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Superhuman says it is removing location tracking, deleting location data, turning read statuses off by default, and building an option to disable remote images — I'm Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman. Over the last 24 hours, we have seen vigorous debate on pixel tracking within email …
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
Sources: Walmart is projecting losses of $1B+ for its US e-commerce division this year; e-commerce CEO Marc Lore is exhausted by internal politics — Walmart bought Jet.com to compete with Amazon, but Jet founder Marc Lore is feeling the heat as e-commerce losses surpass $1 billion.
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| Brendan Pierson / Reuters: |
Federal appeals court rules Amazon can be held liable for defective third-party seller products, says it enables vendors to conceal themselves from the customer — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday ruled against Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) in a case that could expose the online retailer …
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| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Unknown attackers are spamming OpenPGP certificates, breaking a core component of encryption software PGP and showing a fundamental weakness known for a decade — A new wave of spamming attacks on a core component of PGP's ecosystem has highlighted a fundamental weakness in the whole ecosystem.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Facebook says it has resolved outages that began at ~8am ET across News Feed, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger that caused issues loading images and more — The issue caused some images and features to break across all of Facebook's apps — Facebook had problems loading images, videos …
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| Allie Funk / Wired: |
Until the US Biometric Exit Program prioritizes privacy and resolves technical and legal shortcomings, airport travelers should opt out of facial recognition — Last month, I was at Detroit's Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Lines staff …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Broadcom is in advanced talks to acquire Symantec in a deal that could be reached in weeks; Symantec shares rise 13%+ — - CEO Tan has branched out into software already with CA deal — Chipmaker led wave of deals that reshaped the industry| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
UK competition agency launches investigation into how Google and Facebook collect and use user data and if they've abused their power to dominate the ad market — Competition watchdog to investigate potential abuse of power and control of user data — The UK competition watchdog has launched …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo granted permit to take part in California's autonomous vehicle passenger service pilot program; it can't charge riders and must have human safety drivers — Only Waymo employees and guests will get to ride at first — Waymo was awarded a permit by the California Public Utilities Commission …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
iOS 13 beta includes an ARKit-based FaceTime feature that makes it look as if users are looking into the camera even when looking at the image on the screen — Fake eye contact for improved intimacy — iOS 13's third developer beta includes a new feature that makes it look …
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| Daniel Kuhn / CoinDesk: |
Coinsquare, a Canadian crypto exchange, buys a controlling stake in payments software startup Just Cash to bring crypto transactions to non-bank ATMs in the US — Coinsquare, a Canadian cryptocurrency trading platform, announced it has bought an eight figure controlling stake in fintech software producer, Just Cash.
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Businesswire, Coinspeaker, CoinGeek, ETHNews, and Cointelegraph
Tweets: @coinsquare and @coinsquare
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
D-Link agrees to implement a new security program to settle a 2017 FTC complaint that alleged D-Link left thousands open to well-known attacks — Agreement settles charges D-Link left users open to critical and widespread threats. — Router and webcam maker D-Link has agreed to implement …
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