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Intel unveils 10th-gen Comet Lake CPUs with up to 6 cores for thin and light laptops, based on its Skylake CPU architecture and 14nm process — Capping off a busy few weeks for processors for Intel, today the company is announcing the second half of their product stack for their low-power 10th generation Core processors.
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| Amrita Khalid / Engadget: |
Google and Mozilla say they will block the root certificate issued by the Kazakhstan government, which could be used to monitor users, in Chrome and Firefox — Google and Mozilla are taking action against the government of Kazakhstan's efforts to launch a surveillance operation against its own citizens.
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The Mozilla Blog, ZDNet, TechCrunch, Reuters, BBC, Google Online Security Blog, CNET, Axios, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, Neowin, VICE, VentureBeat, SecurityWeek, IT PRO, Wired, and The Hacker News. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post: |
Facebook's conservative bias “audit” draws criticism from both sides after relying on interviews with 130 unnamed conservatives over internal data — Neither Republicans nor civil rights groups are happy.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
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Apple is delaying its plans to limit third-party tracking and ads in kids' apps, which it planned to implement in Sept., after some developers raised concerns — Apple plans to change the rules it has for kids apps, raising concerns among some app developers about the way the tech giant wields power unilaterally over its App Store.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Waymo releases a self-driving open data set with 1,000 segments of 20-second footage in a range of driving conditions, free for non-commercial research — Waymo is opening up its significant stores of autonomous driving data with a new ‘Open Data Set’ it's making available for the purposes of research.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
LinkedIn says it blocked or removed 21.6M fake accounts in the first half 2019, of which 19.5M were blocked at the registration stage — LinkedIn blocked or removed 21.6 million fake accounts on its platform from January to June of this year, a sign that the Microsoft-owned social network …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says it has started rolling out AI-powered real-time spelling and grammar check features on Gmail for all G Suite users — Ever been stumped by spelling or sentence syntax while pecking out an email to colleagues? Fortunately for G Suite users, Google will soon introduce improved spelling … | Reuters: |
Sources: Alibaba has delayed its up to $15B listing in Hong Kong, initially set to launch in late August, amid growing political unrest — HONG KONG/NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has delayed its up to $15 billion listing …
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A roundup of the 82 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Day 2, including logistics, e-commerce, real estate, and crypto startups — Team TechCrunch was back for Day 2 of Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Days where we heard from another massive chunk of startups … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Adult website Luscious left data of 1M+ users exposed, including user email addresses, location data, the content they uploaded, liked, and shared — A popular hentai porn site that promises anonymity to its 1.1 million users left a user database exposed without a password, allowing anyone to identify users by their email addresses.
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vpnMentor, Threatpost, TechSpot, The Daily Dot, Mashable, Forbes, ZDNet, CNET, Gizmodo, Silicon Republic, and IT PRO. Tweets: @zackwhittaker
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
YouTube says it is shutting down its Messages feature for mobile and web, introduced in 2017, to encourage usage of posts, comments, and stories — In August 2017, YouTube introduced a “Messages” feature for its mobile apps and later the web. Two years later, the Google video site announced …
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Android Police, XDA Developers, TechCrunch, Phandroid, Android Authority, Android Central, and Engadget. Tweets: @martinsfp
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Amazon says it is opening an office in Hyderabad, India, which will house over 15,000 employees, making it the company's biggest campus in the world — HYDERABAD (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday launched its biggest campus in the world in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad …
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Box unveils Box Shield, a set of native security controls with machine learning-powered threat detection for customers' cloud content, in private beta — With Box Shield, customers get machine learning-powered threat detection, as well as the ability to set classification-based security policies.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple Music launches a new chart, the Shazam Discovery Top 50, powered by Shazam data and featuring songs trending in the US and 10+ other countries — Apple continues to make use of Shazam, the music recognition app it acquired for $400 million in 2018. Earlier this month … | TechCrunch: |
DoorDash buys Scotty Labs, which raised $6M in VC funding to help remotely control self-driving cars, quietly hires co-founders of high precision map maker Lvl5 — DoorDash has been on an acquisition tear of late with Scotty Labs as its latest target. Terms of the deal were not disclosed … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
RubyGems team found a backdoor in 11 Ruby libraries, including rest-client, that could leak data and issue commands remotely, say it was abused for cryptomining — RubyGems staff have removed 18 malicious Ruby library versions that have been downloaded 3,584 times since July 8.
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Decrypt, GitHub, Ars Technica, SecurityWeek, The Register, and GitHub
Tweets: @catnap707 and @geeknik
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
After announcing the Clear History privacy tool over a year ago, Facebook finally begins rolling it out in Ireland, South Korea, and Spain — But the United States isn't one of them — It was nearly a year and a half ago that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, standing onstage …
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Tweets: @lmatsakis, @fbnewsroom, @hshaban, @neerajka, @anniegaus, @mikeisaac, @itsnicolenguyen, @geoffreyfowler, @kashhill, @gcluley, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Go, the lightweight search app that takes up only ~7MB of phone storage, launches to Android users worldwide, is optimized to save about 40% on data — Google Go, a lightweight version of Google's search app, is today becoming available to all Android users worldwide.
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The Keyword, 9to5Google, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Phandroid, Firstpost Tech, BGR, Telecoms.com, XDA Developers, Android Authority, Search Engine Journal, CNET, VentureBeat, and Engadget
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