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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple to introduce new low-cost iPads and software for the education market at its event in Chicago next week — Company holding rare education-focused event next week — Lower-cost and Pro models have recently reignited iPad sales — Apple Inc. is preparing to introduce …
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| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Dropbox opens up ~40% on its first day of trading after pricing its shares at $21, above already increased range of $18-$20/share, and raising $756M in its IPO — - Dropbox, once valued as high as $10 billion, reported more than $1 billion in 2017 revenue and 500 million registered users …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Samsung says it is investigating user reports about Galaxy S9 and S9+ touchscreen responsiveness issues — Tonight Samsung has responded to growing reports of Galaxy S9/S9+ phones with touchscreen problems. Android Police points to a few threads on Reddit and Samsung's own support forums …
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| Loren Grush / The Verge: |
After some users challenged Elon Musk on Twitter, he removed the Facebook pages for both SpaceX and Tesla — During a mid-afternoon tweetstorm, Elon Musk deleted both of his companies' Facebook pages after being challenged to do so by a few of his followers.
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Tweets: @elonmusk, @elonmusk, @caitlin__kelly, @recode, @whatthebit, @daveleebbc, @alexia, @serdarsprofile, and @llchanana
| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Craigslist pulls all personal ads after passage of sex-trafficking bill FOSTA, says any tool or service can be misused and that it can't take such risk — Online classified site Craigslist has pulled its entire personal ad section after Congress passed a new sex-trafficking bill that puts more liability on Web sites.
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Tweets: @mccarron, @albertwenger, @xxxescortamber, @mikeisaac, @causalinf, and @johnteti. Thanks:@inafried
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Four lawsuits against Facebook by its users and shareholders have been filed in federal courts so far after Cambridge Analytica revelations — The lawsuits are piling up against Facebook in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data misuse and political ad targeting scandal.
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The Verge, American Civil Liberties Union, TheStreet, San Francisco Chronicle, Engadget, Reuters, and Recode. Tweets: @karenidelson
| Sky News: |
UK's High Court has granted an application by the Information Commissioner's Office for a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's office — The High Court has granted an application by the Information Commissioner's Office for a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's office.| The Daily Beast: |
Source: US investigators identify Guccifer 2.0 as a GRU officer, attributed via hacker's login to US social media service without a VPN from a Moscow IP address — Guccifer 2.0, the “lone hacker” who took credit for providing WikiLeaks with stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr confirms 84 accounts linked to Internet Research Agency and has begun emailing users who interacted with them; accounts were ID'd and deleted last fall — Tumblr has confirmed that Kremlin trolls were active on its platform during the 2016 US presidential elections.
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Help Center, Wired, Tumblr Staff, Engadget, Gizmodo, and Mashable
Tweets: @cjcmichel, @craigsilverman, @drewharwell, @attackerman, @billweircnn, and @kevincollier
| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Pivotal, cloud computing software and consulting services provider that has raised $1.7B since its spin out from EMC and VMware in 2012, files for an IPO — - Pivotal, last valued at $2.8 billion, has filed to go public. — Dell is the single largest shareholder in Pivotal and will retain …
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| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
About 2M Spotify users, or 2.3% of users of its free service, are avoiding ads via modified apps or accounts, according to Spotify's IPO filing — Over 2 percent of free users — Earlier this month, news broke that Spotify was cracking down on users running modded versions of the Spotify app … | Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
US DoJ charges nine Iranians and an Iranian company with hacking parts of US government, UN, and hundreds of universities in the US and around the world — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday charged nine Iranians and an Iranian company with attempting to hack into hundreds …
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