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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Mark Zuckerberg, in a conversation with Axel Springer's CEO, floats a “news tab to surface more high quality news”, says Facebook could pay publishers — The Facebook CEO floated a “news tab to surface more high-quality news,” and said he's willing to write checks to support it.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @markscott82, @pkafka, @donie, @mgsiegler, @mathewi, @alexeheath, @mathewi, @markscott82, @jny, @zielina, @ceciliakang, @mikeisaac, @mathewi, and @alexeheath
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
800+ Googlers sign a petition demanding Google remove Kay Coles James, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation, from its external AI advisory board — ‘They think that some of our colleagues either do not or should not exist’ — When Google announced an external advisory board …
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Googlers Against Transphobia, Bloomberg, CNN, MIT Technology Review, Fast Company, ExtremeTech, Silicon Valley Business …, Boing Boing, Business Insider, Forbes, Fortune, CNET, Quartz, The Hill, Gizmodo, Recode, and The Guardian
Tweets: @ssnstudy, @birnbaum_e, @evan_greer, @nitashatiku, @fightfortheftr, @colinlecher, @evan_greer, and @katecrawford
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Gmail launches email scheduling and brings Smart Compose to all Android phones with subject suggestions and personalized greetings — Despite Google's long-standing love affair with April Fools' fakery, fifteen years ago today the internet giant was deadly serious when it launched what would become one of its biggest products: Gmail.
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Tweets: @evanselinger, @ow, @sundarpichai, @laurenberson, and @mmarshall
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Valve confirms its Index VR headset with integrated headphones and new controllers will ship on June 15, plans full reveal for May 1 — You won't have to wait until May to learn more about Valve's Index VR headset. Valve briefly posted (and promptly removed) unfinished pages for the Index …
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The Verge, Ars Technica, Road to VR, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz, SlashGear, and Gamasutra
Tweets: @wario64, @wario64, and @stroughtonsmith
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Source: Slack plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange in June or July, taking the same path as Spotify for its direct listing — The workplace messaging company Slack Technologies Inc. plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange in June or July, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Intel Capital says it's invested $117M in 14 startups, the majority of which create products and services related to AI — Intel Capital today announced an investment of $117 million in 14 startups doing things like making AI inference faster, helping manufacturers deploy AI systems …
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VentureBeat, PR Newswire, The Register, FinSMEs, Business Wire, SiliconANGLE, FierceWireless, Forbes, and PE Hub Blog
| Joe Pompeo / Vanity Fair: |
Sources: Apple tried hard to sign up The New York Times and WaPo to Apple News+, was flexible on some terms but wanted the papers' entire content offerings — The Times and Post resisted Eddy Cue's hard sell ("We'll make you the most-read newspaper in the world.")
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Philip ElmerDeWitt, Fast Company, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Notes from Silicon Valley
Tweets: @joepompeo, @joepompeo, @mattdpearce, and @reckless
| Kate Conger / New York Times: |
Lyft shares close down 11.85% on second day of trading, after its stock jumped 8.7% on the day of IPO — SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft's debut on the stock market is off to a bumpy start. — The ride-hailing company went public in a blaze of glory on Friday, as its stock jumped 8.7 percent … | Klint Finley / Wired: |
Cloudflare says users can now join waitlist for its mobile-only VPN service Warp via its 1.1.1.1 app, says it has plans to offer a faster, paid version of Warp — VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS (VPNs) can help protect your internet traffic from prying eyes. VPN services route your email … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Researcher: ~13,500 iSCSI storage clusters left exposed online without a password, opening backdoors to enterprise disk storage arrays and people's NAS devices — New attack vector opens backdoor inside enterprise disk storage arrays and people's NAS devices.| Reuters: |
Sources: as part of UAE's Project Raven, at least nine ex-NSA staffers helped hack phones of Al Jazeera's chairman, a BBC Arabic host, and other journalists — A group of American hackers who once worked for U.S. intelligence agencies helped the United Arab Emirates spy on a BBC host …
| Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
Researchers tricked Tesla Autopilot into steering into oncoming traffic by using stickers on the lane markings; Tesla has since patched, but questions remain — Researchers from Tencent Keen Security Lab have published a report detailing their successful attacks on Tesla firmware … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook asks for public input via questionnaire and free-form questions about Oversight Board, which is to be its “supreme court” for content policy decisions — In November, Facebook announced its plans to create an external content oversight board that would serve as something of a …
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