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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Chris Hughes' op-ed reflects a consensus among early Facebook executives that the company is too large, too powerful, and too deleterious to society's health — Thanks to everyone who wrote with warm wishes about jury duty. Sadly, I was not called upon to serve my democracy.
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| Matt Rosoff / CNBC: |
Facebook isn't a monopoly in advertising, so breaking it up would be illogical and ineffective; it would also be expensive and discouraging to entrepreneurs — - Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes argues in an op-ed for The New York Times on Thursday that Facebook should be broken up under antitrust laws.
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| New York Times: |
Uber prices its IPO at $45 per share, near the low end of its expected range, raising $8.1B and valuing the company at about $82.4B — The biggest Silicon Valley initial public offering in years turned out to be less lofty than expected. — Uber priced its public offering on Thursday at $45 a share …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say flaws in a popular GPS tracker, used with elderly or kids, can reveal real-time location and remotely activate its microphone, suggest recall — A popular GPS tracker — used as a panic alarm for elderly patients, to monitor kids, and track vehicles — contains security flaws …
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| U.S. Department of Justice: |
US DoJ announces a China-based hacking group has been indicted for a series of computer intrusions including the 2015 Anthem hack which affected ~78.8M people — A federal grand jury returned an indictment unsealed today in Indianapolis, Indiana, charging a Chinese national as part … | Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Google is touting an increased focus on privacy and is making privacy settings slightly easier to find, but those settings remain very confusing for users — IT'S GOOGLE'S BIG privacy pivot, according to Google. — On Tuesday, The New York Times ran an op-ed about privacy written …
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| Binance: |
Binance says it is significantly increasing its security, revamping its API, 2FA, and withdrawal validation, hopes to resume withdrawals and deposits next week — I would like to share some updates on the security incident. We understand the situation is tough for our community.
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| Washington State Office of the Attorney General: |
Washington AG says Amazon has agreed to require sellers of kids' school supplies and jewelry to provide lab certification that their products are not toxic — AG investigation found some school supplies with more than 80 times legal limit of lead — SEATTLE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson …
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Beats Powerbeats Pro review: very comfortable and steady in the ear with great battery life, rich sound, and good bass, but not very discreet outside the gym — Apple's workout headphones are so much more than just a gym accessory — Dr. Dre, the man who boasted about being the first billionaire … | Bob Diachenko / Security Discovery: |
Over 274M records with personal identifiable info of Indian citizens exposed by unsecured MongoDB database, in what may be part of a massive scraping operation — On May 1st, I have discovered an unprotected and publicly indexed MongoDB database which contained 275,265,298 records …
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| Aditya Kalra / Reuters: |
Sources: India's antitrust watchdog has preliminarily found that Google abused the dominant position of Android and has ordered a full probe in April — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's antitrust watchdog has ordered an investigation into Alphabet Inc's unit Google for allegedly abusing …
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| Canalys: |
Smartphone shipments in North America dropped 18% YoY in Q1 to 36.4M units, a five-year low; Apple kept its ~40% market share YoY, shipping 14.6M iPhones — Smartphone shipments in North America plummeted 18% year on year in Q1 2019 to a five-year low of 36.4 million units, down from a record high of 44.4 million in Q1 2018.
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| Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
Interview with Google designer Jennifer Daniel on the complicated issues of gender in images as Google plans to release 53 gender ambiguous emoji with Android Q — In 1999, the Japanese wireless communications company NTT Docomo released 176 pictures for people to quickly, efficiently …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Garrett Camp, the Uber co-founder who envisioned the idea of private cars for hire with an app and whose stake in Uber is now worth ~$3.7B — Garrett Camp envisioned cities full of private cars for hire with an app. Travis Kalanick took it from there, and they both became wealthy beyond imagination.
Tweets: @madhavchanchani, @mattrosoff, and @markmilian
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The lead of Oculus VR, Hugo Barra, says he is taking a new role at Facebook “building a global AR/VR partner ecosystem”; Erick Tseng to take over Oculus — Hugo Barra, the former Xiaomi executive who has run Facebook's Oculus VR team since 2017, is changing roles in what looks like a larger shake-up in VR at Facebook.
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| Europol: |
Europol announces that the Spanish Civil Guard arrested eight people in Spain who have connections to a $10M+ crypto money laundering ring — Print PDF — Europol has supported Spain in dismantling a criminal organisation providing large-scale crypto money laundering services to other criminal organisations.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Reali, a flat fee real estate startup with an AI tool to predict home buying chances at various offers, expands Series B to $29M, bringing total raised to ~$40M — Reali, a real estate startup facilitating transactions between property buyers and sellers, today announced that it's expanded …
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