , @dgorganize , and @_am1t Tweets: Matt Pearce / @mattdpearce : This is a new one in the annals of labor re...
Reonomy, which aggregates 100 sources of commercial property intel into a database, raises $60M Series D and says it has 100,000 customers
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Immo Investment Technologies, which digitally sources, appraises, and acquires properties at scale on behalf of institutional investors, raises €11M Series A
Thomas Ohr / EU-Startups :
Wrench, an on-demand vehicle maintenance and repair service for consumers and fleets, raises $20M led by Vulcan Capital
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch :
Google adds developer guides for Google Assistant to support smart bathtubs and faucets, such as those by Kohler and Delta
Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google :
Uber says it will allow passengers and drivers to record audio of their trips in Brazil and Mexico, in response to rising safety concerns in the region
Marcelo Rochabrun / Reuters :
Chronosphere, founded by two ex-Uber engineers, raises $11M Series A for a scalable, cloud-native production monitoring tool able to handle Uber-level scale
Ron Miller / TechCrunch : Tweets: @sameerpatel Tweets: Sameer Patel / @sameerpatel : “Uber-level scale” is the new “Uber for X”. Seeing this over and over again. https://twitter.com/...
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