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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Hacker breaches Securus, a controversial firm enabling real-time warrantless cell location tracking for cops, and gives access to clients' data to reporter — A hacker has provided Motherboard with the login details for a company that buys phone location data from major telecom companies and then sells it to law enforcement.
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Tweets: @thememoryhole2, @jason_koebler, @intangiblecoins, @josephfcox, and @josephfcox
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is planning to release a line of lower-cost 10-inch Surface tablets, priced at ~$400, with USB-C as soon as the second half of 2018 — - Tablets priced about $400 prepped for second half of 2018 — Surface computers now compete with PCs, Apple's IPad Pro
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GeekWire, ZDNet, Engadget, Digital Trends, AppleInsider, Mashable, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, ExtremeTech, BGR, CNET, Fast Company, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Business Insider, Laptop Mag, Windows Central, XDA Developers, Patently Apple, PCWorld, Neowin, CNBC, SlashGear, TechSpot, MSPoweruser, MacDailyNews, Gizmodo, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, The Verge, Thurrott.com, On MSFT, CNBC, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Laptop Mag, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @maryjofoley, @kevinctofel, @patrickmoorhead, and @parth2eets
| Alexander J Martin / Sky News: |
European Parliament president says Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will give evidence to the European Parliament in person as early as next week — Mark Zuckerberg will appear before the EU Parliament in person to answer questions about Facebook's use of data. — The hearing will “hopefully” …
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Tweets: @ep_president, @sarahfrier, @tom_watson, @buzzfeednews, @jason_kint, @europarl_cat, @kostasrossoglou, @jimwaterson, @jude_kd, @tonyromm, @sarahfrier, and @verge
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Senate narrowly votes to block Ajit Pai's repeal of net neutrality rules; the resolution next heads to the House, where it faces long odds — Senate defies “armies of lobbyists,” but House may help FCC kill net neutrality. — The US Senate today voted to reverse the Federal Communications …
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| Melanie Ehrenkranz / Gizmodo: |
After passenger's murder, Didi no longer shows profile pictures or lets users rate and tag each others' appearances, removing tags like “long legs”, “beauties” — China's ride-sharing behemoth Didi is trying to make its platform safer for users after a 21-year-old woman …
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Didi Chuxing.EN, New York Times, The Verge, MIT Technology Review, Bloomberg, and Quartz. Tweets: @didichuxing
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple has quietly explored opening a campus in Northern Virginia, to accommodate 20,000 employees, as well as in North Carolina, according to multiple reports — For the last several months, Apple has been exploring locations for a new campus focusing on technical support, and according to new reports …
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Raleigh/Durham Business …, TechCrunch, CNBC, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, USA Today, Business Insider, CNET, Washington Post, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, Seeking Alpha, VentureBeat, and Fortune
Tweets: @cnbc, @adammklein, @jacknicas, @b_fung, and @mattgertz
| Reuters: |
Whole Foods debuts new discount program for Amazon Prime customers, with 10% off hundreds of sale items and rotating weekly specials, rolling out first in FL — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Whole Foods Market are making a surgical strike in the already brutal grocery price war.
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| Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
With GDPR imminent, investigation finds Facebook lacks privacy controls for information inferred about users, including sensitive details used in ad targeting — Social network categorises users based on inferred interests such as Islam or homosexuality — Facebook allows advertisers …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter delays shutdown of legacy APIs from June 19 to August 16, as it launches its replacement — Twitter is giving developers more time to adjust to its API platform overhaul, which has affected some apps' ability to continue operating in the same fashion.
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Tweets: @twitterdev, @twitterdev, @tomwarren, and @mgsiegler
| Graham Rapier / Business Insider: |
SEC created a satirical cryptocurrency site called HoweyCoins to warn investors about ICO scams, complete with a nine-page whitepaper and an expiring 15% bonus — - HoweyCoin, a satirical ICO website made the the US' top securities regulator, is a warning against scams.
