Sources: DOJ and state AGs investigating Google for alleged antitrust violations are considering forcing it to sell Chrome and parts of its ad business
Prosecutors for the Justice Department and state attorney general offices are discussing ways of curbing the search giant's market power as they prepare to sue the company.
A coalition of tech companies, including Microsoft and Symantec, orchestrated a takedown of the TrickBot malware botnet, which had infected 1M+ computers
FS-ISAC, ESET, Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, NTT, Symantec, and the Microsoft Defender team participated in the takedown.
Google's Nest unveils a thermostat with a simpler design, ditching the rotating dial, available to pre-order today for $130, a $40 discount on Nest Thermostat E
The new Nest Thermostat ditches the signature rotating dial — Google's Nest smart home division has a new smart thermostat available to order starting today.
Facebook will now ban posts that deny or distort the Holocaust; Zuckerberg says his “thinking has evolved” as data shows an increase in anti-Semitic violence
Facebook is banning posts that deny or distort the Holocaust and will start directing people to authoritative sources …
Twilio confirms it is buying customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2B in an all-stock deal, expected to close in Q4 2020
Twilio today announced its biggest acquisition to date, spearheading a strong move into customer data management alongside its existing API-based tools …
Five Eyes governments as well as India and Japan make a new call for backdoors into products that are end-to-end encrypted
A number of experts have pointed to the information … Manik Berry / Fossbytes : Five Eyes, India, And Japan Want ‘Backdoor’ To End-To-End Encryption Phil Muncaster / infosecurity-magazine.com : Five E...
Facebook's ineffective content moderation efforts, unevenly enforced and handled by low-paid moderators, show it can't and doesn't have the will to fix itself
The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem? Tweets: @tonyromm , @newyorker , @kevinroose , and @brianstelter Tweets: Tony Romm / @tonyromm...
Study: Facebook likes, comments, and shares from news outlets that routinely publish misinformation roughly tripled from Q3 2016 to Q3 2020 to 1.8B interactions
During the 2016 presidential election, Russian operatives used Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media platforms …
Sources: EU is making a “hit list” of up to 20 large internet companies, likely to include Facebook and Apple, subject to tougher rules to curb market power
Brussels broadens search for extra powers to curb power of digital platforms — EU regulators are drawing up a …
Shenzhen is giving local residents 10M yuan (~$1.47M) worth of China's new sovereign digital currency through a lottery, to test and promote the digital yuan
South China Morning Post :
Snap launches a geography-specific Local Lens called City Painter as its first persistent, shareable AR experience, for London's Carnaby Street
Snap has launched its first persistent, shareable augmented reality experience on London's Carnaby Street - it's a proof of concept for a 1:1 digital copy of everything on the planet
A look at possible antitrust action against Big Tech following the release of reports from both Democrats and Republicans last week
Democrats aren't the only ones ready to rewrite the antitrust rules for internet platforms — Never in world history has one sector of the global economy risen …
China's biggest game-streaming platforms Huya and DouYu agree to merge, creating a combined company with 300M+ MAUs, representing ~80% of the Chinese market
China's two largest games live streaming companies Huya and DouYu, both of which have U.S. share listings, are to merge.
Privacy advocates warn that Amazon's Ring Always Home Cam drone and biometric payment system, Amazon One, will normalize aggressive new forms of data collection
Privacy advocates warn that the Ring Always Home Cam and Amazon One both normalize aggressive new forms of data collection. Tweets: @fightfortheftr , @avast_antivirus , and @hypervisible Tweets: @figh...
Snapdocs, which is used by ~130,000 real estate professionals to manage the mortgage process online, raises $60M Series C led by YC Continuity
Snapdocs, which is used by some 130,000 real estate professionals to digitally manage the mortgage process and other paperwork and stages related …
Bangalore-based Razorpay, which helps SMBs process and manage digital payments, raises $100M Series D co-led by GIC and Sequoia India at a valuation of $1B+
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
A look at the competition to develop new encryption standards to guard against quantum-computing attacks and replace public-key cryptography methods like RSA
Sara Castellanos / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @chrispeikert , @mchui , and @scastellwsj Tweets: Chris Peikert / @chrispeikert : The Wall Street Journal has a good overview of the ongoing #NISTPQC ...
In its trading debut, Polish e-commerce giant Allegro jumped 60%+ on Warsaw's stock exchange, the country's largest IPO ever, valuing the company at ~$17.4B
James Shotter / Financial Times :
Microsoft's beta cloud gaming service xCloud can't compete with Stadia, but it stands out with its Game Pass business model, mobile experience, and big catalog
Nick Statt / The Verge :
As the adoption of facial recognition soars in China, thanks in part to COVID-19, stolen biometric data is being sold online at alarmingly low prices
Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post :
Study: AI that detects eye diseases is mostly trained on patients in US, Europe, and China, which can make it ineffective for other racial groups and minorities
Will Knight / Wired :
CrowdTangle: unlike Facebook, liberal messaging flourishes on Instagram, with recent posts on climate change getting 20.3M interactions vs. 6.9M on Facebook
From @axios https://www.axios.com/... Bryan Walsh / @bryanrwalsh : Instagram may be the opposite of Facebook proper when it comes to politics https://www.axios.com/... Neal Rothschild / @nrothschild3 ...
A look at the key characteristics of the Julia programming language, as scientists increasingly adopt the language for tackling large-scale numerical problems
A look at Havana's SNET, the “street network” of Cuba's capital which at its peak had ~100K IP addresses, and its demise as state-run WiFi and 3G networks arise
Thailand-based logistics startup Flash Express, which operates a door-to-door pickup and delivery service, raises $200M Series D
Manish Singh / TechCrunch :
Tuber browser, which let Chinese users access banned services like YouTube and Facebook, has been blocked and removed from China's third-party Android stores
Google halts plans to launch News Showcase in Australia, says it isn't clear if the product will be viable under the country's draft News Media Bargaining code
Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg :
Interview with Amazon Halo's principal medical officer Maulik Majmudar on the fitness band, its controversial body fat and emotional tone features, and more
HomeWAV, a video visitation provider used by prisons across the US, exposed private calls of inmates with their families and attorneys, on an unprotected server
Investigation details how a hacking group called OceanLotus has been spying on Vietnamese opposition members and dissidents for years, including in Germany
BR24 : Tweets: @campuscodi , @snlyngaas , @sienaanstis , and @hatr Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : This was, by far, the best cybersecurity article published last week. It's a long read but w...
As deepfakes make their way into broadcast-quality productions, filmmakers and artists are facing new questions like how to cast the right actors for a deepfake
Live sports streaming service fuboTV raised $183M in its IPO on Thursday, valuing the company at $620.2M
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter :
Airkit, a low-code customer engagement service for DTC businesses, comes out of stealth with $28M in funding from Accel, Emergence, and Salesforce Ventures
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.