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Detroit Police Chief: Facial Recognition Software Misidentifies 96% of the Time | Detroit regulated facial recognition software. It's still used only on Black people.

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Inside the Invasive, Secretive “Bossware” Tracking Workers

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The Australian government announces AU$1.35B will be used over the next decade to boost cyberdefense capabilities against a surge in state-backed cyberattacks (Jade Macmillan/ABC)

Jade Macmillan / ABC : The Australian government announces AU$1.35B will be used over the next decade to boost cyberdefense capabilities against a surge in state-backed cyberattacks   —  The Federal Government wants to create more than 500 new jobs in its highly secretive cyber intelligence agency as part … from Techmeme https://bit.ly/3ihazfj
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Cendana Capital, which has been backing seed funds for a decade, has $278 million more to invest

When in 2010, former VC Michael Kim set out to raise a fund that he would invest in a spate of micro VC managers, the investors to which he turned didn’t get it. Why pay Kim and his firm, Cendana Capital ,  a management fee on top of the management fees that the VC managers themselves charge? Fast forward to today, and Kim has apparently proven to his backers that he’s worth the extra cost. Three years after raising $260 million across a handful of vehicles whose capital he plugged into up-and-coming venture firms, Kim is now revealing a fresh $278 million in capital commitments, including $218 million for its fourth flagship fund, and $60 million that Cendana will be managing expressly for the University of Texas endowment. We talked with Kim last week about how he plans to invest the money, which differs slightly from how he has invested in the past. Rather than stick solely with U.S.-based seed-stage managers who are raising vehicles of $100 million or less, he will split C...
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Facebook shuts down Hobbi, its experimental app for documenting personal projects

Facebook’s recently launched app, Hobbi , an experiment in short-form content creation around personal projects, hobbies, and other Pinterest-y content, is already shutting down. The app first arrived on iOS in February as one of now several launches from Facebook’s internal R&D group, the NPE Team. Hobbi users have now been notified by way of push notification that the app is shutting down on July 10, 2020. The app allows users to export their data from its settings. In the few months it’s been live on the U.S. App Store, Hobbi only gained 7,000 downloads, according to estimates from Sensor Tower. Apptopia also reported the app had under 10K downloads and saw minimal gains during May and June. Though Hobbi clearly took cues from Pinterest, it was not designed to be a pinboard of inspirational ideas. Instead, Hobbi users would organize photos of their projects — like gardening, cooking, arts & crafts, décor, and more — in a visual diary of sorts. The goal was to photograph ...
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US Cybercom warns foreign state-backed hackers will likely abuse a recently discovered SAML vulnerability that allows unauthorized network admin logins (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : US Cybercom warns foreign state-backed hackers will likely abuse a recently discovered SAML vulnerability that allows unauthorized network admin logins   —  The window of opportunity to fix critical security bug is rapidly closing.  —  Foreign hackers backed by a well-resourced government … from Techmeme https://bit.ly/2NHKg3Q
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Sources: Apple has shifted the strategy of its Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some titles in development and seeking games with more engagement (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg : Sources: Apple has shifted the strategy of its Arcade gaming service, canceling contracts for some titles in development and seeking games with more engagement   —  - Company ends contracts for multiple future Arcade titles  — Apple seeks games with stronger engagement to hook users from Techmeme https://bit.ly/2ZsvKCL
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Lyft’s self-driving test vehicles are back on public roads in California

Lyft’s self-driving vehicle division has restarted testing on public roads in California, several months after pausing operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Lyft’s Level 5 program said Tuesday some of its autonomous vehicles are back on the road in Palo Alto and at its closed test track. The company has not resumed a pilot program that provided rides to Lyft employees in Palo Alto. The company said it is following CDC guidelines for personal protective equipment and surface cleaning. It has also enacted several additional safety steps to prevent the spread of COVID. Each autonomous test vehicle is  equipped with partitions to separate the two safety operators inside, the company said. The operators must wear face shields and submit to temperature checks. They’re also paired together for two weeks at a time. Lyft’s Level 5 program — a nod to the SAE automated driving level that means the vehicle handles all driving in all conditions —launched in July 2017 but didn’t starting t...
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Facebook Has Been Profiting From Boogaloo Ads Promoting Civil War And Unrest

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Advertiser Exodus Snowballs as Facebook Struggles to Ease Concerns

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Cloud computing blockchain startup Dfinity opens platform to outside devs, debuts a decentralized TikTok-like service, CanCan, written in under 1K lines of code (Sebastian Sinclair/CoinDesk)

