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Taxi drivers and others who supported de efforts to halt expansion rallying outside City Hall in Manhattan in Hiroko New York Times In some places Uber employees were also told to create computer programs known as scripts that would automatically vote for the service in surveys.
Kalanick and a top lieutenant Emil Michael sometimes hung out with Leonardo DiCaprio who is also an investor and Jay Z whose wife Beyoncé performed for Uber employees at a poolside party in Las Vegas in.
And just days after a former employee published a blog post in February detailing sexual harassment at Uber Kalanick attended Vanity Academy Awards party in Hollywood stunning some colleagues with his perceived insensitivity.
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Minutes later they took the hacker away into custody a subdued end to an international cyber drama that involved the highest levels of the US government Russian spies a global cybercrime syndicate and hundreds of millions of unsuspecting Americans.
Once the group had gained access to Yahoo its targets included an economic development minister of a country bordering Russia an investigative reporter who worked for Russian newspaper Kommersant and a managing director of a US private equity firm court documents show.
Ruslan Stoyanov the former head of cybercrime investigations at Kaspersky Lab a cybersecurity company recently went public with claims that the Russian government systematically recruits hackers from the criminal underground and gives them immunity in exchange for their services in a letter published by the independent television station Dozhd.
In a Booz Allen report commissioned by the Immigration and Naturalization Services highlighted a worrying trend employers were taking advantage of loose regulation to replace domestic workers with cheaper imported labor in entry level positions.
In January Microsoft said in a regulatory filing that immigration policy changes or restrictions inhibit our ability to adequately staff our research and development That month Silicon Valley was fretting over the direction of the debate on visas companies like Infosys and Tata took a massive hit on their stock prices.
On a call with reporters this week to introduce a new executive order Trump administration officials directly criticized outsourcing companies for their use of visas saying their strategies are from how the program is generally pictured.
Minutes later they took the hacker away into custody a subdued end to an international cyber drama that involved the highest levels of the US government Russian spies a global cybercrime syndicate and hundreds of millions of unsuspecting Americans.
Once the group had gained access to Yahoo its targets included an economic development minister of a country bordering Russia an investigative reporter who worked for Russian newspaper Kommersant and a managing director of a US private equity firm court documents show.
Ruslan Stoyanov the former head of cybercrime investigations at Kaspersky Lab a cybersecurity company recently went public with claims that the Russian government systematically recruits hackers from the criminal underground and gives them immunity in exchange for their services in a letter published by the independent television station Dozhd.
Many of the people interviewed for this article who revealed previously unreported details of life asked to remain anonymous because they had signed nondisclosure agreements with Uber or feared damaging their relationship with the chief executive.
When the company struggled Kalanick and a partner took the tax dollars from employee paychecks which are supposed to be withheld and sent to the Internal Revenue Service and reinvested the money into the even as friends and advisers warned him the action was potentially illegal.
Travis Kalanick I came to know years ago was relentless in pursuit of his goals at the expense of those who supported him along the way deluded by his own embellished personal narrative and a serial prevaricator said Peter Yorke a former Red Swoosh adviser and a longtime tech executive.
Taxi drivers and others who supported de efforts to halt expansion rallying outside City Hall in Manhattan in Hiroko New York Times In some places Uber employees were also told to create computer programs known as scripts that would automatically vote for the service in surveys.
Kalanick and a top lieutenant Emil Michael sometimes hung out with Leonardo DiCaprio who is also an investor and Jay Z whose wife Beyoncé performed for Uber employees at a poolside party in Las Vegas in.
And just days after a former employee published a blog post in February detailing sexual harassment at Uber Kalanick attended Vanity Academy Awards party in Hollywood stunning some colleagues with his perceived insensitivity.
On anonymous online forums raters swap instance looking up rap video lyrics to scan quickly for profanity or skipping through a clip in chunks instead of watching the entire thing.
But while only machine intelligence can grapple with scale as company execs and representatives have stressed again and again until anyone smart enough to distinguish say truly offensive speech from other forms of expression on its own such efforts will still need to rely on people.
