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Apple says it will appeal EU's $14B tax claim this week, arguing that EU disregarded corporate law and Ireland's tax experts to maximize penalty — Apple (AAPL.O) will launch a legal challenge this week to a record $14 billion EU tax demand, arguing that EU regulators ignored tax experts …
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| Cliff Taylor / The Irish Times: |
Ireland publishes formal objections to EU's order to collect €13B in back taxes from Apple, says EC has exceeded its powers, misunderstood Irish tax law, more — EU Commission expected to give full judgment on €13bn case today — The Government has moved to pre-empt … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger debuts 6-person group video chat with selfie masks and support for 50 more to join over voice to talk and send messages, on iOS, Android, web — Teen app sensation Houseparty will get some competition as Facebook Messengerlaunches its own split-screen group video chat feature. 6 users … | Ulf Frisk / Security | DMA: |
FileVault 2 flaw present in macOS before version 10.12.2 allowed a $300 Thunderbolt device to steal the password of a locked or sleeping Mac — macOS FileVault2 let attackers with physical access retrieve the password in clear text by plugging in a $300 Thunderbolt device into a locked or sleeping mac.
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| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / New York Times: |
How Google used neural networks and machine learning to transform Translate, an early sign of how AI is poised to reinvent computing itself — How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learning is poised to reinvent computing itself.
Tweets: @ruskin147, @glenngabe, @nytimes, @sspencer_smb, and @annehelen
| Gavin Clarke / The Register: |
Oracle expands audits of Java SE customers and partners for not paying for Advanced Desktop, Suite, and Advanced layers, issues some bills upward of $100K — Thought Java was “free”? Think again (and you owe us $$$ in 2017) — Oracle is massively ramping up audits of Java customers …
Tweets: @bodil and @joshbloch
| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
SCOTUS will hear patent case that could limit “venue shopping”, the patent troll practice to file cases in friendly jurisdictions like Eastern District of Texas — In a move that may shake-up U.S. patent law, the Supreme Court this week decided to hear a case about where patent owners …
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| Iain Thomson / The Register: |
Galileo, Europe's alternative to GPS, went live last week — More accurate than American system and open to all — After a long and much-delayed 17-year gestation, Europe's answer to America's GPS system has been switched on. — The Galileo network will offer a free service with an accuracy …
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TechSpot, Yahoo, Nature, European Space Agency, DW.COM, EU Press Room, Sky News, euronews, BBC, France 24, Digital Trends, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @jamieskella
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
OneWeb raises $1.2B, with $1B from SoftBank, to build high volume satellite production facility for affordable satellite-based internet service — The battle for satellite-powered internet is heating up. Weeks after Tesla asked the U.S. Government for permission to launch a service powered …
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How workers on platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk earn pennies to train AI — Each morning when she wakes up, Kristy Milland powers up her home computer in Toronto, logs into Amazon Mechanical Turk, and waits for her computer to ding. — Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) … | Ryan Carter / L.A. Daily News: |
Los Angeles County says email phishing scam from May exposed personal data of 756K people, possibly including home addresses, financial, and medical information — A Nigerian national has been charged, and others are being sought, in connection with a hack of Los Angeles County emails …
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
HyperScience exits stealth with $18M in Series A funding, will use AI to tackle back-office problems, like data extraction from hand-filled forms — You can't swing a bag of cats these days without hitting a company that's working on AI. — The latest, HyperScience, is today coming out of stealth for the first time.
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