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Uber adds option to tip US drivers, starting in 3 cities, and other ways to earn like being paid for waiting on riders to show, as part of “180 days of change” — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber is enabling passengers to tip its U.S. drivers with a tap on its ride-hailing app for the first time …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: A group of Uber investors, including Benchmark Capital, is exploring ways to remove Travis Kalanick as Uber's CEO — A select group of Uber's institutional investors is working together to explore ways of removing Travis Kalanick as CEO, Axios has learned from multiple sources.| Meghann Farnsworth / Recode: |
White House posts 20 minute video of Trump's American Tech Council meeting with 18 tech execs, notably missing representation from Facebook, Twitter — Silicon Valley is taking a field trip to D.C. — This is “tech week” at the White House, and that means Silicon Valley's tech giants … | Tony Romm / Recode: |
| Lucian Constantin / The New Stack: |
“Stack Clash” memory management flaw found in Linux, BSD, Solaris, allows privilege escalation to root; patches are available — An important memory corruption defense in Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris can be bypassed by attackers to obtain root privileges and take complete control of affected systems.
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
OnePlus 5 unveiled with Snapdragon 835, 16MP dual-camera, 8GB RAM model $539, 6GB RAM model $479, on sale online June 27, available in select popup stores today — After several weeks of teasing and leaks, OnePlus has today officially announced the OnePlus 5, its latest flagship smartphone.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft launches Stream, its Office 365 business video service to replace Office 365 Video, integrated into many Microsoft services including SharePoint — Microsoft's replacement for Office 365 Video, a service known as Microsoft Stream, is beginning its phased roll-out globally.
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| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Twitch signs exclusive esports deal that includes 20 Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes events and in-game content for Twitch Prime members — If you're paying for Twitch Prime, you're going to be getting free stuff in Blizzard's biggest games thanks to a new deal between the two companies.
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Tesla confirms departure of Autopilot VP Chris Lattner, hires AI expert Andrej Karpathy as director of AI and Autopilot — Chris Lattner, who Tesla announced in January was hired from Apple Inc. as vice president of Autopilot software, has left Elon Musk's Silicon Valley auto maker.
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TechCrunch, The Verge, Reuters, Engadget, Axios, Electrek, MarketWatch, and CNBC
Tweets: @karpathy, @theteslashow, @tim, @clattner_llvm, @fmanjoo, @fmanjoo, @amir, and @glennf
| William Turton / The Outline: |
Leaked recording reveals how Apple's Global Security team uses investigators, rigorous screening, and embeds security members in product teams to prevent leaks — SECRECY AT APPLE — Former NSA agents, secrecy members on product teams, and a screening apparatus bigger than the TSA.
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Vox, New York Magazine, Neowin, TechSpot, Redmond Pie, Yahoo Tech, InvestorPlace, The Verge, The Mac Observer, CNBC, SlashGear, Daring Fireball, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, AppAdvice.com, 9to5Mac, Mashable, Engadget, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, iLounge, AppleInsider, TheStreet, iPhone Hacks, BGR, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Business Insider, and MAC blog
Tweets: @benbajarin, @mhbergen, @reneritchie, @neighorn, @howelloneill, @williamturton, @tim, @ryantate, @dnvolz, @benpopper, @alexjamesfitz, and @johnjcook. Thanks:@adrjeffries
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
PayPal and Venmo now allow instant bank transfers, amid competition from Square Cash, Zelle, and Apple's P2P payments in iMessages for iOS 11 — PayPal announced this morning a plan to speed up money transfers between its service, Venmo and users' bank accounts for those with supported MasterCard and Visa debit cards.
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
South Korean web host Nayana agrees to $1M extortion fee after 153 servers hit by ransomware, after negotiating the sum down from ~$1.6M — WannaCry only demanded $300 from each victim. These hackers extorted $1 million from one South Korean company. — Hackers appear to have pulled off …
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SiliconANGLE, BleepingComputer.com, International Business Times, Gizmodo, BetaNews, TechSpot, The Next Web, Help Net Security, and Softpedia News
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: BMC Software and CA consider combining companies to take CA private — New York-based CA has a market value of about $13.2 billion — BMC Software has been owned by Bain, Golden Gate since 2013 — BMC Software Inc. and CA Inc. are considering a potential deal …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds Live video replays and says Stories has 250M DAUs as of June, whereas Snapchat only had 166M DAUs as of May — Instagram Stories is widening its lead over Snapchat and rolling out new features to keep everyone shooting video. Instagram Stories now has 250 million daily active users …
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Tweets: @danhoffmann, @instagram, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
A look at AMD's future in servers with today's launch of its EPYC enterprise-class processors, with configurations up to 32 cores and 64 threads per processor — The big news out of AMD was the launch of Zen, the new high-performance core that is designed to underpin the product roadmap for the next few generations of products.| Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Khosla, Sam Altman, and a16z-backed Teespring, once valued at $650M, was valued at ~$11M in latest round — New financing dramatically cuts Teespring's valuation from $650 million as early investors Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures have stakes slashed to pennies on the dollar in the custom T-shirt marketplace.| Adam Samson / Financial Times: |
Adobe Q2 beats forecasts with record $1.77B revenue, up 26.7% YoY, as cloud software revenue hits $4.56B — Read next … Adobe on Tuesday added to its already hefty 2017 gains after the software maker unveiled a bigger-than-expected rise in quarterly sales that reflected continued progress …
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| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon tests Prime Wardrobe, a new service that lets customers try up to 15 pieces of clothing at a time, with bigger discounts the more they keep — Prime Wardrobe is currently in beta. — Following in the footsteps of a host of e-commerce startups, Amazon's fashion division is testing …
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AdExchanger, CNBC, BGR, Digital Trends, Engadget, Racked, Neowin, Digital Commerce 360, Forbes, CNET, GeekWire, New York Times, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, and Mashable. Tweets: @delrey
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Kickstarter Gold program debuts to bring back popular projects with a twist for new funding, launching today with 50 projects curated by Kickstarter — Kickstarter is bringing back some of its most popular projects in a new initiative called Kickstarter Gold.
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The Kickstarter Blog, Crowdfund Insider, Engadget, and Mashable
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Garage debuts Dictate, an add-in for Office that uses Cortana's speech recognition for dictation, competing with Nuance and Windows OS-level solutions — Dictate, a new project from Microsoft's experimental R&D group, Microsoft Garage, is launching today to offer a way to type using …
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The Fire Hose, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Engadget, Mashable, and The Verge
| Corin Faife / Motherboard: |
Status, a messaging app and mobile browser to help users interact with apps on the ethereum network, raises $44M in its ICO — Starting a little before 12pm EST today, Status, a messaging app and mobile browser enabling smartphones to connect to decentralized applications on the ethereum network … Sponsor Posts
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