Big companies across the tech industry employ temporary workers to participate in repetitive tasks meant to train AI systems according to multiple ad raters WIRED spoke with.
Sure we have a Terms of Service Agreement and a Privacy Policy that our users agree they have read and understand before they even sign up but the reality is most of us myself included do take the time to thoroughly review them.
So we need to do better for our users and will from this point forward with clearer messaging on our website in our app and in our FAQs.
The rest will remain the same providing a killer service that gives you hours back in your day while protecting your privacy and security above all else.
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General Electric Co. shook up the 3-D printer market last year by laying down more than $1 billion on two acquisitions. Turns out that may be just the beginning.
2. uniQure Announces It Will Not Seek Marketing Authorization Renewal for Glybera in Europe
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Ordinary teachers construction workers parents jealous bought malware to monitor mobile phones or computers according to a large cache of hacked files from and FlexiSpy another spyware company.
Motherboard identified account holders by using email addresses and names included in the data and finding the individuals respective social media profiles websites or other details online.
In the United States intercepting someone private communications is generally illegal and a potential wiretapping crime unless the person doing it is a parent keeping tabs on their child or an employer monitoring their employee device.
Conducted by Oxford Economics and commissioned by cyber security experts CGI the research also found that it also leads to a permanent fall in share prices.
is an example of a sector that suffers a large number of breaches but necessarily targeted because there many ways to monetise attacks on health companies he added.
A slap on the wrist fine by the ICO is least of their worries and Jon Fielding Managing Director of Apricorn in EMEA says should analyse the data they house and remove anything identified as unnecessary.
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Powered by Office integration and an intelligent algorithm it is the first step on our journey to simplify task management and help you achieve more.
In the coming months bring more of the favorite elements of Wunderlist into the experience adding features such as list sharing apps for Mac iPad and Android tablet as well as additional integrations with other Microsoft services.
Snapchat has made a hit out of augmented reality the tech term for adding cartoony digital effects on your pictures and videos like rainbow vomit pouring out of your mouth or dog ears on your head.
But now Facebook with its deep investments in artificial intelligence which it uses to power all of its other apps and its broad connections with developers who want to get to its billions of users will be in a far better position to advance those ideas.
Then chief executive Bill Gates saw the success and by creating a new business model for the PC industry he ushered in an even bigger deal graphical computers that could get cheap enough for most people to own.
That momentum has also meant that Sapho has been attracting M A attention close sources tell us that both Microsoft and IBM are among a group who have talked to the startup about buying it outright as a route to offering micro apps building and administering services to enterprises direct rather than letting a third party do it for them.
But that is not the whole story there is a lot of legacy software still being used by large enterprises and in many cases the cost of it has already been depreciated to zero noted cofounder Peter Yared making it a compelling concept for companies to figure out how to continue to use that rather than invest in something new.
Silicon Vally people love to talk about running Docker and Kubernetes and that is the future of the enterprise stack maybe years fromnow but the reality today is that got security concerns and an IT team that is not ready to make that migration said ElNaggar.
The feature which could be switched on by default within Chrome would filter out certain online ad types deemed to provide bad experiences for users as they move around the web.
Uptake of online ad blocking tools has grown rapidly in recent years with of users now employing the software on their desktop devices according to some estimates.
By switching on its own Google is hoping to quell further growth of blocking tools offered by companies the people said some of which charge fees in exchange for letting ads pass through their filters.
The feature which could be switched on by default within Chrome would filter out certain online ad types deemed to provide bad experiences for users as they move around the web.
Uptake of online ad blocking tools has grown rapidly in recent years with of users now employing the software on their desktop devices according to some estimates.
By switching on its own Google is hoping to quell further growth of blocking tools offered by companies the people said some of which charge fees in exchange for letting ads pass through their filters.