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CoinDesk, U.S. Securities …, TechCrunch, Engadget, and Axios
Tweets: @vitalikbuterin and @sec_news
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Alexa developers get eight free voices to use in skills, courtesy of text-to-speech service Amazon Polly, launching today in English in the US — Now Alexa's voice apps don't have to sound like Alexa. Amazon today is offering a way for developers to give their voice apps a unique character …
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Alphabet's Jigsaw will expand its free Project Shield service, which helps protects against DDoS attacks, to US political campaigns ahead of midterms — WITH MIDTERM ELECTIONS looming and primaries already underway in many states, anxiety has been building over the possibility of cyberattacks that could impact voting.| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Facebook to let users share voice messages with friends, archive Stories, and save photos and videos from the in-app camera directly to the Facebook cloud — All three features are rolling out to India first — Facebook, the app you used to use before Instagram, is making three updates … | Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Investigation shows buying fake Facebook accounts is easy and affordable; one seller says there are always thousands in stock as marketplaces thrive — Thirty minutes and a little bitcoin can buy you an army of believable Facebook users. — Audrey Mitchell is a 23-year-old New York City transplant from London.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @cwarzel, @sarahfrier, @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @johnpaczkowski, and @zarzarbinkss
| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Hands-on with OnePlus 6, coming May 22: 19:9 ratio 6.28" AMOLED display and a small notch, starting at $529 for 6GB RAM/64GB model, $629 for 8GB RAM/256GB — It's been only six months since the launch of the OnePlus 5T, but today the company is pushing out a new device that both packs … | Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
Sources: US cybersecurity company Tanium raises $175M at a ~$5B valuation from TPG Growth, marking its third investment in the firm — (Reuters) - TPG's growth investment arm has raised its stake in Tanium Inc with a $175 million investment, valuing the U.S. cyber security start-up at about $5 billion …
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Cyberscoop, Recode, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
European online gaming firm Paddy Power Betfair says it's in talks to buy FanDuel, source says for $600M-$700M, a day after SCOTUS killed ban on sports gambling — European online gaming company Paddy Power Betfair confirmed that it is in talks to acquire FanDuel, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court struck … | Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Sources: the health care joint venture announced by Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon, and JPMorgan Chase in January is struggling to find a CEO — - After initially interviewing health-care executives, the group is now focused more on finding an entrepreneur. — The group is structured … | Tim Peterson / Digiday: |
Apple News now lets all publishers use Google's DoubleClick to serve ads following tests last year — Apple News has officially begun letting publishers use Google's DoubleClick for Publishers to serve ads into their Apple News articles following tests last year and an expansion earlier this year.
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MacRumors, Marketing Land, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, AppleInsider, and AdExchanger. Tweets: @digiday
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
San Francisco-based Parsable raises $40M Series C led by Future Fund to expand its platform that aims to digitize documents used by industrial workers — As we increasingly hear about automation, artificial intelligence and robots taking away industrial jobs, Parsable … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Cisco reports Q3 revenue of $12.46B, vs. $12.43B est., up from $11.94B YoY, while its service business segment produced $3.16B, vs $3.23B est. — - The company's success with its latest data center switches continued in the quarter, analysts said. — Cisco stock fell more than 4 percent …
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GlobeNewswire News Room, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, and Financial Times
| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
Intel launches OpenVINO toolkit to help developers deploy AI models across a broad range of IoT devices — The OpenVINO toolkit should make it easy for developers to deploy AI models across a broad range of IoT devices. — Intel on Wednesday is unveiling OpenVINO, a toolkit designed …
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Intel Newsroom, SD Times, Virtualization Review, and VentureBeat
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
European startup Dashdash, which is developing a spreadsheet-like platform to help less technical people develop apps, raises $8M Series A led by Accel — Sometimes I think of spreadsheets as the dirty secret of the IT world today. We've seen a huge explosion in the number of productivity tools … Sponsor Posts
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