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Google will reportedly pay fine of up to $200M to settle FTC’s YouTube probe
Google LLC will cough up between $150 million and $200 million to settle a regulatory probe into children’s privacy on YouTube, Politico reported today. The investigation was launched by the Federal Trade Commission last year following a joint appeal from 20 advocacy groups. The advocacy coalition charged that YouTube violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection ...
Google: Malicious sites hacked iPhones for years through unknown exploits
Google LLC’s Project Zero cybersecurity team has made an alarming discovery: a group of websites that exploited previously unknown iPhone vulnerabilities to hack Apple Inc. users. Ian Beer, a researcher with Project Zero, detailed the hacking operation in a series of blog posts published Thursday night. The malicious sites apparently attacked any iPhone user who ...
DOD awards $7.6B Microsoft Office 365 cloud contract to General Dynamics and partners
Amid the controversy over its JEDI cloud computing contract, the U.S. Defense Department has been pursuing a separate multibillion-dollar procurement initiative to expand its use of software-as-a-service solutions. That contract was officially awarded today. The Defense Enterprise Office Solutions or DEOS program is expected to be worth $7.6 billion over 10 years. The program will ...
Apple will hold its iPhone launch event on Sept. 10 in Cupertino
The world will likely get its first glimpse of the next iPhone in less than two weeks. Reports emerged today that Apple Inc. has started sending out invites for a company event that will take place on Sept. 10 at its Cupertino, California headquarters. The minimalist invite letter didn’t reveal much about the focus of the conference. However, ...
Facebook debuts new Messenger tools for businesses, updated user experience
Facebook Inc.’s Messenger service is a focal point of its social network with more than 1.3 billion monthly active users globally. Today, the company introduced new tools aimed at enabling businesses to engage that massive audience more effectively. The first addition is a chatbotlike tool that can automate the first few questions in a customer ...
Microsoft brings its ubiquitous exFAT file system to Linux
In its latest gesture to the open-source community, Microsoft Corp. today pledged to make its widely used exFAT file system available on Linux. The software, which is also known as the Extended File Allocation Table, is one of the foundational but mostly invisible components underpinning the consumer technology ecosystem. It’s a data management layer that runs inside Windows ...
Apple apologizes for human reviews of Siri conversations, will make program opt-in
Apple Inc. said today that it will overhaul its controversial practice of listening in to Siri conversations to provide more privacy for users. Until recently, the iPhone maker had a team of contractors that manually reviewed Siri conversations to help improve the virtual assistant’s responses. The most important change to the program Apple announced today is ...
Report: Google is ‘aggressively’ shifting smartphone production out of China
Tariffs and rising labor costs in China are prompting Google LLC to shake up its smartphone supply chain, Nikkei reported today. The financial paper spoke to two sources who said that the company is “aggressively” shifting production of its Pixel handsets from China to Vietnam. Specifically, Google is said to have selected a former Nokia Corp. ...
ThoughtSpot snags $248M at $1.95B valuation to automate business analytics
ThoughtSpot Inc., an analytics startup led by former Nutanix Inc. executives, today announced that it has landed a $248 million funding round at a $1.95 billion valuation. The investment was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Silver Lake Waterman and existing backers. It marks the fifth time ThoughtSpot has taken in outside capital ...
Former Waymo lidar lead Anthony Levandowski charged with stealing trade secrets
Federal prosecutors have filed trade secret theft charges against Anthony Levandowski, a prominent autonomous driving engineer who sparked a lawsuit between Uber Technologies Inc. and Google LLC. The criminal complaint was released today by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. The government is charging Levandowski with 33 counts of theft and ...