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Facebook introduces new Privacy Shortcuts menu, simplified settings menu on mobile, and tools to find, download, and delete your Facebook data — Last week showed how much more work we need to do to enforce our policies and help people understand how Facebook works and the choices they have over their data.
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Sources: Facebook will not unveil its smart speakers at F8 while it deals with data misuse scandal, but still plans to launch speakers later this year — Social network had hoped to show off devices at F8 in May — Company still plans to launch products later this year
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Documents reveal that a Palantir Technologies employee, in his personal capacity, suggested to Cambridge Analytica to use a mobile app to harvest Facebook data — As a start-up called Cambridge Analytica sought to harvest the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans in summer 2014 …
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google starts blocking uncertified Android devices from using its core apps, will allow exceptions for custom ROMs — Google has always controlled which devices ship with its proprietary GApps—a package that includes such necessities as the Play Store and Google Play Services.| Jonathan Swan / Axios: |
Sources: Trump is “obsessed” with Amazon, with his antipathy surfacing when discussing tax policy or antitrust cases; he is not concerned about Facebook — Capitol Hill wants Facebook's blood, but President Trump isn't interested. Instead, the tech behemoth Trump wants to go after is Amazon …
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| Louise Matsakis / Wired: |
Princeton University study finds 90% of affiliate marketing ads on YouTube and Pinterest are not disclosed, violating FTC guidelines — IF YOU SEARCH for the millennial makeup brand Glossier on YouTube, one of the first results likely to appear is from Olivia Jade, a fashion and beauty vlogger with over one million subscribers.| Theo Douglas / Government Technology News: |
AT&T's FirstNet and Verizon launch dedicated public safety networks for first responders, with private core services for members — The nation's two dedicated first responder networks are going live this week with private core services for members, representatives of both entities said.
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Google says it will acquire GIF platform Tenor, which is integrated into a variety of keyboards and messaging apps like Facebook Messenger — Google will be acquiring Tenor, which powers a variety of GIF keyboards on phones and messengers like Facebook Messenger, the companies announced today.
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Microsoft launches open source tool for developers to create custom Linux distribution packages for Windows 10 — After starting with Ubuntu, Microsoft has added a number of Linux distributions to its Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Linux runtime environment.
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Waze launches “Waze Local”, map-based ads for SMBs and franchises, and says it has 100M active users who spend 11 hours per month on average in the app — Previewed roughly a year ago, Waze is now introducing “Waze Local,” map-based ads aimed primarily (though not exclusively) at small businesses.
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Google adds support for 39 more languages to Maps — Google today announced that Google Maps is getting support for 39 additional languages. — The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian …
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Latest Snapchat beta features a “Connected Apps” tab, hinting that Snap, like Facebook, will enable sharing of user data with third-party apps — As Facebook users are uninstalling apps they connected long ago via Facebook log-in, Snapchat may be pushing for its community to do the exact opposite.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia announces support for Kubernetes container orchestration on Nvidia GPUs and will contribute its GPU enhancements to the Kubernetes open source community — This has been a long time coming, but during his GTC keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang today announced support …
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A deep look at JavaScript-based cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive, a cryptojacking tool used to steal processing power of users' devices for mining Monero — Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Credit Karma is getting a $500M secondary investment from Silver Lake at a valuation of $4B, as it seeks to expand its product line — Credit Karma, which once started as a simple credit report system and is now looking to expand into a true financial assistant, announced today it is getting …
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Sources: Uber met Ola executives at least twice over the last 12 months and suggested a potential merger between the two companies — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Uber's decision to exit Southeast Asia, where it was bleeding money, should give the global ride-hailing giant more firepower to focus on India … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
On-demand shipping/delivery startup Shyp, which raised a total of ~$63M, is ending operations and laying off all its employees — The company that hoped to revolutionize shipping is ending operations today-a poster child for a whole era of venture-funded ideas that has come and gone.| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Oscar Health raises $165M in a round led by Founders Fund with participation from Alphabet's Capital G and Verily; sources say funding brings valuation to $3.2B — - Oscar Health's valuation is now at more than $3 billion, sources say, after it raised another big round from Alphabet, Founders Fund and others.| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Uber says it will not renew its self-driving permit in California and that it has suspended testing in Pittsburgh, Toronto and San Francisco — Uber plans to end all self-driving-car testing in California, according to a letter from the state Department of Motor Vehicles to the company.
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