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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg says News Feed will focus on what friends share, de-emphasize content from publishers and brands as it moves to favor interactions over passive posts — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook introduced sweeping changes to the kinds of posts, videos and photos that its more than two billion members …
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Facebook's News Feed changes are good for media industry in the long term; journalism engineered to be picked by an algorithm is not journalism, it's marketing — Thursday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told the New York Times that the social network will revamp its news feed to emphasize …
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| Reuters: |
Intel says some data center customers using Broadwell and Haswell processors are reporting more system reboots after applying patch for Meltdown and Spectre — (Reuters) - Intel Corp on Thursday said that recently issued patches for flaws in its chips could cause computers using its older Broadwell …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
AMD says it is making firmware updates available for Ryzen and EPYC processors this week to fix Spectre flaws, updating older processors “over the coming weeks” — Zero risk, but not zero impact — AMD's initial response to the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws made it clear “there is a near zero risk to AMD processors.”
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Ex-Google engineer claims senior Google execs pressured him to stop discussing pro-diversity initiatives on company forums, which motivated him to quit — A memo written by a former Google engineer claims that the company's human resources department and a senior vice president pressured …
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| Erin Griffith / Wired: |
Steve Jurvetson, who left DFJ in Nov., held event described as a “sex party” in new book Brotopia; Elon Musk, who attended, calls excerpt “salacious nonsense” — EARLIER THIS MONTH, a Vanity Fair report revealed sordid tales of Silicon Valley sex parties.
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| Will Greenwald / PC Magazine: |
TiVo unveils plans to add smart home integration, says Alexa, Google Assistant, and IFTTT support will begin rolling out to DVRs over the next few months — LAS VEGAS—If you own a TiVo, you'll soon be able to control it through your Amazon Echo or Google Home.| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Skype partners with Open Whisper Systems, which makes Signal, to begin testing of end-to-end encrypted “Private Conversations” — Secured using the same encryption standard behind the Signal app — Microsoft is testing a new feature for Skype: end-to-end encrypted chat conversations …
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| Jake Smith / ZDNet: |
IDC: PC shipments in Q4 2017 grew by 0.7% YoY to 70.6M units but declined by 0.2% to 259.5M units in full year 2017; HP and Apple saw 8.3% and 7.3% growth in Q4 — Research firm IDC said PC market most stable since 2011, led by HP. — The PC market is beginning to show some signs of stabling …
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google to vet videos in the Google Preferred ad program with human moderators and AI, after concerns from marketers over videos including Logan Paul's — Google is planning a new push to vet top-tier YouTube videos that it bundles for major advertisers, people familiar with the plan said.
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| New York Times: |
House votes 256 to 164 to extend Section 702 FISA warrantless surveillance program for six years with minimal changes; bill now proceeds to the Senate — WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to extend the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance program … | Cody Toombs / Android Police: |
Google updates Duo, lets users call some Android contacts who don't have the app installed; provides prompt to install at end of call — Google recently began rolling out a slightly updated look to the contact list on the Duo video calling app. Alongside this fun rearrangement of pixels … Sponsor Posts
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