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The Joint Analysis Report JAR Grizzly Steppe was released yesterday as part of the White response to alleged Russian government interference in the election process.
It merely listed every threat group ever reported on by a commercial cybersecurity company that is suspected of being and lumped them under the heading of Russian Intelligence Services RIS without providing any supporting evidence that such a connection exists.
If classified an independent commission should review it because this entire assignment of blame against the Russian government is looking more and more like a domestic political operation run by the White House that relied heavily on questionable intelligence generated by a cybersecurity firm with a vested interest in selling.
Speaking to a handful of reporters outside his Palm Beach club Trump cast his declarations of doubt as an effort to seek the truth.
you look at the weapons of mass destruction that was a disaster and they were wrong he added referring to intelligence cited by the George Bush administration to support its march to war in.
Trump who has sought a warmer relationship with Putin has repeatedly scoffed at the notion that Russia was behind the hacking a stance at odds with members of his own party.
The Joint Analysis Report JAR Grizzly Steppe was released yesterday as part of the White response to alleged Russian government interference in the election process.
It merely listed every threat group ever reported on by a commercial cybersecurity company that is suspected of being and lumped them under the heading of Russian Intelligence Services RIS without providing any supporting evidence that such a connection exists.
If classified an independent commission should review it because this entire assignment of blame against the Russian government is looking more and more like a domestic political operation run by the White House that relied heavily on questionable intelligence generated by a cybersecurity firm with a vested interest in selling.
The new employment law requires French companies with more than employees to begin drawing up policies with their workers about limiting technology usage outside the office the newspaper reported.
They remain attached by a kind of electronic leash like a dog Benoit Hamon Socialist member of Parliament and former French education minister told the BBC in May.
France we are champions at passing laws but they are not always very helpful when what we need is greater flexibility in the workplace Olivier Mathiot chief executive of PriceMinister a online marketplace told BBC News in May.
Dell is unveiling a convertible version of its popular XPS laptop today at the Consumer Electronics Show.
Dell is claiming around hours of battery life on the FHD model and that will obviously drop significantly on the Quad HD display version.
the same carbon fiber palm rest and machined aluminium shell alongside a precision trackpad and optional Dell Active Pen for stylus input.
United Nations Governments around the world shut down the internet more than times in suppressing elections slowing economies and limiting free speech.
Uganda in February there was a shutdown of social media networks by President Museveni and that again happened in Gambia in December surrounding the election Olukotun added.
According to Brookings these are conservative estimates which only take into account reductions in economic activity and not tax losses or drops in investor confidence.
Bitcoin is used to move money across the globe quickly and anonymously and does not fall under the purview of any authority making it attractive to those wanting to get around capital controls such as China.
It is also may appeal to those worried about a lack of supply of cash such as in India where Prime Minister Narendra Modi removed bank notes from circulation in November.
The growing war on cash and capital controls is making bitcoin look like a viable if high risk alternative said Paul Gordon a board member of the UK Digital Currency Association and of Quantave a firm seeking to make it easier for institutional investors to access digital currency exchanges.
ET In late a startup caught the attention of Ford Motor executive John Casesa who runs global strategy for the auto maker.
The startup called Chariot was growing fast and had an interesting crowdsourced reservation model a staffer told him suggesting a meeting.
One year and a million deal later the San Francisco.
The codes act as pincodes for locating travel records albeit with vital differences that make them highly insecure compared with even the simple usernames and passwords that consumers use to access email or websites the researchers said.
Given only last names their bookings codes can be found over the Internet with little effort said SRLabs Karsten Nohl who with Nemanja Nikodijevic will detail their research this week at the Chaos Communications Congress Europe biggest annual event on hacking.
If the data protection laws that have been in effect since the early in the EU and Canada had been enforced travel systems would have been required to make changes that would have significantly reduced some of the vulnerabilities and that SRLabs has now demonstrated can be exploited he said.
