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| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
An internal build of Google Messages 6.2 shows end-to-end encryption could be coming soon to RCS messages — Today, the folks at APKMirror got ahold of an internal “dogfood” build of Google Messages version 6.2. Here, “dogfood” is used in the sense of the phrase “eat your own dog food,” …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Jailbreaking team Unc0ver has released a tool that will jailbreak most versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5; the tool makes use of a 0-day flaw in the iOS kernel — The Unc0ver tool works on all versions of iOS from 11 to 13.5, the current release. — Over the years, Apple has made it prohibitively difficult …
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| Lauren Strapagiel / BuzzFeed News: |
Instagram appears to more often flag photos of plus-size bodies, as experts believe its content moderation AI equates more skin with excessive nudity — In 2018, influencer Katana Fatale was in Hawaii in an outdoor shower, and the light was just right. — She set her phone on a chair, set the timer, and took this photo.
Tweets: @racebaitr, @buzzfeednews, and @buzzfeednews
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump is considering the establishment of a commission that would examine allegations of anticonservative bias and censorship on social media — Move is likely to draw pushback from tech companies; ACLU raises free-speech concerns — WASHINGTON—President Trump is considering establishing …
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| Camilla Tominey / Telegraph: |
Boris Johnson instructed officials to draw up plans to reduce Huawei's involvement in UK's 5G networks to zero by 2023, a reversal of a softer policy approach — The Prime Minister has instructed officials to draw up plans that would see China's involvement in the UK's 5G network reduced to zero
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| Seth Colaner / VentureBeat: |
An overview of how governments around the world are using smartphone data, apps, drones, facial recognition, and AI to track COVID-19 and surveil citizens — Now that the world is in the thick of the coronavirus pandemic, governments are quickly deploying their own cocktails of tracking methods.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
JioMart rolls out its online grocery delivery service, including directly sourced farm produce, in dozens of cities in India, after a month of testing in Mumbai — The rationale behind the deluge of dollars flooding into billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Jio Platforms is beginning to become …
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Livemint, Entrackr, Business Standard, Moneycontrol, News18, BGR India, The Hindu BusinessLine, and Inc42 Media. Tweets: @ritacyliao
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Interview with CTO of Pentagon's Joint AI Center Nand Mulchandani about the center's work and its new Silicon Valley-like organizational structure and workflows — It was a busy week for defense-focused AI: DarwinAI signed a partnership with Lockheed Martin, the world's largest defense contractor … | Rachel Lerman / Washington Post: |
A look at webcam supply chain issues as ecommerce tracking firm CommerceIQ finds 78% of views on webcam product pages showed out of stock in the week of May 9 — Webcams are back-ordered and sold out across the Internet as we struggle to look our best on camera while working from home
Tweets: @rachelerman, @washingtonpost, @laurastevens, and @neilretail
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Run The World, which helps clients organize and host virtual conferences and events, raises $10.8M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Founders Fund — Some businesses have boomed, and others have gone bust due to the COVID-19 crisis — without question, live events is one sector that has been hit hardest.| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
New York City-based Spruce, whose tech helps buyers, sellers, and lenders digitize paperwork for completing real estate transactions, raises $29M Series B — Real estate is one of those classic industries we always talk about in Silicon Valley: multi-trillion dollars in scale in terms … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Startup Genome study finds global VC funding fell 20% since the onset of COVID-19 in December 2019 — Global venture capital funding has dropped by 20% since the onset of the coronavirus crisis in December 2019, according to a new report by Startup Genome. — The drop was even more pronounced in China, where the pandemic began.Sponsor Posts
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