| 11:20 PM • | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: Google starts removing “confidential, personal medical records of private people” from search results |
| 10:30 PM • | Dana Hull / Bloomberg: Waymo hires ex-Tesla director of hardware engineering, Satish Jeyachandran, to lead its hardware team |
| 8:45 PM • | Kent Walker / Google: Google says current laws underpinning digital evidence gathering are outdated, proposes new legal framework for cross-border data handling |
| 7:30 PM • | Peter Kafka / Recode: Sources: Tesla talking to music labels about creating its own streaming service to be bundled with its cars, starting with a Pandora-like offering |
| 7:15 PM • | Susan Wojcicki / YouTube Blog: YouTube CEO says 1.5B logged-in viewers visit per month, and users spend 1 hour+ per day watching video on mobile devices |
| 5:05 PM • | Cade Metz / New York Times: Department of Homeland Security and Google partner on $1.5M contest for algorithm that identifies concealed items in images captured by body scanners |
| 4:30 PM • | Adi Robertson / The Verge: Google announces new VR180 video standard, showing half a 360-degree view, and partners with Yi, Lenovo, and LG for new cameras |
| 4:00 PM • | Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: How Golan Ben-Oni, CIO of US telecom firm IDT Corporation, discovered and is drawing attention to NSA-made DoublePulsar, a more potent sister tool to WannaCry |
| 3:30 PM • | Reuters: Sources: Uber hires law firm O'Melveny & Myers to investigate handling of Indian rape victim medical records, with partial focus on whether bribes were involved |
| 3:20 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Filing: Sean Parker and Klaus Hommels leave Spotify board as ex-Disney COO Thomas Staggs, ex-YouTube exec Shishir Mehrotra, others join ahead of rumored IPO |
| 2:50 PM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Stripe expands into Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg |
| 1:55 PM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Source: over 1,000 Uber employees sign letter to board demanding that Travis Kalanick return “in an operational role” because he's “critical” to future success |
| 1:20 PM • | David Ingram / Reuters: Facebook says it won't disclose information about political ads that run on its platform to academics for research purposes, citing confidentiality concerns |
| 1:00 PM • | Oscar Williams-Grut / Business Insider: Bitcoin tech startup Blockchain raises $40M Series B from Lakestar and GV |
| 12:40 PM • | Tony Romm / Recode: Executives for wireless and drone firms, including AT&T and PrecisionHawk, lobby Trump to cut down on regulations in White House meeting |
| 12:32 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Facebook updates mission statement to “give people power to build community, bring the world closer together”, from “making the world more open and connected” |
| 12:28 PM • | Kang-Xing Jin / Facebook: Facebook introduces new group admin tools, including group analytics, scheduled posts, membership request filtering, more |
| 11:50 AM • | Massimo Calabresi / TIME: Sources: US election hacking was more extensive than previously known, including theft of voter records and at least one successful alteration of voter data |
| 11:35 AM • | Jason Del Rey / Recode: Chinese e-commerce firm JD.com invests $397M in London-based luxury boutique marketplace Farfetch, with JD.com CEO Richard Liu joining its board |
| 10:55 AM • | Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: Yahoo's News Digest app, which delivered news updates twice daily, to shut down June 30 |
| 10:50 AM • | Kara Swisher / Recode: With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference |
| 9:40 AM • | Jessi Hempel / Wired: Interviews with key Microsoft staff shed light on its AI strategy, utilizing Cortana and chatbots, and the firm's plans to compete with Facebook and Google |
| 8:25 AM • | Lora Kolodny / CNBC: Sources: White House meeting Thursday on drones, 5G wireless to be attended by AirMap, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, GE, Honeywell, NEA, and Lightspeed |
| 6:00 AM • | Claire Zillman / Fortune: Facebook introduces new privacy tools to combat catfishing and guard profile photos from being misused, in India now and other countries soon |
| 2:40 AM • | Kate Holton / Reuters: Imagination Technologies puts itself up for sale after dispute with Apple over licensing rights, says “it has received interest from a number of parties” |
| 11:40 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Apple seeks to reduce the 58% share of revenue labels get on Apple Music; labels may agree if subscriptions expand and other criteria are met |
