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February 9, 2016, 1:40 PM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Twitter introduces First View, new video ads placed at the top of users' timelines — Timing Is Everything: Twitter Unveils First View Ads, Videos At The Top Of Your Timeline — Twitter has been in the spotlight for the past several days over allegedly imminent (longstanding) plans to change the order of Tweets in your timeline.

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Twitter Forms A “Trust & Safety Council” To Balance Abuse Vs Free Speech — Twitter's latest step in the tricky balancing act of championing free speech without also handing a free pass to orchestrated harassment via its platform is the announcement today that it's formed a “Trust & Safety Council” …

More: The Twitter Blog, USA Today, CNET, Inquirer, Fortune, Digital Trends, Guardian and The Huffington Post. Tweets: @mattocko

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:

Amazon launches free cross-platform 3D game engine Lumberyard, with Twitch integration — Amazon takes on Unity et al with Lumberyard, a free cross-platform game engine — Amazon has unveiled two new products aimed squarely at the professional game-developer fraternity: Lumberyard …

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business:

Amazon Is Building Global Delivery Business to Take On Alibaba — New unit would connect Chinese factories with U.S. shoppers — Strategy will turn FedEx and UPS into Amazon competitors — In recent weeks, speculation has mounted that Amazon.com Inc. plans to launch a global shipping …

More: The Verge, Business Insider, GeekWire and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @amir

Eric Geller / The Daily Dot:

Obama unveils $19B Cybersecurity National Action Plan, asking Congress for 35% increase in cybersecurity funding — Obama unveils $19 billion plan to overhaul U.S. cybersecurity — President Obama on Tuesday unveiled an expansive plan to bolster government and private-sector cybersecurity …

More: The White House, Wired, BuzzFeed, Reuters, New York Times, Engadget, Re/code, The Verge, The Register, ZDNet, USA Today, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, CNN, SecurityWeek, Silicon Republic, Access Now, Associated Press, Reuters, Washington Post and Defense One. Tweets: @mkaiserncsa. Thanks:@ericgeller

Jon Russell / TechCrunch:

Gmail Now Warns Users When They Send And Receive Email Over Unsecured Connections — Google is marking Safer Internet Day, which falls today, by introducing new authentication features to Gmail to help better identify emails that could prove to be harmful or are not fully secure.

More: Gmail Blog, Engadget, 9to5Google, Google Drive Blog, PCWorld, The Verge, The Next Web and VentureBeat

Jason Tanz / Wired:

Andy Rubin's Playground aims to make building AI-enabled devices more accessible; the tech will initially be for startups in which Rubin has invested — Andy Rubin Unleashed Android on the World. Now Watch Him Do the Same With AI — A couple of years ago, Andy Rubin …

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget, Android Authority, 9to5Google, The Verge, SlashGear and playgroundblog. Tweets: @brianroemmele. Thanks:@jasontanz

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Kickstarter just hit 100,000 successfully funded campaigns — Kickstarter hit a big milestone overnight: the successful funding of a 100,000th campaign. It's taken Kickstarter nearly seven years to reach 100,000 funded projects, but the rate at which projects are being funded is much faster than it used to be.

More: The Kickstarter Blog, VatorNews, TechSpot, Kickstarter, Tech Insider, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Mashable, Digital Trends and Crowdfund Insider

Tweets: @jkaz, @sacca and @ellenchisa

Julie Bort / Business Insider:

Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad resigns amid compliance issues, COO David Sacks becomes CEO, Josh Stein named Chief Compliance Officer — The CEO of one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups has suddenly resigned — Parker Conrad, cofounder and CEO of high-flying Zenefits …

More: Fortune, VatorNews, VentureBeat, CNNMoney, BuzzFeed, The Next Web, TechCrunch, New York Times, ZDNet, Forbes, USA Today, The Information, Bloomberg Business and Forbes

Tweets: @jeffweiner, @buzz, @anildash, @jayrosen_nyu, @carnage4life, @chrissyfarr, @codinghorror, @mattrosoff, @tomgara, @sarahfrier, @alex, @johnpaczkowski, @caseynewton, @mikeisaac and @mikeisaac

Julia Fioretti / Reuters:

French data protection authority gives Facebook three months to stop tracking non-users and halt some transfers of personal data to US — French data privacy regulator cracks down on Facebook — The French data protection authority on Monday gave Facebook three months …

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Google will stop running Flash display ads on January 2, 2017 — Google today announced that the Google Display Network and DoubleClick Digital Marketing are completely ditching Flash for HTML5 next year. More specifically, advertisers will no longer be able to upload display ads built …

More: AdWords - Google+, Ars Technica and The Next Web

Abner Li / 9to5Google:

1Password for Android jumps to version 6, adds Material Design, fingerprint sensor support — The Android version of popular password manager 1Password has received a big update to version 6. In addition to a full Material redesign, the app now has support for Marshmallow's fingerprint unlocking.

More: AgileBits Blog, PCWorld, Android Police, The Verge, MyBroadband, TechCrunch, Fone Arena and Engadget

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