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| Gwyn Topham / The Guardian: |
TfL says Uber's London license will not be renewed after it identified risks in Uber's system that allowed drivers to fake their identity; some were unlicensed — Ride-hailing service to continue while it appeals against Transport for London decision — Uber has lost its licence …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook launches Viewpoints, a market research app that pays users for completing surveys, research, and other tasks, for users in the US — Facebook is once again offering a market research app, but this one appears to avoid some of the privacy concerns from before.
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| Bloomberg: |
Memo: Google fires four employees, citing data-security violations, amid rising tension between management and staff — - Move comes after worker protests and union organizing — Google told staff on Monday that it fired four employees for what the company called “clear and repeated violations” of its data-security policies.
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| Bryan Menegus / Gizmodo: |
Leaked Amazon injury reports show one of its NY warehouses has a very high incident rate score of 15.19 in 2018, versus an average of 6.1 for sawmills in the US — Since opening in September 2018, Amazon's massive fulfillment center on New York's Staten Island has garnered a reputation …
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| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
Transcribers for Rev say they are exposed to troubling material, including violent police recordings and descriptions of child abuse, often with no warning — Violent police recordings, descriptions of child abuse, and graphic medical videos have appeared without warning, transcribers say
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| Elly Cosgrove / CNBC: |
eBay to sell StubHub to Swiss ticket resale marketplace Viagogo for about $4.05B in cash — - The sale is expected to close by the end of the first quarter of 2020, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions. — Tickets are offered for sale through StubHub in Chicago, Illinois.
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
WI-based IT company VCPI, which services ~80,000 computers across ~110 nursing homes in the US, is hit by a ransomware attack and is not paying the $14M ransom — A ransomware outbreak has besieged a Wisconsin based IT company that provides cloud data hosting, security and access management … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Omni, which raised $35M, shutters after failing to work out the economics of equipment rentals and physical on-demand storage; Coinbase hires 10 Omni engineers — $35 million-funded Omni is packing up and shutting down after struggling to make the economics of equipment rentals and physical on-demand storage work out.| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover raises $10M for a second Weekend Fund to back early-stage companies — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Six years since founding product discovery site Product Hunt, Ryan Hoover says he isn't planning to step away anytime soon.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon brings Alexa to AWS IoT Core devices, lowering requirements for microprocessor type and RAM, now 1MB instead of 100MB, by offloading tasks to AWS — Amazon's annual AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas — where the tech giant reliably announces a host of products heading to Amazon Web Services …
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| Ian Sample / The Guardian: |
150+ orgs, including Google and Facebook, back Tim Berners-Lee's Contract for the Web, pledging to guard the web from abuse or face removal from supporter list — Inventor of web calls on governments and firms to safeguard it from abuse and ensure it benefits humanity
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| AnandTech: |
Review of AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X and 3970X, with 24/32 Cores on 7nm: they beat Intel chips across many benchmarks, especially on parallel computing tasks — One of the constant themes of 2019 has been to ask AMD employees about the future of its Threadripper line of products.Thanks:@anandtech
| Filip Piekniewski / Piekniewski's blog: |
A skeptical overview of AI-related news and grandiose PR, from self-driving ventures to orgs focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI), like OpenAI — It's been 7 months since my last commentary on the field, and as it became regular appearance in this blog (and in fact …
Tweets: @peterbotting
| Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian / ICIJ: |
Leaked Chinese government docs reveal the mechanics of running mass detention camps in Xinjiang, predictive policing, mass surveillance, and snooping on expats — A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents has uncovered the operations manual for running the mass detention camps …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
DOJ charges the founders of Outcome Health with fraud to obtain ~$1B in a 26-count indictment, weeks after the digital pharma ad company settled a related probe — (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors announced criminal charges accusing the founders of Outcome Health of overseeing a scheme … | Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Palo Alto Networks to acquire Aporeto, which provides identity-based access control to secure workloads across all infrastructures, for $150M in cash — Meanwhile, Palo Alto reported Q1 results above expectations; Nutanix also reported solid Q1 results. — Palo Alto Networks …
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