An unfixable flaw in nearly all Intel chips released in last five years allows sophisticated attackers access to mask ROM of its chipsets and microprocessors
Converged Security and Management Engine flaw may jeopardize Intel's root of trust. — Virtually all Intel chips released …
Oppo unveils Oppo Watch, its first smartwatch with 1.91-inch OLED screen, fitness tracking, music playback, available on March 24 in China for ~$215
Out in China this month for $215 — As repeatedly teased by Oppo itself, Oppo is making a watch called the Oppo Watch, and today it got revealed in full.
Oppo unveils €1,199 Find X2 Pro with 5G, Snapdragon 865, 6.7-inch Quad HD+ 120Hz display, a 10x hybrid zoom camera, and 4,260mAh battery with 65W charging
Even though Oppo isn't as well-known in the US, chances are you might have come across one of its recent tech demos.
Sonos says it is getting rid of its controversial recycle mode, which bricked its older devices, while continuing to offer a trade-in discount
Sonos has been under fire lately for the way it has handled a few decisions around its oldest products. Last fall, the company introduced a …
Sources: Apple is rejecting apps related to COVID-19 that do not originate from “recognized institutions” like governments or hospitals
- Apple is cracking down on apps related to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that aren't from recognized institutions like governments or hospitals, iPhone developers say.
UK's Virgin Media says a marketing database with personal details of ~900K customers, including names and addresses, had been left unsecured since last April
Alex Hern / The Guardian :
Researchers: Virgin Media's exposed marketing database included 1,100+ records of customer requests to block or unblock websites with porn and extreme “gore”
Records linking contact details to gambling and pornography sites may have been accessed
Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter, which are asking their Bay Area staff to work from home, say they plan to pay their hourly workers regular wages
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter all told Axios on Thursday night that they plan to pay their hourly workers regular wages …
Facebook reverses course and says it will remove 1K+ deceptive census ads being run by the Trump campaign, after initially saying they do not violate its policy
November's election will have an enormous impact on politics in the United States for the next four years.
Clearview AI's facial recognition app was used by the company's investors, clients, and friends to “test” its tech for over a year prior to public scrutiny
Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public.
Twitter expands its rules around hateful conduct to include language that dehumanizes people on the basis of their age, disability, or disease
Last year, Twitter expanded its rules around hate speech to include dehumanizing speech against religious groups.
Jack Dorsey says he is reevaluating plans to spend part of the year in Africa amid the coronavirus outbreak and “everything else going on”
The Twitter CEO is facing down an adversarial investor who wants him gone — Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is reevaluating his plans …
Appeals court declines to invalidate one of the WiFi-related patents underlying a $1.1B verdict Caltech has won against Apple and Broadcom
Apple in January was ordered to pay the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) $838 million for infringing on Caltech patents related to WiFi transmissions.
Investigation details Apple's struggles to create a device manufacturing supply chain in India
Several years ago, employees at Apple investigated whether components for the iPhone could be made in India. The results weren't encouraging. — While the employees found some companies …
Nvidia acquires SwiftStack, a small AI-focused data storage and management platform it currently uses, for an undisclosed sum
Nvidia is buying SwiftStack, an object storage software company. Terms were undisclosed but the takeover looks like a white knight move by Nvidia.
Numerous tech companies, including Amazon, Google, and Facebook are asking Seattle-based staff to work from home because of coronavirus
Jay Peters / The Verge :
Arweave, which uses a blockchain to perpetually host sites and apps, raises $8.3M seed from a16z, USV, and Coinbase Ventures, four months after raising $5M
The Chinese government has been removing criticism of its coronavirus response from apps like Weibo, the local equivalent of Twitter.
Five Eyes nations release guidelines for platforms to fight child porn; US senators introduce a bill to remove Section 230 for failure to police such content
Michael H. Keller / New York Times :
Profile of Whitfield Diffie, one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography, which ushered in digital signatures and now underlies the security of ecommerce
Longtime tech journalist Steven Levy's new book, Facebook: The Inside Story, details how Mark Zuckerberg transformed …
Dorsey's weak defense of his leadership at Twitter indicates corporate raiders might do a better job than him of pushing Twitter to improve
Josh Constine / TechCrunch :
Study: 86K+ Facebook pages ran at least one political ad that was not properly disclosed, and ~20K ads had been purchased by “likely inauthentic communities”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Rasmus Kleis Nielsen / @rasmus_kleis : New research “point to myriad opportunities malicious actors may have had to exploit the platform's powerful targeting tools ...
Sources: Waymo is now valued at more than $30B, after raising $2.25B this week
Windfall pushing Alphabet division above rivals comes at turning point for group — When outside investors lined up this week to pour $2.25bn into Waymo, Alphabet's self-driving technology division, ...
DuckDuckGo makes Tracker Radar, a tool detailing 5,326 domains used by 1,727 companies and organizations that track users online, publicly available
Stephen Shankland / CNET :
Suki, an AI-powered voice assistant for doctors, raises $20M Series B, doubling total funding to $40M since 2017, claims 40x usage growth in the past year
Leah Rosenbaum / Forbes :
Millions of users in India are struggling to make online transactions and use popular services, like PhonePe, after the central bank seized control of Yes Bank
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Researchers discover flaws in immobilizer encryption systems used in some Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia keys, letting attackers gain access with inexpensive hardware
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
AMD unveils a new dedicated GPU architecture, CDNA, for data center compute workloads that it plans to launch later this year
Stephanie Condon / ZDNet :
Google says it will switch to mobile-first indexing for all sites from September and 70% of sites shown in its search results have already shifted over
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land :
South Korea passes crypto legal framework legislation, letting the country's regulators oversee and develop rules for cryptocurrencies and crypto exchanges
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
UK's FCA warns UK citizens against offers from crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX, saying it lacks authorization to market financial products in the country
We believe this firm has been providing financial services … CoinGape : Binance CEO Blocks OKEx CEO, LINK & ETC Price Reach Critical Resistance Levels & More Noah Bradley / CoinGeek : UK's FCA retract...
Didi Chuxing's daily active users dropped over 50% after China acknowledged coronavirus outbreak; Beijing drivers waiting up to two hours for a passenger
Financial Times : Tweets: @jonrussell and @modestproposal1 Tweets: Jon Russell / @jonrussell : Not a good time to be a ride-hailing company in China https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... Mod...
Empower Finance, a mobile banking app that uses AI and human financial planners to help users accrue wealth, raises $20M Series A from Icon and Defy Ventures
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
EU reaches a data-sharing agreement with AirBnB, Booking.com, others, to help mitigate the impact on local communities caused by short-term rental market
Patrick Whyte / Skift :
Sources: Rigetti Computing's $71M raise was at a significant cut to valuation, because quantum computing is hard, and commercial applications are still few
Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch : Tweets: @nick_farina Tweets: Nick Farina / @nick_farina : Some may call this the start of the quantum winter. I don't think it is, bc the folks at Rigetti remain sharp...
Elizabeth Warren changed the discussion about tech companies through her call to break up big tech, influencing debate even after her withdrawal from the race
that the big tech companies had grown too big and too anticompetitive — as given” https://www.protocol.com/... Emily Dreyfuss / @emilydreyfuss : I wrote about how Elizabeth Warren may be out of the ra...
Shopify's new AI commerce stack
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