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A 3rd-party Facebook app by Cultura Colectiva left 540M+ records of users' FB info exposed on AWS; Amazon was notified in Jan., but data was online until today — The UpGuard Cyber Risk team can now report that two more third-party developed Facebook app datasets have been found exposed to the public internet.
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Nearly half of Google's external AI board has resigned or is under fire, and the design of the board suggests Google is treating AI ethics like a PR problem — One member resigned and two more are under fire. It's only a week old. — Just a week after it was announced, Google's new AI ethics board is already in trouble.| Paul Karp / The Guardian: |
Australia passes law penalizing social media platforms for failing to expeditiously remove abhorrent violent content, despite strong opposition from tech firms — Labor supports legislation in response to Christchurch shooting that threatens jail for executives, despite media companies' concerns
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| Sam Biddle / The Intercept: |
Researchers find that Facebook appears to deliver certain ads, despite neutral targeting parameters, in a way that aligns with race and gender stereotypes — How exactly Facebook decides who sees what is one of the great pieces of forbidden knowledge in the information age …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Source: Intel has missed deadlines for the development of a 5G modem for the 2020 iPhones; Apple has 1,000-1,200 engineers working on modems for future iPhones — [Updated with Intel comment Wednesday 11:30 p.m. Pacific Time] — As of now Apple plans to release a 5G iPhone in 2020.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Verizon launches its mobile 5G network in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis, with a 5G-enabled Moto Z3 — Though South Korea's government expected its three cellular carriers to be the world's first to offer commercial 5G services with smartphones based on the 3GPP's official 5G standard …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Tesla starts rolling out an update to Navigate on Autopilot in the US that will give drivers an option to use the system without having to confirm lane changes — Tesla has long asked you to flick the turn stalk to confirm Autopilot's lane changes, but you won't have to do that for much longer.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google debuts Android Q Beta 2 with multitasking overlay elements called Bubbles, foldables emulator, and precise audio recordings with zoomable microphone API — Google today launched the second Android Q beta with multitasking Bubbles, a foldables emulator, zoomable microphones, and more.
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| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
As more seniors go online, they are largely being left out of digital literacy efforts, making them targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric — Older people play an outsized role in civic life. They also are more likely to be online targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric.
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to neighboring Bellevue by 2023, with several thousand employees making the move — Amazon plans to relocate its entire Seattle-based worldwide operations team to Bellevue, Wash., by 2023, adding thousands of employees … | Xinmei Shen / Abacus: |
Some Chinese companies, including Tencent and Xiaomi, are restricting access via their own browsers to a GitHub page where developers protest “996” work culture — Tencent, Xiaomi and others are censoring the GitHub page over “illegal information”
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| Damien Wilde / 9to5Google: |
Google rolling out Duplex AI restaurant booking assistant to non-Pixel Android devices and iOS in the US — Get ready, the ability to get your Google Assistant to call your local eateries to make reservations is now rolling out to non-Pixel devices and iOS in the United States.
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| Megan Hernbroth / Business Insider: |
WeWork acquires GV-backed Managed by Q, a platform for office management services, for an undisclosed sum — - WeWork has acquired Managed by Q, a platform for office tenants to hire on-demand service workers for office-management tasks like cleaning or staffing reception desks.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple promotes Adrian Perica, formerly M&A head, to VP of corporate development, reporting directly to Tim Cook; Perica previously reported to CFO Luca Maestri — - Perica gets visibility boost with spot on Apple executive page — Company has historically resisted large acquisitions| Kim Zetter / Washington Post: |
Researchers create malware that places fake cancerous nodes in CT scans to fool radiologists, showing what high-profile attacks on hospital gear could look like — Researchers in Israel created malware to draw attention to serious security weaknesses in medical imaging equipment and networks.
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
SEC issues a “no-action” letter to TurnKey Jet, saying that tokens used by the business-travel startup are not securities, a first that clears token sales in US — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a “no-action” letter to TurnKey Jet, Inc. …
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| Tom Roston / OneZero: |
Current and former TiVo insiders on how the first DVR came to be, going up against cable companies, how IP licensing has kept the company relevant, and more — ‘They Thought It Was Black Magic’: An Oral History of TiVo — How the original DVR paved the way for Netflix and the cord-cutter movement
Tweets: @medium, @medium, and @markbrokeit
| Ivan Mehta / The Next Web: |
WhatsApp now allows users to control who can add them to group chats — WhatsApp's group conversations can be awfully annoying when you're dragged into them without your consent. It's finally rolled out a fix for that, in the form of a new setting that lets you choose who can add you to group chats …
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