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DOJ charges Julian Assange with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for allegedly assisting Chelsea Manning in an attempt to crack a DOD password — For years, it has been publicly reported that Julian Assange offered to help Chelsea Manning break into a classified computer system.
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Sources describe Amazon Alexa's AI-training process, where workers transcribing voice clips see customer account numbers and hear private conversations — Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
In his annual shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos challenges retail rivals to match or raise their minimum wage above Amazon's $15 per hour — Target plans to move to $15 per hour by end of 2020 while Walmart lags behind at $11 an hour — In his annual letter to shareholders …
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Apple says it now has 44 suppliers, including Foxconn and TSMC, that have committed to run their Apple production on 100% clean energy — Company Spends $2.5 Billion in Environmental Initiatives — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced it has nearly doubled the number of suppliers … | Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
Interviews with Wisconsin residents about Foxconn's slow progress with its investments in the state seem to indicate Foxconn has no idea what it's doing — Last summer, Foxconn announced a barrage of new projects in Wisconsin — so we went looking for them| CNN: |
Sources: Bezos to meet with federal prosecutors, signaling an escalation of the inquiry into whether Saudi Arabia gained private information from his phone — (CNN)Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is scheduled to meet with federal prosecutors in New York as soon as this week, according to people familiar with the matter.| CNN: |
MIT grad student Katie Bouman helped develop the imaging algorithm for the Event Horizon Telescope that captured the first picture of a black hole — (CNN)Imagine trying to take a photo of an orange that's on the moon with your smartphone. It seems impossible.
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Dutch antitrust authority will examine whether Apple abuses a dominant market position by giving preferential treatment to its own apps, may widen it to Google — - Probe focuses on Apple and news apps, may be widened to Google — EU is separately weighing Spotify complaint on Apple| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Currents in beta as its enterprise replacement for Google+, the second time an app has been named Google Currents — With Google killing its social network for consumers and brands last week, the service is now solely focussed on enterprise customers.
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Coinbase launches Coinbase Card, a Visa debit card for UK customers to spend cryptocurrencies in-store and online, will expand to other EU countries in months — When you buy cryptocurrencies on Coinbase, many users simply don't know what to do with them. Customers in the U.K …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Security researchers disclose Dragonblood, a group of vulnerabilities impacting WiFi Alliance's recently launched WPA3 WiFi security and authentication standard — Dragonblood vulnerability discovered by the same security researcher who discovered the KRACK attack on WPA2.
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Ars Technica, Wi-Fi Alliance, Gizmodo, Forbes, WeLiveSecurity, SecurityWeek, and BleepingComputer. Tweets: @thehackersnews
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Lemonade, which uses an AI-powered bot to digitize the insurance buying experience for renters and homeowners, raises $300M Series D led by the SoftBank Group — Lemonade, the insurance startup founded by Daniel Schreiber and Shai Wininger, has today announced a $300 million Series D financing led …
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Triplebyte, which offers personalized online coding tests and technical interviews to help employers screen candidates, raises $35M Series B — LinkedIn, with nearly 600 million users, dominates the market today for recruiters headhunting suitable candidates for knowledge worker roles.| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Democratic senators propose the Algorithmic Accountability Act, which would require large companies to audit machine learning-powered systems for bias — US lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require large companies to audit machine learning-powered systems — like facial recognition or ad targeting algorithms — for bias.| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
The Pentagon says Amazon and Microsoft are the final candidates for its $10B JEDI contract and that IBM and Oracle didn't meet the minimum requirements — The Pentagon said Wednesday that Amazon and Microsoft were the final candidates for a hotly contested $10 billion contract to bring modern cloud computing to the Defense Department.
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A brief look at why most programming languages are based on English and why on a technical level it doesn't have to be that way — THIS YEAR MARKS the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web, so there's been a lot of pixels spilled on “the initial promises of the web”—one of which was the idea …
Tweets: @vrandezo, @wired, @janesolomon, and @hegenderfer
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Armis, which helps companies protect IoT devices on their networks, raises $65M Series C led by Sequoia Capital, bringing its total raised to $112M — Armis is helping companies protect IoT devices on the network without using an agent, and it's apparently a problem that is resonating with the market … | Stephen J. Dubner / Freakonomics: |
Interview with Daniel Ek about Spotify's history, running a $25B company, Sweden's subsidies for internet and computers, Napster, his love of music, and family — Listen now: — Daniel Ek, a 23-year-old Swede who grew up on pirated music, made the record labels an offer they couldn't refuse …
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Disney is expected to reveal details of its Disney+ streaming service, reportedly launching in November, in a presentation to investors on Thursday — The entertainment giant rose to the top of Hollywood on the strength of its ability to pack movie theaters and theme parks.| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Affectiva, which uses AI for detecting emotion in vehicle passengers for safety, raises $26M led by automotive supplier Aptiv, bringing total raised to $53M — Affectiva today announced the close of a $26 million funding round to advance its emotion and object detection AI for monitoring vehicle passengers.
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Instagram says it will demote posts that are “inappropriate” but do not go against its Community Guidelines by not showing them in Explore or hashtag pages — Instagram is home to plenty of scantily-clad models and edgy memes that may start to get fewer views starting today.
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