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Twitter sues the Trump administration after Customs and Border Protection tries to compel the social network to reveal the identity behind @alt_USCIS account — So remember how President Donald Trump (a.k.a. @realDonaldTrump) loves Twitter and credits it with helping him win the election?
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
YouTube says it will only allow channels with 10K lifetime views to monetize videos, to help make sure revenue flows only to those who play by the rules — The rule change is meant to weed out bad actors — Five years ago, YouTube opened their partner program to everyone.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Project Zero finds serious Broadcom WiFi chipset flaw that allows hacking of many Android devices; Google releasing patch this month; iOS was patched in 10.3.1 — Broadcom chips allow rogue Wi-Fi signals to execute code of attacker's choosing. — A broad array of Android phones are vulnerable … | Ev Williams: |
Twitter co-founder Ev Williams says he's selling up to 30% of his Twitter shares, so he can continue to invest in other causes and companies — A note for Twitter shareholders and employees — If you're not a Twitter shareholder or employee (or reporter who covers such things) …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung forecasts $8.8B Q1 profit, an almost 50% jump YoY, expects sales of $44.2B, which won't include Galaxy S8 sales which hit market April 21 — The South Korean giant's latest quarterly likely benefited from its business supplying chips, displays and other components.
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| Google Research Blog: |
Google's testing Federated Learning, a new approach to machine learning that keeps user data as well as model training on users' devices, with Gboard on Android — Posted by Brendan McMahan and Daniel Ramage, Research Scientists — Standard machine learning approaches require centralizing … | Richard Leadbetter / Eurogamer.net: |
Project Scorpio, which is at least six months away from release, shows impressive performance based on a game demo and detailed look at the tech inside the box — Digital Foundry has the specs, has seen it running, and has talked to the people who built it.| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Facebook Messenger opens its M assistant to all US users, easing the process of sending money in chats, sharing locations, making plans, starting a poll — Starting on iOS and Android in the US — Facebook's AI assistant, known simply as M, will now pop into your Messenger chat windows …
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Sources: FCC Chairman tells trade groups of plans to update net neutrality rules created under Obama, wants to keep basic principles but move enforcement to FTC — The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is moving quickly to replace the Obama administration's landmark net neutrality rules …
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Apple Clips hands-on: a fun, lightweight app for mobile video editing that can be complicated to use but creates nice looking videos, available now — Not a social network, but a fun video app … When I opened up Apple's new Clips app yesterday, as I've been doing for the past few days …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet says Fiber president Dennish Kish and VP of Access division Milo Medin are leaving the division but remaining at the company — Fiber President Dennis Kish to remain at holding company — Veteran Googler Milo Medin is also leaving broadband effort
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Crunchbase raises $18M led by Mayfield, debuts Enterprise business intelligence service, and plans to add complementary data from third parties — Crunchbase — the database spun out from TechCrunch that charts startups, other tech companies, the people who work for them, and those who fund them …
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| Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Sources: Lyft raises $500M at a $6.9B valuation, a 50% increase over its January 2016 valuation — Read next … Lyft has raised more than $500m at a valuation of $6.9bn, according to three people familiar with the matter, as investors back the Uber rival's continued expansion across the United States.
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