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Sources: after hacking Kaspersky's network in 2014, Israel told NSA that it found Russian spies using Kaspersky software to search for US intel docs — It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers …
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Amazon unveils new waterproof Kindle Oasis with a 7-inch screen and support for Audible audiobooks, available to order now starting at $249.99, ships October 31 — We called Amazon's last Kindle Oasis “the perfect e-reader for the one percent.” That still describes the new Oasis, which Amazon is officially unveiling today.
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In an interview focusing on augmented reality, Tim Cook says the technology doesn't exist to make quality AR smart glasses — In a wide-ranging interview, the CEO of the biggest tech company in the world explains how AR will change our lives, and why he thinks the world is actually getting better
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
India's Uber rival Ola raises $1.1B led by Tencent, says it's close to finalizing a $2.1B round, which source says would give company a $7B post-money valuation — It's been a long while coming but Uber's chief rival in India is finally raising a big round, and joining the billion-dollar round club at the same time.| Pierre Omidyar / Washington Post: |
Study: social media has become a direct threat to democracy in areas such as echo chambers, misinformation, manipulation, micro-targeting, hate speech — Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, is a philanthropist, technologist and humanitarian. He is a member of The WorldPost editorial board.| Artem Russakovskii / Android Police: |
Google rolls out patch to partially fix bug that caused Google Home Minis to repeatedly record, transmit audio to company, says it is working on a long-term fix — When the first home assistants were announced, I was excited. A device I could wake up with a simple hotword that would answer my questions …
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Qualcomm fined $773M by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission for violating antitrust rules for at least seven years — Qualcomm Inc. was fined a record NT$23.4 billion ($773 million) by Taiwan's Fair Trade Commission in the latest blow from regulators over the way the U.S. company prices mobile phone chips and patents.
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Sources: Uber faces at least five criminal probes from US DoJ, two more than previously reported, including possible violation of price-transparency laws — Shortly after taking over Uber Technologies Inc. in September, Dara Khosrowshahi told employees to brace for a painful six months.
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Amazon now lets teens aged 13-17 shop with their own account, after parents' approval; teens can also be assigned preset spending limits per order — Amazon today announced a new way for teens to shop its site independently of their parents' accounts and place their own orders …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Cyngn (formerly Cyanogen), which raised $115M to build a more open flavor of Android, pivots to self-driving technology — Cyngn, a Silicon Valley startup that raised $115 million to build a more open flavor of the Android mobile operating system, has changed course and is now working on autonomous driving technology.
Tweets: @kevinroose
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Pornhub to start using an AI-powered system that uses facial recognition to automatically identify porn stars and tag videos — Popular “adult entertainment” site Pornhub will begin using a new AI-powered system that taps facial recognition technology to automatically identify porn stars.
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Alibaba says it will invest $15B+ over three years in R&D in AI and other emerging tech, will set up research labs in China, US, Russia, Israel, and Singapore — - Alibaba announced it will invest more than $15 billion over the next three years in a global research and development program| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
US judge orders DreamHost to redact information identifying users of anti-Trump website, ruling DoJ must provide details on why it needs the data — A judge ordered the web hosting company DreamHost to redact identifying information about visitors to a website used to coordinate …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researcher finds OnePlus' OxygenOS does not anonymize telemetry data, lacks an opt-out setting — OxygenOS, a custom version of the Android operating system that comes installed on all OnePlus smartphones, is tracking users actions without anonymizing data, allowing OnePlus to connect each phone to its customer.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat says it's opening a secluded R&D lab 30 miles south of Salt Lake City in Lehi, Utah — It's hard to build something secret in LA or SF without anyone finding out. So Snap Inc. is building a new R&D office in the remote location of Lehi, Utah — 30 miles south of Salt Lake City.| Felix Krause: |
Developer shows how malicious apps on iOS can easily replicate the native system dialog box to phish for Apple ID passwords — Do you want the user's Apple ID password, to get access to their Apple account, or to try the same email/password combination on different web services?| Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Sources: 26-year-old Sheel Tyle is raising $100M fund called Amplo for seed and follow-on deals in young founders' firms, will be the sole general partner — A successful bid to invest in one of Silicon Valley's hottest venture deals has outed a stealthy new $100 million fund led entirely by a 26-year-old investor.Sponsor Posts
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