| 10:25 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Altice USA prices IPO at $30/share, raising $1.92B, more than any other U.S.-listed telecom since 2000 and valuing the company at over $20B |
| 10:15 PM • | Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: Altice Raises $1.9 Billion in Year's Second-Biggest U.S. IPO |
| 10:00 PM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: Sources detail how the pressure on Travis Kalanick played out in the days and hours leading to his resignation |
| 9:18 PM • | Washington Post: Sources: Benchmark's Bill Gurley led the effort to build support among fellow Uber investors for a demand that Travis Kalanick resign |
| 8:17 PM • | Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: Benchmark confirms Bill Gurley will leave Uber's board of directors, to be replaced by fellow partner Matt Cohler |
| 7:35 PM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Bixby Voice beta hands-on: appears to lack knowledge base, struggles with text messages, but interacts well with third-party apps, works best on local tasks |
| 6:55 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Sources: Snapchat quietly acquired social mapping startup Zenly last month for $250M to $350M; Zenly to continue running independently |
| 5:00 PM • | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: Uber's crisis was a failure of oversight and shows founders should be constrained by lieutenants, mentors, and a forceful board of directors |
| 4:40 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Oracle beats Q4 estimates with $10.9B revenue, up 3% YoY, as total cloud revenue reaches $1.36B, up 58% YoY; stock up 8%+ after hours |
| 3:50 PM • | Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Verge: Tumblr, known for its activism on internet issues like net neutrality and the SOPA/PIPA fight, may change to be less outspoken, now that it's owned by Verizon |
| 2:45 PM • | Recode: Uber confirms TPG Capital partner David Trujillo appointed to board of directors |
| 2:35 PM • | Kevin Kelleher / VentureBeat: Adobe buys Mettle's SkyBox tools to build up its VR offerings; Mettle cofounder Chris Bobotis to join Adobe |
| 2:15 PM • | Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: Possible Kalanick replacements at Uber: YouTube's Susan Wojcicki, ex-Ford CEO Alan Mulally, ex-eBay CEO John Donahoe; sources say Sandberg to stay at Facebook |
| 1:30 PM • | Nat Levy / GeekWire: Textio raises $20M Series B led by Scale Venture Partners to expand “augmented writing” platform for enterprise |
| 12:40 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Periscope debuts Super Hearts, which viewers can buy in-app using virtual coins starting at $0.99, earning creators a monthly pay-out |
| 12:30 PM • | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: Dailymotion relaunches video platform with a focus on premium content and four themes: news, sports, music, and entertainment |
| 12:10 PM • | Gerry Doyle / New York Times: Toshiba says it's chosen a Japanese consortium to buy its microchip business, overlooking US-based Western Digital; full details of the deal expected next week |
| 11:47 AM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Snap adds Snap Map to Snapchat, offering global view of friends' locations in Bitmoji form, accessed by zooming out of default camera view |
| 11:35 AM • | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: Pinterest updates its Lens camera app with zoom, tap to focus on an item, and improved camera roll support |
| 11:20 AM • | Rachel King / Fortune: Etsy to lay off additional 15% of its global workforce, totaling 22% or 230 jobs this year, expects to incur $12.5M-$16.8M severance charges, other exit costs |
| 10:55 AM • | Spotify News: Spotify now lets users build group playlists with their friends in Facebook Messenger |
| 10:00 AM • | Saheli Roy Choudhury / CNBC: SoftBank invests $100M in Boston-based cybersecurity firm Cybereason, which uses behavioral analytics to detect threats |
| 8:55 AM • | Dara Kerr / CNET: Uber and Lyft have spent up to $2.3M in '17 on lobbying to push for a Texas bill, so they could reenter Austin after city rejected Prop 1 fingerprint initiative |
| 7:40 AM • | Janko Roettgers / Variety: Rick and Jill Larson, owners of the studio at the center of the Netflix OITNB leak, reveal what happened when they were targeted by hackers, including extortion |
| 5:05 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: MongoDB launches Stitch, a new backend as a service product, and Mongo Charts, coming fall; says Atlas now runs on Microsoft Azure and Google's Cloud Platform |
