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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
The Apple Card, issued in partnership with Goldman Sachs, begins a preview rollout to randomly selected US customers today  —  Wide availability by the end of the month  —  Apple CEO Tim Cook said the Apple Card would arrive in August on the company's last earnings call, and here it is …
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
Microsoft says it blocked Russia-linked hacking group Fancy Bear from using compromised IoT devices to breach enterprise networks in April  —  Microsoft said it detected Strontium (APT28) targeting VoIP phones, printers, and video decoders.  —  One of Russia's elite state-sponsored hacking groups …
Michelle Nichols / Reuters:
Leaked UN report: North Korea has generated an estimated $2B using widespread and sophisticated cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges  —  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programs using …
Monica Melton / Forbes:
Cybereason, an endpoint detection and response platform, raises $200M Series E led by SoftBank at a $900M valuation  —  Cybereason, a cloud-based cybersecurity company and Forbes 2019 Next Billion-Dollar Startups honoree announced Tuesday $200 million in new funding.
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Since January, Trump's campaign has posted 2,000+ immigration-focused Facebook ads that use the word “invasion”; report suggests the ads cost $1.25M  —  Some of President Trump's re-election ads have repeated his inflammatory claims about an “invasion” on the southern border …
Aja Romano / Vox:
8chan struggles to stay up after Cloudflare quit servicing it; 8chan appears to have switched domain registrars to Epik, now hobbled by one of its own vendors
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:
IBM says cyberattacks against industrial targets have doubled in the last six months; when an enterprise is hit, 12,000+ workstations are damaged on average  —  12,000 workstations on average will be damaged in cases of destructive malware.  —  Cyberattacks designed to cause damage …
Politico:
A look at the 14 US states that used paperless voting machines in 2018, which experts say can easily be hacked, and the slow and uneven efforts to replace them  —  Paperless voting devices are a gaping weakness in the patchwork U.S. election system, security experts say.
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet:
Android Security Bulletin for August 2019 patches QualPwn bugs that could have allowed attackers to compromise devices with Qualcomm chips over a Wi-Fi network  —  Patches for the QualPwn vulnerabilities have been released earlier today by both Qualcomm and the Android team.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
TickPick, a ticket markeplace which focuses on eliminating hidden fees, raises $40M from PWP Growth Equity, says it will hit $200M in transactions in 2019  —  TickPick was founded back in 2011, but it never raised any institutional funding — until now, with the announcement of a $40 million investment from PWP Growth Equity.
Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:
Microsoft debuts Azure Security Lab, to let researchers test Azure infrastructure in a contained environment, and expands Azure bug bounty rewards up to $40K  —  Researchers can earn up to $40,000 for reporting Azure vulnerabilities.  —  Microsoft is pushing for enhanced security …

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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Sources: ABC extended Jimmy Kimmel's deal until May 2027; the deal was reached months ago, but the announcement was delayed out of respect for Stephen Colbert

Mark Kleinman / Sky News:
Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Anderson Cooper has signed a new deal with CNN

More News

Orr Hirschauge / Sifted:
Inside Israeli startup Infibond, which says it's using AI to create psychological profiles and is valued at $1.25B despite no publicly available product
Laura Bliss / CityLab:
Uber and Lyft publish research from 6 US cities, excluding NYC, that finds their cars cause less congestion than personal vehicles but impact core areas heavily
Micah Lee / The Intercept:
A deep dive into the methods used to unmask confidential sources in seven Justice Department cases against US government whistleblowers
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Antitrust experts say Amazon's practice of making items harder to find if they're priced lower on other platforms, influencing sellers, will draw scrutiny
Ari Levy / CNBC:
As US-China trade tensions rise, shares of Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook dropped between 3% and 5.2% Monday, losing a combined $162B in value

Earlier Picks

Adele Peters / Fast Company:
Google says that by 2020 all shipments going to or from customers will be carbon neutral; by 2022, all Made by Google products will include recycled materials
Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News:
YouTube removes account of Soph, a girl who attracted 800K+ subs through racist and anti-Muslim videos, after uploading an anti-LGBTQ video alluding to violence
VICE:
Sources: on Google's internal forum, a memo viewed by 10,000+ alleges retaliation by managers for being pregnant and that things got worse when HR was contacted
Davey Winder / Forbes:
Custom t-shirt and merch company CafePress appears to have been hacked in February, leaking 23M email addresses along with some mailing addresses and more
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