Until now very few developers have been able to build deploy and broadly scale apps with automatic speech recognition ASR and natural language understanding NLU capabilities because doing so required training sophisticated deep learning algorithms on massive amounts of data and infrastructure.
Lex integrates easily into our existing applications as well as our new serverless architectures enabling us to rapidly take advantage of these powerful technologies to improve and extend the capabilities we can offer our employees and.
AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world including the fastest growing startups largest enterprises and leading government agencies to power their infrastructure make them more agile and lower costs.
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Dr Adam Marshall director general of the British Chambers of Commerce said Companies are reporting a reliance on IT support providers to resolve.
More guidance from government and police about where and how to report attacks would provide businesses with a clear path to follow in the event of a breach and increase clarity around the response options available to victims which would help minimise the occurrence of cybercrime.
Wireless chip giant Qualcomm QCOM in the midst of a legal battle with one of its largest customers Apple AAPL this afternoon reported fiscal revenue and profit that topped expectations but missed with its outlook for this results though its shares rose in late trading saying it is waiting to see what the impact will be if suppliers pay Qualcomm expected royalties.
As several analysts have speculated royalties could be held up in the dispute with Apple the company said modeled a variety of scenarios for the current quarter but factored in what may happen if Apple causes suppliers to hold up all royalties Qualcomm is owed.
Our guidance range for fiscal EPS is wider than our typical practice primarily due to this uncertainty.
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If the US had a specific target in the financial system NSA penetration offers redundancy and other options than merely relying upon good faith compliance procedures standard diplomatic requests or collaborating with SWIFT Service Bureau.
This would make a lot of sense that the NSA compromise this specific SWIFT Service Bureau for laundering AML reasons in order to retrieve ties with terrorists groups.
Reminder from Ned Pyle Program Manager at MicrosoftIf you are using Windows and above you can disable SMB as mentioned on the MSDN until Microsoft issues official patches.
The vulnerable Windows versions ran more than percent of desktop computers surfing the web last month according to estimates from the tracking firm Net Market Share.
The crown jewel of the implant collection appears to be a program named FUZZBUNCH which essentially automates the deployment of NSA malware and would allow a member of Tailored Access Operations group to more easily infect a target from their desk.
A Microsoft spokesperson told The Intercept are reviewing the report and will take the necessary actions to protect our We asked Microsoft if the NSA at any point offered to provide information that would help protect Windows users from these attacks given that the leak has been threatened since August to which they replied focus at this time is reviewing the current The company later clarified that this time other than reporters no individual or organization has contacted us in relation to the materials released by Shadow.
More details can be found here and the company recommends updating to a supported version of Windows and downloading security fixes.
The fuckers burned millions with one zip file Bekrar who the CEO and founder of Zerodium told Motherboard in an online chat.
Bekrar explained if he had to buy them all the exploits codenamed ETERNAL the ones that attack the SMB network protocol were worth more than each.
Katie Jacobs Stanton a former Twitter executive who also worked as director of citizen participation under Obama told BuzzFeed News that after years of measuring success on growth rates monthly active users and the efficiency of hiring fewer employees the industry is looking around and wondering how it got here.
After the launch of CZI TheNew Yorker wrote that charitable giving on this scale makes the inequalities of modern capitalism somewhat more Tech columnist David Pogue shared a similar sentiment except a decade earlier declaring that he could no longer consider the founder of Microsoft a ruthless monopolist after he donated of his fortune.
In interviews with BuzzFeed News mentors including Hoffman SV Angel founder Ron Conway and early Facebook employee Matt Cohler who is now a partner at Benchmark Capital all argued that recent likability blitz is genuine part of a continuous evolution brought on by increased maturity acceptance of responsibility and becoming a dad.
Katie Jacobs Stanton a former Twitter executive who also worked as director of citizen participation under Obama told BuzzFeed News that after years of measuring success on growth rates monthly active users and the efficiency of hiring fewer employees the industry is looking around and wondering how it got here.
