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Pandora matches Spotify and Apple Music with new $14.99/month Premium Family Plan for up to six members — Pandora isn't nearly as popular as it once was, but it still has a fairly sizable userbase. The company has just quietly introduced a new family plan, aptly dubbed 'Premium Family … | Julia Reda: |
EU governments agree on copyright reform, that needs EU parliament approval, to let news sites charge aggregators for snippets, force upload filters on websites — Update from May 25th 2018, 13:37: Member State governments have today adopted their position on the copyright reform … | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigating potential age discrimination in Intel's 2016 cuts that led to 10,000+ being laid off globally — Federal watchdog investigates allegations by former Intel employees that they were let go because of their age| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google brings ARCore to China, where Play Store isn't available, through a partnership with the Xiaomi App Store on the Mi Mix 2S smartphone — After launching this February, Google's platform for mobile augmented reality hit version 1.2 and received a number of new features at I/O 2018.| Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter: |
iQiyi debuts its first on-demand physical movie theater in China, with mini-theaters seating two to 10, that users can rent by the hour to watch iQiyi's content — The company plans to build physical cinemas in major cities across China. — Beijing-based streaming-video giant iQiyi … | Andrew Allemann / Domain Name Wire: |
ICANN files for injunction against German domain registrar who said it will stop collecting WHOIS data because of GDPR — Domain name overseer hopes to get clarification about data collection for domain name registrations. — ICANN has filed injunction proceedings against EPAG …
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Verizon seems to abandon plans to build its own OTT service as CEO says it wants to partner with an existing OTT service to deliver Oath digital content — CEO says company will partner with an existing player that can integrate digital content from Oath — Verizon has been adamant … | Daniel Miessler: |
An analysis of possible attack scenarios on smart speakers shows that fears of Amazon Echo devices being hacked to record owners' conversations are overblown — Why smart speaker attack scenarios are not worth worrying about — I have a 1,001 friends in InfoSec who I hear things like this from on a regular basis:| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Vermont begins regulating data brokers, which now have to register, notify about breaches, and can be sued if data's misused, e.g. for fraud or racial profiling — While Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are hogging the spotlight, data brokers that collect your information from hundreds … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab launches GrabFood, its food delivery business, in Singapore, and plans to expand throughout Southeast Asia soon — Fresh from completing its acquisition of Uber's Southeast Asia business, ride-hailing firm Grab has officially launched its food delivery business — GrabFood — today.
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Europe, where there's still a wariness of its secret police and surveillance past, is now Silicon Valley's most powerful privacy regulator with GDPR, not the US — Europe implemented a sweeping overhaul of digital privacy laws on Friday that has reshaped how technology companies handle customer data … | Joseph Young / NewsBTC: |
South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says it's banning trading in 11 countries, including Iran, Iraq, North Korea, to improve anti-money laundering compliance — Bithumb, South Korea's biggest cryptocurrency exchange alongside UPbit, has banned digital asset trading in North Korea, Iran …
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Bitcoin fork Bitcoin Gold suffers 51% attack; attacker with more than half of network's hash rate double spent BTG coins on exchanges and may have stolen $18M — Get exclusive analysis and cryptocurrency insights on Hacked.com for just $39 per month. — The development team behind Bitcoin Gold …
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