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Oops – Google May Have Sent Your Embarrassing Private Video to a Stranger

Google misdirected a number of private videos that users of its Google Photos app intended to back up to Google Takeout, sending them instead to strangers' archives, 9to5 Google reported Monday ...

Feds Seek Restraining Orders in Robocall Cases

The United States Department of Justice on Tuesday filed complaints in two landmark cases calling for temporary restraining orders against five companies and three individuals alleged to have carried hundreds of millions of fraudulent robocalls to American consumers. ...

Feds Plan Crackdown on Online Counterfeit Traffic

The United States Department of Homeland Security last week released a report outlining its plans to combat online counterfeit product sellers ...

Saudi Hack of Bezos’ Phone Shines Bright Light on Security Challenges

A digital forensic analysis conducted by Anthony Ferrante of business advisory firm FTI Consulting concludes with "medium to high confidence" that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' smartphone was hacked through a malicious file sent from the WhatsApp account of Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin Salman ...

Uber Tests Plan to Let Drivers Set Their Own Fares

Uber has launched a pilot program in California that lets drivers in Santa Barbara, Palm Springs, and Sacramento set their own fares for airport rides ...

Google Snaps Up Pointy to Help Main Street Stores Get Online

Google has inked a deal to acquire 6-year-old Ireland-based firm Pointy, reportedly for US$163 million ...

Adobe Offers Experience Manager as Cloud Service

Adobe on Monday announced the availability of Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service for B2B and B2C companies of all sizes ...

‘Black PR’ Firms Line Their Pockets by Spreading Misinformation

Public relations companies long have been known for reshaping perceptions to favor their clients. Taking that practice to an extreme, some now engage in "black PR" -- that is, the calculated spread of disinformation and misinformation online, according to a Buzzfeed report published Monday. ...

Facebook to Kick Out Some Deepfakes

Facebook on Monday promised to remove certain "misleading manipulated media": videos edited or synthesized in ways not apparent to an average person, which likely would mislead viewers to believe that video subjects said words they did not say; products of artificial intelligence or machine learning that merge, combine, replace, or superimpose content onto a video, creating a fake video that appears to be authentic...

Tech Firms Join Forces to Create Smart Home Connectivity Standard

Amazon, Apple, Google and the Zigbee Alliance are teaming up on a new Internet Protocol-based standard for smart home device connectivity, they jointly announced Wednesday ...

Amazon Gives FedEx the Boot for Christmas

Amazon third-party sellers will not be able to ship Prime customers' orders using FedEx Ground and FedEx Home, as of Wednesday ...

Google’s Chrome 79 Puts Heavy Emphasis on Security

Google on Tuesday released an update to its Chrome browser with a slew of new features that are heavy on security ...

Apple Feature Forces Change in Online Ad Industry

Apple's Intelligent Tracking Prevention feature has made it difficult for online advertisers to use cookies to target Safari users based on their browsing habits, according to The Information, which cited data from The Rubicon Project ...

Amazon Ratchets Up Competition in 5G, Hybrid IT

Among the highlights of Amazon Web Services re:Invent, ongoing in Las Vegas through Dec. 9, are three Tuesday announcements that strengthen its presence in the enterprise hybrid IT infrastructure market: ...

Amazon Makes Quantum Computing Accessible as a Service

Amazon Web Services on Monday announced Amazon Braket, a fully managed quantum computing service ...

Google to Offer ‘Smart’ Checking Accounts

Google plans to launch checking accounts next year through a project code-named "Cache," The Wall Street Journal first reported on Wednesday ...

Google to Shame Slow-Loading Websites

Google on Monday announced plans to use performance badges to warn users of slow-loading websites ahead. ...

UPS Chalks Up Another Drone Delivery First

UPS this week announced the first two revenue-generating residential deliveries of prescribed medicines to consumers. Its drone delivered the prescription medications from a CVS pharmacy in Cary, North Carolina, to a consumer's home, and to a customer in a retirement community, both on Nov. 1 ...

Data Brokers’ Secret Scores Can Cripple Consumers

Many businesses have been using secret scores created by data brokers to determine how much to charge consumers, whether to allow purchase returns, and what level of service to offer, among other things ...

Fresh Funds Brighten Faire Marketplace

Faire on Wednesday announced it has raised US$150 million in venture capital. Lightspeed Venture Partners and Founders Fund jointly led the Series D funding round. Existing investors Forerunner Ventures, YC Continuity and Khosla Ventures also were involved ...

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