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• Airbnb reverses on delisting Israeli settlements, won't profit off West Bank

  09-04-2019 23:54
  Airbnb said on Tuesday it would not implement a planned delisting of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and would donate proceeds from any bookings in the territory to international humanitarian aid organizations.
  
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• Qualcomm President Amon intends to win in cloud where company failed in past

  09-04-2019 23:24 via zdnet.com
  Qualcomm Tuesday unveiled its first family of AI processors for cloud computing "edge" servers, called"AI 100." President Cristiano Amon explains how Qualcomm's return to its roots in mobile, and new investments in AI, will help it to win in servers where it previously failed.
  
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• Selling with the enemy: Why rival retailers embrace Amazon.com

  09-04-2019 23:08
  Chico's FAS Inc warned in January that it would shutter at least 250 stores across its namesake brand, along with its White House Black Market and Soma labels.
  
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• Google Cloud Next: Everything you need to know about the new strategy

  09-04-2019 22:54 via zdnet.com
  CEO Thomas Kurian has made his mark on Google Cloud Platform with a strategy that's enterprise friendly and focused on industries. Here's what you need to know.
  
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• U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark patterns' tricks

  09-04-2019 21:57
  Two U.S. senators introduced a bill on Tuesday to ban online social media companies like Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc from tricking consumers into giving up their personal data.
  
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• Telco lobby urges EU lawmakers to spurn push for wifi car standard

  09-04-2019 21:46
  Telecoms lobbying group GSMA stepped up pressure on Tuesday on EU lawmakers to reject a European Commission push for a wifi-based standard for cars, saying that it was an old technology that would not reduce road accidents.
  
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• Microsoft Azure CTO Russinovich sees an AI world that sounds a bit like Visual Basic

  09-04-2019 21:37 via zdnet.com
  Mark Russinovich, the chief technologist for Microsoft's Azure, reflects on bringing AI from cloud to edge, a process that in over time may look like a very big Visual Basic app.
  
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• Microsoft's April Patch Tuesday comes with fixes for two Windows zero-days

  09-04-2019 21:09 via zdnet.com
  April 2019 Patch Tuesday comes with 74 security fixes, including patches for two Windows zero-days.
  
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• AI-driven platforms will move business applications beyond the ERP era

  09-04-2019 20:46 via zdnet.com
  Application development and delivery leaders need a new strategy for business applications that is based on modern, open, smart, and flexible SaaS platforms.
  
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• Canadian regulator says Equifax fell short of privacy compliance

  09-04-2019 20:39
  Equifax Inc and its Canadian unit fell far short of their privacy obligations, a Canadian federal agency said on Tuesday following an investigation into the 2017 data breach at the credit reporting company.
  
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• Private equity firm STG takes 70 percent stake in cybersecurity firm RedSeal

  09-04-2019 20:37
  Private equity firm Symphony Technology Group said on Tuesday it has taken 70 percent stake in cybersecurity company RedSeal, a deal worth about $70 million.
  
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• Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement after earlier accord rejected

  09-04-2019 20:29
  Yahoo has struck a revised $117.5 million settlement with millions of people whose email addresses and other personal information were stolen in the largest data breach in history.
  
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• Flickr adds photo theft detection tools

  09-04-2019 20:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The photo-sharing site will let subscribers see if people have used their images without permission.
  
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• What serverless computing really means, and everything else you need to know

  09-04-2019 19:44 via zdnet.com
  Serverless architecture is a style of programming for cloud platforms that's changing the way applications are built, deployed, and - ultimately - consumed. So where do servers enter the picture?
  
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• Cloud Native Computing Foundation adopts Kubernetes-friendly container runtime

  09-04-2019 19:42 via zdnet.com
  Red Hat's Container Runtime Interface -- Orchestrator (CRI-O) -- is now a CNCF incubation level project. As such, it may soon challenge Docker as the top container runtime.
  
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• Thomas Kurian brings a stepped up customer focus to Google Cloud

  09-04-2019 19:39 via zdnet.com
  At the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, the newly minted Cloud chief showcases new major customers joining Google in the next chapter of cloud computing
  
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• Telcos must prioritize innovations that extend beyond networking

  09-04-2019 19:29 via zdnet.com
  Telecommunications vendors shouldn’t offer services equivalent to offerings from cloud vendors -- they should offer differentiated and complimentary services that are focused on their core strengths.
  