After the launch of CZI TheNew Yorker wrote that charitable giving on this scale makes the inequalities of modern capitalism somewhat more Tech columnist David Pogue shared a similar sentiment except a decade earlier declaring that he could no longer consider the founder of Microsoft a ruthless monopolist after he donated of his fortune.
In interviews with BuzzFeed News mentors including Hoffman SV Angel founder Ron Conway and early Facebook employee Matt Cohler who is now a partner at Benchmark Capital all argued that recent likability blitz is genuine part of a continuous evolution brought on by increased maturity acceptance of responsibility and becoming a dad.
The association claimed legal and regulatory victories last year in Chicago San Francisco and Los Angeles as well as in states like Virginia Tennessee and Utah where laws were being passed to restrict Airbnb activity.
are trying to showcase and bust the myth that Airbnb supports mom and pop and helps them make extra money Flanagan of the American Hotel and Lodging Association said.
This year the association plans to fund more research and roll out a testimonial campaign of people hurt by home sharing provide a counterweight to strategy of presenting a unified face according to the documents.
A spokesperson said in an email in the middle of the night that the company has investigated and confirmed that the exploits disclosed by the Shadow Brokers have already been addressed by previous updates to our supported products.
This entire saga all started Friday after a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers released tools designed to target Windows PCs and servers along with presentations and files purporting to detail the agency methods of carrying out clandestine surveillance.
He suggested that the NSA had been in contact directly about the vulnerabilities which it lost control of when the Shadow Brokers obtained a copy of the agency hacking toolkit and knew which exploits were at risk as early as January.
Taylor decided to pump more money into the work and the financial infusion led directly to invention of the mouse which would be instrumental in the design of both Macintosh and Microsoft computers.
way you look at it from the internet to launching the personal computer revolution Bob Taylor was a key architect of our modern world said Leslie Berlin a historian at the Stanford University Silicon Valley Archives project.
At NASA as the newly elected Kennedy administration was putting the nation on a path to the moon Taylor became a friend and protégé of Licklider a psychologist and computer scientist who had written a pioneering paper titled.
That because the critical vulnerabilities for four exploits previously believed to be zerodays were patched in March exactly one month before a group called Shadow Brokers published Friday latest installment of attacks.
The revelation that none of the highly advanced exploits work against supported Microsoft products brings a measure of relief to some of the more dire warnings sounded hours earlier.
Computers in larger organizations however can often remain two or more months behind Microsoft patch schedule as administrators test the updates to ensure they compatible with intranets and other internal systems.
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5. Here comes Wells Fargo…
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6. Guggenheim ups target on Netflix to $173 on signs of stronger engagement
Guggenheim analyst Michael Morris said his firm’s proprietary data points toward sustained growth in visitation and usage for Netflix across all major markets, indicating strengthening global engagement with the service. Ahead of the company’s earnings report, Morris raised his price target on Netflix shares to $173 from $160 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares, which he also identifies as a Best Idea.
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But within hours of the release and humorous edits to the Whopper Wikipedia page by mischievous users tests from The Verge and BuzzFeed showed that the commercial had stopped activating the device.
Bob Gilbreath chief of Ahalogy a marketing technology company in Cincinnati said Burger stunt posed a risk to Google which introduced Home in November given that such appliances are and unknown to the vast majority of.
the onset of consumers buying intelligent system devices and using them at home we thought this was a good way to make a connection and go directly to guests and tell a story about our product José Cil president of Burger King said in an interview Wednesday morning.
Burger King is launching a marketing blitz based on triggering Google devices in what could become a grim precedent for TV and radio ads talking directly to gadgets like smartphones and Amazon Echo speakers.
While Google Home is still less popular than Amazon Echo the ad could trigger other Android devices like smartphones to search for Whopper Burger King President José Cil said in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
We saw it as a technology to essentially punch through that fourth wall said Cil who called it a cool way to connect directly with our guests.
Industry representatives for many of the biggest companies in tech met Tuesday with Ajit Pai the head of the Federal Communications Commission to express vigorous support for net neutrality rules the regulations that require internet providers to treat all web traffic equally.
