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Some users' Google Photos videos in Takeout backups were exported to strangers between November 21-25, 2019; those affected were notified by email — With Google Takeout, you can download your data from Google apps as a backup or for use with another service.
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Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built Iowa caucus app used by workers that caused delays in reporting results — Shadow, a Democratic digital firm, created the app that was supposed to deliver quicker caucus results.
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Twitter says it has suspended “a large network of fake accounts” and many others for abusing an API feature that let them match phone numbers to usernames — Twitter announced today that over the holidays it identified and shut down “a large network of fake accounts,” … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Alphabet breaks out revenue numbers for YouTube ads for the first time: $4.7B in Q4 revenue and $15.15B in fiscal 2019, up from $11.16B YoY — We've never before known how much money YouTube generates — YouTube generated nearly $5 billion in ad revenue in the last three months …
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Nvidia's GeForce Now game streaming service launches from beta with Steam, Epic Games Store, Battle.net, and Uplay support, rivaling Google Stadia at $5/month — The BYOG cloud gaming service with Steam, Epic, Battle.net, and Uplay support — For the past eight years …
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Facebook debuts more controls for parents in Messenger Kids like the ability to view recent chat history, a log of chat images, remote device logout, and more — We launched Messenger Kids in 2017 after meeting with thousands of parents, parenting organizations, child safety advocates …
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Sources: top antitrust official Makan Delrahim has recused himself from DOJ's Google probe over a conflict of interest related to his past work for the company — Makan Delrahim, the Justice Department's head of antitrust, removed himself from examining the search giant over a conflict of interest … | Robert Armstrong / Financial Times: |
Mastercard CEO details why the company pulled out of Libra, says he had concerns about how Libra went from an “altruistic idea” to Calibra, a proprietary wallet — - Money laundering questons on Facebook's digital currency — Banga does not understand how Libra makes money
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Finix, a SaaS startup selling payments tech to other businesses, raises $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total raised to over $55M — This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised … | Michael Santoli / CNBC: |
Tesla's stock, up ~15% today, has more than tripled in under 4 months, from $255 on Oct. 23 to ~$900; 12K+ Robinhood users bought TSLA for the first time Monday — Jim Cramer: Tesla is a tech company and must be valued as one — Yes, there's an entrenched short base that's getting torched …
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Amid virus outbreak, authorities in China are using its vast surveillance network to identify potential carriers, ostracizing even those without the symptoms — The authorities hunt for people from Wuhan, the center of the outbreak, encouraging citizens to inform on others.
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Researchers detail EKANS ransomware, which is targeting industrial control systems and appears to be the work of cybercriminals rather than nation-state hackers — EKANS appears to be the work of cybercriminals, rather than nation-state hackers—a worrying development, if so.| Davey Alba / New York Times: |
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw is testing Assembler, a tool to identify doctored photographs, even ones created with the help of AI, with over a dozen news organizations — The company, owned by Google's parent, introduced a free tool it calls Assembler to sort out real images from fake ones.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based Top Hat, which makes software tools for teachers in higher education, raises $55M Series D co-led by Georgian Partners and Inovia Capital — Toronto-based Top Hat, a company that makes a number of software tools for teachers in higher education, today announced that it has raised … | Ian King / Bloomberg: |
The chip industry had its worst slump in almost two decades as revenue fell 12% to $412B in 2019, the biggest drop since 2001, due to the US-China trade war — The semiconductor industry last year suffered its worst annual slump in almost two decades, hurt by a trade war between the largest chip producer …
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Asana says it has confidentially filed to go public via a direct listing; the startup has raised about $213M to date and was last valued at ~$1.5B in 2018 — Workplace productivity toolmaker Asana announced late Monday that they have confidentially filed their S-1 and said in a statement … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower: Byte, a short-form video app from Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann, had ~1.3M downloads during its first week, with 70% of installs happening in the US — New short-form video app Byte, heralded as Vine's successor, is off to a strong start despite its issues.
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HPE acquires zero-trust authentication startup Scytale, which was founded by the creators of open source projects SPIFFE and SPIRE and had raised $8M to date — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. today said that it has acquired Scytale Inc., a startup that develops so-called zero-trust security software …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Labelbox raises $25M Series B, led by a16z, to grow its data-labeling platform for AI model training — Labelbox today announced the close of a $25 million Series B funding round to grow its data-labeling platform made to suppy customers with labeled data necessary to train AI systems.
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Freight marketplace Emerge raises $20M Series A, led by NewRoad Capital Partners, at a $100M+ valuation and says it has processed $1B+ in freight — Trucking is currently the most popular mode of transporting freight in the US, accounting for around $12.5 billion of the $17 billion freight market …
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