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• Tens of thousands of cars were left exposed to thieves due to a hardcoded password

  09-04-2019 19:10 via zdnet.com
  A patch was rolled out in mid-February and the hardcoded credentials revoked.
  
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• Machine-learning on the rise in financial services: Refinitiv

  09-04-2019 19:00
  The use of machine-learning has picked up across the financial services industry, although problems such as data quality continue to dog its progress, a study by Refinitiv has found.
  
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• Google Pixel 3a: Name, specs, price, release date, and the latest rumors

  09-04-2019 18:53 via zdnet.com
  All signs point to Google readying a mid-tier Pixel phone, with a release sooner rather than later. Here's what we know.
  
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• Facebook sorry for 'disturbing' disabled comment

  09-04-2019 18:35 via bbc.co.uk
  The social network apologised for saying people might find images of disabled people "disturbing".
  
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• Google's app management platform aims to connect clouds -- even AWS, Microsoft Azure

  09-04-2019 18:13 via zdnet.com
  At the Google Cloud Next Conference, the cloud provider announced the general availability of Anthos, a multi-cloud platform based on Google's Cloud Services Platform.
  
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• Google Cloud Platform launches Cloud Run, aims to bring enterprise workloads to serverless, Kubernetes

  09-04-2019 18:00 via zdnet.com
  Google's aim for Cloud Run is to make it easier to run more enterprise workloads via containers, integration and serverless functions.
  
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• Google Cloud announces new partnerships, expanded global footprint

  09-04-2019 18:00 via zdnet.com
  At the Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, Google executives laid out how they plan to give customers what they want, where they want it.
  
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• Dropbox integration with G Suite enters open beta

  09-04-2019 18:00 via zdnet.com
  The integration makes G Suite Content accessible from the Dropbox file system.
  
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• Lush quits social media in UK

  09-04-2019 17:59 via bbc.co.uk
  The cosmetics firm is closing several of its Facebook, Instagram and Twitter accounts.
  
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• Online gaming firm Dream11 enters India's 'unicorn' club

  09-04-2019 17:50
  Dream11 on Tuesday became India's first gaming startup to be valued at over $1 billion after its latest round of investment, joining the country's fast-growing "unicorn" club.
  
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• Slack adds tighter integrations with Microsoft Outlook, OneDrive

  09-04-2019 17:12 via zdnet.com
  New Slack apps for Outlook calendar and email, plus an updated Slack OneDrive app are available to users who want more seamless collaboration between Slack and Microsoft Office.
  
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• Qualcomm loses court bid against EU antitrust regulators' demand for data

  09-04-2019 17:12
  U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm on Tuesday lost a court challenge against a demand for it to provide EU regulators with data in a long-running antitrust case.
  
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• Bitstamp granted virtual currency license by New York financial regulator

  09-04-2019 17:11
  Bitstamp, Europe's biggest digital asset exchange, has been granted a virtual currency license, the New York Department of Financial Services said on Tuesday.
  
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• Facebook to clearly explain how it uses consumer data: EU

  09-04-2019 17:01
  Facebook has bowed to pressure from the European Commission and consumer authorities by revising its terms, making it clear what it does with users' data and taking responsibility when data has been mishandled by third parties.
  
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• Grab-and-go Baldr malware enters the black market

  09-04-2019 17:00 via zdnet.com
  Baldr has been linked to three prominent hackers in the Russian underground.
  
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• Uber, ahead of IPO, sees some time before self-driving cars dominate the road

  09-04-2019 16:55
  Uber Technologies Inc expects it will be a long time before one of its biggest investments, self-driving cars, is ready for wide-scale deployment, a senior scientist said on Monday, as the ride-sharing firm gears up to go public.
  
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• Sony creates colossal 16K screen in Japan

  09-04-2019 16:25 via bbc.co.uk
  The tech firm is installing a screen that is bigger than a bus in the offices of a cosmetics firm.
  
