In a Q&A, Joe Biden says Section 230 should be immediately revoked for Facebook and other platforms and that Zuckerberg should be submitted to civil liability
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Sources: Facebook puts off its effort to build ads into WhatsApp as it focuses on B2C communications, but will sell ads in WhatsApp's Status at some point
Social-media giant scraps earlier strategy, seeks other ways to monetize messaging service used by 1.5 billion
Kan Liu, the Director of Product Management for Chrome OS, says Google is working to bring Steam support to Chrome OS
Last week at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, I spoke with Kan Liu, Director of Product Management for Google's Chrome OS. In a wide-ranging discussion about the Chrome platform …
NBC says Peacock will launch on July 15 and have a free tier with limited programming and two premium tiers, at $4.99/month with ads and $9.99/month with no ads
Comcast is introducing three different subscription tiers — NBCUniversal's streaming service, Peacock …
DoorDash pay data analysis: the average contractor earns $1.45/hour, nearly 33% of jobs pay less than $0 after expenses, and only 11% pay more than minimum wage
Food delivery app DoorDash has grown rapidly into the national industry leader, serving all 50 states and outpacing GrubHub …
Sources: some FBI officials were stunned by AG Barr's use of the Pensacola case to rebuke Apple as they believe Apple had already provided ample assistance
Attorney general's earlier service, telecom experience shaped his views; some bureau officials were stunned by his rebuke of Apple over Pensacola shooter's iPhones
Study finds the worlds' biggest brands, including Samsung and L'Oreal, are unknowingly running ads inside climate misinformation videos on YouTube
Avaaz says firms are unaware commercials being played alongside misleading videos — Some of the biggest companies in the world …
Microsoft partners with T-Mobile to provide 4G SIM cards to students in underserved areas
Microsoft announces partnership and new features to improve education. — What you need to know — Microsoft and T-Mobile will test a program that provides students in underserved areas with 4G SIM c...
Microsoft pledges to be carbon negative by 2030, remove all carbon it has ever emitted by 2050, and launch a $1B climate innovation fund
and its $1 billion infusion of cash — could ultimately make the tech cheaper and more appealing to other companies looking for new ways to go green.” Big thanks to @justcalma for breaking the @Microso...
Renders of Huawei's P40 Pro show a camera bump with Leica branding that has five lenses at the back and two selfie cameras at the front, but no headphone jack
Seven cameras, zero Google apps? — New renders from Evan “Evleaks” Blass give us what may well be our best look yet at Huawei's next flagship phone.
How the increasing use of AI to vet job applications is forcing career counselors at universities to prepare students on how to impress the AI algorithms
San Francisco (CNN)College career centers used to prepare students for job interviews by helping them learn how to dress appropriately or write a standout cover letter. Tweets: @elanazeide , @iajunwa ...
Microsoft, Reddit, Twitter, and over 100 others, sign amicus brief to block Trump's “public charge” rule which sets high bar for immigrants to get legal status
Companies across the country are trying to convince a federal judge that a new change to the U.S. immigration system would hurt innovation and the economy.
Shanghai reportedly is trialing facial recognition at pharmacies to flag potential abusers and prevent pharmacists from helping patients obtain illegal drugs
New terminals being trialled at 31 health care organisations require people buying controlled medicines to verify …
Funnel, which offers tools to help businesses prepare their marketing data for better reporting and analysis, raises $47M Series B led by Eight Roads Ventures
Funnel, the Stockholm-based startup that offers technology to help businesses prepare — or make “business-ready” …
Turkey lifted a two-and-a-half year ban on Wikipedia on Wednesday, restoring access after the country's top court ruled that blocking it was unconstitutional
following a two-and-a-half-year block. Now, the people of Turkey can once again fully participate in sharing and contributing to free knowledge online. RT to #WelcomeBackTurkey! https://www.nytimes.co...
FBI says it will notify state officials when local election systems are hacked, after criticism that it wasn't doing enough to inform states of election threats
FBI : FBI Announces New Policy for Notifying State and Local Election Officials of Cyber Intrusions … Makena Kelly / The Verge : The FBI will brief state officials in future election hacks Mehreen Kas...
LaunchDarkly, a feature management platform for developers, raises $54M led by Bessemer Venture Partners; sources say the company is now valued at $800M+
Deal ensures venture firm will retain a stake in the software developer now valued at more than $800 million
Porn cam network PussyCash leaves ~20GB of personal data, including government IDs, of over 4,000 models exposed in an Amazon S3 bucket for days
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Australia-based hotel booking tech company SiteMinder raises A$100M at a valuation of A$1.1B, says it now has 35,000 hotels worldwide as clients
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Nancy Pelosi slams Facebook's “shameful” behavior, saying it doesn't “care about truth” and its execs “schmooze” Trump's admin to avoid taxes, antitrust action
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Google says that 120 Stadia titles are coming in 2020, including 10 exclusives, and outlines new features coming soon, including increased Assistant support
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Cyral, which helps protect data stored in cloud repositories, announces $11M Series A and reveals a previously undisclosed $4.1M angel investment
Cyral, an early stage startup that helps protect data stored in cloud repositories, announced an $11 million Series A today.
Apple confirms it acquired Seattle-based Xnor.ai, which develops low-power, edge-based AI image recognition tools, sources say for around $200M
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Investigation finds illicit THC products are being openly hawked on Instagram and Facebook; Facebook removed 19 groups and Instagram removed posts and hashtags
- NBC News found that countless purveyors of illicit THC products are hawking their wares in plain sight on social media pages, especially Instagram and Facebook.
New report finds Twitch viewership dropped 9.8% in Q4 compared with Q3 after its top streamers left; YouTube Gaming Live hours watched increased 46% over 2019
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Internal memo: Mozilla lays off ~70 after its 2019 plans to boost revenue streams outside of search, like new subscription products, did not pan out
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FBI: nation-state hackers breached the networks of two US municipalities last year, targeting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability that was patched in February
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet : Tweets: @gossithedog , @bad_packets , @protaapp , and @dangoodin001 Tweets: Kevin Beaumont / @gossithedog : This SharePoint vulnerability CVE-2019-0604 from a year ago is be...
How spyware from eSurv, which was helping police hack suspects' phones in Italy, was allegedly used by its employees to hack the phones of innocent Italians
police & prosecutors across Italy, an intelligence agency, the most powerful mafia organisation in Europe, a judge accused of corruption, & a secretive group called the “Black Team.” Ryan Gallagher / ...
Subscription podcast startup Luminary lowers monthly US subscription prices, from $7.99 a month to $4.99, and also cuts international rates
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Google announces Premium Support plan for enterprise cloud customers, starting at $12.5K per month with 15-minute response times for mission-critical situations
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Sophos researchers find 25 “fleeceware” apps on the Play Store, installed by 600M+ users, that abuse the apps' free trial mechanic to charge obscene fees
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Nanox, which says it has digitized traditional X-rays using low-cost scanners and wants to offer an AI-based pay-per-scan service, raises $26M led by Foxconn
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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
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.