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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Civil rights groups concerned as FOIA request shows cities' law enforcement adopted Amazon's Rekognition facial recognition tech without prior public discourse — Amazon has been providing facial recognition tools to law enforcement agencies in Oregon and Orlando for only a few dollars a month …
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ACLU of Northern CA, The Verge, Associated Press, Motherboard, NPR, The Next Web, Engadget, Forbes, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @motherboard, @jason_koebler, @ncroal, @david_moscrop, @matt_cagle, @verge, @lizzadwoskin, and @lizzadwoskin
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
Instagram is rolling out a new feature that allows users to mute others in their feed without having to unfollow them — Instagram just announced a desperately needed feature: a mute button. … Previously, it was possible to mute someone's Stories (tap and hold their profile icon), but not their photos in your main feed.
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Instagram, VentureBeat, The Verge, and TechCrunch
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US and China reach broad outline of a deal to settle ZTE controversy that would lift US sales ban in exchange for major management changes and fines — Deal would lift the ban on U.S. companies selling components and software to ZTE — The U.S. and China have agreed on the broad outline …
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Android Authority, Reuters, 9to5Google, FierceWireless, Engadget, Gizmochina, Bloomberg, Fortune, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Hill, Seeking Alpha, Android Central, and CNBC
Tweets: @marcorubio, @stevesi, @evanperez, and @davidgura
| Politico: |
Sources: Trump has rebuffed efforts to improve security around his phone use, has gone as long as five months without having phone checked by security experts — The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.
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Ars Technica, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Mashable, Vanity Fair, 9to5Mac, TechSpot, The Guardian, BostonGlobe.com, Firstpost, iPhone Hacks, Fortune, AppleInsider, Engadget, The Verge, and Daring Fireball
Tweets: @janinezacharia and @danpfeiffer
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Google disclose Speculative Store Bypass CPU flaw that exploits speculative execution and is similar to Spectre and Meltdown — New firmware updates are on the way — Microsoft and Google are jointly disclosing a new CPU security vulnerability that's similar to the Meltdown …
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Slashdot, Intel Newsroom, AMD, PCWorld, CNET, BGR, The Next Web, US-CERT, Laptop Mag, Digital Trends, Intel, ZDNet, eWeek, Thurrott.com, Red Hat, Security Research & Defense, IBM PSIRT, The Mac Observer, Inquirer, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog, ARM Developer, On MSFT, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, BleepingComputer.com, Wired, bit-tech.net, Forbes, ZDNet, The Hacker News, Silicon Republic, BetaNews, GeekWire, gHacks Technology News, TechSpot, SecurityWeek, Softpedia News, SlashGear, SecurityWeek, Neowin, Intel, YouTube, access.redhat.com, CRN, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Schneier on Security, Axios, MacRumors, Cyberscoop, Softpedia News, iPhone Hacks, Windows Central, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, and The Register
Tweets: @redhat, @alfredwkng, @tomwarren, @tomwarren, and @bitfield
| Will Oremus / Slate: |
The scandals around LocationSmart and Securus, dealers of millions of Americans' real-time cell location data, should be a bigger deal than Cambridge Analytica — Wireless carriers are sharing your real-time location with shady third parties—and a bug lets anyone use that data to track you.| Counterpoint Research: |
Counterpoint Research: in Q1 2018, US smartphone sales dropped 11% YoY to 38.7M, yet Apple shipped a record 16M iPhones, an increase of 16% YoY — Six out of the top ten smartphone model SKUs were from Apple with iPhone 8 & X 64 GB versions the most popular.
