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| Jeff Bezos: |
Jeff Bezos publishes letters from AMI that he says show threats to publish his nude photos unless he stops probing AMI's earlier reporting and motivations — Something unusual happened to me yesterday. Actually, for me it wasn't just unusual—it was a first. I was made an offer I couldn't refuse.
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Facebook: Bill Ritter. Tweets: @jeffbezos, @ryanhuber, @nickwingfield, @hypatiadotca, @ronanfarrow, @yashar, @devinwenig, @yashar, @matt_levine, @pkafka, @yishan, @rmac18, @donnarapado, @lexnfx, @michaeldweiss, @alexstamos, @caseynewton, @davepell, @alexia, @jenniferjjacobs, @nichcarlson, @bradheath, @rachelwalexande, @ksadjadpour, @alexeheath, @karaswisher, @robertmaguire_, @yashar, @emathieustar, @caseynewton, @sarahkendzior, @drbluman, @anildash, @benjaminwittes, @panzer, @pierre, @brandyljensen, @kathrynw5, @caseynewton, @hels, @nycsouthpaw, @nycsouthpaw, @bradheath, @sriramk, @dangillmor, @waltshaub, @therickwilson, @mrbromwich, @alexrkonrad, @nycjim, @tomgara, and @bradheath
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google warns about two iOS zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers have been actively exploiting; the vulnerabilities have been fixed in iOS 12.1.4 update — iOS users are advised to update to iOS 12.1.4; release which also fixes infamous FaceTime bug. — A Google top security engineer …
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Apple Support, Inquirer, Forbes, SecurityWeek, The Hacker News, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, The Register, CNET, Threatpost, Softpedia News, TidBITS, and Tom's Guide
Tweets: @benhawkes, @iblametom, @stroughtonsmith, and @edbott
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 12.1.4 with a fix for the Group FaceTime bug, says a security audit of FaceTime revealed a bug in Live Photos on FaceTime, which it has fixed — Apple has turned its Group FaceTime feature back on following the release of iOS 12.1.4 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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Tweets: @jacknicas and @robotodd
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Adiantum, a new form of encryption for data on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power — Google officially unveiled a new form of encryption today, designed to secure data stored on lower-end smartphones and other devices with insufficient processing power.
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Google Online Security Blog, The Keyword, Wired, SiliconANGLE, The Hacker News, Firstpost, TechCrunch, Droid Life, Fossbytes, Phandroid, PhoneArena, and ZDNet. Tweets: @wired
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon joins Microsoft in expressing support for regulating facial recognition tech, offers guidelines for the “responsible use” of the technology — Amazon supports the creation of a “legislative framework” covering facial recognition technology.
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Amazon Web Services, Bloomberg, CNN, ZDNet, Vox, Wired, BiometricUpdate, GeekWire, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @jlkoepke
| Johana Bhuiyan / Los Angeles Times: |
Investigation finds that Amazon at times uses tips earned by contracted drivers of its Flex program to cover their promised base pay — Amazon at times dips into the tips earned by contracted delivery drivers to cover their promised pay, a Times review of emails and receipts reveals.
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Engadget, The Digital Reader, KTLA, and Boing Boing
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Apple says it has notified app developers to remove code that lets them record how a user interacts with their apps without explicit user consent — Apple is telling app developers to remove code that allows them to effectively record how a user interacts with their iPhone apps …
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Wired, The Verge, International Business Times, Softpedia News, The Mac Observer, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Gizmodo, CNBC, SlashGear, Mashable, iPhone Hacks, MSPoweruser, ExtremeTech, CNET, Inquirer, and TechSpot
Tweets: @steved3, @zackwhittaker, and @panzer
| Jason Hiner / CNET: |
Google Fiber to shut down in Louisville on April 15 after an experimental “nanotrenching” technique to deploy fiber in trenches only two inches deep, failed — Google's trick to more rapidly and cheaply deploy its super-speedy Google Fiber project has hit a wall …
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Google Fiber Blog, The Verge, Droid Life, TechRepublic, Pocketables, TechSpot, SlashGear, Android Authority, Android Police, Business Insider, 9to5Google, CNBC, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @uncleramrod, @marcusgreenwdrb, @lcburch, @snicklefritz35, @chetfaliszek, @ryson, @karlbode, @ocdtrekkie, @markennis, and @christopherotts. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| The Moscow Times: |
Report: Google pulls government-banned sites from Russian search results, blocks ~70% of sites blacklisted by Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor — Google has started to remove certain entries from its search results in Russia in compliance with long-standing demands from the authorities …
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vedomosti.ru, Beyond Search, BuzzFeed News, CNET, TASS, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, RT, and Meduza.io. Tweets: @rj_gallagher
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook says it has restructured its “youth team” of 100+, will increase its investment in Messenger Kids, and that the meme app LOL will be shuttered — Facebook is restructuring its “youth team,” shutting down its new teen meme app LOL, and doubling down on Messenger Kids.| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
News aggregator Nuzzel sold to Scroll, which is building a news subscription service; Nuzzel founder Jonathan Abrams and COO Kent Lindstrom to leave the company — News aggregator Nuzzel has found a new home and leadership and is undergoing some product changes.
