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Australia bans Huawei and ZTE from providing 5G equipment to support the country's new telecom networks, citing risks of foreign interference and hacking — BEIJING — The fog of cyberespionage concerns surrounding Huawei has for years kept the Chinese technology giant largely out of the United States.
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Google says it removed 39 YouTube channels, 6 Blogger blogs and 13 Google+ accounts tied to a misinformation campaign by Iran state media with help from FireEye — Google has uncovered a misinformation attack across several of its properties that it has connected to the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting … | Motherboard: |
Leaked docs and sources describe Facebook's content moderation apparatus and the logistics of trying to moderate billions of posts a week in 100+ languages — Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook's biggest challenge.| iFixit: |
Magic Leap One teardown shows the six-layer “waveguide” display used for projection and other internals, like 8GB RAM and 128GB storage — Tools Featured in this Teardown — Introduction — The Magic Leap One's mixed-reality tech has been so much pie in the sky for so long …
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DJI launches $1,449 Mavic 2 Pro drone with an embedded Hasselblad camera and $1,249 Mavic 2 Zoom with 2x optical zoom, available today — DJI's bringing the Mavic Pro back, and it has a friend. — The Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom, accidentally revealed in July, are now official.
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A look at the Russia-linked NotPetya cyberattack, which caused an estimated $10B+ in damages worldwide after initially targeting Ukrainian companies — Crippled ports. Paralyzed corporations. Frozen government agencies. How a single piece of code crashed the world.
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| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Sony says it will bring its new dog-like robot Aibo to the US in September for $2,899, including accessories and a three-year subscription to Sony's AI Cloud — We got a brief glimpse at Sony's sixth-generation Aibo back at CES — but we couldn't touch it, no matter how adorable it looked …
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| Catherine Cadell / Reuters: |
Alibaba's Q1 revenue beats estimates, rising 61% YoY to ~$12.2B, but net income falls 41% YoY to ~$1.27B — BEIJING (Reuters) - Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA.N), the world's biggest online retailer, said on Thursday first-quarter revenue rose 61 percent, beating analysts' estimates, driven by growth in its core e-commerce business.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Datally, Google's Android app for data management, updated with “Emergency bank” to save data for emergencies and a “Bedtime mode” to stop overnight data drain — Datally is an app from Google's Next Billion Users initiative for managing data usage in constrained cellular markets around the world.
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Interview with Stephen Gillett, CEO of Alphabet's Chronicle, on its plans to offer “planet-scale” security analytics using Google's AI and infrastructure — - The company is starting to discuss some of its plans and goals, including delivering “planet-scale” security services to large corporations.| New York Times: |
A look at how FireEye helped Facebook identify Iran-linked fake accounts, after working on the DNC hack in 2016 — SAN FRANCISCO — FireEye, a cybersecurity company that has been involved in a number of prominent investigations, including the 2016 attack on the Democratic National Committee …
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Online ticketing service Eventbrite files for an IPO, seeking to raise $200M, and reports 2017 revenue of $201.6M, up 51% YoY, on a $38.6M loss — - Eventbrite had $38 million in losses last year, while revenue increased 51 percent to $201.6 million. — Eventbrite, a provider … | Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
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