Two months ago, Amazon halted orders from thousands of suppliers with no explanation. Panic ensued — until the orders quietly resumed weeks later, with Amazon suggesting the pause was part of a campaign to weed out counterfeit products. Suppliers breathed a sigh of relief. Now a larger, more permanent purge is coming that will upend…

Lens is moving into object recognition across dining, translation, shopping and text. …read more Source:: CNet

The brothers were permanently suspended from Twitter last week for ‘operating multiple fake accounts.’ …read more Source:: CNet

The presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia have criticized the recent ICANN decision to grant global retailer Amazon the rights to the .amazon top-level domain. From a report: The four leaders — Peru’s Martin Vizcarra, Colombia’s Ivan Duque, Ecuador’s Lenin Moreno and Bolivia’s Evo Morales — vowed to join forces in protecting their countries…

Acquisition of security instrumentation firm will add more than $70 million to 2020 billing, FireEye estimates. …read more Source:: DarkReading

CEO Aneel Bhusri said that the company saw customers–Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 companies–expand their spending with Workday. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Shipping biz so very sorry for ‘inadvertently misrouting’ technical docs from Japan to China through US In addition to mistrusting foreign technology companies because of the risk of IP packet diversion, nation-states may also have to shy away from foreign shipping firms for fear of package diversion.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The WHATWG and W3C are allies, but Google’s Chrome holds much of the real power. …read more Source:: CNet

This week, AI experts, politicians, and CEOs will gather to ask an important question: Can the United States, China, or anyone else agree on how artificial intelligence should be used and controlled? From a report: The World Economic Forum, the international organization that brings together the world’s rich and powerful to discuss global issues at…

A penetration tester shows how low-severity Web application bugs can have a greater effect than businesses realize. …read more Source:: DarkReading