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But the role of fake news and misinformation in surprise win quickly reached a fever pitch prompting questions about the extent to which Facebook where many of these bogus stories were shared had influenced the election.
Mikkelson speaking from Washington State declined to claim this new initiative was a potential turning point in the quest for truth on the internet or even in the history of Snopes.
The bios at the end of posts on Snopes are often whimsical so LaCapria wrote that she got her job to an executive order unilaterally passed by President Obama during a secret.
The announcement reads part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen all services and nightly builds will be discontinued no later than.
Basically it means that in the future anything such as mods will be reliant on the community to keep it alive and active and up to date based on the latest Android builds.
Of course it is possible that CyanogenMod will keep living on and forging ahead despite this news as the community behind it is very strong and passionate but basically it sounds like Cyanogen grand plans have pretty much gone up in flames.
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The fact that we grew to a certain scale and went to daily versus monthly Client based financial proration effecting sic the timing but not the amount of a Consulting collected fees is really not a story of scandal no matter how you it he responded by email.
He said he knew one of them was sharing internal documents with a third party most likely Forbes Blogger Todd Essig and at least another freelance reporter who are using such information out of context and with little evidentiary support to try and harm reputation and future by crafting malicious scandal pieces sic.
When asked about whether Talkspace was misclassifying employees as independent contractors Oren Frank said that a licensed therapist would be a very different case study than a minimum wage housekeeper or a new immigrant driving for a car company.
ET Deep inside Bridgewater Associates LP the largest firm software engineers are at work on a secret project that founder Ray Dalio has sometimes called Book of the.
The goal is technology that would automate most of the management.
It would represent a culmination of life work to build Bridgewater into an altar to radical a place that can endure without him.
But the role of fake news and misinformation in surprise win quickly reached a fever pitch prompting questions about the extent to which Facebook where many of these bogus stories were shared had influenced the election.
Mikkelson speaking from Washington State declined to claim this new initiative was a potential turning point in the quest for truth on the internet or even in the history of Snopes.
The bios at the end of posts on Snopes are often whimsical so LaCapria wrote that she got her job to an executive order unilaterally passed by President Obama during a secret.
Americans are incorporating a wide range of digital tools and platforms into their purchasing decisions and buying habits according to a Pew Research Center survey of adults.
The survey also illustrates the extent to which Americans are turning toward the collective wisdom of online reviews and ratings when making purchasing decisions.
Finally this survey documents a pronounced shift in how Americans engage with one of the oldest elements of the modern economy physical currency.
You do see a masterpiece take shape until you add all the pieces.
Greatness works the same way.
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China will fine U.S. automaker General Motors Co’s (GM.N) joint venture 201 million yuan ($29 million) for monopolistic pricing, state television reported on Friday, ending speculation after an official warned of penalties against a U.S. carmaker.
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Late in the summer of CrowdStrike Intelligence analysts began investigating a curious Android Package APK named which contained a number of Russian language artifacts that were military in nature.
This previously unseen variant of represents FANCY expansion in mobile malware development from implants to Android devices and reveals one more component of the broad spectrum approach to cyber operations taken by actors in the war in Ukraine.
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Governor Doug Ducey released the following statement today regarding Uber decision to move its cars to Arizona due to California burdensome regulations.
While California puts the brakes on innovation and change with more bureaucracy and more regulation Arizona is paving the way for new technology and new businesses.
In I signed an executive order supporting the testing and operation of cars in Arizona with an emphasis on innovation economic growth and most importantly public safety.
Until now New York technology community has led a nomadic in startup lounges strewn with pizza incubators operating out of empty corporate cubicles.
For Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen who oversees housing and economic development in the city the million project is an opportunity to create a central convening point for technology training and networking open to all and at the same time help young companies.
Anchor tenant Civic Hall which teamed up with developer RAL for its winning proposal will be responsible for managing the many education partners including General Assembly and Coalition for Queens that the city envisions will play a role in the new space.
