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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
Declassified study: NSA system to analyze American domestic call and text logs cost $100M from 2015 to 2019 and yielded only one significant investigation — A disputed program that allowed the National Security Agency to gain access to logs of Americans' domestic calls and texts yielded …
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| Daphne Leprince-Ringuet / ZDNet: |
HackerOne reports hackers on its platform, which doubled to 600K in 2019, received $40M in bounties in 2019, $82M total since 2012, with 7 hackers passing $1M — The bug bounty platform doubled in size in just a year. Its new report shows that ethical hacking is becoming a lucrative pastime.
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| Amal S / Reuters: |
Google says it will spend $10B on offices and data centers in the US this year, focusing on 11 states including MA and NY, down from $13B in 2019 — (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it would invest more than $10 billion in offices and data centers across the United States this year.
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| Betsy Swan / The Daily Beast: |
Clearview AI, provider of facial recognition search to police, says an intruder accessed its entire list of customers and how many searches they have conducted — Clearview AI, which contracts with law enforcement after reportedly scraping 3 billion images from the web, now says someone got …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google adds five new languages to Translate, including Uyghur, Turkmen, and Tatar, its first additions in four years, bringing its total to 108 — Five new languages for a total of 108 — Google Translate is adding support for five new languages today, bringing its total to 108 languages.
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it will now ban ads that promise to cure or prevent COVID-19, or attempt to “create a sense of urgency” about it — - Facebook is tightening up its rules on ads that reference the coronavirus outbreak. — It is banning ads that mentioned it if they attempt to …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
At Apple's shareholder meeting, Tim Cook says it will open its online store in India this year, with physical stores in 2021, and addresses COVID-19 concerns — - CEO hints wearables sales $40 billion; equal to Marriott, Visa — Company plans to open retail stores in India next year
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Plume, which develops an AI-powered adaptive home Wi-Fi mesh network system, raises $60M Series D at a $510M valuation, bringing its total raised to $127M — Plume, a Comcast-backed startup that develops an AI-powered adaptive home Wi-Fi mesh network system, has raised $85 million in a mixture of equity and debt financing.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Jury convicts ex-Microsoft engineer of 18 felonies after he stole $10M in digital currencies from the company and used it to make extravagant purchases — A former Microsoft worker was convicted of 18 federal felonies after he stole $10 million worth of digital currency from his ex-employer …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
D-Wave launches Leap 2, the latest version of its quantum cloud service for developers that can handle problems with up to 10,000 variables — D-Wave today announced the launch of Leap 2, the latest version of its quantum cloud service that gives developers real-time access to its hardware quantum systems.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
PayPal's looking into unauthorized transactions that appear to stem from its Google Pay integration; researcher says it may involve a bug reported but not fixed — All signs point to an attack exploiting PayPal's Google Pay integration. … Hackers have found a bug in PayPal's Google Pay integration …
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| Karandeep Singh / Android Police: |
Samsung says the S20 series came with its first dedicated security chip, called the Secure Element, separating memory from main storage — Our mobile operating systems are protected with adequate software-based security measures to keep the miscreants away, but there's always more that can be done.
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Bob Chapek has been named CEO of The Walt Disney Company, effective immediately; Bob Iger will serve as executive chairman through 2021 — Robert A. Iger Assumes Role of Executive Chairman through 2021 Mr. Iger Will Direct the Company's Creative Endeavors Mr. Chapek Brings 27 Years …
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| Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News: |
An in-depth look at what India's internet blackout looks like in Kashmir: social control with select media allowed, businesses crippled, the vulnerable isolated — Like the snowcapped mountains and grassy meadows, men with guns are part of the landscape in Kashmir.
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| Sophia Kunthara / Crunchbase News: |
Connected fitness startup Tempo, which uses AI to tailor workouts, raises $17.5M Series A from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and others — The connected fitness space just keeps growing. — Subscribe to the Crunchbase Daily — Tempo is the latest company to join the pack …
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| Rebekah Valentine / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, developer of Asgard's Wrath, for an undisclosed amount; the game studio will remain independent under Oculus Studios — Studio behind Asgard's Wrath to join Oculus Studios and continue VR development — Facebook has acquired Asgard's Wrath developer Sanzaru Games for an undisclosed amount.
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| Bloomberg: |
Autonomous vehicle startup Pony.ai says it has raised $462M in its latest funding round led by Toyota at a valuation of more than $3B — Toyota Motor Corp. invested $400 million in Pony.ai to strengthen its ties with the Chinese provider of driverless-car systems.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Invite Media reduced its assets before Google's $80M acquisition in 2010 to avoid requiring FTC approval, the kind of deal the FTC is now re-examining — The 2010 acquisition of Invite Media could come up for new scrutiny — Something unusual was underway in early 2010 at Invite Media …
Tweets: @mattrosoff, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @jason_kint, @ericnewcomer, and @alex
| Y Combinator: |
YC shares learnings across 190 Series As for founders with a term sheet that's the “fairest one possible”, an extensive Series A Guide, and more — We started YC's Series A Program two years ago to fix a problem faced by every startup raising an A: VCs understand how Series A's work and founders do not.| Salesforce: |
Salesforce says Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO but will still advise Marc Benioff; Gavin Patterson named President and CEO of Salesforce International — Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) today announced that Keith Block has stepped down as co-CEO of Salesforce and Marc Benioff is Chair and CEO of the company.
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