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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Sen. Wyden, whose probe led Verizon to shun selling location data, rebukes AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile for continuing the practice; AT&T has now also pledged to stop — The scandal erupted after one company claimed to be able to track any cell phone in the US “within seconds.”| Frank Bajak / Associated Press: |
Verizon pledges to stop selling customers' location data to data brokers, like LocationSmart and Zumigo, which it says passed along the info to ~75 other firms — Verizon is pledging to stop sales through intermediaries of data that pinpoints the location of mobile phones to outside companies, the Associated Press has learned.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook debuts game-show platform that lets creators add quizzes, polls, and more to live and on-demand video; Facebook tests ability to award prize money — Rather than build its own HQ trivia competitor, Facebook is launching a gameshow platform. Today the company announced a new set …
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Facebook says it's opening Watch to more types of content, including non-episodic long-form, in bid to capture YouTube stars, and is adding polls, quizzes, more — Facebook is taking another jab at YouTube by expanding its video ad opportunities to more social media stars.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Google Podcasts launches for Android with personalized recs and listening progress auto-sync; closed captions and language translation features are planned — Finally taking podcasts seriously — Google today is introducing its first standalone podcast app for Android.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Amazon is rolling out Alexa for Hospitality, a version of Alexa for hotels that can help order room service, request housekeeping, and more, by invite — Order room service, request housekeeping, or play some tunes — Amazon is today introducing Alexa for Hospitality …
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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
In email to staff, Musk alleges an employee sabotaged Tesla, including changing OS code under false usernames and sending sensitive data to unknown 3rd parties — - Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent an e-mail to all employees on Sunday night alleging there was a saboteur within the company's ranks.
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| Gideon Lewis-Kraus / Wired: |
Inside the crypto world's biggest scandal: how the Tezos story unfolded into a tragedy after raising $232M in the largest ICO at the time — Arthur and Kathleen Breitman thought they held the secret to building a new decentralized utopia. On the way, they plunged into a new kind of hell.
Tweets: @henryfarrell, @wired, @lucas_lclc, @wired, @pkafei, and @laurashin
| Jennifer Bisset / CNET: |
Apple ordered to pay AU$9M fine by Australian court for telling customers they weren't entitled to a refund after the Error 53 bug that bricked some iOS devices — The time has come for Apple to pay for the infamous Error 53 that bricked iPhones and iPads taken to a third party for repairs.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook is testing autoplay video ads inside Messenger, after it started selling static ads in the service 18 months ago — The big question: Do users want to see video ads next to their private messages? — Facebook found a new place to sell video ads: Inside Messenger …
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon officially announces Hub, its package delivery lockers, and says over 500,000 have access to them as more roll out across US — Amazon on Tuesday talked up some of the early successes of its new delivery lockers for apartments, called Hub. — The e-commerce giant last July launched the program …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo updates Yahoo Mail for mobile web and releases an app for Android Go, as it seeks new users on lower-end devices — The days for Yahoo Messenger are now numbered, but Yahoo and its parent Oath (which also owns TC) are still counting on growth for other communications services, specifically Yahoo Mail.
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A look at Tim Cook's relationship with the Trump administration and Chinese government; source says Trump admin told Cook it won't place tariffs on iPhones — SAN FRANCISCO — Apple's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, may be the leader of the world's most valuable public company …
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| Jen Wieczner / Fortune: |
Brex, a fintech startup that provides a credit card for startups and is backed by PayPal cofounders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, raises $50M Series B led by YC — Brex, a fintech startup backed by PayPal cofounders Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, has raised $50 million in new venture capital, the company announced Tuesday.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Oppo announces Find X with 6.4-inch display and front and rear cameras housed in slide-up section above the display to avoid a notch; price and release TBD — The latest volley in the war against notches is a motorized camera — Photography by Amelia Holowaty Krales; video by Phil Esposito, Alix Diaconis| K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: |
An overview of the EU's proposed new copyright law that will require internet platforms to automatically filter uploaded content, ahead of Wednesday's vote — A proposed new European copyright law could make memes illegal and threaten the future of the internet as we know it. Time to panic?
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IBM unveils IBM Debater, an AI-powered debating program six years in the making that can perform tightly structured debates with humans on around 100 topics — SAN FRANCISCO — A match between an Israeli college debate champion and a loquacious IBM computer program demonstrated on Monday …
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| Swati Khandelwal / The Hacker News: |
Experts say macOS' Quick Look feature has for years created and insecurely cached preview thumbnails and more for files in encrypted containers and USB drives — Security researchers are warning of almost a decade old issue with one of the Apple's macOS feature which was designed … | Matt Zapotosky / Washington Post: |
Ex-CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who allegedly leaked Vault 7 hacking tools to WikiLeaks, charged with violations of the Espionage Act and related crimes — Federal prosecutors charged a former CIA employee Monday with violations of the Espionage Act and related crimes in connection with the leak …
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Tweets: @ericgeller and @christinayiotis
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
SaaS endpoint protection firm CrowdStrike raises $200M Series E at a $3B+ valuation co-led by General Atlantic, Accel, and IVP — CrowdStrike, the developer of a security technology that looks at changes in user behavior on networked devices and uses that information to identify potential cyber threats … Sponsor Posts
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