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• Facebook to use AI to stop telling users to say hi to dead friends

  09-04-2019 16:09 via theguardian.com
  Algorithmic features have sent suggestions to wish happy birthday to those who’ve diedFacebook has promised to use artificial intelligence to stop suggesting users invite their dead friends to parties.The site’s freshly emotionally intelligent AI is part of a rash of changes to how Facebook handles “memorialised” accounts – pages whose owner has been reported deceased, but that are kept on the social network in their memory. Continue reading...
  
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• Looker announces developer-friendly platform enhancements

  09-04-2019 16:05 via zdnet.com
  A new pre-built app for Sales Analytics, as well as a new JavaScript SDK, open source library and new visualizations, make Looker more developer-friendly.
  
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• Cloud native, chaos-tolerant FaunaDB adds support for SQL, GraphQL, and CQL

  09-04-2019 15:51 via zdnet.com
  Tired of using many databases? FaunaDB wants to be the all-in-one solution for polyglot persistence in the cloud and on premise, and it just got SQL, GraphQL, and CQL
  
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• Microsoft: FCC massively overstating how many Americans have broadband access

  09-04-2019 15:45 via zdnet.com
  US has "no accurate, comprehensive, and public estimate of broadband coverage", Microsoft tells lawmakers.
  
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• Hungary sees Huawei as strategic partner despite security concerns

  09-04-2019 15:38
  Hungary regards China's Huawei Technologies as a strategic IT partner, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday, shrugging off security concerns about using its products among many western governments.
  
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• Reveton ransomware distributor sentenced to six years in prison in the UK

  09-04-2019 15:32 via zdnet.com
  Zain Qaiser made at least $915,000 (£700,000) from Reventon ransom payments.
  
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• Trustworthy AI: EU releases guidelines for ethical AI development

  09-04-2019 15:11 via zdnet.com
  The European Union hopes to encourage AI applications which support human rights, rather than removes them.
  
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• This server was online for under a minute before hackers were trying to crack it

  09-04-2019 15:00 via zdnet.com
  New report demonstrates how prolific cyber attackers are -- and the dangers of default login credentials.
  
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• Schneider Electric launches EcoStruxture IT Advisor for data center monitoring, analytics

  09-04-2019 15:00 via zdnet.com
  The platform is geared toward planning and modeling the data center operations of large enterprises and companies behind colocation services.
  
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• Programming languages: Developers reveal most loved, most loathed, what pays best

  09-04-2019 15:00 via zdnet.com
  Here are the most-loved programming languages and what developers can expect to earn by knowing them.
  
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• Amazon accused of abandoning 100% renewable energy goal

  09-04-2019 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Slow progress on powering firm’s datacentres using renewables raises questionsAmazon has been accused of abandoning a much-publicised goal of running its datacentres on 100% renewable energy – instead focusing its attention on winning business from the oil and gas industry.According to a Greenpeace report released earlier this year, some of Amazon’s most important datacentres in the US state of Virginia, where the company has committed to building its second HQ, are powered by
  
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• German electronics firm Bury asks EU to probe Nokia patent use

  09-04-2019 14:52
  German electronics firm Bury has asked European Union antitrust regulators to investigate Nokia's licensing practices on patents essential to car communications, the second such complaint after Daimler.
  
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• There's a new list of America's 25 most loved brands. Apple isn't on it

  09-04-2019 14:48 via zdnet.com
  Apple has always been regarded as one of the most valuable brands in the world. A survey suggests people's love for it slipping? I tried to find out why.
  
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• Zoho launches Commerce Plus, an integrated e-commerce platform

  09-04-2019 14:00 via zdnet.com
  The effort is built on Zoho One and has back-end and front-end e-commerce functionality along with analytics.
  
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• Expanse, which analyzes attack surfaces, raises $70 million in funding in hot security analytics market

  09-04-2019 14:00 via zdnet.com
  The company launched its product in 2016 and has more than 10 customers with more than $1 million contract values. Expanse also has a federal government contract nearing the $100 million mark.
  
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• China's state planning agency seeks to ban bitcoin mining

  09-04-2019 13:38 via theguardian.com
  Cryptocurrency mining added to list of industrial activities Beijing wants to phase out Related: Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies – what digital money really means for our future China’s state planner wants to eliminate bitcoin mining in the country, according to a draft list of industrial activities the agency is seeking to stop in a sign of growing government pressure on the cryptocurrency sector. Continue reading...
  
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