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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
First American Financial's site exposed 885M files that included bank account numbers, mortgage and tax records, SSNs, wire transactions, drivers license pics — The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. [NYSE:FAF] leaked hundreds of millions …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
YouTube announces API changes that will hide live subscriber counts starting in August, sparking YouTuber protests to save analytics providers like Social Blade — Why one analytics site matters — To those outside of YouTube, Social Blade is just another analytics site that tracks subscriber growth or loss.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Q&A with PlayStation's Dominic Mallinson on the future of VR, challenges of wireless, gaze tracking tech, foveated rendering, need of content, and AR — PlayStation is winning the high-end VR battle. Sony has sold 4.2 million PlayStation VR headsets as of March, as Dominic Mallinson …
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Apple acquired Tueo Health, a small startup developing an app that works with commercial breathing sensors to help manage asthma symptoms in sleeping children — KEY POINTS — Apple bought Tueo Health, which was working on a solution to help parents monitor asthma symptoms in children using …
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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Source: Robinhood is close to raising $200M+ in new funding in a round valuing the company at $7B+; it last raised $363M in May 2018 at a valuation of $5.6B — - Round values the fintech startup at more than $7 billion — Talks with investors are ongoing and the round could grow| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Facebook decides to let the misleading Nancy Pelosi video remain on its platform indefinitely, but with a fact check, says it will limit the video's reach — Nancy Pelosi, the 79-year-old speaker of the House of Representatives, has been a frequent target for President Donald Trump and his political allies.
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| Nikkei: |
Wi-Fi Alliance, semiconductor standards body JEDEC, and SD Association suspend Huawei's membership, limiting Huawei's future ability to shape these standards — Membership limited or suspended in associations for Wi-Fi, SD cards and chips — NEW YORK/TAIPEI — Huawei Technologies … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's xCloud game streaming service, in testing among its employees, can stream 3,500+ Xbox games without developers making any changes to their titles — Still no date for public trials — Microsoft is revealing some of the more finer details about its upcoming xCloud game streaming service today.
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| David Bond / Financial Times: |
How GCHQ, the UK's intelligence service, has adapted to evolving tech and security threats and the challenges in recruiting and retaining its ~6,000 staff — Five years ago, Rob, a 38-year-old father of two, was fitting kitchens and bathrooms for a living. Now he is a digital spy.
Tweets: @hoofnagle, @hare_brain, @estherbintliff, and @djbond6873
| Olivia Carville / Bloomberg: |
Profile of the activist behind Inside Airbnb, a site that highlights illegal listings in big cities, whom Airbnb has debated with both online and in-person — Murray Cox chuckled when he was invited to a meeting with Airbnb representatives in downtown Manhattan in February.
Tweets: @hulchanski and @livcarville
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
SEC filing: Ryan Graves, Uber's first employee and first CEO, is leaving the company's board on Monday, May 27 — Ryan Graves was Uber's first full-time CEO and employee, who was last senior vice president of global operations before announcing he would step down in August 2017.| Szu Ping Chan / BBC: |
Sources: Facebook is planning to launch its own cryptocurrency and a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by Q1 2020 — Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year. — It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020.
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