WASHINGTON A hacking group linked to the Russian government and cyber attacks against Democrats during the presidential election likely used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late through according to a new report released Thursday.
The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against the artillery in support of separatists fighting in eastern Ukraine the report from cyber security firm CrowdStrike found.
Both the CIA and FBI believe that Fancy Bear and other Russian hackers were responsible for hacks during the election that were intended to help Donald Trump defeat Hillary Clinton according to two senior government officials.
And while it just Apple aligning itself closely with top talent this year Tidal the smaller music service owned in part by Jay Z raised its profile with exclusives from Beyoncé Kanye West and Rihanna it was relentless in pursuit of such collaborations even with more obscure artists such as Jamie xx and Lil Yachty that nonetheless added to its creative credibility.
This strategy was not driven so much by Silicon Valley thinkers as record label veterans namely the Apple Music executives Jimmy Iovine a former producer who was a founder of Interscope and Beats by Dre and Larry Jackson a onetime A R man who signed acts like Chief Keef and Lana Del Rey.
In interviews this month Iovine and Jackson the quietly influential pair behind the delivery of some of pop most notable moments discussed place in the music ecosystem and what the future of streaming may hold.
Mark Zuckerberg gave new insights about how he sees role in informing the world today during a Live video chat with COO Sheryl Sandberg.
not a traditional technology company he said today mirroring his exact words from last week when Facebook launched product updates and partnerships with outside to fight fake news.
Now Zuckerberg is commending his team for taking the issue seriously displaying a wise course correction that could lead Facebook to use the full extent of its power to fight disinformation.
A bug in a recent version of Twitter Android app inflated video advertising metrics by as much as a person familiar with the matter told Business Insider.
We recently discovered a technical error due to a Twitter product update to Android clients that affected some video ad campaigns from November to December the spokesperson told Business Insider.
The mishap comes at a time when Twitter faces mounting pressure to grow its ad business and attract new users.
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For years, Donald Trump has used a powerful tool when dealing with bankers: his personal guarantee.
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California has forced Uber to remove its vehicles from the road canceling the controversial pilot program in San Francisco after a week of embarrassing reports of traffic violations and repeated legal threats from state officials.
The department of motor vehicles DMV announced late on Wednesday that it had revoked the registration of autonomous Uber cars which the corporation deployed without proper permits last week and which were caught on numerous occasions running red lights.
Uber which had previously declared that its rejection of government regulations was an important issue of principle confirmed that it has stopped its pilot in a statement adding now looking at where we can redeploy these cars but remain percent committed to California and will be redoubling our efforts to develop workable statewide.
This is happening as the world is increasingly at war over migration was among other things a prolonged and pitched battle over the rights and privileges of migrant people whether Syrians in Europe Europeans in fight over Brexit or the issue of Mexican and Muslim immigration that dominated the American presidential race.
Beyond the headlines what has often gone unnoticed in the politics of migration are the shifting dynamics of migrant life particularly the surprising and subtle ways in which technology especially smartphones and social networks has altered the immigrant experience.
recognize how important it is for people to connect with family thousands of miles away because something we think about a Every feature in the app he added designed in part by someone living the immigrant experience every.
On Wednesday Open Whisper Systems which created and maintains Signal announced that added a feature to its Android app that will allow it to sidestep censorship in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates where it was blocked just days ago.
use of TLS encryption means that contents of the traffic including that redirect request are hidden and the internet service provider can see only that someone has connected to.
But in both cases the block was a few countries like China Iran and North Korea have been willing to permanently censor large swathes of the internet wholesale.
State police forces and highway patrols in the US have collectively spent millions of dollars on this sort of technology to break into and extract data from mobile phones according to documents obtained by Motherboard.
Agencies also spent tens of thousands of dollars on other Cellebrite products including Link Analysis a piece of software that visualizes data pulled from phones into easy to understand graphs allowing investigators to quickly map out relationships between multiple individuals contacts or a GPS location across time.