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Scroll Blog, TechCrunch, Nieman Lab, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @arctictony, @alexeheath, @annehelen, and @mattmcgee
| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $530M, led by Sequoia, with Amazon, T. Rowe Price, and others participating, valuing the company at more than $2.5B — The self-driving startup Aurora Innovation Inc. has raised $530 million from a group of investors led by Sequoia Capital …
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TechCrunch, Aurora Blog, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, CNBC, Index Ventures, Telegraph, USA Today, Mashable, CNET, and Business Insider
| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
Facebook says it has 7M+ advertisers and 90M+ small businesses using its products, will soon allow businesses to respond to Instagram messages from Facebook — Facebook took another step today towards unifying its family of apps by announcing that businesses will now be able to receive …
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Facebook, The Verge, Facebook, Social Media Today, ZDNet, Engadget, CNET, and NBC Bay Area
| Google Open Source Blog: |
Google says it is open sourcing ClusterFuzz, a tool it developed to automate bug detection in software via fuzzing, which has found 16K+ bugs in Chrome — Fuzzing is an automated method for detecting bugs in software that works by feeding unexpected inputs to a target program.
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VentureBeat and TechCrunch
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
T-Mobile President says the company won't develop its own streaming TV bundle, will instead help with discovery and billing for existing subscriptions — T-Mobile doesn't want to compete with other carriers or teleco's by developing its own “skinny bundle” of streaming TV channels …
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YouTube, Android Authority, The Streamable, AppleInsider, Android Police, TmoNews, 9to5Mac, and AFTVnews
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
After Twitter lost monthly active users for the past three quarters, the company will stop disclosing the number from Q2, will report daily active users instead — Twitter's monthly user count has fallen for three quarters in a row, so to address the issue, Twitter has decided to stop announcing how many users it keeps losing.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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Recode, CNBC, Twitter, New York Times, Social Media Today, The Nokia Blog, Twitter, PYMNTS.com, AdExchanger, Bloomberg, hypebot, ZDNet, and 9to5Mac
| Julia Boorstin / CNBC: |
Tim Armstrong is launching a new firm, the dtx company, to invest in and showcase direct-to-consumer startups via large scale real world pop-up events around US — - It's called “the dtx company” and will invest in direct-to-consumer product companies and launch “experiences” in parts of the U.S. that are underserved.
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Business Insider, PYMNTS.com, and VentureBeat
Tweets: @backlon, @profcarroll, @yoda, @cnbc, @davegershgorn, and @pkafka
| Olivia Zaleski / Bloomberg: |
Sources: on-demand delivery startup Postmates has confidentially filed for an IPO and could be valued at more than $1.85B — - Company could be valued at more than $1.85 billion in IPO — Postmates working with JPMorgan and Bank of America on listing| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Spotify's new Terms of Service, which go into effect on March 1, will give Spotify the authority to immediately terminate accounts that use ad blockers — Cracking down on ad blockers — Spotify is now explicitly banning ad blockers, as stated in an updated Terms of Service policy sent out today.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Utah-based Health Catalyst, which offers AI-driven health care data storage and analytics, raises $100M in equity and debt financing at a $1B valuation — The artificial intelligence (AI) in health care market is set to top $34 billion by 2025, according to some estimates — and it's no real wonder why.
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| Nicholas Megaw / Financial Times: |
Sources: SoftBank's Vision Fund to invest $440M in UK online banking startup OakNorth, valuing it at ~$2.8B — SoftBank's Vision Fund is set to invest $440m in British banking start-up OakNorth, according to two people close to the deal, in what will be the largest ever European fintech fundraising.
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City A.M., The Times & The Sunday Times, NASDAQ.com, and Reuters
Tweets: @arashmassoudi and @ft
| April Glaser / Slate: |
Sources: over the past week, Square, Chase, PayPal have pulled their services from 1776.shop, an online store affiliated with far-right organization Proud Boys — There's an e-commerce site associated with the Proud Boys. Square, Chase, and PayPal just pulled their services.
Tweets: @aprilaser, @lizthegrey, and @dangillmor
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