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UK's ICO fines British Airways a record £183M fine for the data breach in 2018 that affected ~500K customers — British Airways is facing a record fine of £183m for last year's breach of its security systems. — The airline, owned by IAG, says it is “surprised and disappointed” …
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
FBI and ICE have access to 641M photos including driver's license photos from 21 states for facial recognition searches, internal docs and GAO report show — A cache of records shared with The Washington Post reveals that agents are scanning millions of Americans' faces without their knowledge or consent.
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New York Times, BBC, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Register, E Pluribus Unum, Firstpost Tech, ZDNet, Security Boulevard, SiliconANGLE, Telecoms.com, The Daily Dot, CNET, TechSpot, Engadget, and The Hill
Tweets: @nytimes, @virtuallybeth, @spytalker, @anncoulter, @annamerlan, @raicestexas, @someday_deane, @alvarombedoya, @burritojustice, and @timkmak
| Oliver Darcy / CNN: |
Sources: White House has not invited Facebook and Twitter to attend its “social media summit”, to be held on Thursday — (CNN)The White House has not extended invitations to Facebook and Twitter to attend its social media summit on Thursday, people familiar with the matter said.
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Axios, CNET, TechCrunch, Business Insider, The Hill, Firstpost Tech, Gizmodo, Engadget, and Politico. Tweets: @parkermolloy
| Bloomberg: |
Sources detail how Facebook tracked and fought hoaxes about itself using a tool called Stormchaser; Facebook says it stopped using the tool in mid-2018 — Polling data and secretive projects - ‘Stormchaser’ and 'Night's Watch' - helped the social media giant track public sentiment, and respond to it
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Business Insider and Engadget
Tweets: @cwarzel, @kurtwagner8, @rmac18, @timmarchman, @joshconstine, @kevinroose, @sarahfrier, @mattnavarra, @martinsfp, and @markdistef
| Frances Robles / New York Times: |
Inside the malware attack on Lake City, Florida, which paid ~$460K to free 16TB of data, including more than 100 years' worth of municipal records — LAKE CITY, Fla. — Audrey Sikes, city clerk of Lake City, Fla., has a thing for documents: She does not like losing them.| Angel Au-Yeung / Forbes: |
Sources describe a toxic work environment at Bumble co-founder Andrey Andreev's other dating app, Badoo, which has 60M users and shares London HQ with Bumble — Even for an afternoon business meeting, Andrey Andreev, the world's top online dating tycoon, dresses like he's headed to a nightclub …
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Business Insider. Tweets: @mcgrathmag, @angelauyeung, @kerrylauerman, @angelauyeung, @themoko, and @joshconstine
| AnandTech: |
AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen 3700X and 3900X CPU review: best performance for Office and web scenarios with heavy multithreading, lag behind Intel for gaming performance — It's the review we've all been waiting for. Since December last year - and particularly since CES - AMD has been teasing us …
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Tom's Hardware, Digital Trends, AnandTech, PCMag, Forbes, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, BetaNews, PC Gamer, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, ExtremeTech, and PCWorld
| Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg: |
Report: VC investments in China tumbled 77% YoY to $9.4B in Q2 this year, while the number of deals roughly halved to 692, amid concerns about a trade war — - Value of venture deals in the country plummets 77% in quarter — Deals had surged to almost the same level as the U.S. in 2018
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
15Five, which builds software and services to facilitate employee self-evaluations, raises $30.7M Series B, bringing its total raised to $42.6M — Technology has been used to improve many of the processes that we use to get work done. But today, a startup has raised funding to build tech to improve us, the workers.
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PRWeb, FinSMEs, VentureBeat, Xconomy, and SiliconANGLE
| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
A member of The Scene, an infamous piracy group, details how content from streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon is pirated — In recent weeks, TF was able to speak to a member of The Scene, the shadowy network of individuals and groups sitting right at the apex of the so-called ‘piracy pyramid’.
Tweets: @manan
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Researchers: 1300+ Android apps were gathering location data even when permission was denied; Google says it will address the issue in Android Q later this year — Permissions on Android apps are intended to be gatekeepers for how much data your device gives up.
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USENIX and KnowTechie
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Sony Xperia 1 review: the 6.5" 21:9 4K screen is big enough for content and narrow enough to hold comfortably but is too dim, and the phone is too expensive — Sony's best phone yet still isn't worth the price — You can immediately see what Sony is going for with the new Xperia 1 just by looking at it.
Tweets: @backlon
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Soldo, which offers multi-user spending accounts for businesses, raises $61M Series B led by Battery Ventures and Dawn Capital — Soldo, the U.K. fintech that offers a multi-user spending account for businesses, has closed $61 million in Series B funding.
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SiliconANGLE, PaymentsSource, EU-Startups, Silicon Republic, FinSMEs, and Crowdfund Insider. Tweets: @dawncapital
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