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Facebook shuts down Partner Categories, says it will stop using data from third-party aggregators like Experian to supplement its own data for ad targeting — Facebook says it's going to stop using data from third-party data providers like Experian and Acxiom.
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| Channel 4 News: |
Despite claims of data being deleted, leaked cache from a Cambridge Analytica source details personality and psychological profiles of 136K people in Colorado — Facebook said it took steps to ensure harvested campaign data had been “destroyed”. But Channel 4 News has now discovered …
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| Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine: |
Facebook says it is investigating reports that user archives from the Download Your Information tool contain videos that users did not post — Have you downloaded your Facebook data archive yet? Facebook makes it easy to obtain a ZIP file of all the data it has on you: your status updates … | Ryan Mac / BuzzFeed: |
Cambridge Analytica co-founder and whistleblower Wylie started a new firm, Eunoia, in 2014 that had the same dataset of 50M+ Facebook users, according to emails — “We have developed a series of algorithms that can predict the personality traits of individual voters by analyzing their voterfile, social, online and consumer data."
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| New York Times: |
A look at how Atlanta is dealing with a ransomware attack, one of the most sustained and consequential cyberattacks ever mounted against a major American city — ATLANTA — The City of Atlanta's 8,000 employees got the word on Tuesday that they had been waiting for: It was O.K. to turn their computers on.
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| Andrew Gebhart / CNET: |
Google Home devices can now connect to any bluetooth speaker using the Google Home app without the need for a separate Chromecast audio streamer — The Google Home will now let you listen to music on your own Bluetooth speakers — no Chromecast streamer required.| Washington Post: |
Ecuador has barred Julian Assange from using the internet from its embassy in London, saying he violated an agreement not to interfere in international affairs — LONDON — Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, has been barred from using the Internet at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Researcher finds some VPN providers leak IP addresses via WebRTC bug which was discovered in 2015, but says audit is incomplete and other VPN's need testing — Around 20% of today's top VPN solutions are leaking the customer's IP address via a WebRTC bug known since January 2015 … | Windows Developer Blog: |
Microsoft's new private audience option in Dev Center will allow developers to publish an app to Microsoft Store that'll be visible only to people they specify — One of the consistent themes that the Dev Center Team hears from the Windows developer community is that first impressions are important.| CNBC: |
Lior Ron, the head of Uber freight and co-founder of Otto, which Uber bought in 2016, is leaving the company — The company last week suspended its autonomous driving tests in all cities after a fatal collision in Arizona. — Ron co-founded Otto, an autonomous vehicle start-up, which Uber bought in 2016.
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New York Times, The Verge, Engadget, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, and Axios. Tweets: @daveleebbc
| Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
Ripple donates $29M in XRP to US public school charity DonorsChoose․org, the largest donation it's ever received — Ripple has donated $29 million to fund school supplies for students in public schools in the US. This donation was made through DonorsChoose.org …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
DocuSign files for IPO seeking $100M, reports revenue of $381.5M for fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 2017, up 52% YoY, and net loss of $115.4M over that same period — Fifteen years after it was founded in Seattle, digital signature pioneer DocuSign on Wednesday registered to become a publicly traded company … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pandora takes on Spotify with dozens of personalized playlists built using its Music Genome to fit users' moods, activities, and genres — Just ahead of Spotify's public debut planned for early April, Pandora is punching its rival where it hurts: personalized playlists.
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International Business Times, Pandora Blog, Engadget, The Verge, and RAIN News. Thanks:@seajayinla
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Docker founder and CTO Solomon Hykes is leaving the company, citing need for new enterprise-focused CTO — Solomon Hykes, who as Docker founder and chief technical officer laid the groundwork for one of the most quickly adopted enterprise computing technologies ever developed, is leaving the company.
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Docker Blog, ZDNet, The Register, The New Stack, and SiliconANGLE
| Robin Kurzer / Marketing Land: |
LinkedIn rolls out native video ads in the news feed that auto-play on mute and lets businesses and publishers add video on their Company Pages — LinkedIn is offering businesses two outlets for using video on the platform. Companies can now run native video ad campaigns and include video within …
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| Bloomberg: |
A.G. Gangadhar, hired as CTO of GM's Cruise in September, to leave after complaints that he allegedly fostered a hostile work environment for women at Uber — Cruise Automation, the self-driving arm of General Motors Co., said Chief Technology Officer A.G. Gangadhar is departing just a few months after joining.
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Recode, TechCrunch, and Axios
| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's education-focused events in 2012 and 2018 show that its vision does not fit with reality because of a lack of understanding of what teachers need — Making The Grade is a weekly series from Bradley Chambers covering Apple in education. Bradley has been managing Apple devices in an education environment since 2009.
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Engadget, BrianMadden.com, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, and MacRumors
| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
DJI unveils new thermal imaging sensor for its drones and announces “Skyport” dev kit to make it easier for drone owners to add custom parts/payload onto drones — The world's largest consumer drone manufacturer is making a serious push to bring drones to a wider audience of commercial customers.
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DJI NEWS, Fast Company, DroneDJ, DroneDJ, and Engadget
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