US sets export restrictions on China's biggest chipmaker SMIC, saying exports to SMIC posed an “unacceptable risk” of being diverted to “military end use”
Move against SMIC further hurts chip sector after penalties on Huawei — The US government …
Facebook exec says right-wing drives more engagement because its “populism is always more engaging” as it speaks to “an incredibly strong, primitive emotion”
Throughout 2020, Democrats have denounced Facebook with growing ferocity as a “right-wing echo chamber” …
Inside eBay's alleged plot that targeted a blogging duo and a Twitter gadfly using cockroaches, porn, death threats, physical surveillance, and pizza deliveries
“People are basically good” was eBay's founding principle. But in the deranged summer of 2019, prosecutors say …
Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin discloses hack that emptied its hot wallets, with the minimum loss currently estimated at $150M
KuCoin said an intruder drained all its hot wallets today. — Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin disclosed today a mega hack.
Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI is exclusively licensing GPT-3 to Microsoft saying “OpenAI is essentially captured by Microsoft”
- Elon Musk voiced his discontent on Twitter that OpenAI — the AI research firm he helped found — is exclusively licensing …
Fitbit says its OS 5.0 has been developed exclusively for the new Versa 3 and Sense smartwatches, and older devices, including last year's Versa 2, won't get it
Fitbit Sense and Versa 3 start shipping today to customers, and as promised, they're arriving with a new software experience on board.
Amazon, which had struggled to gain a foothold in Italy, benefited from a shift to online shopping during pandemic lockdown as 75% of Italians shopped online
The e-commerce giant had struggled to gain a foothold in a society that prefers to shop in person, with cash, but now Italians are hooked on online shopping.
DOJ files its opposition to TikTok's request to halt Trump ban, says blocking the ban will infringe on Trump's authority, calls ByteDance CEO mouthpiece for CCP
TikTok is seeking to stave off a ban set to take effect Sunday — The Justice Department filed its opposition Friday …
Pastebin adds two new features, Burn After Read and Password Protected Pastes, that experts say will make it easier to disguise malware operations
The two new features will make it easier to disguise malware operations. — Pastebin, the most popular website where users can share small snippets …
FedEx CEO says the company is working with Reliable Robotics to pilot the use of an unmanned single-engine aircraft for cargo delivery
Dive Brief: — FedEx is working with Reliable Robotics to pilot the use of an unmanned single-engine aircraft for cargo delivery … Tweets: @supplychaindive Tweets: @supplychaindive : FedEx is testing ...
Interview with Visa's Terry Angelos and Cuy Sheffield on the future of blockchain networks, partnering with crypto payment firms, and the Libra Association
Putin calls for a “reboot” between the US and Russia in cyberspace, offering “nonintervention into internal affairs of each other” including in elections
With an eye to a possible Biden presidency, the Russian leader called for a “reboot” on information security but offered no concessions. Tweets: @edbott , @rstephens , @apolyakova , @kenroth , @antont...
Report: longtime Ubisoft veteran and Rayman creator Michel Ancel retired from the game publisher earlier this month while being investigated for toxic behavior
Ethan Gach / Kotaku : Source: Libération .
Poshmark, an online clothes resale marketplace, says it has confidentially filed its draft S-1 with the SEC for an IPO
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Interviews with Michael Abrash and Andrew Bosworth on the tech behind Facebook's AR glasses, how Facebook will use the personal data from the glasses, more
Imagine your smartphone morphing to wrap around your eyes. But instead of a dark black screen, now it's see-through. Tweets: @mattk , @harrymccracken , and @hypervisible Tweets: Matt / @mattk : Why d...
SEC filing: Postmates posted a loss of $32.2M in Q2, compared to a loss of $73M in Q1; Postmates lost $105.2M in H1 2020 vs. $239M in the same period of 2019
Danny Crichton / TechCrunch :
CB Insights: cloud computing startups raised almost $3B across 97 deals in Q2 2020, up from 76 deals in Q2 2019, with deal volume reaching a three-year high
Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @asanwal and @scastellwsj . Thanks: @keithswiader Tweets: Anand Sanwal / @asanwal : Digital transformation on steroids Data shows cloud boom is only a...
A look at how Iranians are using satellite file-casting app Toosheh to bypass state internet blackouts as the country pushes its national intranet
and they're using them to circumvent the web during internet blackouts. @mehrnadeem3 reports for @restofworld https://restofworld.org/... https://twitter.com/... Mehr Nadeem / @mehrnadeem3 : Last Nove...
Poll: 52% of US voters support shutting down social media platforms for the week of the election, with 62% not confident platforms can stop election misinfo
Ashley Gold / Axios : Tweets: @niemanlab , @accountabletech , and @tayhatmaker Tweets: @niemanlab : 62% of the 1,000 registered voters surveyed said they aren't confident social media companies can p...
Tech groups consider legal action against Trump's EO barring federal contractors from offering Diversity and Inclusion training, raising First Amendment issues
Emily Birnbaum / Protocol : Tweets: @usatodaymoney , @carnage4life , @bizcarson , and @uche_blackstock Tweets: @usatodaymoney : Trump's decision to expand a ban on “divisive” and “un-American” divers...
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