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May 31, 2016, 2:55 PM

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Amar Toor / The Verge:
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft agree to EU hate speech rules  —  Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube today agreed to European regulations that require them to review “the majority of” hateful online content within 24 hours of being notified — and to remove it, if necessary …
Mark Hachman / PCWorld:
Intel's Broadwell-E gaming CPU is a stunner, offering 10 cores for a whopping $1,723  —  Meet the next flagship chip for overclocking, gaming, and transcoding.  —  On paper, Intel's massive new 10-core—yes, 10—Broadwell-E gaming chips top out at 3.8GHz.  But buying one is like purchasing …
Ian Cutress / AnandTech:
The Intel Broadwell-E Review: Core i7-6950X, i7-6900K, i7-6850K and i7-6800K Tested  —  What would you do with more CPU cores?  This is a question I see posted from an Intel employee on a yearly basis, and it actually is a difficult question to answer depending on your computing background.
Nagraj Kashyap / The Official Microsoft Blog:
New Microsoft Ventures division to focus on early-stage investments in cloud, SaaS, security, and machine learning startups  —  When I came to Microsoft earlier this year, I was driven by the opportunity to establish a corporate venture group that would create an additional channel to engage the start-up ecosystem.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Marketing software giant Marketo taken private by Vista Equity Partners in an all-cash deal worth $1.79B  —  Marketo, the marketing software giant that went public in 2013, is being taken private again: PE firm Vista Equity Partners has acquired the company for $1.79 billion in an all-cash deal.
Amir Efrati / The Information:
Source: Google Home's ARM-based microprocessor and Wi-Fi chip to be the same as those in the Chromecast  —  When Google executive Mario Queiroz unveiled a new voice-controlled virtual assistant, Google Home, at the company's developer conference this month, he left out a key detail …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Simply Hired, a job search engine with 30M monthly users, will shut down June 26, after reportedly being acquired  —  Simply Hired — a job search engine with 30 million monthly users that is active in 24 countries and 12 languages — is shutting down on June 26, with one report claiming …
Dustin Volz / Reuters:
US appeals court rules no warrant needed for cellphone location data, overturning a divided 2015 opinion  —  Police do not need a warrant to obtain a person's cellphone location data held by wireless carriers, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday, dealing a setback to privacy advocates.

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