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Amazon says it is opening an office in Hyderabad, India, which will house over 15,000 employees, making it the company's biggest campus in the world — HYDERABAD (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Wednesday launched its biggest campus in the world in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad …
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Google and Mozilla say they will block the root certificate issued by the Kazakhstan government, which could be used to monitor users, in Chrome and Firefox — Google and Mozilla are taking action against the government of Kazakhstan's efforts to launch a surveillance operation against its own citizens.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils 10th-gen Comet Lake CPUs with up to 6 cores for thin and light laptops, based on its Skylake CPU architecture and 14nm process — Capping off a busy few weeks for processors for Intel, today the company is announcing the second half of their product stack for their low-power 10th generation Core processors.
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Facebook's conservative bias “audit” draws criticism from both sides after relying on interviews with 130 unnamed conservatives over internal data — Neither Republicans nor civil rights groups are happy.
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Apple is delaying its plans to limit third-party tracking and ads in kids' apps, which it planned to implement in Sept., after some developers raised concerns — Apple plans to change the rules it has for kids apps, raising concerns among some app developers about the way the tech giant wields power unilaterally over its App Store.
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YouTube says it is shutting down its Messages feature for mobile and web, introduced in 2017, to encourage usage of posts, comments, and stories — In August 2017, YouTube introduced a “Messages” feature for its mobile apps and later the web. Two years later, the Google video site announced …
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LinkedIn says it blocked or removed 21.6M fake accounts in the first half 2019, of which 19.5M were blocked at the registration stage — LinkedIn blocked or removed 21.6 million fake accounts on its platform from January to June of this year, a sign that the Microsoft-owned social network …
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Google says it has started rolling out AI-powered real-time spelling and grammar check features on Gmail for all G Suite users — Ever been stumped by spelling or sentence syntax while pecking out an email to colleagues? Fortunately for G Suite users, Google will soon introduce improved spelling … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Waymo releases a self-driving open data set with 1,000 segments of 20-second footage in a range of driving conditions, free for non-commercial research — Waymo is opening up its significant stores of autonomous driving data with a new ‘Open Data Set’ it's making available for the purposes of research.
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Sources: Alibaba has delayed its up to $15B listing in Hong Kong, initially set to launch in late August, amid growing political unrest — HONG KONG/NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's biggest e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has delayed its up to $15 billion listing … | TechCrunch: |
A roundup of the 82 companies that launched at Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Day 2, including logistics, e-commerce, real estate, and crypto startups — Team TechCrunch was back for Day 2 of Y Combinator's Summer 2019 Demo Days where we heard from another massive chunk of startups … | Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
WeWork offices use the same WiFi password across many locations and employ the weak WPA2 Personal security protocol, creating potential for abuse — The We Company sees itself as a world-changing tech platform. But it's used the same easy-to-guess password and dated Wi-Fi security for years.Thanks:@mariedomingo
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Adult website Luscious left data of 1M+ users exposed, including user email addresses, location data, the content they uploaded, liked, and shared — A popular hentai porn site that promises anonymity to its 1.1 million users left a user database exposed without a password, allowing anyone to identify users by their email addresses.
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vpnMentor, Threatpost, TechSpot, The Daily Dot, Mashable, Forbes, CNET, Gizmodo, The Next Web, ZDNet, Silicon Republic, and IT PRO. Tweets: @zackwhittaker
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Box unveils Box Shield, a set of native security controls with machine learning-powered threat detection for customers' cloud content, in private beta — With Box Shield, customers get machine learning-powered threat detection, as well as the ability to set classification-based security policies.
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Lyft has been sued at least seven times in August by women alleging sexual assault by drivers and little action from the company — The ride share giant has been sued at least seven times this month related to rides that allegedly ended with rape or sexual assault.
Tweets: @aishacs and @jason_koebler
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Apple Music launches a new chart, the Shazam Discovery Top 50, powered by Shazam data and featuring songs trending in the US and 10+ other countries — Apple continues to make use of Shazam, the music recognition app it acquired for $400 million in 2018. Earlier this month … | TechCrunch: |
DoorDash buys Scotty Labs, which raised $6M in VC funding to help remotely control self-driving cars, quietly hires co-founders of high precision map maker Lvl5 — DoorDash has been on an acquisition tear of late with Scotty Labs as its latest target. Terms of the deal were not disclosed … Sponsor Posts
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