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WeWork files to raise $1B in an IPO, reports a $904M net loss on around $1.5B in revenue for first half of 2019 — WeWork on Wednesday filed to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering, although the ultimate offering amount is expected to be at least three times larger.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Interview with Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on how the Tumblr acquisition came about, what's next for Tumblr, adult content in apps, and more — Blogging is back, hopefully — It's been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Court documents allege that the Capital One hacker took “terabytes of data” from over 30 companies, educational institutions, and other entities — New court documents reveal the government is investigating the Capital One hacker for 30+ other breaches.
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| Jordan Davis / Facebook: |
Facebook simplifies Groups' privacy settings, to public and private; “secret” Groups are now private and hidden, and “closed” Groups are now private and visible — As Mark Zuckerberg laid out earlier this year, social networks can serve as the digital equivalent of a town square or a living room.
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
About 200 Google employees sign a petition, saying they “refuse to be complicit” in potential cloud computing work for the US Customs & Border Protection agency — Workers are circulating a petition — Google employees are demanding that the company not bid … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: technicians from Huawei have, in at least two cases, personally helped African governments spy on their political opponents — Employees embedded with cybersecurity forces in Uganda and Zambia intercepted encrypted communications and used cell data to track opponents, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
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| Josh Taylor / The Guardian: |
Fingerprints of 1M+ people and biometric info from a system used by banks, London police, and defense contractors, discovered on a publicly accessible database — Fingerprints, facial recognition and other personal information from Biostar 2 discovered on publicly accessible database
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Leaked documents show that Microsoft's contractors are paid $12 to $14 an hour and are asked to work on as many as 200 audio clips per hour to train Cortana — Leaked documents show that Microsoft's contractors are paid between $12 and $14 an hour and are asked to transcribe …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services to protect against spam and spoofed robocalls — AT&T and T-Mobile have started rolling out cross-network call authentication services for their subscribers. That means the companies will now be able notify …
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Sources: Engineer.ai, which claims to offer human-assisted AI to automate app development, doesn't use AI, and instead relies on human engineers in India — SoftBank-backed startup offers ‘human-assisted’ artificial-intelligence; current, former employees say company inflates its tech expertise| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google says Course Kit, its toolkit for teachers launched last year, will now be called Assignments and be able to detect plagiarism — Google is introducing a handful of updates to its Google for Education program today — including a new tool that helps teachers check students' work for possible plagiarism.
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Chrome OS 76 begins rolling out with support for virtual desktops, Android-style media controls, and more — Following a bit of a hiccup when it came to the previous Chrome OS 75 release, Chrome OS 76 has been pushed to the Stable Channel and is rolling out to some devices.| Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg: |
Overstock.com shares fall ~36% over three days, after its CEO Patrick Byrne said he was part of “Deep State” federal investigations related to the 2016 election — Overstock.com Inc. shares fell for a third day Wednesday as investors reacted to statements by Chief Executive Officer Patrick Byrne …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Slack announces new administrator features for Plus and Enterprise customers, including announcement channels and workflow automation — Slack is making it easier for administrators to limit how employees talk to each other with notification channels that form a new kind of Slack chat space.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Misfit's Vapor X smartwatch with Wear OS, a 1.19-inch AMOLED display, and a Snapdragon Wear 3100 processor, goes on sale today for an initial price of $200 — Thanks to more RAM and newer chipsets, things are finally looking up for Wear OS in the performance department.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Some Credit Karma users say they were served other users' account information when they logged in; Credit Karma says it is a technical malfunction, not a breach — Users of credit monitoring site Credit Karmas have complained that they were served other people's account information when they logged in.
Tweets: @j0hnnyxm4s and @zackwhittaker
| Bloomberg: |
FAA sent airlines a reminder to follow 2016 safety instructions that ban goods with recalled batteries, like recently recalled MacBook Pros, from the planes — - FAA says some MacBook Pros shouldn't be taken on airplanes — Apple recently recalled select laptops over battery fire risk
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Tweets: @patrickmoorhead, @tomwarren, @snazzyq, @anildash, and @markgurman
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Facebook AI Research, DeepMind, NYU, and University of Washington debut SuperGLUE, a series of AI benchmarks to measure natural language processing performance — Facebook AI Research, together with Google's DeepMind, University of Washington, and New York University, today introduced SuperGLUE … | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Shopify launches a web chat feature called Shopify Chat to let customers talk to merchants, says it plans to expand it to SMS and Android in the future — Shopify's cohort of more than 800,000 merchants and small businesses have a new way to speak to customers today with the introduction of Shopify Chat.
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| Emily Birnbaum / The Hill: |
The House Homeland Security Committee subpoenas 8chan owner Jim Watkins, demanding that he appear before the committee on September 5 — The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday subpoenaed the owner of 8chan, the internet messaging board linked to three mass shootings this year, to testify before Congress.| The Verge: |
Caviar employees want DoorDash and Square to renegotiate transition packages; they have complained about issues with compensation, insurance, visa status, more — As the two companies work to close the deal, Caviar employees are caught in the middle — A group of Caviar employees … | John Timmer / Ars Technica: |
A closer look at what Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, hopes to accomplish beyond the existing work in this field — Neuralink will probably fail in interesting and worthwhile ways. — When Elon Musk first started talking about launching a brain-computer interface company …
Tweets: @arstechnica and @arstechnica
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco reports Q4 revenues of $13.43B, up 6% YoY, and revenues of $7.88B for Infrastructure Platforms, up 6% YoY; stock down 6%+ after hours after weak guidance — KEY POINTS — Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins being interviewed in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2016.
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