Intel says that it has delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months, now 12 months behind the company's internal targets
Intel announced today in its Q2 2020 earnings release that it has now delayed the rollout of its 7nm CPUs by six months relative to its previously-planned release date …
Two former Twitter employees say more than 1,000 staff and contractors had access to internal tools to change account settings and ownership as of early 2020
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools …
Sources: House's antitrust hearing with big tech CEOs on Monday is likely to be postponed in order to allow lawmakers to attend Rep. John Lewis' funeral
Monday's blockbuster congressional hearing with Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai is likely to be postponed …
Following a possible ransomware attack, Garmin starts shutting down its website, Garmin Connect, and some production lines in Asia, plans for multi-day recovery
Smartwatch and wearable maker Garmin planning multi-day maintenance window to deal with ransomware incident.
Intel reports Q2 revenue of $19.7B, up 20% YoY, and Data Center Group revenue of $7.1B, up 43% YoY, but offers disappointing Q3 guidance; stock down 15%+
- Intel beat on the top and bottom lines, but earnings guidance for the current quarter was lighter than expected.
Twitter says hackers accessed the DM inbox of up to 36 of the 130 high profile accounts targeted in last week's attack
Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch :
Apple has started making its flagship iPhone 11 at the Foxconn plant near Chennai, the first time its manufactured a top-of-the-line model in India
The company hasn't cut prices as it also sells iPhone 11 handsets made in China in India but industry executives said that could be an option later on.
Samsung's new bean-shaped earbuds, called Galaxy Buds Live, show up in a companion app, confirming support for active noise cancellation, other features
More details on Samsung's new headphones straight from its own app — We've seen plenty of pictures of Samsung's new bean-shaped earbuds …
Researchers say the Android version of DJI Go 4, installed 1M+ times, covertly collected a range of sensitive user data and sent it to servers in mainland China
DJI Go 4, installed more than 1 million times, can execute arbitrary code. — The Android version of DJI Go 4 …
Leaked doc: while Apple will let third-party devices connect to Find My app, customers will be barred from using other competing services simultaneously
Opening the “Find My” feature to other companies was seen as an olive branch to developers. But Apple threatened legal action if developers talked about the software.
Sources: Facebook ceased research into racial bias in Instagram's moderation tools after finding problematic results; Facebook says the methodology was flawed
In mid-2019, researchers at Facebook began studying a new set of rules proposed for the automated system that Instagram uses …
Sources: Google's internal Android Lockbox project collects usage data from non-Google apps to inform product strategy; Google says data obtained via public API
When YouTube was planning the rollout of its rival to TikTok in India earlier this month, employees turned to a valuable source …
US officials unveil a plan to build a quantum Internet, existing alongside our current one, which uses the laws of quantum mechanics to share info more securely
The new network would sit alongside the existing Web, offering a more secure way to send and process information
Filing: NY charges First American Financial over massive 2019 data breach caused by a software update flaw, in the first enforcement of 2017 cybersecurity rules
In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp …
From December 2018 to May of this year, Russia's GRU hacker group known as APT 28 or Fancy Bear has carried out a broad campaign against a range of US targets
A previously unreported Fancy Bear campaign persisted for well over a year—and indicates that the notorious group has broadened its focus. Tweets: @anthomsec , @wired , @dragosinc , @robertmlee , @a_g...
Internal doc: T-Mobile to require all new devices to support VoLTE from August 4, and will stop supporting any non-VoLTE phones on its network from January 2021
and even sooner than AT&T Daniel Golightly / Android Headlines : T-Mobile Customers May Need A New 4G VoLTE Phone By January 2021 Matt Milano / IT Management : T-Mobile Soon Will Require VoLTE Phones ...
TikTok and the National Music Publishers' Association sign licensing agreement that suggests TikTok has agreed to pay for unlicensed past use of members' works
TikTok and the US-based National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) have inked a multi-year licensing agreement.
Sources: EU asks Google in its Fitbit acquisition to not use Fitbit data to “further enhance its search advantage” and to grant 3rd parties equal access to data
Pledge required that health data will not be used to improve search engine. — The EU has demanded that Google …
Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Victus, says it can resist a six-foot drop and has twice the scratch resistance of the previous gen, will debut in a few months
Sean Hollister / The Verge :
TikTok says it is launching a new $200M fund to pay creators directly for their content
pay them for their content. https://twitter.com/... Matt Navarra / @mattnavarra : TikTok launches $200 million fund to pay U.S creators for their videos https://www.theverge.com/... See also Mediagaze...
Selina Finance, a London-based online lender for SMBs that leverages business owners' home equity, raises $53M Series A in equity and debt financing
When you need a loan, the cost and speed of getting it can be as critical to get right as the financing itself, a principle that might …
Jack Dorsey says Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including through a subscription model
Brian Fung / CNN :
Paris selects Lime, Tier, and Dott as its electric scooter operators, snubbing Bird, which had planned to build a Paris hub and hire 1,000 people over two years
but also a disappointment for @BlaBlaCar, which partnered with Voi in May in a clear hope that the company will be able operate in the French capital. https://techcrunch.com/... Chris Yiu / @clry2 : I...
Report: Trump campaign alleges suppression of political speech after AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile blocked its texts over fears they violated anti-spam rules
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
Steve Wozniak and 17 others sue Google, claiming YouTube repeatedly ignored requests to take down videos using their names and likeness to promote Bitcoin scams
Alexandra Garrett / CNET :
AT&T says its low-band 5G network is now available to 205M people, joining T-Mobile as a nationwide 5G network
Eli Blumenthal / CNET :
An inside look at internal strife and dissent within Facebook, as employees warn the company is “hurting people at scale” and reckon with what they've built
Nine different Facebook employees told the company that a Trump ad with Nazi symbolism was hateful. Facebook only listened when the Washington Post covered it as news. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ .....
Hikvision says it began phasing out an automatic minority recognition feature in 2018, but declined to clarify status of their Uyghur recognition analytics
Charles Rollet / IPVM : Tweets: @charlesrollet1 , @skjeldtoft , and @charlesrollet1 Tweets: Charles Rollet / @charlesrollet1 : Hikvision - the world's largest security camera maker - admits its camer...
After content moderators in India and the Philippines missed out on Facebook's $52M settlement, several share stories of psychological consequences
Rest of World : Tweets: @avtarramsingh , @telliotter , and @anupkaphle Tweets: Avtar / @avtarramsingh : Content moderators in the US won a $52M settlement. But their counterparts based in India and P...
Chicago-based food delivery service Chowbus, which connects diners with Asian restaurants in over 20 cities in North America, raises $33M Series A
FinSMEs : Tweets: @efeng Tweets: Eric Feng / @efeng : Between @ChowbusOfficial, @isayweee, @Yamibuy, and more, love seeing more entrepreneurs building for the extended Asian American community who ar...
Ceros, a no-code digital design service with clients like Snap and IBM, raises $100M led by Sumeru Equity Partners; Crunchbase: Ceros previously raised $33.5M
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch :
Sources: ByteDance and its investors are mulling options like selling just TikTok's US business or splitting off ByteDance's international arm to save US TikTok
whatever the actual dynamic is with TikTok and China internally, lawmakers have found political utility in cracking down on TT, and selling a majority stake prob wont see them let up https://www.bloom...
Facebook now allows Messenger Rooms users to live broadcast video calls with up to 50 participants
Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC :
Sources: as JioMart gains steam in India, Amazon is in talks to buy a 9.9% stake in its parent Reliance Retail
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