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Facebook takes down 471 Facebook pages and accounts, as well as 41 Instagram accounts, for coordinated inauthentic behavior originating in Russia — Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.
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Tim Cook calls on Congress to pass privacy legislation and on the FTC to create a “data-broker clearinghouse”, enabling users to track and control their data — We all deserve control over our digital lives. That's why we must rein in the data brokers
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
“Collection #1” database, which claims to contain records of ~773M unique email addresses and 21M passwords, some of them hashed, shows up on the web — THERE ARE BREACHES, and there are megabreaches, and there's Equifax. But a newly revealed trove of leaked data tops …
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| Stefan Etienne / The Verge: |
Mastercard updates policy to end automatic billing after free trials, will require merchants to request user authorization for recurring subscriptions — Plus, merchants will be required to send you monthly updates — Mastercard announced a new policy today for merchants who retain …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Snap CFO Tim Stone resigned after a dispute with management over pay, going around CEO Evan Spiegel to ask Snap's board for a significant raise — - Stone went around Spiegel to seek pay bump, people say — Executive also sought promotion to Khan's former strategy job
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Houseparty says the popular mobile game Heads Up will now be available inside its app with “packs” of words costing $0.99 or more — Building an ad-free social network through shared experiences — Houseparty, the group video chat that has carved out a niche among a segment …
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Sources: DOJ is pursuing a criminal case against Huawei for alleged trade secret theft from US business partners including T-Mobile; indictment is expected soon — Probe involves allegations that Huawei stole robot phone-testing technology from T-Mobile — Federal prosecutors are pursuing …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Jeff Bezos announces re:MARS, a public extension of the invite-only MARS conference focused on forward-looking tech, taking place in Las Vegas on June 4 to 7 — The event is an extension of Amazon's semi-secret MARS conference, but will include plenty of self-promotion
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft is planning to decouple Windows search and Cortana in the next major Windows 10 update, expected in April, so typed queries will be handled separately — Windows search is now free to get more powerful — Microsoft is making some big changes to Cortana in Windows 10.
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Google to raise prices globally for G Suite on April 2; G Suite Basic will go from $5 to $6, G Suite Business will go from $10 per user per month to $12 — The G Suite price increases are the first in a decade. Google argues that the price increases reflect more value. G Suite Enterprise prices unchanged.
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| Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
CEO of Palantir France says the company generated almost $1B in revenue last year; sources say half of the revenue was from corporate clients like Airbus — - Peter Thiel's data startup continues to prepare for IPO — Corporate clients are said to account for half of revenue
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Facebook hires former Google AR/VR engineering lead Ryan Cairns to head Portal, as current Portal head Rafa Camargo shifts to leading hardware for AR/VR — Facebook is bringing on the engineering lead for Google's entire AR/VR team to tackle Portal hardware.| Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon Web Services announces AWS Backup, a fully-managed, centralized service for customers to back up their data across AWS services and on-premises — Centralized backup service makes it easier and more cost-effective for customers to automate backups of their data and meet business and regulatory requirements
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Trump signs the OPEN Government Data Act, asking federal agencies to default to making data public when possible and publishing it in a machine-readable format — The federal government produces one hell of a lot of data, but despite desultory lurches towards usability there's little guarantee … | The Seattle Times: |
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