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| Sherisse Pham / CNN: |
Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter struggle to halt the spread of the horrific New Zealand shooting video; one of the shooters livestreamed the attack on Facebook — Hong Kong (CNN Business)Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are struggling to halt the spread of horrific footage that appears to show …
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
Christchurch, announced on 8chan, livestreamed on Facebook, replayed endlessly on YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, feels like the first internet-native mass shooting — Before entering a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, the site of one of the deadliest mass murders in the country's history …
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| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees detail the process and the difficulty of moderating Facebook Live — On Friday, at least 49 people were killed in terror attacks in New Zealand. Documents, sources, and interviews with senior Facebook employees show …
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Apple responds to Spotify's complaint, says Spotify seeks to keep all the benefits of the App Store “without making any contributions to that marketplace” — We believe that technology achieves its true potential when we infuse it with human creativity and ingenuity.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Beto O'Rourke acknowledges that, as a teenager, he was a member of Cult of the Dead Cow, one of the oldest US computer hacker groups — Illustration REUTERS/Mike Segar/Troy Dunkley — As the Texas Democrat enters the race for president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” …
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| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Source: Snap plans to announce its gaming platform, which will feature games by outside developers designed for the Snapchat app, at a partner summit on April 4 — Snap Inc. plans to announce its long-rumored gaming platform for developers next month, Cheddar has learned.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Source: EU to announce an antitrust fine related to Google's AdSense next week that is expected to be much smaller than fines for Android and shopping search — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Google is likely to be hit with a third EU antitrust fine next week related to its AdSense advertising service …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook debuts new AI technology to detect revenge porn shared on Facebook and Instagram and an online resource hub for its victims — When someone's intimate images are shared without their permission it can be devastating. To protect victims, it's long been our policy …
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| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
Google Docs grows as a popular secret communication tool for teens as parents and teachers, unaware of its chat feature, assume students are just taking notes — When the kids in Skyler's school want to tell a friend something in class, they don't scrawl a note down on a tiny piece of paper and toss it across the room.
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| Japan Times: |
Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles gets suspended jail term for falsifying financial data but is acquitted of bitcoin embezzlement — The high-flying creator of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange received a suspended jail sentence of 2½ years after a Japanese court Friday found him guilty on charges of data manipulation.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Google adds Google Translate support to its Gboard keyboard app on iOS; the feature has been available on Android since 2017 — 103 languages at your fingertips — Google's third-party iOS keyboard, Gboard, now supports Google Translate. The feature has been available in the Android version …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Chris Cox and Chris Daniels left in part over conflicts with Zuckerberg's plan to integrate Facebook's services into a single privacy-focused platform — SAN FRANCISCO — Two of Facebook's top executives — one regarded as the company's No. 3, and the other the head …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
In a test of 250 Android antivirus apps in the Google Play Store, only 80 could detect more than 30% of malware, and only 23 had 100% detection rate — Only 23 Android antivirus apps had a 100 percent detection rate with no false positives. — An organization specialized … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung Notebook 9 Pro review: solid build quality with a sharp display but it has a MacBook Pro-like shallow keyboard and fingerprint scanner is inconsistent — Samsung's latest laptop fixes many of the issues of older models, but does it with zero flair — What do you do if you're …
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| Thomas Ricker / The Verge: |
Facebook says all of its services are now operational, attributes the downtime to a “server configuration change” — Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook all appear to be operating normally — Facebook is reporting all services operational after a prolonged outage that impacted all of the company's most popular apps.
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| Shira Ovide / Bloomberg: |
Lyft's average revenue of $3.75 per ride is about the same for car trips as for bicycles and scooters, which incur no driver-related costs — What does it say about Lyft's financial viability that each car ride is worth the same as a scooter or bike trip? You decide.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter confirms it is testing a “Subscribe to conversation” feature allowing users to follow a thread without directly signaling interest via likes or replies — In addition to testing out a new format for conversations within a prototype app called twttr and other features like a … | Claire Atkinson / NBC News: |
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