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Oculus's Palmer Luckey funding pro-Trump political organization dedicated to “shitposting” and “meme magic” — A Silicon Valley titan is putting money behind an unofficial Donald Trump group dedicated to “shitposting” and circulating Internet memes maligning Hillary Clinton.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook says it overestimated average video viewing time metric by 60%-80% for 2 years, according to information Publicis Media says it obtained from Facebook — Social network miscalculated the average time users spent watching videos on its platform — Big ad buyers and marketers …
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See also Mediagazer| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Yahoo confirms data from 500M+ accounts was stolen in 2014 by “state-sponsored actor”; info includes email addresses, hashed passwords, security questions, more — Yahoo on Thursday revealed a massive data breach of its services. — Yahoo “has confirmed that a copy …
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Tweets: @bvar, @harrymccracken, @laughing_mantis, @kennwhite, @inafried, @rich_barton, @mark_cpp, @scottthurm, @weldpond, @munin, @madhumita29, @adams, @jzdziarski, @mashable, @edwardnh, @gassee, @howardlindzon, @seldo, @pinboard, @fbrunel, @benthompson, @wsjd, @johnmoe, @csoghoian, @ahess247, @karaswisher, @profjeffjarviss, @nicoleperlroth, @nicoleperlroth, @jguynn, @anildash, @fredericl, @danprimack, @benbajarin, @martinsfp, @samfbiddle and @mollywood
See also Mediagazer| Fortune: |
Sources: Airbnb raises at least $555M in primary equity at $30B valuation, could grow to $850M; WSJ says Google Capital, Technology Crossover Ventures led round — Airbnb has held a first close on its massive new funding round, Fortune has learned from multiple sources.
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Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Forbes, CNET, YourStory.com, Guardian, Silicon Valley Business …, GeekTime, Quartz, Business Insider, SiliconBeat, Mashable, USA Today and silicontap.com
Tweets: @danprimack, @alex, @alex and @scottmaustin
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Apple acquires another machine learning company: Tuplejump — Apple is on a machine learning company buying spree. After buying Perceptio at the end of 2015 and Turi just a few months ago, Apple has now acquired an India/US-based machine learning team, Tuplejump.
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Bloomberg, Tech in Asia, Mashable, PYMNTS.com, VentureBeat, InvestorPlace, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Patently Apple, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, Fortune, Business Insider, AppAdvice.com Latest, MobileSyrup.com, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn unveils redesigned desktop site and launches LinkedIn Learning, an e-learning portal tailored to individuals, with Lynda.com content and 9K courses — LinkedIn, the social network for the working world that now has some 450 million members and is in the process of being acquired … | Reuters: |
Sources: NSA operative left “Shadow Brokers” hacking tools on remote server 3 years ago, admitted error shortly after, but NSA did not inform affected companies — A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory …
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The Register, Security Affairs and The Hacker News
Tweets: @jonfortt, @pwnallthethings, @emptywheel, @ncardozo, @csoghoian and @sanjay
| Nathan Martz / Google Developers Blog: |
Google launches VR SDK 1.0 out of beta, with support for Daydream — Posted by Nathan Martz, Product Manager, Google VR — At Google I/O, we announced Daydream—Google's platform for high quality, mobile virtual reality—and released early developer resources to get the community started with building for Daydream.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases first iOS 10.1 public beta, adding Portrait photo mode to iPhone 7 Plus — Apple today seeded the first beta of an upcoming iOS 10 update to public beta testers for testing purposes, just under two weeks after releasing iOS 10 to the public and one day after providing the iOS 10.1 beta to developers.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Instagram says it now has over 500K active advertisers, up from 200K in February — For those of you following Instagram's ad business, my headline might seem a bit familiar — yes, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service announced another advertiser milestone back in February … | Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Amazon's market cap has more than doubled to $380B since April 2015 as stock crosses $800, closing at all-time high — Amazon shares on Thursday soared past the $800 mark for the first time, closing at an all-time high of $804.70 per share. — That gives Amazon a market cap of over $380 billion …
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Recode, USA Today, GeekWire, TheStreet.com, Motley Fool, Fortune, Tech Trader Daily and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Scott Moritz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DirecTV Now to become AT&T's primary video delivery platform, eliminating need for a cable hookup or satellite dish for broadband users in five years — Bloomberg Anywhere Remote LoginBloomberg Anywhere Login — Service will limit streams to two devices simultaneously
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