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DHS and UK's NCSC say they have “no reason to doubt” statements from Apple, Amazon, and others rejecting Bloomberg's story on China spying via microchips — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday it currently had no reason to doubt statements … | Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Why it is basically impossible to secure supply chains from attacks like the alleged Chinese embedded chip hack, and how we can mitigate the consequences — From time to time, there emerge cybersecurity stories of such potential impact that they have the effect of making …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Echo Show 2018 review: improved sound quality, bigger screen, and software easier to use, but no hardware shutter to block the camera, poor YouTube experience — New screen, same Show — After being confined to an audio-only experience for over two years, Amazon's Alexa assistant …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook unveils two video calling devices for home, $199 10-inch Portal and the $349 15.6-inch Portal+ with hi-fi audio; preorders open today, ships November — Facebook's first hardware product combines Alexa (and eventually Google Assistant) with a countertop video chat screen that zooms to always keep you in frame.
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| Molly McKew / Wired: |
Tracing the “information terrorists” who fuel conspiracy theories and battles from Gamergate and QAnon to attacks on Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford — The network architecture built in Gamergate helped propel Trump to the presidency and fuel conspiracies like Pizzagate and QAnon.
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WeChat posts the top ten rumors every month so it can debunk them, and also offers a mini program to assist in debunking rumors, used by 300,000 people/day — In China, WeChat has become a primary news source for Chinese internet users, just as Facebook in the West.| Press Association: |
UK high court blocks mass legal action against Google over claims that it collected sensitive personal data from more than 4M iPhone users — Tech company faced claims it gathered personal data from more than 4m iPhone users — The high court has blocked a mass legal action against Google …
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| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
After troubles in Myanmar, a look at how Facebook has evolved its approach in getting people online in Africa by working with civil society groups and more — OVER THE PAST year, Facebook has faced a reckoning over the way its plan to connect the next billion users to the internet has sown division … | Bloomberg: |
Saudi Arabia says it will invest $45B in SoftBank's planned second Vision Fund — - Sovereign fund set to recieve windfall from Sabic, Aramco — Crown Prince says PIF assets will hit $600 billion by 2020 — Saudi Arabia is preparing to double-down on its bet that Masayoshi Son can pick the technology giants of the future.
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| Tim Merel / TechCrunch: |
Study: Chinese VCs invested $3.9B in computer vision and AR in past 12 months; North American AR/VR investments fell from $1.5B in Q4 2017 to ~$120M in Q3 2018 — Last year, 30 leading venture investors told us about a fundamental shift from early-stage North American VR investment … | Asif Iqbal Shaik / MySmartPrice: |
Images of Google Pixel Slate leak, show a Chrome OS tablet with a detachable keyboard, stylus, stereo speakers, and a USB-C port — The Google Pixel Slate will run Chrome OS and will be unveiled during the company's October 09 launch event. The tablet will feature a capacitive stylus …
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Ars Technica, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Android Central, SlashGear, CNET, CNET, Tom's Guide, Inquirer, USA Today, Engadget, and Engadget. Tweets: @backlon
| Holden Page / Crunchbase News: |
Foursquare raises $33M Series F, two years after its major pivot from consumer social network to location data provider and $45M Series E — Tech companies want your location data, and over the years, Foursquare has banked a lot of it from willing users. — Originally billed …
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Foursquare, TechCrunch, Adweek, Business Insider, and VentureBeat
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
US DOJ and the Dutch intelligence agency MIVD detail how recently indicted GRU officers infiltrated Wi-Fi networks at hotels and offices to hack their targets — FOR YEARS, THE Kremlin's increasingly aggressive hackers have reached across the globe to hit targets with everything … | Nathan Mattise / Ars Technica: |
The Internet Archive stores a total of 22 petabytes, adds four petabytes per year, and uses ~7K processes crawling the web to capture 1.5B items per week — Wayback Machine director Mark Graham outlines the scale of everyone's favorite archive. — AUSTIN, Texas—As much as subscription services …
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