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Google has released a dataset of ~3,000 deepfake videos to help researchers develop deepfake detection techniques — Deep learning has given rise to technologies that would have been thought impossible only a handful of years ago. Modern generative models are one example of these …
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| Laura Kayali / Politico: |
Google refuses to pay publishers in France, first to apply EU's copyright law, will only show headlines and thumbnails, unless publisher asks to add previews — The announcement pours cold water on publishers' hopes of getting more money from Google after an EU reform of online copyright law.
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Bloomberg, Financial Times, The Keyword, The Next Web, and Seeking Alpha
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
eBay announces CEO Devin Wenig is leaving the company and appoints CFO Scott Schenkel as interim CEO — Online commerce giant eBay has announced that CEO, president, and company director Devin Wenig is leaving the company, with former chief financial officer (CFO) Scott Schenkel stepping in to the hotseat on an interim basis.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it doesn't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content, generally assuming it is newsworthy, even if it violates Facebook policies — Facebook confirms it won't fact-check politicians' speech or block their content if it's newsworthy even if it violates the site's hatespeech rules or other policies.
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Facebook, Geek.com, Axios, Mashable, USA Today, Business Insider, and The Hill
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| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Kuo: 2020 iPhones will have a new metal frame structure similar to iPhone 4 to reduce the negative impact of metal on the efficiency of the internal antenna — Apple will unveil redesigned iPhones next year that boast a new metal frame structure reminiscent of the iPhone 4 …
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Gizmodo, Macworld, AppleInsider, Inquirer, The Verge, iMore, 9to5Mac, Neowin, iDownloadBlog.com, MacDailyNews, MSPoweruser, Cult of Mac, Mashable, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @rsgnl
| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Leaked TikTok content moderation guidelines reveal how it censors videos mentioning Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or Falun Gong — Leak spells out how social media app advances China's foreign policy aims — TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned social network …
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Wired, Financial Times, Business Insider, and Slashdot
Tweets: @wongmjane, @neerajka, @aaronzlewis, @drewledrew, @alexhern, @charlesrollet1, @elliottzaagman, @elinor_carmi, @charlesarthur, @elliottzaagman, @alexhern, @profcarroll, @michellebee, @niemanlab, @terri_rupar, @newyorker, and @jjding99. Thanks:@alexhern
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann is resigning as CEO, will be nonexecutive chairman of We Co.; source: his voting shares will be reduced in power from 10:1 to 3:1 — - WeWork CEO Adam Neumann will step down but retain his seat as nonexecutive chairman, the company says.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft opens registrations for public preview of Project xCloud, coming in October to US, UK, and Korea, starting with Android devices — Available in the coming weeks in the US, UK, and Korea — Microsoft is starting to accept registrations for its upcoming Project xCloud game streaming preview.
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| Michael Muchmore / PCMag: |
Adobe launches Fresco, an iPad app for painting that supports oil, watercolor, and vectors, with a limited version available for non-Creative Cloud users — Adobe today announced the availability of its much-anticipated iPad drawing app, Fresco, which supports the Apple Pencil and uses AI …
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| Tim Baysinger / The Wrap: |
Comscore settles with SEC on charges the firm and its ex-CEO made false statements, engaging in a fraudulent scheme to overstate revenue by ~$50M from 2014-2016 — Media analytics firm is accused of overstating revenue by $50 million, making false statements about performance
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U.S. Securities …, Engadget, Variety, The Verge, Gizmodo, New York Post, Fortune, Marketing Land, Business Insider, and CNBC
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
After many years in the lab, Boston Dynamics will begin selectively leasing its four-legged robot Spot, which can keep its balance under extreme circumstances — A new leasing program is putting dozens of robots to work in the real world — Boston Dynamics is letting its first major robot out of the lab.
