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Facebook let some partners access users' friend data after it shut off access to most devs in 2015; sources: partners included Nissan and Royal Bank of Canada — Special deals gave a small number of companies access to data after shutting off access for other developers
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| Washington Post: |
China hacked a US Navy contractor early this year and stole 614GB of classified data, including plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile for US submarines — Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing massive amounts of highly sensitive data related …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, HackRead, Cyberscoop, The Guardian, The Hill, Washington Examiner, New York Post, The Daily Beast, Axios, Newsweek, CBS News, Sky News, CNN, The Independent, Reuters, The Daily Caller, CNET, and New York Times
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
Source: Apple Watch to get touch-sensitive solid-state buttons that use Taptic Engine to simulate clicks this or next year, buttons may act as health sensors — The Apple Watch will be getting solid state buttons that don't move up and down but rather sense the touch of a finger …
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Neowin, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, Firstpost, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @fastcompany
| Rollo Romig / The California Sunday Magazine: |
Profile of Indian IT outsourcing giant Infosys, which dominates H-1B visa applications and is facing new challenges amid rising automation and Trump's rhetoric — Indian IT companies keep US businesses running. But is the Indian IT miracle over?
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Marketplace and Longreads
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| Timothy J. Seppala / Engadget: |
What to expect at the E3 2018 gaming show from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Bethesda, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, and others — The Electronics Entertainment Expo is basically New York Fashion Week for the joystick crowd, five days brimming with an overwhelming number of media briefings and new game announcements.| Bloomberg: |
Jessica Alba's Honest Company raises $200M from a LVMH-affiliated private equity firm L Catterton for a minority stake, to help expand the business globally — - $200 million investment will help Honest boost supply chain — L Catterton focuses on consumer brands, owns Bliss, Elemis
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Wall Street Journal, WWD, Reuters, CNNMoney, The Business Journals, Hollywood Reporter, Fortune, Racked, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @rsiegel
| Patrick Lucas Austin / Gizmodo: |
Airbnb cancels reservations and reportedly pulls ~80% of listings in Japan before June 15 deadline of home-sharing law, will create $10M fund to repay travelers — Heading to Japan next week? You should probably double-check your Airbnb rental, because it might be cancelled.
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Airbnb Press Room, The Verge, TechCrunch, Condé Nast Traveler, Fast Company, AsiaOne, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, Fortune, SlashGear, and BBC. Tweets: @james_riney
| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
A look at how Amazon Rekognition can be used to build facial recognition tools at incredibly low cost by anyone with a computer — Jeff Bezos' behemoth of a business is seen by most as a consumer-driven business, not a provider of easy-to-use spy tech.
Tweets: @iblametom
| Allison Lampert / Reuters: |
Quebec halts all new cryptocurrency mining permits as Hydro Quebec power plant struggles to fulfill 17K MW of new power demand without raising prices for locals — MONTREAL (Reuters) - Canada's Quebec province said on Thursday it has halted approvals for new digital currency mining projects …
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Fortune, Bloomberg, Cointelegraph, Bitcoin Magazine, CoinDesk, and Blockchain News
| Aroon Deep / MediaNama: |
iOS 12 allows developers to create extensions to report call and SMS spam from call and message logs, possibly addressing concerns of India's telecom regulator — In an apparent compromise, Apple has updated their OS to natively support SMS and call spam reporting, clearing the way for TRAI …
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9to5Mac, HuffPost India, iPhone Hacks, and docs.developer.apple.com
| Rachel Kaser / The Next Web: |
Adblock Plus now lets users block tracking from social media buttons in Chrome and Firefox, is considering whitelist options for certain social sites — Adblock today announced it was joining the fight against social media tracking by allowing users to block what has become so ubiquitous on almost every site out there.| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
The share of black employees at the eight largest tech companies in the US grew from 2.5% in 2014 to 3.1% in 2017 — When Maxine Waters, the Democratic representative from southern Los Angeles, toured Silicon Valley during the first week of May with fellow members of the Congressional Black Caucus … Sponsor Posts
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