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Leaked memo: ARM has told staff it must suspend business, including all active contracts, support entitlements, and pending engagements, with Huawei — UK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.
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| New York Times: |
Google says around 25% of calls placed using its Duplex AI service started with a human; calls to ~12 restaurants found people made 3 of 4 successful bookings — In a free service, bots call restaurants and make reservations. The technology is impressive, except for when the caller is actually a person.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution, aimed at preserving user privacy without reducing effectiveness of ads, coming soon to Safari — For years, the web has been largely free thanks to online ads. The problem is that nobody likes them. When they're not obnoxiously taking …
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Federal judge rules in favor of FTC in antitrust case against Qualcomm, says its licensing practices for modem chips have strangled competition; stock drops 10% — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States has won the first round of litigation against Qualcomm.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Software maker Panic unveils Playdate, a Game Boy-like device with a hand crank control and 12 bundled games released over time, coming in 2020 for $149 — Little, yellow, different — Panic made its name through high-end Mac software, but more recently, the company moved into gaming …
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| Keith Barry / Consumer Reports: |
Testing finds Tesla's updated Autopilot software, designed to make changing lanes “more seamless”, does not work well and could create safety risks for drivers — CR finds that latest version of Tesla's automatic lane-changing feature is far less competent than a human driver
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google begins rolling out an updated mobile search design with a black “ad” label and favicons for all organic results — The new look brings some branding to the search results, and preps the mobile search for more types of content and actions for users to take right from the search results.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Amazon shareholders reject two non-binding proposals to ban sale of facial recognition tech to government customers, despite pressure from ACLU and others — Amazon shareholders have rejected two proposals that would have requested the company not to sell its facial recognition technology to government customers.
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Researcher shares zero-day Windows 10 local privilege escalation exploit that grants full control over files reserved for full-privilege users — A Windows zero-day exploit dropped by developer SandboxEscaper would allow local privilege-escalation (LPE), by importing legacy tasks from other systems into the Task Scheduler utility.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Ireland's Data Protection Commission, the lead EU supervisory authority for Google, announces investigation into Google's online advertising data collection — KEY POINTS — Ireland's Data Protection Commission says its probe will examine whether Google's processing of data in advertising transactions breaches EU privacy rules.
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| Alastair Marsh / Bloomberg: |
Source: Block.one, which raised ~$4B in its ICO, has made $174M in VC investments and bought back 10% of its stock, rewarding early investors like Peter Thiel — Billionaire moneymen Peter Thiel, Alan Howard and Louis Bacon have seen plenty of big paydays—but probably none as unusual as this one.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Instawork, a platform that connects hospitality workers with employers, raises $18M round led by Spark Capital, GV, and Burst Capital to expand across the US — More than a third of U.S. workers — about 57 million people — are part of the so-called gig workforce, according to a recent Gallup poll.| Michael Novinson / CRN: |
Google says it's experiencing indexing issues that may cause stale search results; users searching for fresh news from sites including NYT or WSJ get no results — The bug has prevented new content from being indexed in Google search results, and is most obvious when using the ‘past hour’ search filter.
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Search Engine Land, 9to5Google, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Journal, Android Police, and SlashGear. Tweets: @googlewmc. Thanks:@davharris
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher: devices can be tracked across apps and sites with info from sensors like gyroscope; patched on iOS; a minor issue on Android, given poor calibration — SensorID technique can track users across apps and websites using sensor calibration data. — A new device fingerprinting technique …
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Schneier on Security, The Register, Light Blue Touchpaper, Boing Boing, Graham Cluley, and SecurityWeek
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| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
Indiegogo CEO and President David Mandelbrot steps down, citing personal reasons, will be replaced by Andy Yang, former Reddit core product lead and 500px CEO — Reddit's Andy Yang takes over — David Mandelbrot is out as CEO of crowdfunding site Indiegogo, citing “personal reasons” in his farewell LinkedIn post.| Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times: |
Deutsche Bank says a software glitch has, for almost a decade, prevented some potentially suspicious transactions from being flagged to law enforcement — A software glitch at Deutsche Bank has for almost a decade prevented some potentially suspicious transactions from being flagged …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Transport for London says it will roll out default WiFi device tracking on the Underground this summer, after a trial in 2016, to improve analytics and more — Transport for London will roll out default wi-fi device tracking on the London Underground this summer, following a trial back in 2016.
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