Uber says Travis Kalanick, its former CEO, will step down from the company's board of directors effective Dec. 31; Kalanick has sold all of his stock in Uber
- Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the board effective Dec. 31. — Kalanick was ousted as CEO in 2017 but remained a director.
Twitter blocks animated PNGs, saying a bug had allowed them, and that they did not respect autoplay settings so could be used to harm people sensitive to motion
Twitter will no longer animate PNG files after trolls hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation's handle and hashtags last month …
Dish increases price of both Sling TV packages, Orange and Blue, by $5 to $30/month, gives all users 10 hours of cloud-based DVR storage and additional channels
The cheap days of Sling TV are over — The cheap days of Sling TV are over. Dish's internet TV service is raising the price …
Sources: Bytedance is considering setting up a global headquarters for TikTok outside of China, as part of its effort to shake off its Chinese image
Singapore, London and Dublin are among cities being considered; no U.S. city made shortlist — Bytedance Inc. is considering setting …
Researchers: unpatched flaws in Citrix products leave 80,000+ businesses potentially vulnerable to unauthorized network access; Cisco shares steps to mitigate
A newly discovered vulnerability impacting the Citrix Application Delivery Controller (NetScaler ADC) and the Citrix Gateway …
Sources show how Amazon repeatedly delayed or scrapped investments in common industry practices like onroad safety training, as it built out its driver network
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Educators and school administrators love digital devices that studies show mostly have a negative impact on learning, harming lower performing students the most
Educators love digital devices, but there's little evidence they help children—especially those who most need help.
Randy Suess, co-creator of the first public dial-up bulletin board system, which was a forerunner of today's social media services, has died at 74
The messaging system that he and a friend created in 1978 was a forerunner of social media services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
T-Mobile's 2015 internal report made public at its merger trial shows the company positioning itself for two mergers, first with Sprint and then a cable company
‘The only natural option,’ according to confidential 2015 report — As T-Mobile's merger trial inches toward a verdict …
Mike Bloomberg created a tech company called Hawkfish that's helping his 2020 campaign and employs ex-Facebook CMO Gary Briggs and ex-Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck
- A technology company called Hawkfish, with former executives from Facebook and Foursquare, is helping Bloomberg's 2020 presidential bid.
DraftKings to go public via a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company and SBTech sports betting tech platform, targeting a $3.3B valuation
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In Argentina, delivery apps Glovo and Rappi, which allow users to send and receive all kinds of packages, have been found to deliver drugs in ~10 cases so far
including illegal drugs — and poorly enforced laws leave them responsible https://onezero.medium.com/... Sarah Kessler / @sarahfkessler : Drug dealers in Argentina are using delivery apps - when gig w...
Sources: earlier this year, YouTube considered screening all videos for kids under 8 in YouTube Kids but dropped the idea to avoid looking like a media company
YouTube spent 2019 answering critics with some of the most drastic changes in its 15-year history. Tweets: @mattrosoff , @mhbergen , and @lucas_shaw Tweets: Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : The contortions...
iOS and macOS are so fundamentally different that the whole notion of getting a cohesive UX with minimal effort by using Catalyst to port an iPad app is absurd
Jack Wellborn, “Catalyst and Cohesion”: Douglas Hill / douglashill.co : Page Up, Page Down, Home and End in Catalyst apps Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Catalyst and Cohesion Michael Tsai : Catalyst and Coh...
SQLite flaws left Chrome open to remote code execution before being patched two weeks ago, were found by Tencent researchers a year after revealing similar bugs
Magellan 2.0 vulnerabilities were patched in Google Chrome 79.0.3945.79. — A new set of SQLite vulnerabilities can allow attackers … Tweets: @campuscodi Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Googl...
Simply carrying a smartphone to a political rally could tie its owner to the event in commercial datasets, thanks to the realtime tracking tech in mundane apps
New York Times : Tweets: @carnage4life , @snowden , @suchitrav , @paulkidd , @campuscodi , @nytopinion , @dirktherabbit , @michellerobbins , @cwarzel , @cwarzel , @chadloder , @bora_dimpy , and @mand...
MasterCard acquires RiskRecon, a startup that had raised $40M to make cybersecurity risk assessments of third party vendors from publicly available data
Ron Miller / TechCrunch :
Applied AI and big data startup Quantiphi raises $20M from private equity firm Multiples Alternate Asset Management
Biswarup Gooptu / The Economic Times :
Researcher says he was able to match 17M phone numbers to Twitter user accounts by exploiting a flaw in Twitter's Android app, before Twitter blocked his effort
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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