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DOJ charges a Russian citizen, accusing him of leading a hacker group called “Evil Corp” behind the Dridex malware, which allegedly stole $100M+ from banks — U.S. prosecutors have brought computer hacking and fraud charges against a Russian citizen, Maksim Yakubets … | Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: Apple to launch an iPhone in 2021 without a Lightning port, offering a “completely wireless experience”, and an iPhone SE with Touch ID in the power button — Apple plans to launch an iPhone without a Lightning connector in 2021, according to a research note from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo obtained by MacRumors.
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Huawei files a lawsuit in a US appeals court against an FCC order that bans rural carriers from using federal subsidies to buy Huawei's equipment — Huawei says FCC order is unlawful as it does not give Huawei required due process protections in labelling the company as a national security threat …
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Jerome Pesenti, VP of AI at Facebook, on using AI for content moderation, limitations of deep learning and current AI, commercializing AI research, and more — Jerome Pesenti is encouraged by progress in artificial intelligence, but sees the limits of the current approach to deep learning.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: FTC investigators, who have been looking into Amazon's e-commerce business, have begun asking software companies about Amazon's practices around AWS — - FTC said to broaden Amazon inquiry beyond online retail — Amazon's cloud business leads market over No. 2 Microsoft
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Kashmiris, who are subject to an ongoing four month internet shutdown, are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform's policy on inactive accounts — On Wednesday, Kashmiris began disappearing from WhatsApp — and no one initially knew why. Citizens of the disputed geographical territory …
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Imgur says it now has 300M MAU and launches Melee, an iOS app where users see a feed of memes and gameplay clips for the games to which they subscribe — 10 years after debut, 300 million monthly user Imgur is one of the last massively popular yet unpersonalized home pages on the internet.
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Figure, the lending platform led by Mike Cagney, who resigned as CEO of SoFi due to sexual harassment allegations, raises $103M Series C at a $1.2B valuation — Figure, a San Francisco-based consumer lending platform, raised $103 million in Series C funding led by Morgan Creek Digital at a $1.2 billion valuation.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC investigation finds Verizon, T-Mobile, and US Cellular exaggerated 4G coverage in official filings to the FCC; Ajit Pai has no plans to punish the carriers — FCC buries investigation's finding in 5G press release, won't punish carriers. — 49 with 42 posters participating
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Sao Paolo-based mobile game maker Wildlife Studios, which says it will reach 2B downloads by the end of 2019, raises $60M, at a valuation of $1.3B — Wildlife Studios has quietly reached more than 2 billion mobile game downloads in the past eight years, and that's one of the reasons … | Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
How the Basel Action Network, which embeds trackers in discarded devices to trace where they end up in the world, uncovered bad practices of an e-waste recycler — How an e-waste sting uncovered a shocking betrayal — Jim Puckett got the messages from his “little lie detectors.”
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DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, who has been on a leave for the past six months, is joining Google to work on “opportunities and impacts of applied AI” — The co-founder of DeepMind, the UK's leading artificial intelligence company, is leaving to take up a role at sister company Google in the US.| Munsif Vengattil / Reuters: |
Alibaba-backed Chinese startup AutoX applies to test self-driving vehicles without an in-car backup driver in California — (Reuters) - Chinese startup AutoX, backed by e-commerce giant Alibaba, has applied to test self-driving vehicles without an in-car backup driver in California … | Jason D. Rowley / Crunchbase News: |
Analysis: Series A and Series B rounds have annually accounted for between 21% and 37% of total $100M+ VC rounds across the globe since 2010 — It's become the norm for some private tech companies to raise in a single round what VC firms raise for an entire new fund.
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