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| South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba unveils its first AI chip, the Hanguang 800, used within Alibaba for product search, translation, and recommendations, not for sale to third parties yet — The chip's launch comes amid a national drive by China to integrate emerging technologies such as AI and next generation 5G wireless networks …
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Nikkei Asian Review, TechCrunch, and CNBC
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Report: analysis of ~2,000 malware samples attributed to Russian state-sponsored hacking groups shows that the groups rarely share code with one another — A first-of-its-kind research project highlights the connections between nearly 2,000 samples of Russian APT malware.
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Forbes, Intezer, and CyberScoop
Tweets: @checkpointsw, @privacydigest, @a_greenberg, @ingridlunden, @miss_cybernaut, and @wired
| Anna Wiener / New Yorker: |
An excerpt from “Uncanny Valley”, a memoir on the aspiration, ambivalence, and disillusionment of Silicon Valley startup culture — Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns. — Depending on whom you ask, 2012 represented the apex, the inflection point …
Tweets: @tmytrn, @oteghauwagba, @devapriyaroy, @laurengoode, @laurenzcollins, @triketora, @newyorker, and @ivan_brussels
| CBS Pittsburgh: |
Google contract workers in Pittsburgh, employed by IT services provider HCL, vote to join the United Steelworkers union in a 49 vs 24 vote — PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - About 80 contracted Google employees voted to join the United Steelworkers union. — The workers voted in favor of unionization …
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VICE, The Verge, United Steelworkers, Pittsburgh City Paper, Bloomberg, The Guardian, Bloomberg Law, Mashable, Business Insider, VentureBeat, CNET, and Wired
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Azure Sentinel, Microsoft's cloud-based security information and event management service, hits general availability, with prices starting at $2.46 per GB — Pricing starts at $2.46 per gigabyte (GB) of ingested data. — Microsoft today took Azure Sentinel out of public preview …
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microsoft.com, WinBuzzer, and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @ajohnsocyber, @cyberhayden, @adhall_msft, @sarahfender, @lauradelhy, @saemin4655, and @gossithedog
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Fidel, which offers an API to enable developers to build on top of payment card data from Visa/Mastercard, raises $18M Series A co-led by Nyca Partners and QED — Fidel, the U.K.-headquartered startup that offers an API to let developers build functionality, such as rewards … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it is working to fix a bug in iOS 13 and iPadOS that may grant “full access” to third-party keyboards by mistake — Apple is warning users of an iOS bug involving third-party keyboards. — In a brief advisory posted Tuesday, the tech giant said the bug impacts third-party keyboards …
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Apple Support, CNN, Threatpost, MacRumors, Inquirer, BetaNews, The Next Web, Softpedia News, CBS Pittsburgh, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, BleepingComputer, iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, and The Verge
Tweets: @tomwarren, @nakedsecurity, @_am1t, @zutalorz, and @verge
| Joseph Marks / Washington Post: |
Lawmakers say the White House has been withholding details of its offensive hacking strategy used for cyber warfare for over a year — The Trump administration is blocking Congress from auditing a secret hacking policy it has already used for cyberattacks on Russia and Iran … | Arman Tabatabai / TechCrunch: |
Arceo.ai, a cyber insurance platform for insurers and companies that uses data analytics, raises $37M led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Founders Fund — Critical cyber attacks on both businesses and individuals have been grabbing headlines at an alarming rate.
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Business Insider and PR Newswire
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home, as a pilot for employees in Seattle — - Amazon just launched Amazon Care, a virtual primary care clinic with an option for nurses to visit employees in the home.
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Business Insider, GeekWire, Engadget, Axios, PYMNTS.com, Xconomy, hitconsultant.net, Financial Times, The Verge, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @rasushrestha, @shomikghosh21, @runaislam, @rtmccombs, @ranimolla, @jamescthorne, @jorgecondebio, @chasedave, @chrissyfarr, @drorpoleg, and @elizabeth_joh. Thanks:@varun_mathur
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
TigerGraph, which offers a suite of enterprise graph database tools, raises $32M Series B led by private equity firm SIG, bringing its total raised to ~$60M — TigerGraph, a Redwood City, California-based software developer providing a suite of enterprise graph database tools …
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ZDNet and SiliconANGLE
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