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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Report details the activities of Apple's New Product Security team, created after a major iPhone 5c leak, which is now increasing focus on CAD schematics leaks — An article from the Information today covers a breakdown of the lengths that factory workers have gone to get parts of unreleased iPhones …
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| Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
A new set of Pixel 4 leaked images and a series of renders show it will have a large forehead bezel for a variety of sensors and front-facing cameras — A lot of space to cover up — A new set of leaked images of Google's forthcoming Pixel 4 smartphone have surfaced on the web …
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| Andy Newman / New York Times: |
A reporter describes his and others' experiences delivering food on bikes for apps like Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Postmates in New York City — I had just started my lunch shift when the phone pinged: Uber Eats, pickup at Cocina del Sur on West 38th Street in Manhattan, five blocks away. Great!| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Confiant: two Hong Kong-based firms have been responsible for malicious ads with 100M+ impressions in 2019, including many shown via Microsoft's Windows 10 apps — Security firm tracks down malvertiser who deployed malicious ads in Outlook, Microsoft games, and the Microsoft News app.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Area 120 debuts Byteboard, a job interview tool that lets candidates choose their coding environment and work on projects from design to implementation — Area 120, Google's lab for experimental projects, is launching Byteboard today, a new tool that aims to make the technical … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Hackers breached SyTech, a contractor for Russia's FSB, and stole 7.5TB of data about its projects for the agency, including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic — SyTech, the hacked company, was working on research projects for the FSB, Russia's intelligence service.
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| South China Morning Post: |
A look at gallium nitride, a compound that can replace silicon in chips and is key to miniaturizing 5G tech; China controls 95% of gallium's global supply — China accounts for 95 per cent of the global supply of the soft, bluish metal Huawei has filed for more than 2,000 patents related …
Tweets: @scmpnews
| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
European Commission changes its mind on the .eu domain again, now says it will allow citizens of EU countries resident in the UK to use it after Brexit — Your periodic reminder that there was maybe a reason so many people voted to leave — The European Commission has, yet again … | Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: |
Google and plaintiffs agree on a $13M settlement in a 2010 class action over Google Street View's collection of personal info from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks — - Settlement will close the books on a scandal from a decade ago — Money to go to privacy groups instead of Wi-Fi network owners| Louise Lucas / Financial Times: |
Analysis of factors that have slowed the tech boom in China, where VC deals in the IT sector have declined from a peak of $26.4B in Q2 2018 to $2.2B in Q2 2019 — From Xiamen to Shanghai mass graveyards of dirty bikes, all twisted frames and busted axles and handlebars … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Lyft deployed its dockless e-bikes in SF on Friday, after the city granted it an interim permit; Lyft sued SF in June alleging exclusivity contract violations — When tech companies sue cities, it's rare to see a resolution — albeit a temporary one — in favor of the tech company happen so quickly, if at all.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Zefr sells its video rights-management tech, RightsID and ChannelID, to Vobile in ~$90M deal and will refocus on its contextual-advertising service for YouTube — Vobile Group, a video protection and measurement company, announced a deal to acquire Zefr's RightsID copyright-management … Sponsor Posts
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