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The history of content moderation, the laws that govern internet speech, and how safety works online — The secret rules of the internet — Julie Mora-Blanco remembers the day, in the summer of 2006, when the reality of her new job sunk in. A recent grad of California State University …
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AVC and Boing Boing. Tweets: @femfreq, @schemaly, @theifund, @zeldman, @adrianchen, @s_m_i, @dangillmor, @codinghorror and @zeynep
| Clive Thompson / New York Times: |
The Minecraft Generation: How Mojang's virtual sandbox, which sells 10K copies per day, is teaching millions of children to master the digital world — The Minecraft Generation — How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching hundreds of millions of children to master the digital world. — J
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Alphabet's Access CEO Craig Barratt says it is looking into providing fixed wireless services where installing fiber is too expensive — Google Fiber wants to beam wireless Internet to your home — Over the past five years, Google Fiber has laid its high-speed Internet in a handful of cities and pledged to come to several more.
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Apple opposes unlocking iPhone in Brooklyn drug case, saying the government has not proven its help is necessary — Apple opposes U.S. appeal over iPhone in New York drug case — Apple Inc argued on Friday that the U.S. Justice Department had failed to substantiate that it needed …
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Thanks:@dnvolz| Darren Orf / Gizmodo: |
Facebook's initial Messenger chatbots are slow, frustrating, and useless — Facebook Chatbots Are Frustrating and Useless — Facebook's new Messenger chatbots are barely two days old, and it's definitely showing. Right now, you can only interact with a few, and finding them is a huge pain in the ass.
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Researchers uncover GozNym, malware that is a hybrid of Nymaim and Gozi that has stolen $4M from customers of 24 US and Canadian banks in just 3 days — Eastern European Cyber Crooks Raid US Banks For $4 Million In Just 3 Days — In early April, cybercriminals believed … | David Shamah / The Times of Israel: |
Oracle acquires Israeli big-data firm Crosswise for reported $50m — Company figures out which devices a user owns, helps advertisers target their pitches better — Big data giant Oracle announced Thursday that it had acquired Israeli big data firm Crosswise, a specialist in “cross-device” … | Politico: |
Inside the European Commission's efforts to create a digital single market and how the creative industry is pushing back — Copyright fight club — EU wants to change how millions watch Hollywood films and YouTube videos, but legacy media groups are pushing back hard.| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
GoDaddy CTO and EVP of Cloud Platform Elissa Murphy is resigning to join Google — GoDaddy's Head Tech And Cloud Guru Resigns To Join Google — GoDaddy's head technology guru is leaving the building and going to Google. — The website hosting company revealed in a regulatory filing …
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Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs Plans Digital City for Google Car, Internet — When Google launched a new company to “fix cities,” speculation swirled as to what, precisely, that company would do. One idea: What if it built its own city, a laboratory vision of a thoroughly connected, techno-utopia?
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The Information, The Next Web, TheStreet.com, Silicon Valley Business …, Android Authority and The Verge
Tweets: @coryweinberg, @theinformation, @pkafka and @jessicalessin
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
India debuts Unified Payment Interface, a system built on top of its existing biometric-backed ID project to simplify digital banking for its 1.2B+ citizens — India's Audacious Plan to Bring Digital Banking to 1.2 Billion People — A biometrics-backed ID system will make it easier for everyone … | Brandt Ranj / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it won't try to influence how people vote, despite verbal jabs between Zuckerberg and Trump campaign plus staffers' internal questions — Facebook promises not to use its product to influence the US presidential election — Despite some not-so-subtle political jabs …
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