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Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 may end up raising less than half of the planned $108B, with nearly all of its capital coming from SoftBank itself — The new pool could end up being less than half its planned size, with nearly all of its capital coming from SoftBank itself
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Sources: the Trump admin has bought access to a database tracking locations of millions of phones in the US and is using it for immigration and border control — Commercial database that maps movements of millions of cellphones is deployed by immigration and border authorities
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
A group calling itself OurMine briefly compromised Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts, seemingly via a third-party service called Khoros — OurMine is taking credit for the hacks — Several of Facebook's Twitter and Instagram accounts were hijacked this evening …
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Interviews with 25+ current and former Darktrace employees reveal the troubling influence of top Autonomy executives on the UK-based cybersecurity startup — Former Darktrace board member Sushovan Hussain (above) is appealing a five-year prison sentence for his role in the disastrous HP Autonomy deal.
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| Reuters: |
Coronavirus exposes China's surveillance state as apps show locations of the infected, cameras detect people with fevers and identify them even with masks, more — BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) - When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
LA-based ridesharing company HopSkipDrive raises $22M, says it now has deals with school districts in 13 markets across eight states — It's no secret that it's hard to make the economics work at rideshare companies. That may explain the success to date of HopSkipDrive, a six-year-old …
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Instagram has internally prototyped an Instagram Partner Program that will let IGTV creators earn money by inserting ads in their videos — Instagram may finally let IGTV video makers earn money 18 months after launching the longer-form content hub. Instagram confirms to TechCrunch …
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| New York Times: |
The number of reported videos related to online child sex abuse reached 41M in 2019, surpassing the number of reported photos; Facebook found 85% of the total — In a first, videos outnumbered photos in reports to the authorities last year. Facebook found the most imagery, the bulk of it on its Messenger app.
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| Nirave Gondhia / Android Central: |
Motorola Razr review: front quick view display is useful but bumps can be felt while using the foldable screen, poor battery life, and the camera is lackluster — Too many compromises, for too much money. — Motorola RAZR: The review — Stunning design — Folding display — Average Battery
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
For the first time, Netflix details the government takedown requests it received, says it's removed 9 pieces of content around the world since it was founded — Netflix has taken down just 9 pieces of content around the world in response to written government requests since it was founded 23 years ago … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cloud data warehouse vendor Snowflake announces $479M round, led by Dragoneer with participation from Salesforce, at a $12.4B valuation, up from $3.9B in 2018 — - Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman said the company generated well over $100 million in revenue in 2019.
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How predictive algorithms are increasingly being used to set police patrols, prison sentences, and probation rules in the US and Europe — Across the United States and Europe, software is making probation decisions and predicting whether teens will commit crime. Opponents want more human oversight.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Facebook says it has received 15K bug reports in 2019, awarded about $2.2M in bounties for 1,300 of them, up from ~$1.1M for 700 bugs in 2018 — A few months ago, Facebook disclosed that apps were siphoning data from up to 9.5 million of its users. They only found out thanks to a bug bounty submission.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Paystand, which is building a blockchain-based platform to make B2B transactions as easy as Venmo payments are for consumers, raises $20M Series B — Paystand has raised $20 million to modernize commercial payments using its blockchain-based platform so that paying a corporate bill is as easy …
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Business Wire, CoinDesk, The Block, Cointelegraph, Ledger Insights, FinSMEs, and Finextra
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64-core AMD Threadripper 3990X CPU review: great for rendering and scientific computing but has the same performance as AMD's 32-core CPU for other applications — The recent renaissance of AMD as the performance choice in the high-end x86 market has been great for consumers, enabling a second offering at the top-end of the market.
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