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April 8, 2019, 10:15 AM

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Pinterest sets IPO price range at $15-$17 per share, valuing it at $11.3B at the top of the range, below its last valuation of $12.3B when it raised privately  —  After dropping its IPO filing two weeks ago, today Pinterest, the social media platform where people can discover and share ideas …
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
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 …
BBC:
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.
Eileen Yu / ZDNet:
Dropbox pays out $319,300 in bug bounties for a HackerOne event in Singapore that focused on the file sharing service and its subsidiary HelloSign  —  Cloud storage vendor forks out $319,300 in a one-day bug bounty programme that galvanised 45 HackerOne members in Singapore …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft changes the default removal policy for external storage like USB thumb drives in Windows 10 from “Better performance” to “Quick removal”  —  The default removal policy for external storage media was changed by Microsoft in Windows 10 version 1809 from …
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Bitglass, which allows organizations to extend their security policies beyond their own data centers, raises $70M Series D led by Quadrille Capital  —  Cloud access security broker Bitglass Inc. is in a confident mood after landing a $70 million round of financing.
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.
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 …

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