| 2:30 AM • | Rene Ritchie / iMore: Video: Scott Forstall and early iPhone engineers talk about the iPhone's creation, its demonstration to Cingular/AT&T, and more at the Computer History Museum |
| 1:25 AM • | Mike Isaac / New York Times: Travis Kalanick resigns as Uber CEO, sources say after pressure from Benchmark, First Round, Lowercase, Menlo, and Fidelity; he will remain on Uber's board |
| 1:00 AM • | Dan Primack / Axios: Sources: A group of Uber investors, including Benchmark Capital, is exploring ways to remove Travis Kalanick as Uber's CEO |
| 12:35 AM • | Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: Tesla confirms departure of Autopilot VP Chris Lattner, hires AI expert Andrej Karpathy as director of AI and Autopilot |
| 10:50 PM • | Meghann Farnsworth / Recode: White House posts 20 minute video of Trump's American Tech Council meeting with 18 tech execs, notably missing representation from Facebook, Twitter |
| 9:35 PM • | Lucian Constantin / The New Stack: “Stack Clash” memory management flaw found in Linux, BSD, Solaris, allows privilege escalation to root; patches are available |
| 9:30 PM • | Adam Samson / Financial Times: Adobe Q2 beats forecasts with record $1.77B revenue, up 26.7% YoY, as cloud software revenue hits $4.56B |
| 8:20 PM • | Liam Tung / ZDNet: Intel discontinues compute modules Edison, Joule, and Galileo, plus Recon Jet Pro Plus eyewear for enterprise, the Recon Jet Pro, and Recon Jet |
| 7:05 PM • | Bloomberg: Sources: BMC Software and CA consider combining companies to take CA private |
| 6:50 PM • | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft launches Stream, its Office 365 business video service to replace Office 365 Video, integrated into many Microsoft services including SharePoint |
| 6:10 PM • | Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: Twitch signs exclusive esports deal that includes 20 Overwatch, Hearthstone, Heroes events and in-game content for Twitch Prime members |
| 5:30 PM • | Wall Street Journal: Cisco announces service it claims can detect malware in encrypted traffic, amid fierce competition in its switching biz, 6 straight quarters of falling revenue |
| 5:03 PM • | Ian Cutress / AnandTech: A look at AMD's future in servers with today's launch of its EPYC enterprise-class processors, with configurations up to 32 cores and 64 threads per processor |
| 4:50 PM • | Reuters: Adobe reports net income rising to $374M, up from $244M YoY, revenue up 26.7% to $1.77B |
| 4:25 PM • | David Shimer / New York Times: German police raid homes of 36 accused of hateful posts on social media including threats, coercion, and incitement to racism, amid push for social media bill |
| 4:20 PM • | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: Department of Labor: Zenefits agrees to pay $3.4M in unpaid overtime to 743 of its employees and let the DoL monitor its labor practices to ensure compliance |
| 4:15 PM • | Mario Tomás Serrafero / xda-developers: OnePlus found to again manipulate benchmarks to maximize scores, this time with OnePlus 5; firm claims benchmark apps “run in a state similar to daily usage” |
| 3:50 PM • | Amie Tsang / New York Times: Jaguar Land Rover will fast-track job applicants who perform well in puzzle-based app, echoing a broader industry shift towards screening via apps |
| 3:25 PM • | Alfred Ng / CNET: South Korean web host Nayana agrees to $1M extortion fee after 153 servers hit by ransomware, after negotiating the sum down from ~$1.6M |
| 3:20 PM • | Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal: Source: Khosla, Sam Altman, and a16z-backed Teespring, once valued at $650M, was valued at ~$11M in latest round |
| 2:55 PM • | Corin Faife / Motherboard: Status, a messaging app and mobile browser to help users interact with apps on the ethereum network, raises $44M in its ICO |
| 2:50 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: PayPal and Venmo now allow instant bank transfers, amid competition from Square Cash, Zelle, and Apple's P2P payments in iMessages for iOS 11 |
| 2:32 PM • | Tony Romm / Recode: Sources on White House tech meeting: Cook and Trump discuss immigration reform, Google talks AI, tech firms push back on tying H-1B visas to high paying jobs |
| 2:30 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Microsoft Garage debuts Dictate, an add-in for Office that uses Cortana's speech recognition for dictation, competing with Nuance and Windows OS-level solutions |