Sebastian Sinclair / CoinDesk : Cloud computing blockchain startup Dfinity opens platform to outside devs, debuts a decentralized TikTok-like service, CanCan, written in under 1K lines of code   —  Decentralized cloud computing startup Dfinity has announced its “Internet Computer” is now open to third-party developers. from Techmeme https://bit.ly/3ii1ovq
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As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like

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Hulu, Samsung have pulled apps focused on 360-degree videos, as Oculus sunsets its 360-video optimized Go headset; Facebook: the future is more immersive 6DOF (Janko Roettgers/Protocol)

Janko Roettgers / Protocol : Hulu, Samsung have pulled apps focused on 360-degree videos, as Oculus sunsets its 360-video optimized Go headset; Facebook: the future is more immersive 6DOF   —  Samsung is done with VR video: The company will remove its Samsung XR app, which aggregated 360-degree videos from publishers … from Techmeme https://bit.ly/3dLkrdK
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Uber Makes Offer to Buy Postmates Delivery Service

By BY MIKE ISAAC AND ERIN GRIFFITH from NYT Technology https://nyti.ms/2NDi4iP
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How a Bill Gates-backed startup plans to save farming with A.I.

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Sources: Uber has made a takeover offer to buy Postmates in a deal that could be reached as early as Monday evening (New York Times)

New York Times : Sources: Uber has made a takeover offer to buy Postmates in a deal that could be reached as early as Monday evening   —  The ride-hailing company has been trying to expand its food-delivery business to compensate for the collapse of its main business.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Uber … from Techmeme https://bit.ly/2YHx6uc
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Twitch Suspends Trump’s Channel for ‘Hateful Conduct’

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Now Is The Time: Tell Congress to Ban Federal Use of Face Recognition

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GitHub went down for two hours, affecting thousands of software developers

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Twitch Suspends Trump’s Channel for ‘Hateful Conduct’

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AWS makes CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs and suggest potential optimizations, generally available (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch : AWS makes CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs and suggest potential optimizations, generally available   —  AWS today announced that CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs … from Techmeme https://bit.ly/2ZlgOGr
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"Not Able To Breathe": Man's Message To Father Before He Dies Of COVID-19

A video by a dying 34-year-old man giving his last message to his father from a government hospital in Hyderabad has left people shocked amid the coronavirus pandemic. The man was finally admitted to... "Not Able To Breathe": Man's Message To Father Before He Dies Of COVID-19 https://ift.tt/2OS7KSu June 29, 2020 at 01:45PM NDTV News - Topstories from NDTV News - Topstories https://bit.ly/38a3PLA via IFTTT
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UP Governor Anandiben Patel Gets Additional Madhya Pradesh Charge

President Ram Nath Kovind has assigned Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel the additional charge of Madhya Pradesh in the absence of Governor Lal Ji Tandon, who has taken ill and has been in a... UP Governor Anandiben Patel Gets Additional Madhya Pradesh Charge https://ift.tt/2OS7KSu June 29, 2020 at 05:01AM NDTV News - Topstories from NDTV News - Topstories https://bit.ly/2CRaiQb via IFTTT
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3 Terrorists Killed In Encounter In J&K's Anantnag

Three terrorists were killed in an encounter with security forces at Khulchohar area of Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir Police said on Monday. 3 Terrorists Killed In Encounter In J&K's Anantnag https://ift.tt/2OS7KSu June 29, 2020 at 12:34PM NDTV News - Topstories from NDTV News - Topstories https://bit.ly/2ZdQSfQ via IFTTT
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Who is Brennan Mulligan?

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As Republicans flock to Parler, its user base has grown 50% to 1.5M in about a week, according to CEO, who says it's trying to pay liberals on Twitter to join (Ari Levy/CNBC)

Ari Levy / CNBC : As Republicans flock to Parler, its user base has grown 50% to 1.5M in about a week, according to CEO, who says it's trying to pay liberals on Twitter to join   —  - Parler's user base has grown to 1.5 million from 1 million in about a week, CEO John Matze said. from Techmeme https://bit.ly/2YE20U9
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Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US (Washington Post)

Washington Post : Sources detail the efforts by Facebook executives to accommodate Trump's posts, starting in 2015 with a Trump video calling for a ban of Muslims entering the US   —  Starting as early as 2015, Facebook executives started crafting exceptions for the then-candidate that transformed the world's information battlefield for years to come. from Techmeme https://bit.ly/2B9Hm5B
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