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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Researchers find bugs in Google and Samsung camera apps from before July 2019 that could record video, take pictures, and extract GPS data without permission — A new vulnerability has been found in the Camera apps for millions, if not hundreds of millions, of Android devices that could allow …
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Checkmarx, Ars Technica, International Business Times, Android Police, TalkAndroid.com, Dark Reading, Android Central, XDA Developers, SamMobile, Gizchina, The Hacker News, Fossbytes, Tech Xplore, The Next Web, Phandroid, ZDNet, Telecoms.com, and CNET
Tweets: @rvawonk, @scmagazine, @0xmatt, @arunsub, and @lukolejnik
| Joel Marcey / Facebook Developers: |
Facebook outlines effort to migrate its internal default development environment to Visual Studio Code, and enhancing its remote development experience — History — Facebook engineers have written millions of lines of code. There is no mandated development environment. Some developers use vim.
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Windows Central, Neowin, WinBuzzer, MSPoweruser, OnMSFT.com, and Seeking Alpha
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| Drew Harwell / Washington Post: |
Amazon's Ring says police can request 12 hours of video footage from users near suspected crime scenes, keep the video forever, and share it with anyone — Police officers who download videos captured by homeowners' Ring doorbell cameras can keep them forever and share them with whomever …
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U.S. Senator Ed Markey …, Engadget, Business Insider, Axios, The Verge, The Daily Dot, The Intercept, Fight for the Future, MediaNama, and KnowTechie
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Malware that steals cryptocurrency found embedded in some versions of Monero's official client app available on its site; Monero team says it is investigating — The Monero Project is currently investigating a potential compromise of the official website after a coin stealer was found … | Bloomberg: |
Alibaba has raised ~$11.2B in its Hong Kong share sale, after pricing 500M new shares at HK$176, in one of the largest equity offerings this year — - Company priced 500 million new shares at HK$176 each — Alibaba's share sale is among the world's largest this year
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| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Facebook begins rolling out new “brand safety” tools to let advertisers control the content their ads appear around, including white-listing publishers — - Facebook announced a slate of new “brand safety” tools for advertisers Wednesday, a way to let advertisers have more control over the content where their ads appear.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says it has begun construction of its $1B Austin, Texas campus, opening in 2022, as Trump is scheduled to tour the nearby Mac Pro production plant — Apple has announced that it has begun construction of its new Austin, Texas, campus, on the day that President Trump is due to tour …
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| VICE: |
Anonymous users on Reddit, Patreon, and other websites are making, selling, and getting off to custom 3D likenesses of celebrities and other real people — \u003Cp\u003EYou can buy a belly button online. It can be an innie, outtie, twisted to the left or the right, and placed on a virtual body.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Gravitational raises $25M Series A, led by Kleiner Perkins, to help developers with cloud deployment using Kubernetes — As we move into an increasingly multi-cloud world, there is a portability problem moving applications between clouds. Gravitational wants to fix that, and today it announced a $25 million Series A.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Facebook quietly releases Whale, a meme-making iOS app, in Canada — The app was quietly released in Canada last week — Last week, Facebook quietly released a new meme-making app called Whale, The Information reports. The app is currently only available on the Canadian App Store … | Brad Templeton / Forbes: |
NTSB finds Uber's safety driver the primary cause of fatal Tempe crash, also blames lack of “safety culture” at Uber; AI not detecting jaywalkers played no role — The National Transportation Safety Board presented its findings today on the fatal crash involving an Uber test robocar and Elaine Herzberg.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Starburst, which is seeking to modernize data analytics with the open source Presto distributed query engine, raises $22M led by Index Ventures — Starburst, the company that's looking to monetize the open-source Presto distributed query engine, today announced that it has raised … Thanks:@andreesa
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Vayyar, which builds radar-imaging chips, sensors, and software, for auto and IoT applications, raises $109M Series D led by Koch Disruptive Technologies — The future of the connected home, connected car and connected everything will have a lot of imaging technology at the center of it …
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VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Tech.eu, Reuters, PR Newswire, and NoCamels. Tweets: @ingridlunden. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Pratik Bhakta / The Economic Times: |
Bengaluru-based Perfios, a credit decisioning and analytics company, raises $50M Series B led by Warburg Pincus and Bessemer Venture Partners — Founded by V R Govindarajan and Debashish Chakraborty, Perfios is a credit decisioning and analytics company which works with over 200 banks, non-bank lenders and fintech startups
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KrASIA, Livemint, VCCircle, YourStory.com, and Inc42 Media
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces Your News Update, an Assistant-powered audio feature that chooses stories based on interests, location, and more, available first in the US — It plays from a variety of sources instead of just the few you hand-pick — Google is rolling out a new service for Google Assistant that it's calling “Your News Update.”| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Pensa Systems raises $10M in additional seed funding for its tech that can help retailers automatically track in-store inventory using AI and autonomous drones — Pensa Systems, an Austin startup with its eye on “eliminating” a trillion dollar blind spot for the retail industry, has raised $10 million in additional seed funding.Thanks:@ginamanassero
| Paul Alcorn / Tom's Hardware: |
Cerebras Systems announces CS-1, an AI compute system powered by the world's largest chip; Argonne National Lab is using the first systems for basic research — Cerebras' world's largest chip takes compute to a whole new level. — Cerebras Systems' announced its new CS-1 system here at Supercomputing 2019.| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Sources: ~20 Google employees staged a protest at Google offices during the interrogation of two staffers who have now been placed on administrative leave — - Google employees held a protest in San Francisco days before the company ended its long-held TGIF meetings, according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC.
Tweets: @carnage4life, @sal19, and @stautistic
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Neon, which operates a digital bank in Brazil with nearly 2M accounts, has raised $94M in a round led by Banco Votorantim and General Atlantic — Neon, which operates a digital bank in Brazil, has reportedly raised $94 million in funding in a round led by Banco Votorantim and General Atlantic …
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