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At WWDC 2019, Apple showed it's truly transforming into a privacy-as-a-service company with its single sign-on service and iOS 13's camera and location updates (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: At WWDC 2019, Apple showed it’s truly transforming into a privacy-as-a-service company with its single sign-on service and iOS 13’s camera and location updates  —  Apple shared plenty of news today at its WWDC 2019 annual developer conference, but a few of the announcements early on are potentially … At WWDC

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Report: financial firms led by UBS invest $60M+ to form a company to develop blockchain-based tech for settling cross-border trades using a "bitcoin-like" token (Mix/The Next Web)

Mix / The Next Web: Report: financial firms led by UBS invest $60M+ to form a company to develop blockchain-based tech for settling cross-border trades using a “bitcoin-like” token  —  THE BANKING INDUSTRY WANTS TO BLOCKCHAIN TOO  —  The banking industry is hell-bent on taking over the nascent blockchain and cryptocurrency market. Report: financial firms

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Misconfigured, public ElasticSearch cluster owned by Chinese headhunting firm FMC Consulting exposed private data including 20M+ resumes and 5M+ company records (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Misconfigured, public ElasticSearch cluster owned by Chinese headhunting firm FMC Consulting exposed private data including 20M+ resumes and 5M+ company records  —  A misconfigured and publicly accessible ElasticSearch cluster owned by FMC Consulting, a Chinese headhunting company … Misconfigured, public ElasticSearch cluster owned by Chinese headhunting firm FMC Consulting exposed private

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Apple says it is building Real User Indicator, a new tool for developers that uses on-device intelligence to detect bot-like activity during new account signups (Nick Statt/The Verge)

Nick Statt / The Verge: Apple says it is building Real User Indicator, a new tool for developers that uses on-device intelligence to detect bot-like activity during new account signups  —  To combat rampant fake behavior on the internet  —  Apple says it’s building a new tool it calls Real User Indicator … Apple says

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iOS 13 will let users automatically send unknown or spam callers to voicemail, using "Siri intelligence" to recognize numbers from Contacts, Mail, and Messages (Chris Welch/The Verge)

Chris Welch / The Verge: iOS 13 will let users automatically send unknown or spam callers to voicemail, using “Siri intelligence” to recognize numbers from Contacts, Mail, and Messages  —  Calls from unknown numbers will be automatically sent to voicemail  —  Apple is taking a new step to combat spam calls in iOS 13. iOS

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LevelTen Energy, which is developing a platform to match SMBs with renewable energy suppliers, raises $20.5M Series B led by Prelude Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: LevelTen Energy, which is developing a platform to match SMBs with renewable energy suppliers, raises $20.5M Series B led by Prelude Ventures  —  Seattle Techstars graduate LevelTen Energy, a startup developing a platform that matches small- and medium-sized businesses with renewable energy suppliers … LevelTen Energy, which is developing a platform

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