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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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Sources: US is considering blacklisting as many as five Chinese video surveillance companies, including Hikvision and Dahua Technology, from buying US tech — - Hikvision and Dahua accused of being part of Uighur crackdown — Rubio and others say they are part of a massive crackdown
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| Natalia Drozdiak / Bloomberg: |
Huawei reiterates that it has been working on its own mobile OS; sources: Huawei has been pitching app makers and European carriers on its own mobile app store — - Comments come after U.S. restricted Huawei access to market — Move threatens Huawei's partnerships with U.S. suppliers
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The “tech cold war”, escalated by recent actions against Huawei, started over a decade ago when China began restricting US services companies in its market — Tim Culpan declared at Bloomberg that The Tech Cold War Has Begun after the Trump administration barred companies viewed … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google says it stored some G Suite passwords in plaintext due to an error dating back to 2005, found another set of unhashed passwords in 2019, both now fixed — Google says a small number of its enterprise customers mistakenly had their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext.
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Federal judge rules in favor of FTC in antitrust case against Qualcomm, says its licensing practices have strangled competition in the modem chip market — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States has won the first round of litigation against Qualcomm.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Apple says the new iteration of its butterfly keyboard uses “new materials” in the switch mechanism that should reduce double- and missed-key presses — A ‘new material’ will be put into third-generation repaired keyboards — Apple is announcing an update to its keyboard repair program today.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft officially rolls out the Windows 10 May 2019 update, which includes Windows Sandbox and unified search across Windows, Office, Bing, and more — Microsoft's Windows 10 May Update/1903 is available to consumers and business customers as of today, May 21.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution, a new web technology aimed at preserving user privacy without reducing effectiveness of ad campaigns — For years, the web has been largely free thanks to online ads. The problem is that nobody likes them.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
All but the largest Apple device resellers have vanished from Amazon's marketplace six months after Apple cut a deal with the retail giant — A small online business owner from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bumstead specializes in refurbishing and selling old MacBooks, models he typically buys from recyclers and fixes up himself.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
TransferWise discloses a new $292M secondary round led by Lead Edge Capital, Lone Pine Capital, and Vitruvian Partners at a $3.5B valuation — TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service, is disclosing a new $292 million secondary round that sees investors value the company at $3.5 billion.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google and UCSD research: of the 27 hacking service providers contacted online to hijack test Gmail accounts, ten never replied and only five launched attacks — Survey of 27 hacker-for-hire services found that only five launched attacks against victims. — Hacker-for-hire services available online …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Valve launches a dedicated Steam Chat app for iOS and Android, which includes many key features of the desktop chat client such as Invite Links and Group Chats — Valve announced that the new Steam Chat mobile app has gone live as a free chat app iOS and Android platforms.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
After eight months of alpha testing, the first official version of Tor Browser for Android has been released on the Play Store — After eight months of alpha testing, Tor Browser for Android is now ready for rollout. — Today, the Tor Project released on the Google Play Store the first stable version of the Tor Browser for Android.
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| Taylor Dixon / iFixit: |
A close look at Apple's Taptic Engine and how it uses software integration and resonance to make haptic feedback feel better in its devices than the competition — In its endless quest to produce an iPhone that has even fewer physical features than the last, Apple made its iconic home button virtual …
Tweets: @bjorn, @kevinpurdy, and @ifixit
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
KaiOS, which provides the OS for feature phones from OEMs like Nokia and Jio, raises $50M led by Cathay Innovation, says 100M handsets are now powered by its OS — While Android and iOS have locked up the market for smartphone operating systems, a feature phone platform that has the distinction … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
UNESCO says AI assistants are reinforcing gender stereotypes by mostly defaulting to female-sounding voices, urges better safeguards against gendered language — Female-sounding default voices perpetuate antiquated, harmful ideas about women — Artificial intelligence-powered voice assistants …
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| Celia Wan / The Block: |
Sources: Circle has cut its $250M fundraising goal that was reported in March to $150M; the company has raised $246M to date, according to Crunchbase data — Crypto startup Circle's revised fundraising goal is 40% lower than the $250 million it was reportedly set to raise in March, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Sources: Indian ride-hailing service Ola is suspending its food delivery business and laying off ~40 employees, about 18 months after acquiring Foodpanda India — - Ola is in talks with delivery companies such as Dunzo and Zomato to relist its cloud kitchen brands| Greg Bensinger / Washington Post: |
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