In one document from the Colorado State Patrol justifying the purchase of an UFED Major Packard writes the force needs the device because investigators are reliant upon partners in the FBI ICE and DEA for access to this.
report focuses on the potential economic effects of AI and while far from a dark outlook it does warn that with improper handling automation could drive further inequality in this already deeply divided country.
If the United States fails to improve at educating children and retraining adults with the skills needed in an increasingly economy the country risks leaving millions of Americans behind and losing its position as the global economic leader.
With a new technology threatening to produce huge numbers of displaced workers it behooves us to invest in unemployment and healthcare to make sure these people can stay on their feet while finding or training for the next opportunity.
For more than a year Dorsey has relied on a mix of meditation exercise morning coffee and afternoon tea to get through his workdays overseeing Twitter TWTR and Square SQ.
Twitter has lost six of the execs who were part of its leadership team at the beginning of the year including the heads of product engineering human resources and media.
It possible Twitter progress with live video and Donald Trump love for the platform may give Dorsey and his dwindling leadership team some breathing room says James Cakmak an analyst with Monness Crespi Hardt Co.
Yahoo Inc secret scanning of customer emails at the behest of a spy agency is part of a growing push by officials to loosen constitutional protections Americans have against arbitrary governmental searches according to legal documents and people briefed on closed court hearings.
Civil liberties groups and some other legal experts said the attempt to expand the ability of law enforcement agencies and intelligence services to sift through vast amounts of online data in some cases without a court order was in conflict with the Fourth Amendment because many innocent messages are included in the initial sweep.
While details of the Yahoo search are classified people familiar with the matter have told Reuters it was aimed at isolating a digital signature for a single person or small team working for a foreign government frequently at odds with America.
Artificial intelligence will be essential to the future economic growth of the United States but if education and social services are improved American workers could lose millions of jobs.
Advances in AI technology hold incredible potential to help the United States stay on the cutting edge of innovation the report says.
Donald Trump pick for secretary of labor has been a vocal critic of increasing the minimum wage and Republicans have previously opposed expanding unemployment and other services.
Snap says it has opened a technology office in the southern city of Shenzhen to focus on Spectacles the startup sunglasses that can send footage to users Snapchat accounts.
The southern Chinese city just across the border from Hong Kong is home to a thriving startup scene and some of the country biggest technology companies such as smartphone maker Huawei and Tencent which owns WeChat.
Understanding what Alibaba WeChat Baidu Netease and smaller players in China are up to is helpful to keep up with local trends that can influence the global market said Duncan Clark founder of consulting firm BDA.
This is happening as the world is increasingly at war over migration was among other things a prolonged and pitched battle over the rights and privileges of migrant people whether Syrians in Europe Europeans in fight over Brexit or the issue of Mexican and Muslim immigration that dominated the American presidential race.
Beyond the headlines what has often gone unnoticed in the politics of migration are the shifting dynamics of migrant life particularly the surprising and subtle ways in which technology especially smartphones and social networks has altered the immigrant experience.
recognize how important it is for people to connect with family thousands of miles away because something we think about a Every feature in the app he added designed in part by someone living the immigrant experience every.
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3. TDK to Acquire InvenSense (INVN) in $1.3B Deal
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5. vlad33301 on Twitter
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Today introducing a set of tools to help you add context and creativity to your story stickers holiday fun and more.
A special candy cane brush brings a sweet addition to your drawing tools and keep an eye out for another set of stickers to ring in the new year.
Finally on iOS you can now save your entire story from the past hours to your camera roll as a single video.
McGlashan has long overseen TPG Growth a fund he started that was an early investor in the sharing economy with stakes in Uber and Airbnb as well other technology successes like Spotify.
If it works McGlashan hopes to one day change the fee structure of funds like this so the investors are paid based on social impact not necessarily just on financial performance.
For the first Rise fund group which will include most of TPG professional staff will be paid on financial performance which is likely to make his job harder not easier.
Uber began piloting its vehicles in its home town of San Francisco last week despite state declaration that the company needed special permits to test its technology.
