Report: SoftBank is facing challenges in raising $100B for its second fund after facing a lukewarm response from some of the world's largest investors (Eustance Huang/CNBC)

Eustance Huang / CNBC : Report: SoftBank is facing challenges in raising $100B for its second fund after facing a lukewarm res…

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 …

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 se…

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 Consultin…

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 intellig…

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 intellige…

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, ra…

Inside Microsoft's decision to buy GitHub, which now has 36M registered developers, and how Microsoft is winning back developers with its open source focus (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

Dina Bass / Bloomberg : Inside Microsoft's decision to buy GitHub, which now has 36M registered developers, and how Micros…

Live stream of Apple's WWDC 2019 keynote (Apple)

Apple : Live stream of Apple's WWDC 2019 keynote   —  From the San Jose Convention Center. from Techmeme http://bit.ly/2…

Live blog of Apple's WWDC 2019 keynote from San Jose, where iOS 13, macOS 10.15, and perhaps the Mac Pro are expected be announced (The Verge)

The Verge : Live blog of Apple's WWDC 2019 keynote from San Jose, where iOS 13, macOS 10.15, and perhaps the Mac Pro are e…

Apple has updated its Apple Developer Program License Agreement with new references to "iPadOS", breaking iPad out of the "iOS" branding (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple has updated its Apple Developer Program License Agreement with new references to “iPadOS”, bre…

Sources: FTC secured the rights to begin a potential anti-trust probe of Facebook as part of an agreement that let the DOJ take the reins in a Google probe (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : Sources: FTC secured the rights to begin a potential anti-trust probe of Facebook as part of an agreement…

Facebook introduces Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, launching the look-alike stickers feature today in Australia for use in Messenger and News Feed comments (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch : Facebook introduces Avatars, its Bitmoji competitor, launching the look-alike stickers feature to…

eBay partners with Spanish bank Santander to offer loans to more than 200,000 SMBs on its platform in UK via Asto, the bank's business bookkeeping app (Nicholas Megaw/Financial Times)

Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times : eBay partners with Spanish bank Santander to offer loans to more than 200,000 SMBs on its p…

Stripe launches Chargeback Protection, based on its fraud prevention tool Radar, which automatically reimburses businesses for the cost of a disputed charge (PYMNTS.com)

PYMNTS.com : Stripe launches Chargeback Protection, based on its fraud prevention tool Radar, which automatically reimburses b…

Twitter acquires Fabula AI, which uses ML to help detect the spread of misinformation online, to join Twitter's in-house team of AI researchers called Cortex (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat : Twitter acquires Fabula AI, which uses ML to help detect the spread of misinformation online, to j…

Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a catalog sexualizing children (New York Times)

New York Times : Researchers find YouTube's recommendation algorithm is curating home movies of unwitting families into a …

Filing: Huawei is selling off its undersea telecom cable business, its first major asset sale since the US ratcheted up its accusations against the company (Sijia Jiang/Reuters)

Sijia Jiang / Reuters : Filing: Huawei is selling off its undersea telecom cable business, its first major asset sale since th…

PayPal rolls out its e-commerce platform, used by Instagram Checkout and Facebook Marketplace, to all, with buying, selling, fraud protection, other services (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

Kate Rooney / CNBC : PayPal rolls out its e-commerce platform, used by Instagram Checkout and Facebook Marketplace, to all, wi…

IEEE says it has lifted restrictions on employees of Huawei and its subsidiaries in participating in papers' peer reviews, after clarification from the US DOC (Brenda Goh/Reuters)

Brenda Goh / Reuters : IEEE says it has lifted restrictions on employees of Huawei and its subsidiaries in participating in pa…