TfL says Uber's London license will not be renewed after it identified risks in Uber's system that allowed drivers to fake their identity; some were unlicensed
Ride-hailing service to continue while it appeals against Transport for London decision — Uber has lost its licence …
Memo: Google fires four employees, citing data-security violations, amid rising tension between management and staff
- Move comes after worker protests and union organizing — Google told staff on Monday that it fired four employees for what the company called “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security p...
Leaked Amazon injury reports show one of its NY warehouses has a very high incident rate score of 15.19 in 2018, versus an average of 6.1 for sawmills in the US
Since opening in September 2018, Amazon's massive fulfillment center on New York's Staten Island has garnered a reputation …
Teen's TikTok video about China's Muslim camps, bookended with beauty tips, goes viral with 1.4M+ views and ~500,000 likes, as copycats get millions more
A US teenager's TikTok video clip accusing China of putting Muslims into “concentration camps” has gone viral on the Chinese-owned social network.
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats
"brainwashing" — to which China is subjecting at least one million detained Uighur and other Turkic Muslims until they renounce Islam and their ethnicity. https://www.bbc.com/... https://twitter.com/....
Documents show California's DMV is making ~$50M/year selling drivers' personal info, partaking in the highly criticized but common practice since at least 2013
The California Department of Motor Vehicles is generating revenue of $50,000,000 a year through selling drivers' personal information …
RIPE, EU's regional internet registry, says it has run out of new IPv4 addresses and any returned will be allotted via waitlist, urges faster adoption of IPv6
So will you all please move to IPv6? World: Nope. — Analysis It happened four years ago. And again two years ago. And last year.
How Texas Instruments monopolized the US education market for graphing calculators, products with high profit margins and tech that hasn't changed in 20 years
These $100 calculators have been required in classrooms for more than twenty years, as students and teachers still struggle to afford them
Facebook launches Viewpoints, a market research app that pays users for completing surveys, research, and other tasks, for users in the US
Facebook is once again offering a market research app, but this one appears to avoid some of the privacy concerns from before.
Mark Zuckerberg's 2019 “personal challenge”, examining the future of tech through public discussions, saw him speak with nine guests: all white and eight men
Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg completed his 2019 “personal challenge” on Monday, his version of a New Year's resolution.
Leavy.co, a travel app that pays upfront when users put their room up for rent when they travel, discloses $14M seed funding from January, led by Prime Ventures
Leavy.co, the Paris-born startup that offers a travel app for millennials to help them travel more without getting into further debt …
A look at Athena, a new coalition of three dozen US grass-roots groups seeking to scrutinize and pressure Amazon on working conditions, surveillance, and more
As groups join a coalition against the internet giant, a new report underlines its troubling impact in warehouse towns. Tweets: @nytimes , @zephyrteachout , @fightfortheftr , @tomperriello , @sarafloc...
Buguroo, which uses deep learning and behavioral biometrics to help detect banking fraud, raises $11M Series A
Buguroo, a Spanish cybersecurity startup that leverages deep learning and behavioral biometrics to help banks spot fraudulent activity, has raised $11 million in a series A round …
The RISC-V Foundation, which sets standards for RISC-V chip architecture, will move from US to Switzerland amid members' concerns over potential US trade curbs
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-based foundation overseeing promising semiconductor technology developed … Tweets: @stephennellis Tweets: Stephen Nellis / @stephennellis : Whatever device ...
150+ orgs, including Google and Facebook, back Tim Berners-Lee's Contract for the Web, pledging to guard the web from abuse or face removal from supporter list
The Web was designed to bring people together … John E Dunn / Naked Security : Sir Tim Berners-Lee publishes plan to save the web from ‘digital dystopia’ Tim Berners-Lee / New York Times : I Invented ...
Sources: Intel is seeking buyers for its connected home division, a unit that makes chips used in home internet access gear and has annual sales of ~$450M
Intel Corp. is seeking buyers for its connected home division, a unit that makes chips used in home internet access gear, according to people familiar with the matter.
