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US CBP says photos of travelers into and out of the country were accessed in breach of subcontractor, first learned of on May 31, fails to say how many affected — U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed a data breach has exposed the photos of travelers and vehicles traveling in and out of the United States.
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn says it has enough capacity to make all US iPhones outside of China if required should the trade war escalate further — - Main assembler Foxconn says it's got enough non-China capacity — Apple has so far not asked its Taiwanese partner to shift gear
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| Rani Molla / Vox: |
Mary Meeker releases her 333-page Internet Trends 2019 report showing growing e-commerce, expanded US ad spending, rising number of gamers, 51% of world online — Here are all the slides, plus analysis. — It's the holiday season for data nerds: That is, Mary Meeker is delivering …
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| South China Morning Post: |
Inside Huawei's seven-year quest to build its own OS, which, sources say, started in 2012 as a precaution against the possibility of US ban — The OS issue took an extra urgency after the US government in mid-May placed Huawei and its affiliates on a trade blacklist One of the biggest technical challenges … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
After shutting down its Research and Onavo programs, Facebook releases its similar Study From Facebook app for Android, saying it's more transparent than before — Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has no plans to add more backward compatible titles for Xbox One, but says Project Scarlett will run games from all four Xbox generations — No more Xbox 360 and Xbox additions to the catalog — Microsoft is winding down new additions to its Xbox backward compatibility catalog.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
RapidAPI, which developers use to search for, pay and connect to public APIs, raises $25M Series B led by Microsoft's M12 — APIs — the lightweight programming interfaces used by developers to integrate other applications with theirs, or to help their apps integrate with others …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon will shut down its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the US on June 24, after closing in the UK late last year — Amazon will shutter its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the U.S. later this month, GeekWire has learned. — Amazon Restaurants first launched in Seattle back in 2015.
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| Daniel Welsh / HuffPost UK: |
Radiohead says they're releasing 18 hours' worth of unheard music to benefit climate change group, after hackers stole lead singer's files and attempted ransom — Activist group Extinction Rebellion will benefit too. — Radiohead has announced that they're releasing 18 hours' worth of unheard music …
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| Jeff Jarvis / Whither news?: |
Publishers, lobbying for laws around the world that will help them extract payments from platforms like Google for linking to news, are ruining the internet — Around the world, news industry trade associations are corruptly cashing in their political capital — …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Opera launches Opera GX, the world's first gaming-focused browser, with a built-in system to limit the browser's CPU and RAM usage, so other apps run unhindered — Opera GX released in early access; currently only available for Windows users. — Today, Opera Software …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Brex, which provides corporate credit cards to tech startups, raises $100M round led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund at a $2.6B valuation — It has been a whirlwind 12 months for fledgling fintech startup Brex, which launched last June with $57 million in funding from some big-name investors …
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| Liz Pelly / The Baffler: |
How Spotify's vast access to mood-related data is valuable to brands and advertisers, allowing them to target its listening audience by their emotional states — Spotify pursues emotional surveillance for global profit — MUSIC IS EMOTIONAL, and so our listening often signals something deeply personal and private.
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| Lewis White / MSPoweruser: |
Microsoft announces updates to Xbox gamertags, including ten new alphabets and Discord-like hashcodes that will allow gamers to select any gamertag — MrStark#0528, I don't feel so good. — Major Nelson has confirmed that Xbox's iconic Gamertag system will be changing in the future.
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Intel acquires Barefoot Networks, which specializes in making programmable networking chips; Barefoot had raised ~$155M from Tencent, Alibaba, HPE, and others — When it launched out of stealth just three years ago, Barefoot Networks was hailed as a company that would transform the way a generation … | Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
A look at Grover, an AI system that is skilled at writing convincing fake news on myriad topics, which researchers created in order to reliably detect fake news — “To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” — One of the biggest problems in media today is so-called “fake news,” …
Tweets: @allen_ai and @ingridlunden
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces general availability of Amazon Personalize, its fully-managed AI-powered recommendation service for AWS customers, starting in select regions — Delivering personalized experiences to customers just got easier, thanks to Amazon. The Seattle company today announced … | Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
A look at the rise of Facebook “blessings groups”, peer-to-peer aid groups where people ask for small amounts of money for help with pressing needs — About a month ago, Heather Wiley, a new mom, was scrolling through a Facebook group for mothers when she came across a post that made her heart break.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz and @taylorlorenz
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Facebook has quietly made changes to limit Graph Search over the weekend, following privacy scandals, says it will work with researchers affected by the changes — Facebook's Graph Search allowed anyone to search a wealth of public data on Facebook in very specific ways …
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| Financial Times: |
Volkswagen ends its relationship with Aurora, the Amazon-backed self-driving start-up; source says Volkswagen could reach a deal with Ford's Argo AI by summer — Volkswagen has ended its relationship with Aurora, the Silicon Valley self-driving start-up backed by Amazon … | Zachary Crockett / The Hustle: |
How one restaurant owner asked for 1-star Yelp reviews in 2014 and became famous as a vigilante hero among small business owners who were unhappy with Yelp — How one small business owner flipped the online review ecosystem on its head. — In 2014, chef Davide Cerretini advertised a special …
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| New York Times: |
Ten state attorneys general file suit in New York to oppose the T-Mobile-Sprint merger over concerns about pricing and competition — A group of 10 state attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday in a bid to block a proposed merger between the wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint …
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Sensor Tower data: following Snapchat's new gender-swapping and baby filters, global downloads in May reached 41.5M, up from 16.8M in the previous month — But can the company build on the momentum? — Last month, Snapchat achieved the kind of virality most companies can only dream of.Sponsor Posts
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