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With Snap Kit, Snap moves on from being a “Camera company” and becomes a camera platform, enabling developers to embed, not copy, its best features — Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg's army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried …
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| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Following Anthem's rough launch, current and former BioWare employees say its development was hampered by EA's Frostbite engine and poor leadership — It wasn't even supposed to be called Anthem. Just days before the annual E3 convention in June of 2017, when the storied studio BioWare …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How fraud-detection services like Sift and SecureAuth use thousands of signals and opaque algorithms to generate user-trustworthiness scores — When you're logging in to a Starbucks account, booking an Airbnb or making a reservation on OpenTable, loads of information about you is crunched instantly …
Tweets: @mims, @profgalloway, @mims, @elizabeth_joh, @wsj, and @wsj
| Emily Bell / The Guardian: |
Facebook and Google have placed op-eds and dozens of paid “native ad” articles across major publications, amid other media efforts, to steer future regulations — Three years on from the US election, tech firms are seeking rules that won't hit their profits| Jason Kint / Nieman Lab: |
Survey: fewer than 50% of US adults expect Google to collect data on users' activities on its platforms or apps, track personal browsing for ad targeting, more — Numerous privacy scandals over the past couple of years have fueled the need for increased examination of tech companies' data tracking practices.
Tweets: @eff and @niemanlab
| Iris Deng / South China Morning Post: |
Profile of Tencent's Keen Lab which exposed a number of flaws in Tesla Autopilot over the years, most recently by using stickers on lane markings — Tencent's Keen Lab has exposed a number of flaws in the advanced driver-assistance system of Tesla Tencent's Keen Lab has exposed a number … | MSRC: |
Microsoft partners with HackerOne, says its bug bounty program awarded $2M+ in 2018, now pays bounties faster, and has increased max rewards from $15K to $50K — In 2018 The Microsoft Bounty Program awarded over $2,000,000 to encourage and reward external security research in key technologies to protect our customers.
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Tweets: @bgurley, @jarekmsft, @smiegles, and @soaj1664ashar
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with France's new digital minister Cédric O on regulating big tech, moderating content through a neutral central repository, tech industry in France, more — An interview with Cédric O — What happens when you're working behind the scene with French President Emmanuel Macron and you suddenly become a minister?
Tweets: @romaindillet and @techcrunch
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UK whitepaper proposes “code of best practice” for how internet platforms should deal with harmful content, suggests expanding liability to tech company execs — Internet sites could be fined or blocked if they fail to tackle “online harms” such as terrorist propaganda and child abuse, under government plans.
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| Rita Liao / TechCrunch: |
Ruhnn, a Chinese startup enabling influencers to sell via e-commerce, raised $125M in its IPO Wednesday after listing on Nasdaq, but shares fell 20%+ by Friday — Ruhnn, a company that enables influencers to sell through ecommerce and is plotting to change the faces of China's fashion industry … | Katie Fustich / Built In Colorado: |
Cybersecurity startup deepwatch raises $23M Series A to fuel expansion and R&D, says it's grown to 130 employees and over 100 customers — On Wednesday, Denver-based deepwatch announced it has secured $23 million in a Series A funding round. The cybersecurity provider will use … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Hands on with Android Q Beta 2: deep dive into an early version of Bubbles multitasking UI, a look at the changes to notifications and gesture navigation, more — Android's Bubbles feature can actually completely replace the notification panel. — Android Q Beta 2 is out!
Tweets: @stevesi and @benedictevans
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