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| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
DOJ says that it has indicted 10 members of the criminal network that used the GozNym malware to attempt to steal an estimated $100M from 41,000+ victims — Law enforcement officials from the U.S. and some European allies say they have broken up a criminal network that used banking malware …
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U.S. Department of Justice, Europol, Security Intelligence, Digital Trends, BBC, TechCrunch, Threatpost, SiliconANGLE, The Block, Krebs on Security, Fortune, The Register, Dark Reading, Security Boulevard, Engadget, SecurityWeek, Axios, Security Affairs, Wired, BleepingComputer, Bloomberg, Mashable, The Hacker News, and CNET
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft and Sony announce a strategic partnership to explore development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure for game and content-streaming services — An unusual partnership — Microsoft and Sony are announcing an unusual partnership today, allowing the two rivals to partner on cloud-based gaming services.
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Microsoft, Windows Central, Android Authority, Metro.co.uk, Business Insider, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, Siliconera, VentureBeat, Polygon, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Gematsu, Neowin, GameSpot, Kotaku, PC Gamer, Geek.com, Destructoid, TechSpot, GamesIndustry.biz, TechCrunch, OnMSFT.com, USgamer.net, Variety, IGN, Thurrott, ZDNet, CNET, and MSPoweruser
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Sources: acceptance rates for Facebook job offers among graduates of top US schools like Stanford fell from nearly 90% in late 2016 to around 50% in early 2019 — KEY POINTS — Among top schools, Facebook's acceptance rate for full-time positions offered to new graduates has fallen …
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| Julian Chokkattu / Digital Trends: |
Tests of Verizon's 5G in Chicago on the Galaxy S10 5G show download speeds of up to 1.35 Gbps, but speeds were inconsistent, though never fell below 550 Mbps — I'm in Chicago. Again. It's my second trip to the windy city in the past month, and I don't expect it to be my last. — Why? 5G!
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
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| Theodore Schleifer / Vox: |
Sources: Quora, which has 300M+ MAUs, is raising a $60M round led by Valor Equity Partners at a valuation of $2B, and told investors it had $20M in 2018 revenue — According to some, the financing round for the question-and-answer platform speaks to the high valuation for virtually everything these days in the tech sector.| Jonathan Hillman / Axios: |
Trump's actions against Huawei limit its 5G tech in US, but Huawei continues to build or improve ~100 undersea cables; ~380 cables carry most international data — President Trump's executive order and the Commerce Department's “Entity List” create new challenges for Huawei's 5G wireless technology …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google to add the ability to save transcriptions in Live Transcribe and will include indicators for sounds like door knocks, dog barks, and phones ringing — [Clapping] — When Google released Live Transcribe this past February, it was a hugely important accessibility feature for people …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Researchers: NYPD used edited suspects' photos and photos of celebs, when witnesses said the suspects looked like them, to generate facial recognition matches — In one case, a photo of the actor Woody Harrelson was used to locate a suspect — A new report from Georgetown Law's Center …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
DJI launches the Osmo Action, an action camera that can shoot 4K videos at up to 60fps, has a 2.25" rear touchscreen and a 1.4" front display, out now for $349 — For a brief time, DJI and GoPro were partners — or at least uncomfortable allies. Way back in 2014, the companies … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: TikTok had the most App Store downloads for the fifth quarter in a row, with 33M+ in Q1; WhatsApp had the most on Google Play, with nearly 199M — Despite a $5.7 million FTC fine and changes to restrict its use by under 13-year-olds, TikTok retained its No. 1 position …
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon say they've stopped selling customer geo-location data to third parties, according to letters they all sent the FCC — Reports emerged a year ago that all the major cellular carriers in the U.S. were selling location data to third party companies … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is updating the News Feed algorithm to include data from user surveys about which links users find most worthwhile and who their closest friends are — Facebook is updating the News Feed ranking algorithm to incorporate data from surveys about who you say are your closest friends and which links you find most worthwhile.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: DoorDash is finalizing a major round that would value the food delivery app at $10B-$12B, just three months after it raised at a $7B valuation — DoorDash is finalizing a fundraising round likely to value the U.S. food delivery app between $10 billion to $12 billion after the investment … | Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Pinterest reports Q1 2019 revenue of $202M, up 54% YoY, net loss of $41.4M, down 21% YoY, global MAUs were up 22% YoY to 291M; stock down 16%+ after hours — KEY POINTS — Pinterest shares fell 15% Thursday after the company released its first-quarter 2019 earnings report, its first report as a public company.
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, and Axios
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| Becky Peterson / Business Insider: |
Freelance services marketplace Fiverr files for a US IPO, says it had losses of $36M in 2018, up from $19M in 2017 and a revenue of $75.5M in 2018, up 44.9% YoY — - Fiverr, an Israel startup backed by Bessemer and Accel, has filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Stack Overflow says hackers breached its systems on May 11 but that there is no evidence of customer data being accessed, promises more info when probe ends — Stack Overflow said it detected a security breach over the weekend. — Stack Overflow, the internet's largest Q&A site for programming …
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Stack Overflow Blog, The Hacker News, Security Affairs, SecurityWeek, TechCrunch, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @saleemrash1d, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @julianor
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
Google recently hasn't investigated high-profile leaks with its past tenacity, including leaks about Project Dragonfly and Andy Rubin's exit package — OVER THE PAST couple of years, Google employees have helped expose a steady stream of information about the company's operations.| Mark Kleinman / Sky News: |
Sources: Amazon in talks to invest a substantial amount in a $575M fundraising round in UK-based Deliveroo, bringing Deliveroo's total raised to $1.5B+ — The world's biggest internet company by market value is close to buying a stake in Deliveroo, Sky News can reveal.
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Deliveroo Foodscene, TechCrunch, CNBC, Sky News, The Guardian, BBC, The Times & The Sunday Times, and CNET
Tweets: @tomwarren, @sohear, @markkleinmansky, and @whatthebit
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Baidu reports Q1 revenue of $3.5B, up 15% YoY, and a net loss of $47.5M, its first net loss since going public in 2005; stock down 9%+ after hours — - Company's American depository receipts drop more than 7% — Board authorizes new $1 billion share repurchase program
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Baidu, South China Morning Post, TechCrunch, KrASIA, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google clarifies Works with Nest shutdown, says connections will continue to work beyond Aug. 31 until they are replicated in new Works with Assistant program — Works with Nest moves from fully dead to on life support — Google has issued a response to the criticisms of its recent announcement …
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The Keyword, SlashGear, Droid Life, Android Police, Forbes, The Register, and Android Central
Tweets: @dcseifert, @durvidimel, @canterrain, @ohmdee, @ow, @dcseifert, @jstrauss, and @ronamadeo
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher finds data of 2.25M Russian citizens available through leaky Russian government sites, including passport information and other personal details — Passport data for high-ranking Russian politicians among the leaked information. — Multiple Russian government sites have leaked … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds personalized Stories to the Explore tab which has been redesigned with shortcuts to Shopping, IGTV and channels for topics like Travel and Design — Instagram's pivot to Stories continues with an overhaul of Explore designed to let users dig deeper into their niche interests.
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Instagram, Digital Trends, Social Media Today, Thurrott, Cult of Mac, Adweek, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Engadget. Tweets: @joshconstine
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