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China hacked a US Navy contractor early this year and stole 614GB of classified data, including plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile for US submarines — Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing massive amounts of highly sensitive data related …
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Facebook let some partners access users' friend data after it shut off access to most devs in 2015; sources: partners included Nissan and Royal Bank of Canada — Special deals gave a small number of companies access to data after shutting off access for other developers
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Source: Apple Watch to get touch-sensitive solid-state buttons that use Taptic Engine to simulate clicks this or next year, buttons may act as health sensors — The Apple Watch will be getting solid state buttons that don't move up and down but rather sense the touch of a finger …
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| Patrick Lucas Austin / Gizmodo: |
Airbnb cancels reservations and reportedly pulls ~80% of listings in Japan before June 15 deadline of home-sharing law, will create $10M fund to repay travelers — Heading to Japan next week? You should probably double-check your Airbnb rental, because it might be cancelled.
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| Bloomberg: |
Jessica Alba's Honest Company raises $200M from a LVMH-affiliated private equity firm L Catterton for a minority stake, to help expand the business globally — - $200 million investment will help Honest boost supply chain — L Catterton focuses on consumer brands, owns Bliss, Elemis
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| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
A look at how Amazon Rekognition can be used to build facial recognition tools at incredibly low cost by anyone with a computer — Jeff Bezos' behemoth of a business is seen by most as a consumer-driven business, not a provider of easy-to-use spy tech.
Tweets: @iblametom
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Although Lyft has reportedly agreed to acquire Motivate, possibly for $250M, a source says Uber is considering its own bid for the bike-sharing startup — Uber is considering a takeover offer for Motivate, the bike-share company behind such programs as CitiBike in New York and Ford GoBike in San Francisco, Axios has learned.
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| Allison Lampert / Reuters: |
Quebec halts all new cryptocurrency mining permits as Hydro Quebec power plant struggles to fulfill 17K MW of new power demand without raising prices for locals — MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada's Quebec province said on Thursday it has halted approvals for new digital currency mining projects …
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| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
The share of black employees at the eight largest tech companies in the US grew from 2.5% in 2014 to 3.1% in 2017 — When Maxine Waters, the Democratic representative from southern Los Angeles, toured Silicon Valley during the first week of May with fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus … | Hannah Karp / Billboard: |
Sources: Spotify offers several hundred thousand dollar advances and 50/50 per stream revenue share to music managers and indie acts for direct licensing — Spotify has offered advances to a number of managers and indie acts in exchange for licensing their music directly to the streaming service, sources tell Billboard.| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Snap to make Bitmoji's Friendmoji characters available outside of Snapchat app on iOS, letting you send stickers directly in the Messages app — Snapchat is expanding the use of its Bitmoji characters — specifically “Friendmojis” — for iOS users in the coming days.
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Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, Mashable, and Digital Trends
| Aroon Deep / MediaNama: |
iOS 12 allows developers to create extensions to report call and SMS spam from call and message logs, possibly addressing concerns of India's telecom regulator — In an apparent compromise, Apple has updated their OS to natively support SMS and call spam reporting, clearing the way for TRAI …
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