Tray.io, an enterprise workflow automation platform that lets users tie in APIs from various apps, raises $50M Series C, source says valuing it at $600M+
Organizations are always looking for new ways to work more efficiently, but too often the problem is that, in a digital-first environment …
eBay to sell StubHub to Swiss ticket resale marketplace viagogo for about $4.05B in cash
Elly Cosgrove / CNBC :
Survey of over 1,000 US consumers: 77% say they use Google Maps when searching for information on nearby businesses, while 38% use Facebook and 35% use Yelp
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land :
Seattle's City Council passes legislation to establish minimum wage for Uber and Lyft drivers and raise per-ride taxes to fund programs like affordable housing
Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire :
Palo Alto Networks to acquire Aporeto, which provides identity-based access control to secure workloads across all infrastructures, for $150M in cash
“We are thrilled to welcome Aporeto to the Palo Alto Networks family. Business Wire : Nutanix Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2020 Financial Results Luisa Beltran / PE Hub Blog : Palo Alto Networks to bu...
Wisconsin-based IT company VCPI, which services ~110 nursing homes in the US, is hit by a ransomware attack and says it is not paying the $14M ransom
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security :
Genvid Technologies raises $27M Series B for its interactive streaming platform, which helps users monetize livestreams via sponsorships and in-stream purchases
Genvid Technologies has raised $27 million in funding for its interactive streaming engine. Galaxy Interactive …
Pricefx, which offers cloud-based pricing software, raises €23M in additional funding as part of its Series B led by Digital+ Partners
Pricefx, the Munich-founded startup that offers cloud-based pricing software, has raised €23 million in additional funding as part of its earlier Series B round.
Source: Ant Financial is planning to raise ~$1B for a fund that will invest in startups from Southeast Asia to India
- The fund will focus on startups in Southeast Asia, India — Ant wants to invest in payments, risk control startups — Billionaire Jack Ma's Ant Financial …
HPE reports Q4 revenue of $7.22B, down 9% YoY, vs $7.4B est., says hybrid IT group's revenue dropped 11% YoY to $5.7B, intelligent edge revenue dropped to $723M
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet :
Transcribers for Rev say they are exposed to troubling material, including violent police recordings and descriptions of child abuse, often with no warning
all without warning. (via @ozm) http://read.medium.com/CYCFJxl Dieter Bohn / @backlon : Important story from @danideahl Anytime there is an open text box or upload button on a big platform, you should...
Enterprise video messaging service Loom raises $30M Series B led by Sequoia with Instagram co-founders among investors, has 1.8M users across 50,000 businesses
Why are we all trapped in enterprise chat apps if we talk 6X faster than we type, and our brain processes visual info 60,000X faster than text?
Amazon brings Alexa to AWS IoT Core devices, lowering requirements for microprocessor type and RAM, now 1MB instead of 100MB, by offloading tasks to AWS
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Taipei-based Appier, which uses machine learning to track customer website activity to increase engagement, raises $80M Series D, bringing total raised to $162M
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat :
Argentina-based Ualá, a mobile banking and lending platform that links to a prepaid global Mastercard, raises $150M Series C led by Tencent and SoftBank
Anna Escher / TechCrunch :
Omni, which raised $35M, shutters after failing to work out the economics of equipment rentals and physical on-demand storage; Coinbase hires 10 Omni engineers
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
A skeptical overview of AI-related news and grandiose PR, from self-driving ventures to orgs focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI), like OpenAI
Filip Piekniewski / Piekniewski's blog : Tweets: @peterbotting Tweets: Peter Botting / @peterbotting : I don't understand all of this great read. But I understand enough to know that having a compute...
Singapore's “fake news” law invoked for the first time, after Facebook post from opposition lawmaker implied the gov't was responsible for a failing investment
Adam Taylor / Washington Post : See also Mediagazer
DOJ charges the founders of Outcome Health with fraud to obtain ~$1B in a 26-count indictment, weeks after the digital pharma ad company settled a related probe
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :
Review of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, with 24/32 cores on 7nm: they beat Intel chips across many benchmarks, especially on parallel computing tasks
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