The maneuver also appears to violate state law which mandates that a car merge into the bike lane before making the turn to avoid a crash with a cyclist who is continuing forward.
Chris Cassidy San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Uber spokeswoman Chelsea Kohler told the Guardian in an email that are continuing to work on the and said that the company has instructed drivers to take control when approaching right turns on a street with a bike lane.
As we continue to improve the Facebook Live experience been listening to feedback to inform the new tools and features we build.
Though we alert the broadcaster if their signal is low Live Audio presents another option for connecting with audiences in real time from areas.
Over the next few weeks be testing Live Audio with several partners including BBC World Service LBC Harper Collins and authors Adam Grant and Brit Bennett.
It coincided with successive atrocities in Paris Brussels and Nice that reinforced political demands for expansion of powers to intercept emails and phone calls to help catch Islamic State militants operating on the continent.
The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Brian Paddick said and storing internet web browsing histories and phone records so government agencies can look at them is an Orwellian nightmare that intrudes into our privacy and erodes our civil.
Daniel Carey the solicitor from Deighton Pierce Glynn who represented the Open Rights Group and Privacy International said court is very clear that indiscriminately retaining metadata is unlawful which is a point my clients placed particular emphasis on.
The Greylock partnership is filled with entrepreneurs who have strong product and operating backgrounds people who have founded companies and helped build businesses to significant scale.
Josh built and maintained a highly constructive partnership with his executive team and his Board through the many ups and downs of starting and scaling his company.
He hosted a Jamaican at his office complete with a manufactured sledding ramp for the kids and synthetically produced snow and somehow found a way to arbitrage the whole event so it cost the company very little.
It coincided with successive atrocities in Paris Brussels and Nice that reinforced political demands for expansion of powers to intercept emails and phone calls to help catch Islamic State militants operating on the continent.
The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Brian Paddick said and storing internet web browsing histories and phone records so government agencies can look at them is an Orwellian nightmare that intrudes into our privacy and erodes our civil.
Daniel Carey the solicitor from Deighton Pierce Glynn who represented the Open Rights Group and Privacy International said court is very clear that indiscriminately retaining metadata is unlawful which is a point my clients placed particular emphasis on.
It coincided with successive atrocities in Paris Brussels and Nice that reinforced political demands for expansion of powers to intercept emails and phone calls to help catch Islamic State militants operating on the continent.
The Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Brian Paddick said and storing internet web browsing histories and phone records so government agencies can look at them is an Orwellian nightmare that intrudes into our privacy and erodes our civil.
Daniel Carey the solicitor from Deighton Pierce Glynn who represented the Open Rights Group and Privacy International said court is very clear that indiscriminately retaining metadata is unlawful which is a point my clients placed particular emphasis on.
So with the AirTV Player what Dish and Sling are essentially doing is letting customers choose the package of cable channels they want and offering an alternative solution for the big four networks.
been easy enough for PlayStation Vue DirecTV Now and others to license live programming in major cities where ABC CBS and the rest all own their local stations.
Odds are be hearing final details on price and availability for the AirTV Player at CES if not a bit sooner now that right there on the website.
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2. Akebia Gets $265M From Otsuka to Bankroll Anemia Drug Push | Xconomy
Akebia Therapeutics is in a high-stakes race with rival Fibrogen to treat anemia with a pill, not an injectable biologic. And it just got a bunch of cash t
3. Praxair, Linde to Merge Into Industrial-Gas Giant Worth $67 Billion
Germany’s Linde and U.S. rival Praxair agreed to a potential merger that would create the world’s largest industrial-gases company, with a combined value of $66.6 billion.
4. Apple Is Discussing Manufacturing in India, Government Officials Say
Apple is discussing with the Indian government the possibility of manufacturing its products in the country, according to two senior government officials, as the company seeks to grow its sales and presence in the South Asian nation.
