Russian software will be mandatory on all devices sold in the country from July 1, 2020
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit focuses on 5G AI chips and use cases
Qualcomm debuts 3D Sonic Max, a secure two-finger ultrasonic scanner
Google: 80% of Android apps now encrypt network traffic by default
Firefox 71 arrives with better Lockwise and tracker blocking, Picture-in-Picture on Windows
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Twitter will make global privacy changes to comply with CCPA in 2020
Facebook lets users transfer images directly to Google Photos as part of data portability program
China now requires face scans for all new mobile phone accounts
Starting in 2020, China will require videos created using AI or VR to be clearly marked
HSBC to shift $20 billion worth of assets to blockchain-based Digital Vault
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NordVPN launches NordPass as password protection market heats up
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When game companies squander player trust, bad things happen (VB Live)
Workers at Israeli surveillance firm NSO sue Facebook for blocking their personal accounts
Buguroo raises $11 million to detect banking fraud with deep learning and behavioral biometrics
Cymulate raises $15 million to expand its cloud-based security platform
Germany opens door to private 5G networks with 3.7-3.8GHz licenses
Google quintuples top reward for hacking Android to $1 million
Buttigieg and Yang say AI is essential to U.S. national security
Sonos acquires privacy-conscious AI startup Snips for $37.5 million
Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple play defense in congressional antitrust probe
Microsoft announces Confidential Computing for Kubernetes, IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, and KEDA 1.0
ZecOps raises $10.2 million to automatically detect and remediate cyberattacks
HackNotice Premium taps machine learning to tell you exactly what was exposed for $50 per year
IntSights raises $30 million to detect and remediate cyberthreats
How Chronicle is fitting into Google Cloud
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ProBeat: ‘Algorithms are like convex mirrors that refract human biases’
GitHub launches Security Lab to protect open source code
Password manager 1Password raises $200 million in its first round of funding
WordPress 5.3 arrives with block editor improvements, new theme, and automatic image rotation
Microsoft starts rolling out Windows 10 November 2019 Update
Microsoft will honor California’s CCPA privacy law across the U.S.
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