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Sources and leaked documents reveal Huawei partnered with a Chinese state-owned firm to help build and maintain the North Korean commercial wireless network — Huawei Technologies Co., the Chinese tech giant embroiled in President Trump's trade war with China and blacklisted as a national security threat …
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| Stacy Cowley / New York Times: |
Equifax will pay at least $650M and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal, and consumer claims over the 2017 data breach — The credit bureau Equifax will pay at least $650 million and potentially significantly more to end an array of state, federal and consumer claims …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says it will invest $1B in OpenAI, beginning a partnership to jointly develop new AI technologies for the Azure cloud platform — Microsoft today announced that it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI, the San Francisco-based AI research firm cofounded by CTO Greg Brockman …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Jeff Williams, Tim Cook's heir apparent as CEO, who is broadly regarded as a strong choice for the top job within Apple — Jeff Williams co-created the Apple Watch and runs the company's global operations. Can he also handle design—and everything else?| Derek Thompson / The Atlantic: |
As matchmaking sites surpass friends and family for finding partners, the burden of finding a partner now rests solely on the individual and can be lonesome — My maternal grandparents met through mutual friends at a summer pool party in the suburbs of Detroit shortly after World War II.
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| 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.
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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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| Robert Burnson / Bloomberg: |
Google has agreed to settle a lawsuit filed in 2015 accusing it of age discrimination in hiring, paying out $11M across 227 people who joined the class action — - Company vows to train employees, managers about discrimination — Woman who sued interviewed for job with tech titan four times| 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!| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based UVeye, which is building drive-through scanners that use AI for external inspection of vehicles, raises $31M — The race is on for the car of the future, equipped with self-driving capabilities, on-board personalised information and entertainment, and an ever-smaller carbon footprint.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sennder, which connects commercial businesses with freight carriers, raises $70M Series C led by Lakestar at a valuation in the region of $300M — Logistics and the movement of freight from point A to B (and C and beyond) is one of the more antiquated, and less-understood aspects of the world of commerce.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
David Marcus' congressional testimony shows the Libra Association may take a much more hands-on approach towards regulatory compliance than initially envisioned — Under pressure from regulators, Facebook is rethinking Libra's design. — David Marcus, the head of Facebook's new Calibra payments division … Sponsor Posts
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