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| Thomas P. Bossert / Wall Street Journal: |
In op-ed, Trump's homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert says North Korea was behind the WannaCry ransomware cyberattack in May — The massive cyberattack cost billions and put lives at risk. Pyongyang will be held accountable. — Cybersecurity isn't easy, but simple principles still apply.
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| Reuters: |
WhatsApp told to stop sharing user data with Facebook by French data protection authority; WhatsApp has one month to comply or potentially face sanctions — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - France's data privacy watchdog may fine messaging app WhatsApp if it does not comply with an order to bring …
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| Elan Feingold / Plex Labs: |
Plex launches Plexamp, a Winamp-inspired standalone music player for macOS and Windows that can play “just about any music format” and includes visualizers — As we mentioned on the blog post introducing Plex Labs, one of the things we're using Medium for is a venue for talking …
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Facebook transparency report for H1 2017: account data requests up 21% globally YoY to ~79K; 57% of US requests included order banning FB from notifying users — Today we are releasing our Transparency Report, previously called the Government Requests Report, for the first half of 2017.
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| Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Kaspersky Lab sues the Trump administration in US court, arguing it was deprived of due process rights when DHS banned its software from US government agencies — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moscow-based anti-virus company Kaspersky Lab sued the Trump administration in U.S. federal court on Monday …
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| New York Times: |
Microsoft backs Senate bill to address sexual harassment, eliminates forced arbitration agreements with employees who make such claims — SEATTLE — The wave of sexual harassment claims has toppled powerful men in entertainment, media and politics. Now, it is also creating permanent changes … | John Poole / Geekbench: |
Geekbench data shows correlation between old iPhone batteries and reduced performance, suggesting iOS slows down iPhones with old batteries to avoid shutdowns — A Reddit post from last week has sparked a discussion regarding iPhone performance as a function of battery age.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
London-based DigitalGenius raises $14.75M Series A to bring artificial intelligence to customer service led by Global Founders Capital — DigitalGenius, a fledgling artificial intelligence (AI) startup that's setting out to automate many facets of customer service, has announced …
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| Joe McDonald / Associated Press: |
Huawei says some of its phones to be sold by US carriers in 2018, starting with Mate 10; Consumer Business Group CEO says phones will be “competitively priced” — An executive of Huawei says the Chinese smartphone brand plans to start sales in the U.S. market through carriers next year … | The Economic Times: |
India's ride-hailing service Ola acquires FoodPanda India from Germany's Delivery Hero, and will invest $200M to take on rival UberEats, Zomato, and Swiggy — Saurabh Kochhar, former CEO of Foodpanda India has left the company and Pranay Jivrajka, founding partner at Ola has been appointed as the interim CEO of Foodpanda
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| Julie Verhage / Bloomberg: |
Peer-to-peer insurance company Lemonade raises $120M Series C led by SoftBank, sources say at a $500M+ valuation — Lemonade had raised $60 million prior to this new round — Previous backers include Google Ventures and Sequoia Capital — SoftBank Group Corp. is betting that technology …
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| Thuy Ong / The Verge: |
Twitter starts enforcing new policies on violence and hateful conduct both on platform and off it, but changes don't apply to military or government entities — Policies now extend to hateful imagery and to conduct both on platform and off — Twitter says it will now begin enforcing …
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| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Amazon Echo Spot review: appealing design, great for video calls, touchscreen enhances Alexa experience, but mediocre audio, screen is bad for video playback — When Amazon unveiled the Echo Show earlier this year, we questioned if we really needed an Echo with a touchscreen.
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