- Healthcare data breach in Singapore affected 1.5M patients, targeted the prime minister
- New York State labor review board makes a final ruling that three former Uber drivers were Uber employees for the purposes of unemployment insurance (Dana Rubinstein/Politico)
- Waymo’s autonomous vehicles are driving 25,000 miles every day
- Facebook suspends data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon, which boasts repository of 1T social media posts, as it investigates the company's government contracts (Kirsten Grind/Wall Street Journal)
- Redefining dilution
- Trump’s China tariffs could drive up the price of the Apple Watch and Fitbit trackers
- The World Cup led to a record-breaking number of app downloads and consumer spend in Q2
- Indian telecoms regulator mandates that all smartphone users should be able to install its anti-spam app by January; iPhone could be in breach of the regulation (Javed Anwer/India Today)
- US lawmakers drop provision that blocked lifting of ZTE sanctions, strengthen CFIUS authority to block Chinese investments in a compromise defense spending bill (Erica Werner/Washington Post)
- Tempow’s Bluetooth stack can improve your TV setup
- Prices for Disrupt SF 2018 passes increase in a few days
- Dish is the first TV provider to offer support for Apple’s Business Chat
- Lyft says it will enhance its background checks after revelations that an undocumented immigrant who has been charged with serial rape worked as a Lyft driver (Carolyn Said/San Francisco Chronicle)
- App Annie: there were 28.4B app downloads worldwide across iOS and Google Play in Q2, up 15% YoY as consumer spending grew 20% YoY reaching $18.5B (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Facebook, Google and more unite to let you transfer data between apps
- How Comcast is moving beyond the set top box as it rolls out its Xfinity X1 interface on smart TVs, starting with betas on Roku TV and some Samsung TVs (Scott Porch/Fast Company)
- Zoox’s fresh $500M, how to spend $6.3B and Microsoft’s fine fiscal year
- Blavity raises $6.5 million Series A round led by GV
- FCC will now take your comments on whether to allow T-Mobile/Sprint merger (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
- San Francisco says it expects to issue permits for its 24-month electric scooter pilot program sometime in August, selecting from 12 applicants (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)
- DuckDuckGo says that Google confuses customers by redirecting traffic from duck.com domain, which the search giant owns, to google.com (Anthony Cuthbertson/The Independent)
- eBay's Q2 filing shows company paid $573M to acquire ecommerce platform Qoo10 Japan in February, not the $700M rumored at the time of acquisition (TechCrunch)
- Facebook executives struggle to describe a coherent strategy to deal with misinformation on the site; it's a hodgepodge of "exceptions to the exceptions" (Farhad Manjoo/New York Times)
- Sources: Facebook's plans for a nationwide rollout of WhatsApp payments service in India is being held up by government concerns over storage of user data (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
- Cyberattack on Singapore's largest healthcare institution SingHealth steals details of 1.5M patients, including the Prime Minister (James Vincent/The Verge)
- As more African governments restrict internet access, activists push back by calling them out, educating users on workarounds, and even hacking government sites (Abdi Latif Dahir/Quartz)