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| The Verge: |
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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Forbes, BuzzFeed News, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @katienotopoulos, @tweetsandmoore, @launchticker, @steipete, @flyosity, @videograndpa, and @carnage4life
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: in August 2017, Google sent a letter suggesting changes to Android OEM contracts and apps distribution; offer was rebuffed by EU as too little too late — - Company offered to tweak Android contracts to placate EU — Vestager says the peace offering didn't come quickly enough
Tweets: @business
| 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.| 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.
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TechCrunch, UpGuard, Digital Trends, Automotive News Breaking, and Axios
Tweets: @marmusha and @vickerysec
| 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.| Reuters: |
Egypt's new law allows state to block social media accounts and blogs with 5K+ followers on sites like Facebook and Twitter, requires licenses for new websites — CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's parliament has passed a law giving the state powers to block social media accounts and penalize journalists held to be publishing fake news.
Tweets: @sub8u and @monaeltahawy
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: French IT infrastructure services company Atos may acquire US-based rival Syntel for between $3.5B and $4B; the deal may be announced as soon as Monday — France's Atos nears $4 billion deal for Syntel, part of strategy to expand geographic footprint
Tweets: @wsj
| Li Tao / South China Morning Post: |
Huawei executive says the company shipped 100M smartphones this year as of July 18 and is now aiming for shipments of 200M units by the end of 2018 — Huawei has maintained fast growth momentum despite headwinds for broader industry shipments this year — Huawei Technologies …
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Digital Trends
| 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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Mashable
| Andrii Degeler / Tech.eu: |
Telecommunications company Orange has acquired Basefarm Holding, a Norway-based cloud infrastructure and critical application services company, for €350M — Major European telecom operator Orange has acquired Basefarm Holding AS, a Norwegian-founded cloud infrastructure … | 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
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