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Ten former employees shed light on Twitter's 10-year failure to stop abuse on its platform — For nearly its entire existence, Twitter has not just tolerated abuse and hate speech, it's virtually been optimized to accommodate it. With public backlash at an all-time high and growth stagnating …
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See also Mediagazer| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: in 2015, then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive replies to President Obama during a Q&A session — In 2015, Then-Twitter CEO Dick Costolo secretly ordered employees to filter out abusive and hateful replies to President Obama during a Q&A session, sources tell BuzzFeed News.
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Twitter says BuzzFeed story contains “inaccuracies in the details” and “unfair portrayals” without offering specifics, pledges to continue making Twitter safer — In response to today's BuzzFeed story on safety, we were contacted just last night for comment and obviously …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft acquires Beam interactive game live streaming service — Microsoft has acquired Beam, a Seattle-based interactive game streaming service that lets viewers play along with streamers as they watch. Beam's model takes the mostly passive interaction that streaming fans may be used …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, Beam, Xbox Wire, VatorNews, eWeek, Forbes, Digital Trends, Windows Central, GeekWire, Light Reading, PCWorld, CNET, ZDNet, InvestorPlace, Engadget, MSPoweruser, The Next Web, Silicon Republic, Fortune, VentureBeat, WinBeta, Techaeris, Neowin and Windows Central. Tweets: @xboxp3
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Adblock Plus finds a way to block Facebook's new, supposedly unblockable ads, beginning what could be a long game of cat and mouse — Facebook's plan to stop ad blockers has already been foiled. Adblock Plus has found a way to strip ads from Facebook, even when they're served up in Facebook's new ad blocker-proof format.
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See also Mediagazer| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find cryptographic keys shared by millions of Volkswagen vehicles can allow them clone key fobs using cheap radio hardware — In 2013, when University of Birmingham computer scientist Flavio Garcia and a team of researchers were preparing to reveal a vulnerability that allowed …
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Ars Technica, Engadget, The Register, Reuters, Graham Cluley, Telegraph, TechSpot, SecurityWeek, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Fortune, InvestorPlace, The Hacker News, Consumerist and Tesla Motors Club. Tweets: @wired
| Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal: |
Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, will leave the company in the coming weeks to focus on health-and-wellness startup Thrive Global — Huffington Post co-founder and editor-in-chief to focus on health-and-wellness startup Thrive Global
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See also Mediagazer| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Logitech launches Pop Home Switch for smart home control, on sale this month for $99.99 — Logitech has a new device called the Pop Home Switch, and it's a bit different from their usual offerings. A company known for Universal Remotes encrusted with physical keys, touchscreen displays … | Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
TCP Flaw in Linux Servers Allows Web Traffic Hijacking — All Linux kernels put out in the past four years affected — CVE-2016-5696 is the ID of a serious security flaw that affects the TCP implementation in the Linux kernel, which, if exploited, allows an attacker to hijack unencrypted Web traffic …
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UCR Today, Ars Technica, ZDNet, BetaNews, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, PCWorld, Threatpost and The Register. Tweets: @calbucci
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
CVS Health launches mobile payments app CVS Pay for iOS and Android, starting in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, and nationwide by year end — CVS Health today is launching its own mobile payments solution that will allow customers to pay for products, pick up prescriptions …
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CVS Health, Digital Trends, SlashGear, AppAdvice.com Latest, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, Android and Me, Consumerist, PhoneDog.com, TIME, iPhone Hacks and Fortune. Tweets: @benbajarin. Thanks:@brianroemmele
| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
Google fined $6.8M for breaking Russian antitrust rules with Android, for favoring its own services over rivals — Russian antitrust officials fined Google a mere $6.8 million on Thursday, a penalty that, while small, represents the latest in a growing list of global regulatory problems for the American search giant.
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eWeek, The Register, Bloomberg, Marketing Land, Android Police, Engadget, Techaeris, PhoneArena, Wall Street Journal, Sputnik International and Recode. Tweets: @recode
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquires SGI for $275 million — Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which split from HP last year, today announced that it has acquired SGI, a company that makes servers, storage, and software for high-performance computing, for $275 million in cash and debt.
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