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Questions arise about Bloomberg's story on China spying via tiny chips after companies' strong denials, showing the difficulties of national security reporting — Today's bombshell Bloomberg story has the internet split: either the story is right, and reporters have uncovered one of the largest …
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| Apple: |
Apple says it has never found malicious chips in its servers, calls Bloomberg reporters' claims unsubstantiated and untrue, says it is not under a gag order — The October 8, 2018 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek incorrectly reports that Apple found “malicious chips” in servers on its network in 2015.
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Elastic, a search and data analytics startup, closes up 94.4% on its first day of trading after raising $252M in its IPO and is now valued at about $4.8B — - The company offers its technology through cloud providers such as Amazon, but Amazon also represents competition.| Axios: |
Source: in a company-wide Facebook town hall, Joel Kaplan said he should have talked to Zuckerberg and Sandberg before attending Kavanaugh hearings — Top Facebook executive Joel Kaplan made an emotional appearance at a companywide town hall Friday, and admitted that he should have consulted …
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After Windows 10 October 2018 upgrade, some users are reporting problems like their files and profiles getting deleted, issues with Microsoft Store apps, more — Every time Microsoft rolls out a new Windows 10 feature update we hear of problems being encountered by early adopters …
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Sources: Sundar Pichai visited the Pentagon last week to meet reps of the DoD division that oversees Project Maven — Google chief executive Sundar Pichai quietly paid the Pentagon a visit during his trip to Washington last week, seeking to smooth over tensions roughly four months … | Stacey Higginbotham / Stacey on IoT: |
Sources: Walmart is asking companies that want to sell smart home products to make sure those products work with Google Home — Walmart is asking companies that want to sell smart home products to make sure those products work with Google Home. The retailer has instructed potential suppliers …
Tweets: @leeratliff
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms Messenger is testing voice features to dictate and send messages, initiate voice calls, and create reminders, as the app's Android code shows — Facebook Messenger could soon let you user your voice to dictate and send messages, initiate voice calls, and create reminders.
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How a Quebec IT engineer got swept up in the crypto craze and started a multimillion ponzi scheme, defrauding dozens of people after his mining strategy failed — A Quebec IT worker was certain he'd developed a foolproof way to mine bitcoin. Instead, it led him and his investors to ruin.
Tweets: @mkonnikova
| Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic: |
A look at ChuChu TV, the Chennai-based kids entertainment empire on YouTube that has 19B+ views, 29M aggregate subscribers, and adds ~40K subscribers daily — chuchu tv, the company responsible for some of the most widely viewed toddler content on YouTube, has a suitably cute origin story.| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon says it has fired an employee for sharing users' email addresses with a third-party seller, is working with law enforcement, informing affected customers — An Amazon employee was fired after sharing customers' email addresses with an unnamed third-party seller, in violation of company policies, Amazon said.
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Report: share of global venture capital captured by US has fallen from over 95% in the mid-1990s to 71% in 2012 to ~50% in 2017; India, China benefited most — Year after year, startups in U.S. cities like San Francisco, New York, and Boston continue to raise an unprecedented amount of venture capital …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Leaked documents show Macs with T2 chips must pass Apple diagnostics, which is limited to internal use by Apple, or be rendered nonfunctional after repair — Due to advanced security features of the Apple T2 chip, iMac Pro and 2018 MacBook Pro models must pass Apple diagnostics for certain repairs …
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