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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Source: Trump complained in a meeting with Jack Dorsey that Twitter had removed some followers; Dorsey stressed even he lost followers from new Twitter policies — President Trump on Tuesday met privately with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a huddle at the White House between one of the site's …
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Report: the UK will allow Huawei limited access to help build parts of the country's 5G network, such as antennas and other “non-core” infrastructure — Experts and policymakers are wary of letting China get involved in domestic infrastructure — UK Prime Minister Theresa …
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| Alan Levin / Bloomberg: |
Alphabet's Wing becomes the first drone operator to get FAA approval as an air carrier, plans to launch a delivery trial in Virginia this year — - Google offshoot becomes only drone firm approved as an airline — Wing's new status clears way for others seeking drone commerce
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| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q1 revenue of $320M, vs. $307M est., up 39% YoY, DAUs of 190M, up 2% QoQ; Snapchat reaches 90% of 13-24 year-olds in US — - Snap, the maker of Snapchat, posted a loss fo 10 cents per share, vs. expected loss of 12 cents per share. — The company also managed to continue growing …
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers find that someone has guessed the private keys of some Ethereum users and siphoned off ~45,000 ether from their accounts; low entropy keys to blame — LAST SUMMER, ADRIAN Bednarek was mulling over ways to steal the cryptocurrency Ethereum. He's a security consultant; at the time …
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| Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook shares his thoughts on privacy, tech regulation, politics, and the “rigged” San Bernardino encryption case, citing an inspector general report — Today at the TIME 100 Summit, Apple CEO Tim Cook opened the event with an interview with Nancy Gibbs.
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TIME, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Verge, Telecoms.com, Macworld, TechSpot, Patently Apple, Mashable, and MACお宝 …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 74 for desktop starts rolling out with Windows Dark Mode support, a user preference media query to help limit motion effects in web pages, and more — Google today launched Chrome 74 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes support for a reduced motion media query … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Paint will be included in Windows 10 “for now”, after previously announcing it would be deprecated — Microsoft had been planning to remove its popular Paint app from Windows 10, but the company has now reversed course. The software maker had been warning Windows 10 users …
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| Ashley Gold / The Information: |
Open Technology Institute director and Facebook critic Kevin Bankston says he is leaving in mid-June to become a director of privacy policy at Facebook — Kevin Bankston, currently director of the privacy-focused Open Technology Institute in Washington, will be joining Facebook as a director of privacy policy, he announced Tuesday.
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| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
A history of Kleiner Perkins' two-decade losing streak, as it got distracted by renewable energy, lost key talent, and failed to groom its next-gen leadership — Once the very embodiment of Silicon Valley venture capital, the storied firm has suffered a two-decade losing streak.
Tweets: @ekp, @mdudas, @jeffjohnroberts, @philwahba, @whrobbins, @thesignoffive, @polina_marinova, @sarthakgh, and @shaig
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Blocking social networks after terrorist attacks can do more harm than good, especially in places like Sri Lanka where official sources are often unreliable — We should be suspicious when governments crack down on speech in the name of safety — Imagine for a moment that you run … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
VDOO, a platform that detects and fixes vulnerabilities in IoT devices, raises $32M Series B led by WRVI Capital and GGV Capital — Our universe of connected things is expanding by the day: the number of objects with embedded processors now exceeds the number of smartphones globally …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Leaked internal memo suggests Apple now requires most keyboard-related repairs to be carried out in store with a quoted next-day turnaround time — Apple has indicated that most MacBook and MacBook Pro keyboard repairs will be required to be completed at Apple Stores until further notice …
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Tweets: @marckohlbrugge, @marcoarment, @ow, @tonyromm, and @joannastern
| Colin Campbell / Polygon: |
Sources say Fortnite's growth led to months of intense crunch for Epic staff and contractors, and some are enduring an ongoing crunch to maintain game's success — Sources reveal long hours and intense pressure while working on hit game — In a dozen interviews conducted by Polygon …
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Eurogamer.net, VG247, PC Games Insider, WRAL TechWire, Dot Esports, Windows Central, Variety, USgamer.net, GameSpot, Business Insider, PC Gamer, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GamesIndustry.biz, and Kotaku
Tweets: @toadsanime, @kuraine, @beckhallstedt, @manuelaxibanya, @austin_walker, @rexsmeal, @russpitts, @videodante, and @moomanibe
| Scott Cohn / CNBC: |
Letter from Wisconsin governor to a Foxconn executive reveals that Wisconsin is renegotiating its contract with Foxconn to build an LCD plant in the state — - In a letter to Foxconn exec Louis Woo, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers reiterated that Foxconn approached the state last month …
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The Verge, AppleInsider, Associated Press, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @victorjacobo_, @berniesanders, and @wistatejournal
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Squarespace makes its first acquisition by buying Acuity Scheduling, which helps businesses manage online appointments; all 45 employees will join Squarespace — Squarespace is announcing its first acquisition today, a 13-year-old company called Acuity that allows businesses to manage their online appointments.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Kohl's and Amazon expand partnership: Amazon customers will be able to return products to Kohl's 1,150 US stores, some of which will now carry Amazon products — It's one thing to be able to get everything delivered to your doorstep, it's another to then have to actually have to leave your home …
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Kohls Corporation, Digital Trends, Digiday, SlashGear, Engadget, Droid Life, Android Central, and ZDNet
Tweets: @sarahhalzack, @senthil_veer, and @richdemuro
| Jack Poulson / New York Times: |
American companies keep building surveillance tools that are used to violate human rights; workers who organize protests or refuse to comply deserve protections — American companies continue to build surveillance tools that are used to violate human rights. Workers who refuse to comply deserve protections.| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
Indian music streaming service Gaana says it has 100M monthly active users and is introducing video, starting with made-for-mobile video from top local artists — Gaana, India's biggest music-streaming service, said today that it is introducing videos to its app and offering artists … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
FireEye researchers find the source code of the Carbanak malware, developed by a hacker group that stole €1B+ from banks, has been on VirusTotal for two years — Carbanak source code has been available on VirusTotal for two years, and security firms didn't even notice.
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bit-tech.net, Threatpost, and BleepingComputer
| Hiten Shah / Product Habits: |
Founder of KISSMetrics reflects on how the analytics startup failed because of distraction from random ideas, drive-by management, lack of prioritization, more — Back in 2008, I co-founded KISSmetrics, an analytics company. — There were so many times when I thought about giving up during the early days.
Tweets: @amix3k, @rrhoover, @shearic, @joshelman, @natalykogan, @tuckermattr, @arjunsethi, and @lissijean
| Nicole Carpenter / Gizmodo: |
A look inside the creative streaming community on Twitch, which includes channels from musicians, knitters, makeup artists, scientists, and photographers — “Hi! I see you, but I'm focused on the reading right now. I can chat during the next break!" This message popped up on the stream …
Tweets: @kohquette and @sweetpotatoes
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