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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei unveils HarmonyOS, a microkernel-based, distributed OS, which Huawei says is an alternative to Android in case it can no longer use Google's OS — Huawei's long-rumored Android alternative, Hongmeng, is finally official. At today's Huawei Developer Conference …
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| Uber: |
Uber reports Q2 revenue of $3.17B, up 14% YoY, net loss of $5.2B and a loss of ~$1.3B excluding stock based compensation, gross bookings of $15.8B, up 31% YoY — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Uber Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: UBER) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2019.
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| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
AMD announces second generation EPYC processing chips for data centers with better performance while using less power, adds Google and Twitter as customers — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today announced the launch of its second generation of EPYC processing chips for data centers …
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Sources: Facebook is offering millions of dollars to news outlets to license their content for a news section that the company hopes to launch later this year — Company approached ABC News, Dow Jones, Washington Post and Bloomberg as it plans to launch news section
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| Thomas Brewster / Forbes: |
Apple expands bug bounty to macOS, watchOS, and Apple TV, increases maximum payout to $1M, and will open the program to all researchers this fall — Apple is offering between $100,000 and $1 million for anyone who can hack an iPhone. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) — GETTY IMAGES
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Broadcom acquires Symantec's enterprise business for $10.7B in cash — KEY POINTS — U.S. President Donald Trump jokes with Broadcom CEO Hock Tan as he announces that Broadcom would be moving back to the U.S. in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Nov. 2, 2017.
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| Gethin Chamberlain / The Guardian: |
Amazon says it is investigating after leaked documents show Foxconn is requiring school children to illegally work overtime as interns to make Alexa devices — Leaked documents show children as young as 16 recruited by Amazon supplier Foxconn work gruelling and illegal hours
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: White House holds off a decision on licenses for US companies to restart sales to Huawei after Beijing said it was halting purchases of US farm goods — The White House is holding off on a decision about licenses for U.S. companies to restart business with Huawei Technologies Co …
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| Kim Zetter / VICE: |
ES&S claims that its election systems are never connected to the internet, but researchers find 35 ES&S systems in 10 states have been online over the last year — The top voting machine company in the country insists that its election systems are never connected to the internet.
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MacDailyNews, Engadget, Fortune, and The Verge
Tweets: @sarahjeong, @dwightshellman, @buckleup36, @chillmage, @hodgesmr, @derektmead, @learnonaut, @derektmead, @motherboard, @jason_koebler, @kimzetter, and @colinjones
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
After denying it broke Instagram's rules, Hyp3r says it has taken its services offline for now, and is planning to meet with Facebook as soon as next week — KEY POINTS — Facebook is setting up a meeting with Hyp3r, a marketing firm that was removed from Instagram after allegedly violating the social network's policies.
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Tweets: @robaeprice and @robaeprice
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub launches the beta of a new version of GitHub Actions with continuous integration and delivery capabilities built in, says it now has 40M+ users — Microsoft's GitHub today launched the beta of a new version of GitHub Actions with full continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) capabilities built right into the service.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Federal appeals court rules Facebook must face a class action suit claiming that its facial recognition practices violated an Illinois biometric privacy law — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook Inc's (FB.O) effort to undo a class action lawsuit claiming …
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Tweets: @natashanyt, @natashanyt, @libshipwreck, @natashanyt, @natashanyt, and @aprilaser
| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google Maps expands its beta AR walking navigation feature, called Live View, to all Android and iOS devices that support ARCore and ARKit, starting this week — Google wants its Maps app to be about more than just getting directions. The search giant on Thursday announced a handful …
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The Keyword, The Keyword, The Verge, Ars Technica, Search Engine Roundtable, Gizchina, Geek.com, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Tech.co, Search Engine Land, TechSpot, and ZDNet
Tweets: @google, @nattgarun, @aparnacd, @googleeurope, and @asianmack
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Check Point researchers: Facebook has failed to address a WhatsApp flaw that lets hackers alter messages and sender identities, a year after it was reported — Cybersecurity experts who found a way to hack WhatsApp and manipulate chat messages said on Wednesday that Facebook has failed to address the flaws …
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Check Point Research, TechSpot, Forbes, MediaNama, Softpedia News, The Next Web, Security Affairs, and Android Authority. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Securiti.ai, which is developing an automated platform that helps enterprises comply with privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA, raises $31M Series A — Cybercrime never sleeps. Juniper Research pegs the number of digital records that will be stolen in 2023 at 33 billion, compared with the 12 billion stolen in 2018.
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FinSMEs, Legaltech News, Forbes, WebWire, and SecurityWeek
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SignalWire raises $11.5M Series A led by Storm Ventures, with Samsung NEXT, Sequoia, others participating, for its open-source enterprise communication platform — SignalWire, Inc., a Palo Alto, Calif.-based provider of an open-source enterprise communication platform, closed an $11.5m Series A funding round.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Source: Mario Queiroz, the Google VP who heads its Pixel division, is leaving the hardware unit for a new job in the office of Sundar Pichai — Mario Queiroz, the Google VP who serves as general manager of its Pixel smartphone business, is leaving the hardware unit for a new job in the office of CEO Sundar Pichai, Axios has learned.
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Apple Podcasts, Android Authority, Business Insider, and 9to5Google
| Hugh Son / CNBC: |
Sources: Goldman Sachs is approving Apple Card applications for some users with low credit scores as Apple wants as many of its customers as possible approved — KEY POINTS — Goldman, which is in charge of deciding who gets the Apple Card, is accepting some applications from users …
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9to5Mac and Patently Apple
Tweets: @sruhle, @neilcybart, @hugh_son, @matthewhughes, and @stevekopack
| Leo Kelion / BBC: |
Researcher says one in four UK- and US-based companies contacted to test a GDPR “right of access” request made in someone else's name revealed personal data — About one in four companies revealed personal information to a woman's partner, who had made a bogus demand for the data by citing an EU privacy law.
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Tweets: @brianhonan, @privacymatters, @martinsfp, @iansherr, @lorenzofb, @cbridge_chief, @privacyforum, and @gcluley
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