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As it ponders Facebook fines, FTC must seek regulation forcing Facebook to make its social graph truly portable, letting users export friend lists to other apps — FTC must pave the path to competition — Choice for consumers compels fair treatment by corporations.| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Satoshi's Treasure scavenger hunt has 60K people signed up in less than a month, with teams as large as 600, searching for clues to access $1M worth of bitcoin — Nothing brings bitcoiners together like a quest peppered with cryptographic clues. — According to Satoshi's Treasure co-creator Eric Meltzer …
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Researchers link a network of far right, far left sites and social media accounts trying to manipulate EU elections to the infrastructure Russia used in 2016 — LONDON — Less than two weeks before pivotal elections for the European Parliament, a constellation of websites and social media accounts linked …
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Non-profit Mined Minds came into West Virginia promising to teach miners and others coding skills and get them well paid jobs, but left many of them worse off — Mined Minds came into West Virginia espousing a certain dogma, fostered in the world of start-ups and TED Talks. Students found an erratic operation.
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| Kieren McCarthy / The Register: |
FBI arrested the CFO of school lunch provider Choicelunch for allegedly hacking competitor The LunchMaster and stealing data on hundreds of Bay Area students — The cutthroat world of children's food in the spotlight — After a year-long investigation, a top California exec has been arrested …
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A developer of cinematics for Mortal Kombat 11 says the violent content of the game and reference materials used to create it led to a PTSD diagnosis — Mortal Kombat 11 is a brutal game. That's what you come for—sensational, over-the-top violence that's inventive and gratuitous on a level that doesn't exist anywhere else.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Study: between 2010 and 2016, traffic congestion in San Francisco grew by about 60%, with Uber and Lyft vehicles accounting for more than half of that increase — Between 2010 and 2016 traffic congestion in San Francisco increased by about 60 percent — and Uber and Lyft are responsible for more than half of that increase| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
AI startup Clarifai laid off around 20% of its staff of around 100 employees, including the product manager who led its work on DoD's Project Maven contract — Clarifai, a six-year old artificial intelligence software startup, laid off around 20% of its staff of around 100 employees on Tuesday …
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
Life360, an SF-based developer of a family tracking app, went public in Australia on Friday because, CEO says, late-stage US investors don't offer “clean terms” — KEY POINTS — Life360, a San Francisco social company backed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists … | Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
At I/O, Google killed the Nest platform and shattered the Google/Nest privacy firewall, saddling many existing users with a dead-end ecosystem of products — The Nest ecosystem is dead. Nest accounts are dead. Nest's privacy firewall is dead. — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. … | Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
Loyalty programs, which are collecting vast amounts of personal data, are easy to join and often have flimsy passwords, making them very attractive to hackers — The punch cards stuffed in your wallet know next to nothing about you, except maybe how many frozen yogurts you still need to buy to get a free one.
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| Karen Zraick / New York Times: |
Researcher says 90+ Facebook groups linked to the illegal trade of Middle Eastern antiquities are still active after Facebook said it shut down 49 such groups — Ancient treasures pillaged from conflict zones in the Middle East are being offered for sale on Facebook, researchers say …
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