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Sources: Apple is planning to announce a shift to its own Arm-based processors in Mac computers, replacing chips from Intel, as early as this month at WWDC — - Company readies Macs for next year without Intel processors — Apple is holding virtual version of WWDC event week of June 22
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| Reuters: |
An obscure Indian firm provided hacking services to help spy on 10K+ email accounts over seven years, in one of the largest spy-for-hire operations ever exposed — LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A little-known Indian IT firm offered its hacking services to help clients spy …
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
In a letter to members of Congress, IBM says it's exiting the general-purpose facial recognition business and opposes the use of such tech for mass surveillance — In a letter to members of Congress on Monday, IBM said it is existing the general-purpose facial recognition business …
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Cox says it has slowed Internet speeds for entire neighborhoods to punish users with “excessive usage” — Cox warns customers to lower usage, imposes 10Mbps upload limit on “gigabit” plan. — Cox Communications is lowering Internet upload speeds in entire neighborhoods to stop …
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| Ramesh Nagarajan / The Keyword: |
Google Maps will start showing COVID-19 related travel alerts and local restrictions — Getting from A to B can be more complicated these days. Because of COVID-19, it's increasingly important to know how crowded a train station might be at a particular time or whether the bus is running on a limited schedule.
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| Sarah Emerson / OneZero : |
Menlo Park PD's “Facebook Unit”, partly funded by the company, comes under fire by Black Lives Matters protestors, who say it endangers people of color — Menlo Park's ‘Facebook Unit’ comes under fire amidst nationwide protests — Sunday afternoon, hundreds of Bay Area residents marched …
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| Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: |
Honda says a cyberattack on its network forced it to suspend global production and give many staffers a day off; some vehicle factories remain closed — Japanese manufacturer forced to suspend global operations for a day following disruption — Japanese carmaker Honda said on Tuesday …
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
MSN's AI editor confused a mixed-race member of the band Little Mix with another and staff were told to delete articles about the mix-up should the AI find them — Firm's plan to replace editors with AI backfires after wrong image of musician is published — Microsoft's decision …
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| Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snowflake, a cloud data platform that was valued at $12.4B in a February funding round, has confidentially filed for an IPO — Snowflake Inc., a cloud data platform that was valued at $12.4 billion in a February funding round, has confidentially filed initial public offering paperwork … | Bloomberg Law: |
Sources: Cloudera, which counts activist investor Carl Icahn as its largest shareholder, is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; stock up 15%+ — Listen — Enterprise software firm Cloudera Inc., which counts activist investor Carl Icahn as its largest shareholder …
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Amid intense criticism of working conditions, a look at an Amazon warehouse in Kent, WA, that now has plexiglass dividers, sanitizer stations, and a testing lab — Amazon, which has been under fire on worker safety, invited us into one facility to show its response. — By Karen WeisePhotographs by Ruth Fremson
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook News, a dedicated section linking to journalism sources, launches in the US, first on mobile, following a limited test that rolled out in October — Facebook News, the social network's dedicated section devoted to journalism, is today launching for all users in the U.S. The feature … | Sean Keane / CNET: |
Nintendo now says 300K accounts were compromised, up from 160K it said had been affected in April; dates of birth, email addresses, nicknames, and more leaked — Nintendo on Tuesday updated a notice about suffering a major privacy breach, noting that its investigation revealed …
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Gizmodo, Business Insider, TechCrunch, iMore, Engadget, Neowin, GamesIndustry.biz, and Polygon. Tweets: @campuscodi
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
MIT researchers have designed a chip with tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses called memristors that could effectively recall images in high detail — Researchers at MIT have published a new paper that describes a new type of artificial brain synapse which offers performance improvements vs …
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Twitter brings Fleets, its version of Stories, to India, after rolling them out in Brazil and Italy — Twitter said Tuesday it is bringing Fleets, its version of Stories that lets users post ephemeral content to its social network, to users in India. Late last month, the social networking site … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple updates its COVID-19 app and website to let users anonymously share info, including age, health conditions, and symptoms, with the CDC — Apple has updated its own COVID-19 iOS app and website with new features to allow users to anonymously share info including their age …
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MacRumors, iMore, 9to5Mac, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, and AppAdvice.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DNAnexus, which provides cloud-based analytics software for genomics and other clinical big data projects, raises $100M Series G — DNAnexus, which provides a cloud platform for governments, universities, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies to tap into DNA and other clinical datasets …
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| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Fidelity survey finds that the number of US institutions trading cryptocurrency futures more than doubled in the past year — Fidelity's digital asset subsidiary found the number of U.S. institutional investors buying crypto derivative products jumped up significantly in 2020.| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Yugabyte, maker of the open source, cloud-native YougabyteDB distributed database, raises $30M Series B led by 8VC, bringing its total raised to $55M — Ope- source relational database company Yugabyte Inc. is in the mood for expansion after landing a new $30 million funding round announced today.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Nextdoor's reliance on untrained volunteer moderators has raised concerns over censorship and targeting of people of color, an issue amplified by recent events — Kalkidan G. moved to Rancho Santa Fe because it was one of the nicer neighborhoods in San Diego.
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| Jim Robbins / New York Times: |
A look at ICARUS, a new approach to tracking animals, tagged with transmitters, over long distances using new equipment aboard the International Space Station — Using tiny sensors and equipment aboard the space station, a project called ICARUS seeks to revolutionize animal tracking.
Tweets: @nytscience and @nytclimate
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
France and Germany have kicked off GAIA-X, the EU's bid to get cloud independence from US and Chinese tech companies and distance from laws like US Cloud Act — France and Germany launch GAIA-X EU cloud independence project. — France and Germany have kicked off the GAIA-X cloud project … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Digital volunteerism has spread alongside the pandemic, with community-driven projects like AllClear which provides a directory of COVID-19 testing locations — Three start-up veterans who created an online directory of testing sites are among a wave of volunteers contributing to the virus fight.
Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @daiwaka, and @evelynrusli
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