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Intel announces 11th-generation Tiger Lake CPUs for laptops, with integrated Xe graphics, Thunderbolt 4 support, Wi-Fi 6, and more, coming this fall — The ‘best processor for thin-&-light’ laptops — Intel has officially announced its first 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors for laptops …
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| Josh Gerstein / Politico: |
Federal appeals court rules the NSA's mass surveillance program was possibly unconstitutional and the program's “bulk collection” of metadata was illegal — The National Security Agency program that swept up details on billions of Americans' phone calls was illegal and possibly unconstitutional …
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| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Federal judges in Chicago rejected three government “geofence warrant” requests, concluding the requests violated 4th Amendment probable cause requirements — Two federal magistrate judges in three separate opinions have ruled that a geofence warrant violates …
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| Soumyarendra Barik / MediaNama: |
India bans another 188 Chinese apps, including PUBG, Baidu, and Alipay, saying widespread concerns were flagged against the blocked apps — India on Wednesday banned 118 more apps, including popular gaming app PUBG, for allegedly being engaged in activities which are “prejudicial to sovereignty …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Robinhood is under SEC investigation for failing to fully disclose selling clients' orders to high-speed trading firms, with a potential $10M+ fine — Company could have to pay a fine exceeding $10 million if it agrees to settle — Robinhood Markets Inc. faces a civil fraud investigation …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Cloudera reported Q2 FY 2021 total revenue of $214.3M, up 9% YoY, with subscription revenue of $191.5M, up 17% YoY, and ARR of $739M, up 12% YoY — Cloudera had 1,007 customers who exceeded $100,000 of annual recurring revenue (ARR) and 172 customers had ARR of more than $1 million.| Wallace Witkowski / MarketWatch: |
CrowdStrike beats Q2 FY 2021 estimates with total revenue of $199M, up 84% YoY, and subscription revenue of $184.3M, up 89% YoY, as ARR rose 87% YoY to $790.6M — CEO George Kurtz says hackers attempted more breaches in the first half of 2020 than in all of 2019
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In an about face, Facebook bans a BJP politician in India for violating its hate speech policies, after reports its lobbying exec Ankhi Das defended his posts — T. Raja Singh is a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party
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| Rita El Khoury / Android Police: |
Google is rolling out an update to Google Assistant that adds simple Siri-like in-app shortcuts with an Explore tab to find them — Haven't you always wished Google Assistant could do more with the apps on your phone? Not just launch them, but open specific sections or perform certain actions inside them?
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| Boone Ashworth / Wired: |
Google updates Your News Update, its Assistant-powered audio news service, with new features including its own “newscaster voice” — The company's latest news product is an ever-replenishing playlist of audio stories—curated, in part, by the wealth of data it has on you.
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| Donie O'Sullivan / CNN: |
Facebook says, after an FBI tip, it took down several Pages and accounts pushing a fake left-wing news outlet made by people linked to Russian troll group IRA — New York (CNN Business)People associated with the infamous St. Petersburg troll group that was part of Russia's attempt to interfere …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's introduces “Your Topics” to Facebook Watch, allowing users to tailor the feed to include content that they explicitly indicate they want to see — Facebook's video destination, Facebook Watch, is introducing a new feature called “Your Topics” that will allow you to tailor … | Monica Alleven / FierceWireless: |
FCC says Verizon, Dish, Charter, and Comcast were the 4 highest bidders in a ~$4.6B 3.5GHz band auction; Dish secured the most 3.5GHz licenses with nearly 5,500 — As widely expected, Verizon showed up at the auction of 3.5 GHz Priority Access Licenses (PALs) in a big way …
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| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Livspace, an online home interior design and renovation service in Singapore and India, says it has raised $90M, bringing total raised to ~$200M — - Livspace's $90 million round led by Kharis Capital, Venturi — Six-year-old startup connects homeowners, designers, vendors
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| Sean Lyngaas / CyberScoop: |
DHS mandates US agencies have vulnerability disclosure programs within six months that will expand to cover all internet-accessible systems within two years — Out of scores of federal civilian agencies, only a handful of them have official programs to work with outside security researchers …
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| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Microsoft says it will bring its DirectStorage API from the Xbox to PCs, to reduce IO bottlenecks and improve game loading times and graphics details — When Microsoft announced the next Xbox console some time ago, it highlighted some features of the console's underlying architecture to demonstrate its power.
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DirectX Developer Blog, TechPowerUp, Laptop Mag, OnMSFT.com, Windows Central, BetaNews, Wccftech, Neowin, BleepingComputer, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @bdsams
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Xanadu launches its quantum cloud platform with photonic quantum processors with 8 to 12-qubit chips, expects to “roughly double” cloud qubits every 6 months — Quantum computing startup Xanadu today launched its quantum cloud platform. Developers can now access Xanadu's gate … | Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
How UK game studio Mediatonic created Fall Guys, which generated an estimated $130M revenue in its first month and has been downloaded ~7M times on Steam — Foto: Mediatonic “Fall Guys” launched on August 4, and hit 7 million Steam downloads less than a month later.
Tweets: @shonaghosh and @shonaghosh
| The Daily Beast: |
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook is developing internal forums with “strong moderation” after an internal pro-police post from a staffer stirred outrage — “I don't believe people working here should have to be confronted with divisive conversations while they're trying to work …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Hypatos, which is applying language processing AI and computer vision tech to speed up financial document processing, raises ~$11.8M in seed funding — Process automation startup Hypatos has raised a €10 million (~$11.8 million) seed round of funding from investors including Blackfin Tech … Sponsor Posts
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