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Google will pay a $136M fine to the FTC and $34M to the New York Attorney General to settle claims that it violated child privacy laws on YouTube — - Google marketed itself as the “leader” for content for children ages 6 through 11, the allegations claim.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Google's FTC settlement, essentially a rounding error, shows the US political system and its outdated laws aren't ready to rein in powerful tech companies — YouTube will pay $170 million to settle charges it violated kids' privacy and a 1998 law. That's a pittance.| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Web browser Brave hands evidence to Irish data regulator alleging Google uses hidden webpages to pass personal data of users to advertisers, undercutting GDPR — Google is secretly using hidden web pages that feed the personal data of its users to advertisers, undermining its own policies …
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| Michael Zelenko / The Verge: |
A look at the newly announced Light Phone 2, a $350 stripped back feature phone with an E Ink display, and how the company learned from the first generation — The Light Phone returns with many aspirations and not too many features — Released in the spring of 2017 …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Unsecured database found with 419M+ records, each with Facebook ID and account's phone number, some with users' names; FB says info was scraped over a year ago — Hundreds of millions of phone numbers linked to Facebook accounts have been found online. — The exposed server contained … | Zachary Fryer-Biggs / The Atlantic: |
How the Pentagon is laying the groundwork for AI-powered weapons systems capable of taking lethal action without direct human input — Wallops Island—a remote, marshy spit of land along the eastern shore of Virginia, near a famed national refuge for horses—is mostly known as a launch site for government and private rockets.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Asus announces ROG Phone II Ultimate Edition with 1TB storage, Snapdragon 855 Plus, 6.59-inch 1080p OLED display, and 6,000mAh battery, for €1,199 — Just think of all the Android games you could take everywhere — Asus' ROG Phone II is already a flagship Android phone worth getting excited …
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Allen Institute for AI unveils Aristo, a system that scored 90% on an eighth-grade science test and 80% on a 12th-grade exam, a breakthrough for AI research — SAN FRANCISCO — Four years ago, more than 700 computer scientists competed in a contest to build artificial intelligence that could pass an eighth-grade science test.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Acer unveils Pro versions of its ConceptD laptops for creative professionals with Nvidia Quadro RTX graphics cards, available in November starting at $1,700 — Gallery: Acer ConceptD 3 hands-on | 7 Photos … Gallery: Acer Swift 5 hands-on IFA 2019 | 13 Photos
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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Amazon announces over 20 Fire TV-branded devices, including a new Fire TV Cube and an Anker-made soundbar, as the company seeks to compete with Roku and others — The posts have been deleted, but the info is out — Amazon looks set to release a new Fire TV Cube and a host of new …
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Razer updates Blade Stealth ultrabook gaming line with Intel 10th-gen CPUs, Nvidia GTX 1650, 16GB DDR4 RAM, starting at $1,500, available end of September — For years, Razer has been chasing the specter of a truly ultraportable gaming laptop with its Blade Stealth line …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Source: Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft held a daylong meeting with US government officials over 2020 election security at Facebook's HQ — Facebook, Google, Twitter and Microsoft met with government officials in Silicon Valley on Wednesday to discuss and coordinate on how best … | John Koetsier / Forbes: |
The downloads of Bridgefy's Bluetooth-based messaging app, which uses a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network, have spiked amid protests in Hong Kong — John Koetsier is a journalist, analyst, author, and speaker. — How do you communicate when the government censors the internet?| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Basecamp CEO: Google's practice of letting rivals pay for ads that appear ahead of their brand in organic results is a shakedown and like paying ransom — - The CEO of web-based project management tool company Basecamp sounds off on Google's search ad practices in a now-viral tweet.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Medical groups say the new federal data-sharing rules, allowing patients to access health records through apps, lack strong data protections to preserve privacy — Americans may soon be able to get their medical records through smartphone apps as easily as they order takeout food from Seamless or catch a ride from Lyft.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 69 arrives and now blocks third-party tracking cookies, fingerprinting, and cryptomining by default — Mozilla today launched Firefox 69 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Firefox 69 blocks third-party tracking cookies and cryptomining by default.
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