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A roundup of how technology companies and executives are reacting to President Trump's executive orders on immigration — “People across the company are freaking out.” — On Friday, President Trump signed an executive ordered temporarily halting the US refugee program for 120 days.
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New York Times, LinkedIn, Travis Kalanick, MacRumors, BuzzFeed, Recode, USA Today, Windows Central, GeekWire, CNNMoney, VentureBeat, CNET, ABC News, Business Insider, Business Insider, Gizmodo, The Verge, Business Insider, Engadget, Bloomberg, Recode, iMore, CNBC, TechCrunch, jeffiel, Reed Hastings, TechCrunch, Mashable, Washington Post, MSPoweruser, CNNMoney, GeekWire, Neowin, Daring Fireball, Reuters, Axios, ACLU, France 24, The Guardian, Politico, and Refinery29
Tweets: @elonmusk, @kellyannepolls, @bchesky, @jack, @twitter, @stewart, @karaswisher, @anildash, @levie, @mlevchin, @cwarzel, @tim_cook, @bchesky, @valaafshar, @satyanadella, @johnpaczkowski, @jack, @bijan, @aclu, @spolsky, @jguynn, @frankquattrone, @mkapor, @travisk, @mcuban, @markpinc, @benioff, @dickc, @paulg, @jeffiel, @jeffweiner, @anildash, @levie, @davemcclure, @kateconger, @tvietor08, @johnpaczkowski, @drewhouston, @anildash, @mikeisaac, @anildash, @johnpaczkowski, and @stevesi
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai slams Trump's immigration executive order in internal memo, says 100+ company staff travelling abroad with valid visas are affected — Memo from CEO Pichai says more than 100 employees impacted — Pichai says President's move caused painful ‘personal costs’
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Sam Altman, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, ProPublica, CNET, Business Insider, Business Insider, Engadget, 9to5Mac, Axios, BBC, TechCrunch, Slate, USA Today, Mashable, Android Central, Patently Apple, Android Authority, Bloomberg, The Hill, Washington Post, 9to5Google, AOL, Fox News, Seeking Alpha, Internet Association, Fortune, Reuters, Vox, Wired, New York Times, The Guardian, ACLU, and Refinery29
Tweets: @kantrowitz, @carnage4life, @mims, @liamstack, @nycsouthpaw, and @liamstack
| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Mark Zuckerberg says he's “concerned” about President Trump's executive orders on immigration, affirms support for “Dreamers” — My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria and Poland. Priscilla's parents were refugees from China and Vietnam.
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Tweets: @daveleebbc, @anildash, @mikeisaac, @ashleyfeinberg, @steve228uk, @mekosoff, @mcwm, and @ajs
| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook making rounds in DC: dinner Thursday night with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, meeting Friday with Sen. Orrin Hatch — Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently been sharpening his political skills. — Politico reported that Cook had dinner Thursday night … | Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Snap to publicly file for IPO late next week, which likely means a March IPO — The social communications company's current valuation is $25 billion, said sources. — According to sources, Snap Inc. plans to publicly file for its much-anticipated initial public offering late next week.| Elizabeth Banker / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter discloses two NSLs after lifting of FBI gag order; next hearing for its lawsuit against US government over disclosure of NSLs is February 14 — Today, we're able to speak openly about two national security requests for the first time, specifically two national security letters (NSLs).
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VentureBeat, Reuters, International Business Times, Gizmodo, Tech Times, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hill, Techdirt, Fortune, CNET, Mashable, and Axios. Tweets: @allthingsopsec
| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
New audio and video technologies that can easily recreate any person's likeness will make fake stories harder to detect — What we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020. — Less than a month after Donald Trump was improbably elected … | Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg breaks post-election silence to speak out against global gag rule on abortion — Sheryl Sandberg spoke out on Thursday against President Donald Trump's anti-abortion executive order. — The Facebook COO published a post on her Facebook page that chronicles …
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Pando, The Verge, USA Today, Fortune, The Daily Dot, Mercury News, Daily Mail, The Huffington Post, VentureBeat, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, CNET, The Hill, Fortune, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, Vanity Fair, International Business Times, Axios, New York Times, and CNNMoney
Tweets: @kenroth, @scottmcgrew, and @sarahcuda
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
LeakedSource, a site that sold access to a database of 3.1B+ compromised account passwords, taken offline after alleged police raid — LeakedSource garnered criticism for actively cracking the passwords it sold. — LeakedSource, a legally and ethically questionable website that sold access …
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Troy Hunt, CSO, Inquirer, Tom's Hardware, TechSpot, Graham Cluley, IT PRO, The Next Web, Engadget, SC Magazine US, Business Insider, Softpedia News, The Register, The Hacker News, SecurityWeek, ZDNet, and Security Affairs
Tweets: @vigilante_pw and @troyhunt
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
FBI posts redacted Gamergate investigation report; Brianna Wu, a target of Gamergate trolls, says report shows how little the FBI cared about the investigation — The FBI has posted a heavily redacted report of its threat investigations during the Gamergate controversy in 2014 and 2015.
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Engadget, The Register, Digital Trends, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @martinsfp, @unburntwitch, @unburntwitch, and @spacekatgal
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Recent small moves by Google and Facebook, such as tweaking Trending topics, highlight how hard it is to limit misinformation online — SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Facebook have been taking steps to curb the number of false news articles propagated across their sites.
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Computerworld and Fortune
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Russian media reports say two Russian intel officers who worked in office linked to US election hacking have been charged with treason for providing info to US — WASHINGTON — Ever since American intelligence agencies accused Russia of trying to influence the American election …
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