The Internet Association also told the FCC chair that according to their own preliminary economic research net neutrality rules did not negatively impact broadband investment which contradicts claims from the telecom industry that the regulations would stymie innovation.
But Engstrom told BuzzFeed News that if a proposal to undercut net neutrality does materialize Americans should expect massive pushback from the tech world and the broader internet community who stand to lose platforms for free expression and economic access to customers.
VideoA video from the chain shows the the latest example of marketers entering the living room with the advertisement intended to prompt smart speakers from Google into describing its burgers.
Bob Gilbreath chief of Ahalogy a marketing technology company in Cincinnati said Burger stunt posed a risk to Google which introduced Home in November given that such appliances are and unknown to the vast majority of.
the onset of consumers buying intelligent system devices and using them at home we thought this was a good way to make a connection and go directly to guests and tell a story about our product José Cil president of Burger King said in an interview Wednesday morning.
Burger King is unveiling a horrible genius infuriating hilarious and maybe very poorly ad today designed to intentionally set off Google Homes and Android phones.
The spot is supposed to begin running in slots across the US today on networks including History Spike Comedy Central MTV E and Bravo and it will air during Adult Swim TheTonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live.
With this ad airing nationally Burger King is opening the door for an editing war and it risks having a malicious editor make the Google Home say something inappropriate when explaining the Whopper.
Update Thursday Around midnight Burger King ad ran on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
In response any Google Home speaker nearby would rattle off an excerpt from the Wikipedia entry for the sandwich.
While a normal human being can still ask their Google Home about the burger the audio from the ad itself no longer triggers the devices BuzzFeed News tests have found.
Burger King is launching a marketing blitz based on triggering Google devices in what could become a grim precedent for TV and radio ads talking directly to gadgets like smartphones and Amazon Echo speakers.
While Google Home is still less popular than Amazon Echo the ad could trigger other Android devices like smartphones to search for Whopper Burger King President José Cil said in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
We saw it as a technology to essentially punch through that fourth wall said Cil who called it a cool way to connect directly with our guests.
Further IA preliminary economic research suggests that the OI Order did not have a negative impact on broadband internet access service BIAS investment the document states adding that it favors a light touch when it comes to regulation.
It unclear if any of the comments will resonate with Pai who has suggested replacing the net neutrality rules with voluntary commitments on the part of Internet providers and relying on a different Federal Trade oversee abuses.
And in an apparent effort to bolster his own political standing Pai has been announcing a series of FCC a campaign against and support for a ban on phone calls during air are likely to prove popular with the public.
VIX CALL BUYERS VANISHED AHEAD OF VOLATILITY SPIKE
It was a range-bound first-quarter for the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX – 16.02), with the market’s “fear gauge” churning between 11.25 — half its pre-election high — and 14 (a level that, until recently, had contained VIX closes since the election). This week, the VIX has staged a break to the upside amid rising geopolitical tensions in Russia and North Korea, and yesterday, spiked to its highest close since Nov. 8.
Recent Volatility Spike Marks Impressive VIX Stat
The volatility pop this week has been significant in terms of historic VIX action. As of Tuesday’s close, VIX’s year-to-date return represented its second-strongest start to the year in the past decade. And, while VIX options remain attractive targets for traders, there’s been a notable downshift in buy-to-open activity among call buyers.
VIX Call Buyers Lose Interest
The VIX 20-day buy-to-open call/put ratio checked in at 2.79 as of Tuesday. While still top-heavy on an absolute basis, this ratio peaked at a nine-year high of 6.60 as recently as Feb. 27. The 58% decline in the VIX call/put ratio since then is its biggest drop over a 32-day time frame since Dec. 12, 2016
VIX Options Still Elevated
Despite the drop-off in VIX call buying ahead of this week’s spike, the interest in VIX among options traders remains strong. As recently as March 22, call open interest hit a record peak of 9.3 million contracts, while put open interest topped an annual high of 3.6 million contracts. At yesterday’s close, 7.4 million VIX calls were open, in the elevated 94th annual percentile. For the sake of comparison, 3.2 million VIX puts are currently outstanding — an amount that ranks higher than 98% of similar readings taken in the past year.