5. Akebia funds late-stage studies of anemia pill with partnership for U.S. commercial rights
Akebia’s vadadustat is designed to stimulate the production of red blood cells (and the oxygen-carrying molecule hemoglobin) by mimicking the body’s reaction to high altitudes.
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A recent change to WhatsApp’s privacy policy has infuriated the European Commission — and now they’re gunning for Facebook.
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8. BlackBerry ups outlook, adjusted earnings beat; shares rise
BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO)(BBRY.O) posted another loss and a surprisingly sharp fall in revenue on Tuesday as the software growth it is relying on failed to make up for shrinking handset sales and lost service fees.
9. Linde, Praxair agree on outline for 50-50 merger
Linde AG (LING.DE), the German company that revived merger talks this month with U.S. rival Praxair Inc (PX.N), has come to an agreement with its counterpart on key aspects of an all-share deal to create a $65 billion industrial gases group.
10. Ex-Deutsche Bank Russia Trader Accused of Stock Manipulation
Yuri Khilov, while head of Deutsche Bank AG’s Russia equity trading desk, allegedly engaged in “large-scale” market manipulation from 2013 to 2015, using accounts that he opened in his relatives’ names, according to the Russian central bank.
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Uber a closely held company based in San Francisco has stayed mum about its financial performance even as its valuation has soared to billion making it more valuable on paper than General Motors and Twitter combined.
You will now receive the Game Plan newsletter The slowdown in Uber bookings growth can at least partially be explained by the company decision to leave China.
Uber said on that it came to an agreement with Didi Chuxing to exit China in exchange for percent of the Chinese company.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas told the daily Süddeutsche Zeitung the government would set legal consequences if removal rates of hate messages and false news did not increase.
Patrick Sensburg a member of the CDU said in an interview with DW on Tuesday that the government needs to consider ratcheting up the statutory offenses against fake news producers and take action against the people who run these websites.
They could play a corrective role by presenting truthful content and publishing their results in an accessible form he argued and suggested that taking advantage of the changes in digital communication would be a more effective measure against false news and hate messages than the use of criminal law.
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disappointed by early reviews and sales of the smartphone game Mario sold more Nintendo shares Monday with some analysts expressing concern over the payment model.
Nintendo shares finished down in Tokyo Stock Exchange trading extending a losing streak to five days during which the stock has fallen more than.
The stock had risen more than in the space of a month before beginning.
Airbnb may acquire an online travel agency or license data from a provider such as Amadeus IT Group SA or Sabre said the people who asked not to be identified discussing unfinished products.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky gave a presentation last month in Los Angeles where he showed off new designs for the company website and apps.
This is where Airbnb intends to provide suggestions for the best airfare options based on price travel time and expected weather conditions said the people familiar with the plans.
Teen app sensation Houseparty will get some competition as Facebook Messenger is launching its own group video chat feature.
Six users can appear in at the time and don selfie masks while total can listen and talk over voice while sending text stickers emojis and GIFs.
The feature could make a Messenger a place to with friends rather than just a way to send texts to exchange more utilitarian information or plan logistics.
Messenger has a simple framework for building bots and it automatically handles many things for you working across both iOS and Android supporting text image and audio content reliably delivering push notifications managing identity and permissions for different people and more.
In the near term the clearest next steps are building an Android app setting up Jarvis voice terminals in more rooms around my home and connecting more appliances.
AI is closer to being able to do more powerful things than most people expect driving cars curing diseases discovering planets understanding media.
I go through a formal Bootcamp Zuckerberg told me last week in the spacious living room of his classic Palo Alto California home where I come for a Jarvis demo and the first interview he has given about this year project.
When you visit Mark house set well back on a lot on a quiet leafy street in a very posh Silicon Valley neighborhood Jarvis recognizes you and automatically alerts him that you arrived.
Sitting on a dark green couch in his living room with Beast his dreadlocked Hungarian Sheepdog by his side Zuckerberg seemed relaxed as he explained how the system built over the last year has made things occasionally him Priscilla and Max.
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