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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
A side-channel flaw called ZombieLoad affects nearly all post-2011 Intel chips; Apple, Microsoft, Google release fixes today that, like Spectre, hit performance — Security researchers have found a new class of vulnerabilities in Intel chips which, if exploited, can be used to steal sensitive information directly from the processor.,
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco passes a ban on the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies, the first ban of its kind for a major American city — On Tuesday, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors voted to approve a ban on the use of facial recognition tech by city agencies.| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google announces Discovery ads, with a visual format that runs across YouTube home feed, Gmail, and the Discover feed, rolling out globally later this year — SAN FRANCISCO — “A key theme this year is discovery,” Google's Brad Bender, who leads its display and video advertising business … | Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
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| Heather Kelly / CNN: |
Facebook will now ban anyone who violates its “most serious polices” from using Facebook Live for a set period of time, starting with their first offense — San Francisco (CNN Business)Two months after the mass shooting at a mosque in New Zealand was live-streamed by the accused gunman …
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| Natt Garun / The Verge: |
Google is combining its travel-related products, including Google Trips, Google Flights, and Google Hotel Search, under a singular tool called Trips — Not to be confused with Google Trips, its offline travel app — Google is combining its travel-related products — the mobile Google Trips app …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber is rolling out new options for Uber Black, its luxury car service, including a “quiet preferred” mode, help with luggage, and preferred temperature — Tired of chatty drivers? Uber is finally giving users its most requested feature: an in-app way to request minimal conversation during your ride.
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| Paul Ford / Wired: |
Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry — We have graduated, along with oil, real estate, insurance, and finance, to the big T. Trillions of dollars. Trillions! Get to that number any way you like: Sum up the market cap of the major tech companies, or just take Apple's valuation on a good day.
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| Peter Kafka / Vox: |
Explaining the Hulu/Disney/Comcast breakup: as media companies get bigger to compete with tech, many shows will scatter from Netflix and Hulu to rival services — All the big media companies want their own streaming service. Big question: Do you want to subscribe to lots of streaming services?
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft warns of major WannaCry-like Windows security exploit affecting older versions like XP that could spread malware via RDS protocol, releases patches — Windows 10 and Windows 8 are safe — Microsoft is warning users of older versions of Windows to urgently apply a Windows Update today … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cybersecurity company Crowdstrike files for IPO, seeking to raise up to $100M, says it had a $140M net loss on $249.8M in revenue for the year ending Jan. 31 — KEY POINTS — Security software company Crowdstrike on Tuesday filed to go public on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “CRWD.”
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon breaks ground on its $1.5B Prime Air hub at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport with enough room for 100 planes, scheduled to open in 2021 — Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos hopped into a front-end loader to “move some earth” as the tech giant broke ground Tuesday …
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| Larry Cermak / The Block: |
Bitfinex CTO confirms that the crypto exchange raised nearly $1B in a private token sale — The issuance of the exchange tokens, dubbed LEO, was planned to cover the $850 million currently frozen in several accounts controlled by the payment processing company Crypto Capital …
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| BBC: |
Wikimedia says all language editions of Wikipedia have been blocked in China since late April; previously, China only blocked the Chinese language version — All language editions of Wikipedia have been blocked in mainland China since April, the Wikimedia foundation has confirmed.| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed News: |
A 14-year-old girl with 800,000 YouTube followers is sharing far-right content, highlighting how the platform can push kids to extremism as they build audiences — “Soph” has nearly a million followers on the giant video platform. The site's executives only have themselves to blame.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T has cut 23K jobs since the corporate tax cut passed in 2017, after it lobbied for it by promising an additional $1B in investment in 2018 and 7K new jobs — AT&T also cut capital spending despite promising $1 billion capital boost. — AT&T has cut more than 23,000 jobs since receiving …
Tweets: @aaronklein, @rbreich, @mattfwood, @karlbode, and @jbrodkin
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / Vox: |
An examination of the opaque data collection practices in mobile games, which have largely escaped the level of scrutiny applied to social media companies — Seemingly simple mobile games made us all way too comfortable with giving away our personal information. — Angry Birds is so 2009, you might say.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
In an advice memo, the National Labor Relations Board says Uber drivers are independent contractors, not employees; a federal judge ruled similarly last year — Another sign that the gig economy is here to stay — Uber drivers are independent contractors, not employees of the ride-hailing company … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Some theories around why Bitcoin has surged above $8,000, from increased adoption and technological advances to good old-fashioned price manipulation — Bitcoin is now trading at around $8,130, up a whopping 60.84 percent over the past month, with the price surging $3,086.14 over the period.| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed News: |
Sources: Google email warns that accessing internal info without permission can result in termination; activist employees complain about “need to know” language — With employees organizing sit-ins over retaliation and continuing to agitate for change, Google is locking down internal communications.
Tweets: @ceodonovan, @technologypoet, @johnpaczkowski, and @mcmillen
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
OnePlus 7 Pro review: a gorgeous screen, great battery life, nice Android tweaks, better value than iPhone flagships, but pop-up selfie camera is just passable — Welcome to the big time — Lots of companies make big phones, but in the US only two companies have sold the best big phones: Apple and Samsung.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
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| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Indian online grocery delivery service Grofers raises $200M+ led by SoftBank Vision Fund at a valuation of almost $1B — Masayoshi Son isn't losing his appetite for backing money-losing startups. — Son's SoftBank Vision Fund is leading an investment round of more than $200 million in Grofers …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google settles class action lawsuit with owners of original Pixel and Pixel XL alleging it knowingly sold Pixels with defective mics, could pay up to $500/owner — Some phones had defective microphones — Google has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by owners …
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