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9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Softpedia News, and Patently Apple
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Adobe announces $1.68B deal to buy e-commerce platform Magento Commerce alongside a $8B common stock buyback program through 2021 — - Company also announces $8 billion share repurchase plan — Acquisition will help it compete against Salesforce, Oracle| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Researcher Karan Saini finds a bug in Comcast's website that leaks Xfinity users' info, including home address where the router is located and Wi-Fi credentials — Exclusive: A bug in Comcast's website leaks sensitive customer information. — A bug in Comcast's website used …
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, DSLreports, BetaNews, Cord Cutters News, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, and The Verge. Thanks:@cauchon
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram is testing a mid-feed alert that tells users they are caught up on all new posts from the past 48 hours — Without a chronological feed, it can be tough to tell if you've seen all the posts Instagram will show you. That can lead to more of the compulsive, passive …
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9to5Mac, Slate, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, Digital Trends, Firstpost, Neowin, Social Media Today, Ubergizmo, and MacRumors
Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Reuters: |
Uber plans to launch its first taxi-hailing pilot service in Japan that will connect passengers to other taxi providers; the pilot will run through March 2019 — TOKYO (Reuters) - Uber Technologies plans to launch its first taxi-hailing pilot service in Japan that will connect passengers …
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Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia, Japan Times, Ubergizmo, and Tech in Asia
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
London-based Realeyes, which uses AI and a front-facing camera to read viewers' emotions, raises $16.2M Series A led by Draper Esprit — One of the more interesting applications of AI to the world of advertising and marketing has been in how it's being used to help measure and ultimately shape campaigns.
Tweets: @ingridlunden
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft shows off how its social chat bot Xiaoice, which is in use across platforms in China, can place phone calls to humans, similar to Google's Duplex — Similar to Google Duplex, but only in China — Google demonstrated a jaw-dropping new capability in Google Assistant earlier this month …
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VentureBeat and On MSFT
| Kashmir Hill / Gizmodo: |
Inside WhiteBoxDating, the “wordpress for dating” catering to any niche, comes pre-loaded with many fake “users”, and is home to Trump.dating, NeverTrump.dating — Earlier this year, the media got very excited about Trump.dating, a site for the pro-Donald set that promised to “make dating great again.”
Tweets: @joshconstine, @cariatidaa, @mawnikr, @malwarejake, @redlightvoices, and @tedonprivacy
| Cat Ferguson / The Verge: |
In the murky world of online rehab promotion, marketers find captive audiences in addiction groups on Facebook, sometimes running groups without full disclosure — Huge groups of vulnerable people looking for help are a rehab marketer's dream — When Laurie Couch first joined the Affected … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
American Customer Satisfaction Index: customer satisfaction of streaming video services is 75% on average, far better than cable, satellite, telco TV rivals — U.S. cable and satellite TV sector falls to 11-year low on ACSI's index — This won't come as a huge shock … | Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Epic Games, maker of popular Fortnite, commits $100M over next 12 months to prize pools for the game's competitions, dwarfing other games' esports prize money — Epic Games had $100 million burning a hole in its proverbial pocket, and the company has decided to use that cash to begin building …
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BBC, The Next Web, Tom's Guide, Polygon, Windows Central, Epic Games' Fortnite, Business Insider, Ubergizmo, Forbes, The Verge, Siliconera, TechCrunch, TechSpot, VG247, Twinfinite, Fortune, Boing Boing, PC Gamer, Engadget, destructoid, GamesIndustry.biz, Ars Technica, Gamasutra, CNET, Pocket Gamer.biz, WRAL TechWire, CNBC, MSPoweruser, and Forbes
Tweets: @fortnitegame, @originpcceo, @juiceboxca, @optic_crimsix, @stewie, and @deantak
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos is adding a new star-shaped Favorites button for your own photos starting today, and a heart-shaped Like button coming next week for shared photos — Twitter swapped out its Favorite star icon for an appreciation-focused heart icon instead, but Google Photos is embracing both icons with an update rolling out now.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Comcast launches xFi Pods, its Wi-Fi extender devices nationwide, following its investment in mesh router maker Plume last year; a six pack will cost $199 — Comcast today is officially launching its own Wi-Fi extender devices called xFi Pods that help to address problems with weak Wi-Fi signals …
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ZDNet, AndroidHeadlines.com, CNET, SlashGear, and Engadget
| Billy Tallis / AnandTech: |
Intel and Micron launch their jointly-developed QLC NAND flash memory that trades write performance and endurance for lower cost — Intel and Micron are announcing today that their jointly-developed QLC NAND flash memory is now available, and Micron is now shipping the first solid state drive based …
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Intel Newsroom, Investor Relations, TechSpot, PCWorld, eWeek, SiliconANGLE, and The Tech Report
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