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Telegram says it faced a massive DDoS attack originating from China coinciding with protests in Hong Kong, where organizers used the app to evade surveillance — The popular encrypted messaging service Telegram is once again being hit with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) …
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Tweets: @durov, @telegram, @scmpnews, @tomwarren, and @ariahychen
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google's Area 120 incubator launches Game Builder, a sandbox for people without programming skills to create 3D games, available free on Steam for Mac and PC — Area 120 is “Google's workshop for experimental projects,” and its latest prototype is Game Builder.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
With iOS 13, iPhones will be able to read NFC-enabled passports and other government IDs as well as write to NFC tags — NFC — the technology that helps to power Apple Pay as well other clever features for iOS apps like Launch Center Pro's tappable stickers - is getting a big upgrade with the launch of iOS 13, due out this fall.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Interview with Google's Mark Risher, who leads Google's Identity and Account Security teams, about new single sign-on options, including Apple's, and more — Apple shook up the world of logins last week, offering a new single sign-on (or SSO) tool aimed at collecting and sharing as little data as possible.
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CNET, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, MacDailyNews, BGR, iPhone Hacks, Security Boulevard, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @ow
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: GE Ventures has been shopping itself for several months, looking for a buyer for its portfolio of more than 100 start-ups — KEY POINTS — GE Ventures is looking for a buyer for its portfolio of more than 100 start-ups, according to people familiar with the matter …
Tweets: @dylan20, @chrissyfarr, @danielpearson, and @megancgraham
| Corbin Davenport / Android Police: |
Huawei seems to be showing lock screen ads on the P30 Pro, P20, Honor 10, P20 Pro, and others when the built-in magazine background images are used — Advertising has a time and a place, and the place is never on the lock screen of a smartphone you paid a lot of money for.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Yubico says it will replace some security keys used by US government and others due to a bug that reduces the randomness of cryptographic keys generated — Yubico staff discovers bug in YubiKey FIPS Series keys; offers replacements for affected customers. — Yubico said today it plans … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Google has quietly removed the Google Play Movies & TV app from its Daydream VR platform, instead directing users to its YouTube VR app — Senior Silicon Valley Correspondent @https://twitter.com/jank0 FOLLOW — Google has quietly removed the Google Play Movies & TV app from its Daydream VR platform.
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Kickstarter announces new recommendations and rules to discourage creators from using exaggerated claims about a product, launches a tool to flag exaggerations — No more exaggerating — Kickstarter is asking creators to stop claiming that their projects are “the world's best,” … | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $20B, though Alibaba hasn't finalized its fundraising target — - E-commerce giant is said to have put in a confidential filing — Alibaba picked CICC, Credit Suisse to lead its share sale
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Profile of Depop, a person-to-person platform for selling clothes that is popular with teens and borrows from eBay and Instagram — A crowd of teenagers waited in the sticky summer heat outside a storefront in New York's SoHo neighborhood last Friday night.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, @derfleck, and @taylorlorenz
| Nicole Hemsoth / The Next Platform: |
Mythic, an AI inference processor startup developing analog compute-in-memory tech, raises $30M Series B1, bringing the total raised to $86M — There are two trends converging in AI inference and so far, only a small number of companies are enmeshed. — The first trend takes us …
Tweets: @sr_mcdowell and @mattlynley
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
UK-based digital bank Monzo launches in the US, says it doesn't have its own US banking license and won't be lending US customers money — Monzo's mobile-only bank has helped revolutionize British spending — British mobile-only bank Monzo is making its way across the pond to the US today.
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| Emily McCormick / Yahoo Finance: |
Freelance services marketplace Fiverr closes up 89% on its first day of trading after raising $111M in its IPO — FVRR) stock rose above its initial public offering price after opening for trading Thursday, as investors scooped up shares of the latest gig-economy tech firm to hit the public markets.
Tweets: @kenwattana
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon launches $99.99 Smart Locator, a tracking device with Bluetooth, GPS, WPS, and LTE, with one year of free service and $3/month thereafter — More powerful than a Tile, but way more expensive — Verizon today launched sales of the $99.99 Verizon Smart Locator … | Gordon Gottsegen / Built In Chicago: |
Spring Labs, which uses blockchain to offer data sharing, fraud prevention, and other services to help financial institutions fight fraud, raises $23M Series A — Financial information is extremely sensitive. If bad actors get their hands on it, they can potentially ruin your life.
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PR Newswire, PYMNTS.com, and The Block
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
VMware says it is buying Avi Networks, a startup that helps companies with application delivery in the cloud, which has raised $115M, per Crunchbase — VMware has been trying to reinvent itself from a company that helps you build and manage virtual machines in your data center to one that helps …
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SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, VMware, Inc., and CRN
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
VidMob, which makes video advertising tools, raises $25M Series B led by Austin-based BuildGroup, bringing its total raised to $45M+ — Video advertising company VidMob is announcing that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding. — When I wrote about VidMob's seed funding back in 2015 …
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| Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Several ad agencies tell a federal court Facebook agreed to a settlement in a lawsuit claiming Facebook misstated video metrics by 150-900% — Facebook was alleged to have been knowingly overstating viewership by as much as 900 percent. — Several advertising agencies told … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google says it is raising the maximum filter rules limit to 150K from the current 30K in the new Chrome extensions API, giving ad blocker devs more control — Google relaxes control on new Chrome extensions API that would have crippled ad blockers. — After being ripped to shreds by angry users …
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Tweets: @bgalbs, @chromiumdev, @adam_k_levin, @rickbyers, @ideafaktory, @justinschuh, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Microsoft's xCloud and Google Stadia: they both work and they're both impressive, but they have different aims, so they are hard to compare — xCloud and Stadia are at vastly different stages of development, and aren't even directly competing right now
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Abacus and ExtremeTech
| New York Times: |
Sources: in a letter to Verizon in March, Huawei accused Verizon of violating 238 of its patents; the claims would exceed $1B in licensing fees — President Trump's dispute with China has landed on the doorstep of Verizon, with Huawei demanding that the American wireless giant pay licensing fees …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Light Reading, Inquirer, CNET, Pocketnow, KrASIA, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @marcorubio
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
SecurityScorecard, which provides a security risk monitoring platform for enterprises, raises $50M Series D led by Riverwood Capital — Cybersecurity risk-monitoring platform SecurityScorecard has raised $50 million in a series D round of funding led by Riverwood Capital …
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SecurityScorecard, SiliconANGLE, and FinSMEs
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