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| Amar Toor / The Verge: |
Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft agree to EU hate speech rules that mandates review of “the majority of” hateful content within 24 hours of notification — Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, and YouTube today agreed to European regulations that require them to review …
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Tweets: @marietjeschaake, @richardwellings, @accessnow, @theoude, @dannysullivan, @rawlenyanziftl and @randileeharper
See also Mediagazer| 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: |
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| 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.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram officially announces its new business tools, including business profiles, analytics, more; businesses must have a Facebook Page to enable them — Instagram this morning officially announced the launch of its tools for business users, including new business profiles … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Samsung announces 512GB NVMe SSD weighing only 1 gram with read and write speeds of 1500MB/s and 900MB/s, available starting in June — Samsung today announced that mass production has begun on a new NVMe PCIe solid state drive in a ball grid array package, the first of its kind to be available in large quantities.
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Samsung Newsroom, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Computerworld, ZDNet, Windows Central, The Tech Report, CIO.com and WCCFtech
| 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 …
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Engadget, The Verge, 9to5Google, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Fortune, Tech Insider and Droid Life
| Danny Yadron / Guardian: |
Sources: Facebook planning to introduce optional end-to-end encryption mode to Messenger app — The move illustrates how technology companies are doubling down on secure messaging while not wanting to get in the way of their other business objectives — Facebook users this summer … | Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Periscope to let livestream viewers vote on whether flagged comments are abusive in “flash juries” of five random users — Attention livestreamers: You've been summoned for jury duty. — Attention Periscope users: You've been summoned for jury duty.
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Periscope, The Verge, Engadget, iMore, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Vanity Fair and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @marklittlenews
| 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.
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PR Newswire, Computerworld, ZDNet, AdExchanger, Marketing Land, Seeking Alpha, CNBC, Fortune, PE Hub Blog and silicontap.com
Tweets: @ron_miller, @danprimack, @benkepes and @anshublog
| 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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Ars Technica, AppleInsider and ZDNet
| Bloomberg: |
Source: Uber gets $1B credit facility, basically a line of credit, in a deal led by Goldman Sachs to expand its Uber Xchange subprime auto leasing business — In its relentless pursuit for growth, Uber needs new drivers, and many of those drivers need cars.
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Consumerist, Motherboard and Dealbreaker
Tweets: @edwardnh, @tsgiles, @reformedbroker, @drewfitzgerald and @ddayen
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Jawbone refutes reports that it will exit the fitness tracker market — Last week, a report claiming that Jawbone would exit the fitness tracker marketplace made the rounds. At the time, Jawbone offered us a “no comment,” but today the company has released a full statement that entirely refutes last week's rumors.
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| The Duo Security Bulletin: |
Analysis shows Lenovo, Acer, HP, Dell, and Asus are shipping laptops with bloatware that's known to be insecure — Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) refer to the first boot of a new PC as the out-of-box experience (OOBE). As you battle your way through modal dialogues for questionable software …
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CNET, CSO, ZDNet, PCWorld, BetaNews, Digital Trends, The Register, International Business Times and Softpedia News
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Atari will enter IoT market with new connected devices in partnership with Sigfox — Atari announced today that it is plunging into the Internet of Things with a line of connected objects that will debut later this year. — Just what those gadgets might be, however, remains shrouded in mystery.| Tom Hals / Reuters: |
Ruling from Delaware judge finds that Michael Dell, Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9B buyout of Dell by 22%, may have to pay tens of millions — Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners underpriced their 2013 $24.9 billion buyout of Dell Inc [DI.UL] by about 22 percent …
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ZDNet, The Register, USA Today, SiliconANGLE and Wall Street Journal
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
PayPal to halt service in Turkey after losing license over refusal to comply with new rules requiring IT systems be local, impacting “hundreds of thousands” — Turkey has been making moves to bring tech business in the country under more localised control, and today big U.S …
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Engadget, ZDNet, CNET, Finextra Research Headlines, The Stack and Fortune. Tweets: @westcoastbill
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