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Google's featured snippets, presented as the “one true answer” in search and by Google Home, sometimes give false information from untrustworthy sources — The highlighted answers given prime placement over search results are often shockingly bad.
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As Facebook begins adding “disputed” labels, a look at how Facebook took a full week to label one made-up story from a fake news site as “disputed” — Coming to your feed: A “disputed” label for bogus stories. — That bogus story about Donald Trump your uncle posted on Facebook?
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Uber has a program to identify enforcement officers and stealthily prevent them from successfully hailing cars, to help drivers avoid sanctions — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook testing emoji reactions, including a thumbs-down button, on messages in Messenger — Facebook finally has a Dislike button, but it's not where you'd expect. — How do you reply to a specific message in a rapid-fire chat thread? Facebook wants you to attach emojis …
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| San Francisco Chronicle: |
USCIS says it's temporarily suspending expedited processing of H-1B visas, an option often used by tech companies, for up to six months, beginning April 3 — The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will temporarily suspend expedited processing for all H-1B petitions starting April 3, according to the agency's website.
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Thanks:@owenthomas| CNET: |
MWC 2017 recap: retro phones, no Samsung handsets, 5G hype, shrinking bezels, and less VR gear — Retro phones, shrinking bezels, 5G on deck and Samsung's no-show: That was the Mobile World Congress that was. — Autoplay: ON Autoplay: OFF — That's a wrap for another Mobile World Congress.
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Interview with Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew on his early career at Citysearch, post-merger AOL, becoming a VC, investment in Snap, and next big tech opportunities — Innovation can happen anywhere, says Liew, which is why he looks beyond Silicon Valley for investments.
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| New York Times: |
Sources and public records shed light on Pentagon program developing cyberweapons to sabotage North Korean missiles before they lift off — WASHINGTON — Three years ago, President Barack Obama ordered Pentagon officials to step up their cyber and electronic strikes against North Korea's missile program …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Federal prosecutors drop charges in another of 135+ Playpen child porn cases in order to keep the source code of its Tor hack secret — DOJ: “Disclosure is not currently an option.” — Rather than share the now-classified technological means that investigators used to locate a child porn suspect … | Antoine Gara / Forbes: |
Kensho, an AI-powered platform for traders, raises $50M Series B at $500M valuation led by S&P Global, with Wall Street's six biggest banks participating — When the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union in June, ultimately tanking the British pound, traders with access to Cambridge …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft sheds more light on how “Game Mode” in the upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update will improve gaming performance — Plus details on strict limitations for UWP apps running on the Xbox One. — SAN FRANCISCO—A few months ago, Microsoft announced that its upcoming Windows …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Researchers uncover PowerShell Trojan that uses DNS queries to get its orders — Delivered by “secure” Word doc, pure PowerShell malware fetches commands from DNS TXT records. — Researchers at Cisco's Talos threat research group are publishing research today on a targeted attack delivered …
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