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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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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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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| 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.| 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.| 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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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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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| 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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| 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 … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Twitter to soon let users follow interests, starting with sports, and create separate timelines for different topics; topics will be curated by Twitter using AI — A new way to explore interests on Twitter — Twitter will begin letting users follow interests, the company said today …
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| 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 …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Microsoft patches four wormable BlueKeep-like bugs in Remote Desktop Service, two of which can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction — Most Microsoft Windows (ab)users probably welcome the monthly ritual of applying security updates about as much as they look forward …
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Tweets: @msftsecresponse, @daveaitel, @malwarejake, @metr0, @tomwarren, @arstechnica, @n0x08, @briankrebs, @goretsky, @thezdi, @dangoodin001, and @campuscodi
| Ed Targett / Computer Business Review: |
Amazon says it has added “fear” to the range of emotions that its Rekognition facial recognition software can now detect — Release follows amid immigration protests — AWS has added “fear” to the range of emotions identified by its Amazon Rekognition facial analysis service …
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| 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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TechCrunch, The Keyword, ZDNet, 9to5Google, EdSurge, and G Suite Updates Blog. Tweets: @caseynewton
| 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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| Catherine Perloff / Forbes: |
Mason, which helps businesses like Outback Steakhouse design and manufacture custom hardware like tablets, raises $25M Series A and says it's profitable — Start a company today, and there's a playbook to follow. Need in-app messaging and phone calls? Plug in Twilio.| 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
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Boatsetter, a peer-to-peer boat rental marketplace, raises $10M Series A extension round led by WestCap Group and Valor Equity, bringing total raised to $31M — Obviously, not everyone owns their boat, and boat ownership is far more unique than car ownership - which makes it maybe …
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| Joseph Cox / VICE: |
Microsoft updates privacy policy to say employees or contractors may listen to recordings from Cortana and Skype Translator, after reports revealed the practice — The change comes after Motherboard found that Microsoft hired contractors to listen to some Skype phone calls.
Tweets: @josephfcox and @josephfcox
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| 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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