Techmeme: UK's review of Huawei's telecommunications equipment finds “significant” security problems but does not call for an outright ban (Adam Satariano/New York Times)

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Tracy Jan / Washington Post:

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Adam Satariano / New York Times:

UK's review of Huawei's telecommunications equipment finds “significant” security problems but does not call for an outright ban — LONDON — A British review of Huawei found “significant” security problems with the Chinese company's telecommunications equipment …

Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac:

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Stefan Etienne / The Verge:

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Jason Koebler / Motherboard:

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Jon Porter / The Verge:

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Chris Welch / The Verge:

Verizon rolls out a free version of Call Filter, its $3/month spam and robocall protection service — Now you don't have to pay extra money to battle against spam and robocalls — Verizon is taking new steps to combat the unrelenting nuisance of spam calls.

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Sarah Krouse / Fox News:

FTC has secured $1.5B worth of fines from robocallers through court judgments since 2004 and has collected $121M or 8% of that amount — America's telecommunications watchdogs have levied hefty financial penalties against illegal robocallers and demanded that bad actors repay millions to their victims.

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Adi Robertson / The Verge:

FTC says it has shut down and settled lawsuits with four robocalling companies responsible for “billions” of US calls

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Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post:

Twitter's policy head Vijaya Gadde says it is experimenting with adding a “label” to notable tweets that break its standards explaining why they weren't removed — Vijaya Gadde, Twitter's head of legal, policy and trust & safety, made the revelation on stage at a Washington Post-sponsored event in San Francisco.

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Kong, the open source API management platform company previously known as Mashape, raises $43M Series C led by Index Ventures — Kong, the open core API management and lifecycle management company previously known as Mashape, today announced that it has raised a $43 million Series C round led by Index Ventures.

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Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Microsoft granted US court order to take control of 99 websites the company says are linked to Iranian hacking group Phosphorus and host them on its own servers — Microsoft has won a restraining order in a U.S. court in order to take control of domains used by an Iranian hacker group.

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Tweets: @siarotterdam, @msftissues, and @zackwhittaker

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Microsoft expands its Azure IP Advantage program to include IoT companies and donates 500 patents to the LOT Network, to protect against patent trolls — Microsoft today announced a major expansion of its Azure IP Advantage program, which provides its Azure users with protection against patent trolls.

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Bloomberg:

A profile of Wang Xing, CEO of Meituan, which has 600K delivery people serving 400M customers a year in 2,800 Chinese cities and a market value of $36B — In China, Meituan has reshaped city life—and heightened a rivalry with a certain competitor. — In Beijing, it's often cheaper to have food delivered than to get it yourself.

Tweets: @venkatananth, @luluyilun, and @pelstrom. Thanks:@pelstrom

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:

Office Depot and tech support vendor Support.com to pay the FTC $35M for allegedly persuading customers to buy computer repair services using fake malware scans — Office Depot and Support.com, Inc, a tech support software provided from California, will pay $35 million and $10 million respectively …

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Tweets: @cstross, @onejarednewman, and @tomgara

CNBC:

Source: Lyft prices IPO at $72 per share — - Ridehailing platform Lyft was funded early on by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund, Mayfield, K9 Ventures, Floodgate and others. — Lyft is one of several aging startups expected to go public in 2019 including its chief rival Uber, along with Pinterest, Zoom and Slack.

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Jake Kanter / Business Insider:

Leaked Facebook emails reveal intense discussion over an anti-Semitic Instagram post by Alex Jones before it was taken down — - Business Insider has seen a lengthy Facebook email chain in which executives discuss Alex Jones' future on Instagram and removing an inflammatory post.

More: CNET. Tweets: @stevetweedie, @jake_kanter, and @b52malmet

Jeff John Roberts / Fortune:

As market for facial recognition software heats up, concerns about how and when facial data is collected remain largely unaddressed due to lack of regulations — While you weren't looking, tech companies helped themselves to your photos to power a facial recognition boom. Here's how.

Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts

M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words:

Apple's “It's show time” event was weird, with very little tech, a focus on content and star power, and Oprah basically pitching others to sign up with Apple — Some thoughts on Apple's truly bizarre “It's Showtime” event — Note: this preamble was adapted from my newsletter published yesterday.

Tweets: @stevecheney

C4ADS:

Analysis of GPS data finds 9,800+ GPS spoofing instances since 2016, likely to protect sensitive military and VIP travel areas in the Russian Federation — EXECUTIVE SUMMARY GPS and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are used in everything from cellular communication networks …

More: Dark Reading and Axios

Tweets: @c4ads, @malachybrowne, @c4ads, and @jack_mrgln

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