VIX Options Traders Buy April 17 Calls, Sell April 20 Calls
In the front-month VIX options series, the April 17 and April 20 calls, which expire next Wednesday, April 19, have garnered the most attention — with 367,967 and 347,813 contracts outstanding, respectively. Data from the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) confirms the bulk of the activity at the 17 strike has been of the buy-to-open kind, while call writers have a slim majority on the higher-strike calls. While spot VIX and VIX futures for April (VIXAPR) haven’t printed north of 20 since early November, VIXAPR was north of 17 back in mid-January.
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DeleteUber which trended at the end of January because of the reaction to President Donald first immigrant travel ban led hundreds of thousands of people to remove the app in a week.
While Lyft has said it wants to reduce its losses the company has continued to raise money to sustain its expenses including offering discounted rides and paying drivers bonuses to lure them away from Uber.
Many publishers are deeply unhappy with the monetization on these pages with major partners like The New York Times throwing in the towel and many others cutting back the amount of content pushed to the IA platform.
There are also a lot of details to be worked out when it comes to subscription signups on Instant such as who owns the customer relationship what data the publisher gets and how the revenue is shared Wilson added.
For other publishers that heavily dependent on subscriptions as the Times is or have lucrative direct ad sales businesses Facebook Instant may still makes sense though.
Uber confirmed the departure and when I pinged Whetstone for comment she sent me this statement am incredibly proud of the team that built and that just as when I left Google a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place.
Whetstone also has a witty side to her efforts such as when she wrote a blog post titled Rupert to strike back at a Wall Street Journal editorial about power.
Thus those who keep insisting to me that PR is the problem for Uber have to catch a clue The company is having troubles because it neglected to put key human resources and management systems in place that would counter its tendencies.
Many publishers are deeply unhappy with the monetization on these pages with major partners like The New York Times throwing in the towel and many others cutting back the amount of content pushed to the IA platform.
There are also a lot of details to be worked out when it comes to subscription signups on Instant such as who owns the customer relationship what data the publisher gets and how the revenue is shared Wilson added.
For other publishers that heavily dependent on subscriptions as the Times is or have lucrative direct ad sales businesses Facebook Instant may still makes sense though.
ET Uber Technologies is losing its communications chief in the middle of a crisis for the company.
Rachel Whetstone who joined Uber in from Alphabet Google where she also led communications and public policy said in a statement Tuesday she is leaving the company without citing a reason.
Previous investors GGV Capital GV formerly Google Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers also participated.
Perhaps because Synack takes an unusual approach to enterprise security going on offense instead of defense according to company CTO Mark Kuhr.
In fact the command piece starts with a community of several hundred hackers from around the world whom the company has vetted to be sure they are ethical and pass a background check.
Uber confirmed the departure and when I pinged Whetstone for comment she sent me this statement am incredibly proud of the team that built and that just as when I left Google a strong and brilliant woman will be taking my place.
Whetstone also has a witty side to her efforts such as when she wrote a blog post titled Rupert to strike back at a Wall Street Journal editorial about power.
Thus those who keep insisting to me that PR is the problem for Uber have to catch a clue The company is having troubles because it neglected to put key human resources and management systems in place that would counter its tendencies.
The authorities hope to recognize bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in as they seek to enforce rules against illegal transfers Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev said in an interview.
The plan to legalize and monitor bitcoin is taking shape as traditional schemes are drying up with dubious operations such as fake trades and loans used to move money abroad dropping by half to million last year according to central bank data.
Initially cryptocurrencies in Russia are most likely to be bought via bank accounts in order to make online purchases with some also acquired as a speculative investment Vice President Oleg Legostev said in comments emailed by the press service.
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