| 1:50 PM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Experts warn that repeated cyberattacks on Ukraine, including mass power outages in Kiev, are evidence of Russia testing its offensive cyber capabilities |
| 1:45 PM • | Casey Newton / The Verge: Netflix tests interactive episodes for kids which allow different storylines to be chosen, available on select smart TVs, Roku, and iOS devices |
| 1:30 PM • | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Misty Robotics, a spinoff of toymaker Sphero, raises $11.5M Series A led by Venrock and Foundry Group to create a mainstream robot for the home |
| 1:19 PM • | Michael Liedtke / AP News: Uber adds option to tip US drivers, starting in 3 cities, and other ways to earn like being paid for waiting on riders to show, as part of “180 days of change” |
| 1:15 PM • | Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: Kickstarter Gold program debuts to bring back popular projects with a twist for new funding, launching today with 50 projects curated by Kickstarter |
| 1:10 PM • | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: OnePlus 5 review: great performance, good software design make it the best sub-$500 phone, but hardware design, camera are let downs and OS updates will be slow |
| 1:00 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Tumblr rolls out Safe Mode, which goes beyond search results filtering to filter sensitive Dashboard content |
| 12:55 PM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: OnePlus 5 unveiled with Snapdragon 835, 16MP dual-camera, 8GB RAM model $539, 6GB RAM model $479, on sale online June 27, available in select popup stores today |
| 12:40 PM • | Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: Nokia debuts $59 Nokia Body Scale, $129 Nokia BPM+ blood pressure monitor, and revamps Health Mate fitness apps |
| 12:35 PM • | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Instagram adds Live video replays and says Stories has 250M DAUs as of June, whereas Snapchat only had 166M DAUs as of May |
| 12:20 PM • | Mariella Moon / Engadget: YouTube updates policies to ensure that LGBTQ+ videos without graphic content are allowed in Restricted Mode |
| 12:15 PM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Neighborhood social network Nextdoor says it's used in 160K neighborhoods, of which 145K are in US, and expands to Germany |
| 11:50 AM • | Michelle Castillo / CNBC: Instagram Stories crushes Snapchat with 250 million daily active users |
| 11:40 AM • | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: Swiss encrypted email provider ProtonMail launches ProtonVPN with Tor support and free subscription tier for single device access |
| 11:20 AM • | Jason Del Rey / Recode: Amazon tests Prime Wardrobe, a new service that lets customers try up to 15 pieces of clothing at a time, with bigger discounts the more they keep |
| 10:55 AM • | David Schneider / IEEE Spectrum: TOP500 fastest supercomputers: China's Sunway TaihuLight and Tianhe 2 take top two spots as Switzerland's GPU-based Piz Daint replaces US' Titan in third place |
| 10:20 AM • | Leticia Miranda / BuzzFeed: How Amazon sellers compete to win the “Buy Box”, which houses the “Add to Cart” button and doesn't always prioritize low prices |
| 9:55 AM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Mozilla's privacy-focused Firefox Focus web browser for Android blocks ad trackers and can erase your browsing history, but lacks tabs and uses Yahoo search |
| 9:30 AM • | William Turton / The Outline: Leaked recording reveals how Apple's Global Security team uses investigators, rigorous screening, and embeds security members in product teams to prevent leaks |
| 9:05 AM • | Susan Decker / Bloomberg: Apple files more claims in lawsuit against Qualcomm, accusing it of operating an “illegal business model” and seeking to void patent claims |
| 8:00 AM • | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: A look at Ether, which has risen 4,500% since the beginning of the year, is used in ICOs, and is likely to pass Bitcoin's total value soon |
| 6:55 AM • | Gizmodo: Analysis of NaviStone code on Acurian medical sites shows use of keystroke logging-like tech that captures data as soon as users type into forms for targeting |
| 5:15 AM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Google debuts AI-powered job search results in the US that tap into listings from LinkedIn, Monster, WayUp, Facebook, company websites, others |
| 2:15 AM • | Emin Gün Sirer / Hacking Distributed: Bancor, which raised ~$150M in its ICO, has poor code quality, issues with its fundamental value proposition, and can be gamed by miners |
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