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Commerce Dept. creates a general license, which expires Aug. 19, to restore Huawei's ability to maintain existing networks and push software updates to handsets — (Reuters) - The U.S. Commerce Department on Monday created a temporary general license restoring Huawei's ability …
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Sources: US intelligence chiefs have been briefing US tech companies since Oct. to warn them on the risks of trade with China, showing classified info to execs — US intelligence chiefs have held a series of classified briefings with American companies and other groups to warn them of the dangers …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
On the first anniversary of GDPR, Microsoft calls for a similar privacy law in the US that puts the burden on the companies that collect and use sensitive data — Microsoft's idea of a US privacy law would make it easier for people to protect their data. — The company's corporate vice president …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Two weeks after the city of Baltimore's networks suffered a ransomware attack, many of its systems remain offline, including utilities billing, phone, and email — Houses can't be sold, bills can't be paid while city networks are shuttered. — It's been nearly two weeks since the City … | Ira Boudway / Bloomberg: |
Self-driving trucks will carry mail for USPS for the first time, with autonomous truck startup TuSimple operating a two week pilot between Phoenix and Dallas — The United States Postal Service is going to put mail on self-driving trucks. — Starting on Tuesday morning …
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Sources: ByteDance, owner of TikTok, is developing a paid music service via a new app it expects to debut as early as this fall, mostly in emerging markets — - ByteDance plans to target listeners in emerging markets — Company has already secured rights from Indian record labels
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
GM is shutting down its Maven car-sharing service in 8 out of the 17 North American cities in which it operates — GM is scaling back its Maven car-sharing company and will stop service in nearly half of the 17 North American cities it operates in. — A spokesperson who confirmed Maven …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Professional gamer Tfue sues esports org FaZe Clan over allegedly “oppressive” contract, says FaZe violates CA law by acting as an unlicensed talent agency — The lawsuit could be a turning point for e-sports organizations — A new lawsuit filed against Faze Clan …
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| Bill Hanvey / New York Times: |
By not giving consumers control over performance and maintenance data collected by their cars, manufacturers can limit where cars are repaired and serviced — Vehicles collect a lot of unusual data. But who owns it? — Mr. Hanvey is president and chief executive officer of the Auto Care Association.
Tweets: @privacyproject, @nytimes, and @jathansadowski
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Facebook announces that Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift S are now shipping globally — Today marks an important moment for the VR community, as both Oculus Quest and Rift S begin shipping now! With all-in-one, fully immersive 6DOF VR, we're bringing the magic of presence to more people than ever before … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla releases Firefox 67 with performance improvements, new privacy features, cryptomining and fingerprinting protection, and more — Mozilla today launched Firefox 67 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The 10th release since Mozilla's big Firefox Quantum launch in November 2017 doubles down on performance and privacy.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google now offers three release channels and Windows Server Containers for its Kubernetes Engine — At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the bi-annual gathering of cloud-native computing boffins, Google today announced that it now offers three release channels for its Google Kuberentes Engine (GKE): Rapid, Ragular and Stable.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Ivalua, which provides spend management solutions for enterprises, raises $60M led by Tiger Global Management at a $1B+ valuation — Ivalua, a Redwood City, California-based provider of enterprise spend management tools, today announced the closure of a $60 million growth equity round …
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Source: DOJ is leaning against approving T-Mobile's takeover of Sprint because the companies' proposals don't go far enough to resolve anti-trust concerns — The Justice Department is leaning against approving T-Mobile US Inc.'s proposed takeover of Sprint Corp. because the remedies proposed …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sony says talks with Microsoft on their cloud gaming partnership began last year; source: talks began after discussions with Amazon fell through — - Talks on cloud gaming pact have been underway since last year — When Sony Corp. unveiled a cloud gaming pact with archrival Microsoft Corp., it surprised the industry.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Study: despite News Feed changes, “junk news” from known sources of disinformation in EU get 1.2x-4x the engagement of professional news sources on Facebook — A study carried out by academics at Oxford University to investigate how junk news is being shared on social media … | Thomas Germain / Consumer Reports: |
Facebook's privacy setting to opt out of face recognition technology is missing for some users, nearly 18 months after it was announced — Consumer Reports finds uneven access to the setting nearly 18 months after it was announced — Facebook users don't all have access to an important privacy setting … | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Google Glass Enterprise Edition 2 with a Snapdragon XR1 chip, an improved 8MP camera, and ~8 hours of battery life; orders open today for $999 — Six years after Google Glass was unveiled, it goes without saying that the first major augmented reality headset wasn't the massive success …
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Alphabet's Verily announces partnerships with big pharma firms Novartis, Sanofi, Otsuka, and Pfizer as it moves into the clinical trials space — KEY POINTS — Pharma companies are looking to work with Verily, which is part of the Alphabet umbrella, as they try to find ways to modernize … Thanks:@chrissyfarr
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Marqeta, which provides payment card services to third-parties like Square and Instacart, raises $260M Series E led by Coatue Management at a ~$2B valuation — Startups that are disrupting and unlocking the lucrative world of financial services continue to unlock big fund funding rounds for themselves.| FinSMEs: |
Modulr, which provides a Payments as a Service API platform for digital businesses, raises £14M led by Frog Capital, bringing its total raised to £24.5M — Modulr, a London and Edinburgh, UK-based Payments as a Service API Platform for digital businesses, raised £14m in funding.
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| Lindsey O'Donnell / Threatpost: |
Q&A with Daniel Gruss, one of the researchers who discovered Spectre and Meltdown, on discovering the new side-channel flaw ZombieLoad and why it has that name — The release of a new speculative execution vulnerability called ZombieLoad last week follows a similar disclosure path as Meltdown and Spectre.
Tweets: @e_kaspersky and @mcclure111
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says its Edge for Mac browser is now available in preview, starting with daily canary builds for macOS 10.12 and above — Daily Canary builds available at first — Microsoft teased its Edge browser for macOS earlier this month, and now the company is officially allowing Mac users to download a preview version.
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