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Leaked memo: ARM has told staff it must suspend business, including all active contracts, support entitlements, and pending engagements, with Huawei — UK-based chip designer ARM has told staff it must suspend business with Huawei, according to internal documents obtained by the BBC.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: US is considering blacklisting as many as five Chinese video surveillance companies, including Hikvision and Dahua Technology, from buying US tech — - Hikvision and Dahua accused of being part of Uighur crackdown — Rubio and others say they are part of a massive crackdown
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
The “tech cold war”, escalated by recent actions against Huawei, started over a decade ago when China began restricting US services companies in its market — Tim Culpan declared at Bloomberg that The Tech Cold War Has Begun after the Trump administration barred companies viewed …
| Reuters: |
Inside the war against Huawei, led by Australia and the US, who fear Beijing's 5G domination could be used for espionage and sabotage of critical infrastructure — In early 2018, in a complex of low-rise buildings in the Australian capital, a team of government hackers was engaging in a destructive digital war game.
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| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Federal judge rules in favor of FTC in antitrust case against Qualcomm, says its licensing practices for modem chips have strangled competition; stock drops 10% — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of the United States has won the first round of litigation against Qualcomm.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple unveils Privacy Preserving Ad Click Attribution, a new web technology aimed at preserving user privacy without reducing effectiveness of ad campaigns — For years, the web has been largely free thanks to online ads. The problem is that nobody likes them.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google says it stored some G Suite passwords in plaintext due to an error dating back to 2005, found another set of unhashed passwords in 2019, both now fixed — Google says a small number of its enterprise customers mistakenly had their passwords stored on its systems in plaintext.
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Tweets: @malwarejake, @nxthompson, @wired, @olivier_amar, @zackwhittaker, and @zackwhittaker
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Amazon shareholders reject two non-binding proposals to ban sale of facial recognition tech to government customers, despite pressure from ACLU and others — Amazon shareholders have rejected two proposals that would have requested the company not to sell its facial recognition technology to government customers.
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| Ginny Marvin / Search Engine Land: |
Google begins rolling out an updated mobile search design with a black “ad” label and favicons for all organic results — The new look brings some branding to the search results, and preps the mobile search for more types of content and actions for users to take right from the search results.
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| Michael Novinson / CRN: |
Google says it's experiencing indexing issues that may cause stale search results; users searching for fresh news from sites including NYT or WSJ get no results — The bug has prevented new content from being indexed in Google search results, and is most obvious when using the ‘past hour’ search filter.
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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Source says Medium has 200K-400K paying subscribers, which at $50 per user amounts to a minimum of $10M per year from subscriptions alone — For Medium CEO Ev Williams, building a profitable business isn't an immediate concern. — “We're focused on building revenue and building a subscription business … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
UNESCO says AI assistants are reinforcing gender stereotypes by mostly defaulting to female-sounding voices, urges better safeguards against gendered language — Female-sounding default voices perpetuate antiquated, harmful ideas about women — Artificial intelligence-powered voice assistants …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Valve launches a dedicated Steam Chat app for iOS and Android, which includes many key features of the desktop chat client such as Invite Links and Group Chats — Valve announced that the new Steam Chat mobile app has gone live as a free chat app iOS and Android platforms.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Transport for London says it will roll out default WiFi device tracking on the Underground this summer, after a trial in 2016, to improve analytics and more — Transport for London will roll out default wi-fi device tracking on the London Underground this summer, following a trial back in 2016.
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WIRED UK, Engadget, The Verge, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @lukolejnik, @jonporty, @hautepop, @psychscientists, @psythor, @psythor, @psythor, @psythor, and @psythor
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
EE says it will roll out the UK's first 5G network on May 30, beating Vodafone by a month, in six cities, including London, Edinburgh, and Belfast — Coming to six cities at launch — EE's 5G network will launch in the UK next week on May 30th, four days before Vodafone launches its rival service on July 3rd.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
TransferWise discloses a new $292M secondary round led by Lead Edge Capital, Lone Pine Capital, and Vitruvian Partners at a $3.5B valuation — TransferWise, the London-headquartered international money transfer service, is disclosing a new $292 million secondary round that sees investors value the company at $3.5 billion.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
All but the largest Apple device resellers have vanished from Amazon's marketplace six months after Apple cut a deal with the retail giant — A small online business owner from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bumstead specializes in refurbishing and selling old MacBooks, models he typically buys from recyclers and fixes up himself.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google and UCSD research: of the 27 hacking service providers contacted online to hijack test Gmail accounts, ten never replied and only five launched attacks — Survey of 27 hacker-for-hire services found that only five launched attacks against victims. — Hacker-for-hire services available online …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
After eight months of alpha testing, the first official version of Tor Browser for Android has been released on the Play Store — After eight months of alpha testing, Tor Browser for Android is now ready for rollout. — Today, the Tor Project released on the Google Play Store the first stable version of the Tor Browser for Android.
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| Alex Moss / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Federal court ruling affirmed the right to share copyrighted material for criticism and helped EFF protect a Reddit commenter's anonymity — A fight over unmasking an anonymous Reddit commenter has turned into a significant win for online speech and fair use.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Box revamps its workplace automation tool Relay, launched with IBM in 2016, and updates Box Tasks and File Request Links — Box debuted Relay, a business process automation tool designed to string together recruiting, budgeting, and sales activities across a range of systems, back in September 2016.
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| Ryan Browne / CNBC: |
Toronto-based online investment management platform Wealthsimple raises $75M round led by Allianz X and says it now has 150,000 clients — KEY POINTS — The round was led by the digital investment arm of Germany's Allianz, with additional backing coming from early investor Power Financial.| Keith Barry / Consumer Reports: |
Testing finds Tesla's updated Autopilot software, designed to make changing lanes “more seamless”, does not work well and could create safety risks for drivers — CR finds that latest version of Tesla's automatic lane-changing feature is far less competent than a human driver
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Tweets: @neilcybart, @cgrantwsj, @nickbunkley, and @jyarow
| Taylor Dixon / iFixit: |
A close look at Apple's Taptic Engine and how it uses software integration and resonance to make haptic feedback feel better in its devices than the competition — In its endless quest to produce an iPhone that has even fewer physical features than the last, Apple made its iconic home button virtual …
Tweets: @kevinpurdy, @bjorn, and @ifixit
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