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Uber and Lyft driver in St. Louis has live-streamed hundreds of rides on Twitch without passenger consent; Uber and Lyft say the practice is legal in Missouri — It's legal — An Uber and Lyft driver in St. Louis, Missouri has given around 700 rides since March 2018 …
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| Marrian Zhou / CNET: |
Venmo says user transaction history is public by default because it's fun to share info with friends and the option to go private is clearly marked in the app — If you haven't noticed, your Venmo transaction history is public by default. Unless you change the settings, people can see when you buy things.
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| Stacy Cowley / New York Times: |
UpGuard: sensitive documents from 100+ companies including VW, Toyota, and Tesla were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics — Automakers like Tesla, Toyota and Volkswagen go to great lengths to keep their technical information confidential.| Kirsten Grind / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook suspends data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon, which boasts repository of 1T social media posts, as it investigates the company's government contracts — Facebook says it was probing whether data-analytics firm Crimson Hexagon's government contracts comply with Facebook policies
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| Jon Christian / Motherboard: |
As Google translates nonsensical messages into garbled religious prophecies, researchers blame AI algorithm trained on religious texts as some users see demons — Google Translate is moonlighting as a deranged oracle—and experts say it's likely because of the spooky nature of neural networks.
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Facebook plans to launch Athena, likely a constellation of small internet-delivering satellites, starting in 2019, after downgrading a drone project last month — FIBER OPTIC CABLES are the gold standard of a good internet connection, but laying them can be expensive, and in some parts of the world, a physically daunting task.| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
Android malware authors have been increasingly using “droppers”, which use a multiple-stage infection process, to sneak malicious apps into the Play Store — For the past year, Android malware authors have been increasingly relying on a solid trick for bypassing Google's security scans …
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| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
With EU Android fine, some see futile effort to curb Google's dominance; others see first steps to check Google's data hoovering and guaranteed ad distribution — The tightly knit package of services Google has assembled around its Android smartphone software has supported one of the tech world's most profitable businesses.
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| Jackie Wattles / CNNMoney: |
Coinbase's Federal Election Commission filing says it has formed a political action committee (PAC) to raise money to spend on U.S. elections — Coinbase, the popular cryptocurrency exchange, formed its own political action committee. — It's a sign Coinbase is angling for more sway …
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| Sean Hollister / CNET: |
Google says it got duck.com after buying video compression startup On2 in 2010, will now redirect domain to a page with links to DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, and more — Google owns Duck.com, which has been driving rival search engine DuckDuckGo up the wall for over six years.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based AI startup AnyVision, which is working on face, body, and object recognition tech, has closed $28M Series A led by Bosch — As image recognition advances continue to accelerate, startups with a mind towards security applications are seeing some major interest to turn surveillance systems more intelligent.
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Security Sales & Integration and FindBiometrics
| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
“Confidential Mode” feature in Gmail is misleading because the emails are not end-to-end encrypted and “expired” messages can be retrieved via the sent folder — With Gmail's new design rolled out to more and more users, many have had a chance to try out its new “Confidential Mode.”Sponsor Posts
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