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WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton talks about why he gave up $850M to quit Facebook early and his differences with Zuckerberg and Sandberg over monetization — hatsApp cofounder Brian Acton, 46, sits in a cafe of the glitzy Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto, California, and the only way you'd guess …
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| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Sources at media outlets say they're seeing little to no ad revenue from Apple News despite huge traffic growth — The world's most valuable company is wooing the media with a human touch and a huge audience. One thing it hasn't delivered: money. — In the years leading up to the 2016 U.S. election …
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| U.S. Senate Committee On Commerce …: |
Livestream of US Senate hearing on “Examining Safeguards for Consumer Data Privacy” with testimony from AT&T, Amazon, Google, Twitter, Apple, and Charter — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation …
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| Zach Koch / The Keyword: |
Google says that in Chrome 70, coming mid-October, it will allow users to disable linking Google website and Chrome sign-ins — We recently made a change to simplify the way Chrome handles sign-in. Now, when you sign into any Google website, you're also signed into Chrome with the same account.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google Maps for Android and iOS now helps you plan group events by adding places to a shortlist, sharing it via messaging services, and voting on the choices — If you've ever tried to settle on a place to eat, you know how time-consuming it can be. If you're not trying to describe each …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft announces that it is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One, rolling out first to Xbox Insiders in the coming weeks — Game developers will have to enable the support — Microsoft is enabling keyboard and mouse support on the Xbox One.
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Circle launches USD Coin (USDC), its dollar-backed stablecoin first announced four months ago, initially available to partner institutions — Four months after first announcing the creation of a dollar-backed stablecoin, cryptocurrency finance firm Circle is releasing it to the world.
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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says Facebook and Messenger Stories now have a combined 300M DAUs and it will roll out ads to Facebook Stories globally now and Messenger Stories soon — Facebook announced today at a press event in NYC that Stories now has 300 million daily active users across Messenger and Facebook … | Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A close look at USAReally, a pro-Kremlin, pro-Trump site with overt Russian ties and frequent links on the /r/the_donald subreddit as it depicts a declining US — To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape.| Austin Carr / Bloomberg: |
Iowa's attorney general says Uber will pay $148M to settle claims from all 50 states related to its 2016 data breach that exposed info of 25M+ US users — Uber Technologies Inc. will pay $148 million to settle claims related to a large-scale data breach that exposed the personal information …
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| Daniel Roberts / Yahoo! Finance: |
Coinbase announces a new process to more rapidly list digital assets compliant with local law and will now publicly announce new listings only at or near launch — announced on Tuesday a new policy for adding assets, and it constitutes a major change for America's biggest cryptocurrency brokerage.
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| Motherboard: |
Former Facebook content moderator sues the company for allegedly failing to protect her and others as they viewed violent videos and images, says it led to PTSD — In the class action lawsuit, the woman says that thousands of content moderators are subjected to “highly toxic” content as part of the job.
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| David Canellis / The Next Web: |
One-third of all tokens launched via an ICO in 2017-18 are not listed on any exchanges, despite half completing their funding rounds last year — Despite investors dropping a whopping $12 billion into Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) in the past year, 70 percent of cryptocurrencies outside …
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| Kim Zetter / New York Times: |
Two years after many voter-registration networks were penetrated by hackers, voting infrastructure in US remains largely unchanged, despite officials' warnings — As the midterms approach, America's electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn't anyone trying to fix them?
Tweets: @kimzetter, @kimzetter, @justinhendrix, @ilvestoomas, @kimzetter, and @jakesilverstein
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Cloudflare enlists Microsoft, Google, Automattic, Backblaze, and other cloud companies in the Bandwidth Alliance, promising cheaper cloud networking costs — With one notable exception, Cloudflare has brought several major cloud and data center companies together in a new industry group called …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, raises $30M Series C led by Meritech Capital — Instana, an application performance monitoring (APM) service with a focus on modern containerized services, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series C funding round.
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| Jim Waterson / The Guardian: |
The News Media Association, which represents British newspapers including The Guardian, has called on the UK govt to levy a tax on tech giants to fund the press — News Media Association says Google and Facebook should fund the journalism from which they profit| Noah Buhayar / Bloomberg: |
Amazon's Alexa fund invests in a $6.7M round for Plant Prefab, a maker of prefabricated homes, that wants to let buyers equip homes with inbuilt voice devices — - Technology giant makes its first investment in a homebuilder — Plant Prefab to let buyers customize homes with voice devices| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News: |
Safari's Siri Suggested Websites feature found promoting conspiracy sites and misinformation; Apple says it removes any inappropriate suggestions when notified — Apple's Safari, one of the internet's most popular web browsers, has been surfacing debunked conspiracies, shock videos …
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| Ken Doctor / Nieman Lab: |
WaPo to expand its Arc publishing platform as a subscriptions tool sold to others, then as an ad network, aiming to own infrastructure in a similar play as AWS — It is increasingly the tech stack of choice for major news publishers. But now Arc wants to be the backbone of your digital advertising and subscriptions, too.| Kevin Poulsen / The Daily Beast: |
Former NSA employee Nghia Hoang Pho sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for taking home classified files that were then allegedly stolen by Russian hackers — A mysterious hacker clan. A controversial Russian cybersecurity specialist. A top-secret developer with sticky fingers.
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| Laura Noonan / Financial Times: |
More than 75 of the world's biggest banks join the JPMorgan, RBC, and ANZ alliance, which is testing blockchain tech for faster payments among its members — More than 75 of the world's biggest banks are turning to blockchain to fight the threat of new payments rivals in what will be the … | Ujjwal Pugalia / Amazon Web Services: |
AWS announces that YubiKey can now be used as a multi-factor authentication (MFA) device to sign into the AWS management console — AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice is to require all IAM and root users in your account to sign into the AWS Management Console with multi-factor authentication (MFA).Sponsor Posts
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