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Malware spreading in recent outbreak is not ransomware, as “Petya” had been altered to wipe and destroy system memory, suggesting a nation state was behind it — Ransomware-as-a-service soon to be renamed Lure-as-a-Service — TL;DR: The ransomware was a lure for the media …
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Canada's top court rules that Google can be compelled by lower courts to remove search results worldwide, causing concern among civil liberties groups — The Supreme Court of Canada ruled against Google on Wednesday in a closely-watched intellectual property case over whether judges can apply …
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
In filing, Uber suggests Levandowski downloaded Waymo IP as negotiating tactic for $120M bonus, reasserts that Kalanick told him to not share IP on disks — Uber laid out new details in a court filing today about how it learned the former lead of its self-driving car unit, Anthony Levandowski …
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Google Photos begins rolling out new suggested sharing features, including dedicated in-app sharing tab and optional automatic sharing — Google is now starting to roll out the major new sharing features announced for Google Photos last month. — The update adds a dedicated “sharing” …
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Google officially debuts its internal Area 120 startup incubator and announces a VR advertising project called Advr aimed at testing formats — Google today is more formally taking the wraps off its internal incubator, Area 120, with the launch of a dedicated website, alongside the launch … | Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
Internal documents show how Facebook polices speech, at times unfairly punishing and censoring black users or those in disputed territories like Palestine — In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of “radicalized” Muslims.
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Interview with Lyft's John Zimmer on its culture, values, marketing strategy, and the firm's refusal to gloat over Uber's escalating woes, more — It has been a rough, scandal-filled year for Uber. But don't expect John Zimmer, Lyft's president, to gloat about his competitor's misfortunes.| Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
Sources: Andy Rubin-backed AR gaming glasses startup CastAR shuts down, lays off about 70 and is liquidating assets — About 70 employees laid off, Eat Sleep Play shuttered — PIN — CastAR, the augmented reality start-up co-created by two former Valve employees, laid off its staff … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
iOS 11 on iPad Pro falls short of being a laptop replacement due to lack of precise pointer input, but side-by-side view and multitasking are getting better — Apple introduced some major changes to the iPad with its iOS 11 beta earlier this week. While you can use the iPad just as you've always …
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Twitch says its mobile app has been installed 83M+ times and will update in early July with live streaming, its social feed Twitch Pulse, and dark mode theme — Amazon-owned game-streaming site Twitch today announced a series of changes coming soon to its mobile application …
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A look at “new-collar” tech-focused jobs, supported by big firms like Microsoft and IBM, that aim to provide skills to workers without college degrees in the US — ROCKET CENTER, W.Va. — A few years ago, Sean Bridges lived with his mother, Linda, in Wiley Ford …
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Google News unveils desktop redesign that highlights fact checking sites, streamlines design, and offers more personalization — “To give them that multitude of facts, voices, and perspectives, you want the UI to disappear and not be a sense of overload or cognitive load on them but just be transparent."
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