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A roundup of the coronavirus outbreak's impact on the tech sector, from closures of offices, stores, and factories in China to affecting MWC attendance — The outbreak shows that what impacts China impacts everything — The tech sector is currently feeling the impact of the coronavirus …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
A group calling itself OurMine briefly compromised Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts, seemingly via a third-party service called Khoros — OurMine is taking credit for the hacks — Several of Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts were hijacked this evening …
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Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 may end up raising less than half of the planned $108B, with nearly all of its capital coming from SoftBank itself — The new pool could end up being less than half its planned size, with nearly all of its capital coming from SoftBank itself
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| Nirave Gondhia / Android Central: |
Motorola Razr review: front quick view display is useful but bumps can be felt while using the foldable screen, poor battery life, and the camera is lackluster — Too many compromises, for too much money. — Motorola RAZR: The review — Stunning design — Folding display — Average Battery
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| Reuters: |
Coronavirus exposes China's surveillance state as apps show locations of the infected, cameras detect people with fevers and identify them even with masks, more — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch.
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Interviews with 25+ current and former Darktrace employees reveal the troubling influence of top Autonomy executives on the UK-based cybersecurity startup — Former Darktrace board member Sushovan Hussain (above) is appealing a five-year prison sentence for his role in the disastrous HP Autonomy deal.
Tweets: @find_evil, @iblametom, @nisos, and @iblametom
| New York Times: |
How predictive algorithms are increasingly being used to set police patrols, prison sentences, and probation rules in the US and Europe — Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
LA-based ridesharing company HopSkipDrive raises $22M, says it now has deals with school districts in 13 markets across eight states — It's no secret that it's hard to make the economics work at rideshare companies. That may explain the success to date of HopSkipDrive, a six-year-old …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake announces $479M round, led by Dragoneer with participation from Salesforce, at a $12.4B valuation, up from $3.9B in 2018 — - Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman said the company generated well over $100 million in revenue in 2019.
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San Francisco Business Journal, Forbes, Financial Times, Bloomberg, GeekWire, and Blocks and Files. Tweets: @jasonlk. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Pam Kostka / All Raise: |
In 2019, 52 women became new VC or general partners in the US, up 37% from last year's record of 38; 65% of VC firms still don't have a woman partner — Correction: In a previous version of this blog post we published that there were 50 new female VC partners in 2019 but the number was actually 52.| New York Times: |
The number of reported videos related to online child sex abuse reached 41M in 2019, surpassing the number of reported photos; Facebook found 85% of the total — In a first, videos outnumbered photos in reports to the authorities last year. Facebook found the most imagery, the bulk of it on its Messenger app.
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Input, The Verge, and CNET
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook says it has received 15K bug reports in 2019, awarded about $2.2M in bounties for 1,300 of them, up from ~$1.1M for 700 bugs in 2018 — A few months ago, Facebook disclosed that apps were siphoning data from up to 9.5 million of its users. They only found out thanks to a bug bounty submission.Sponsor Posts
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