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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: FTC and DOJ have reached an agreement to divvy up antitrust oversight of Google and Amazon, putting Amazon under FTC's watch and Google under DOJ's — Antitrust regulators have divvied up oversight of Amazon and Google, putting Amazon under the watch of the Federal Trade Commission and Google under the Justice Department.| Benjamin Herold / Education Week: |
US schools are hastily adopting programs for monitoring students' social media activity to improve safety, often with little regard for effectiveness or privacy — Last December, early on a Sunday morning, Amanda Lafrenais tweeted about her cats. — “I would die for you,” the 31-year old comic book artist from Clute, Texas wrote.
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| Alex Johnson / NBC News: |
NBC officially launches NBC News Now, a free streaming news service with 8 hours of programming every weekday, expects to have it running 24/7 by 2020 — The service, which doesn't require cable service authentication, is intended to go round-the-clock by next year.
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| Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair: |
Former Facebook execs, who are mostly just expressing remorse now, should speak out more forcefully and use their Facebook riches to promote reform there — The Facebook co-founder has made enemies—very rich enemies—of many of his former partners, who are now speaking out.
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| Infineon Technologies: |
Infineon to acquire Cypress Semiconductor for $23.85 per share, valuing the company at €9B, at about 33% premium to its Friday closing price of $17.82 — Business & Financial Press — Infineon CEO Ploss: “Landmark step in Infineon's strategic development.
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| Adam Engst / TidBITS: |
Apple's Dark Mode, despite marketing claims, is at odds with the science of human visual perception and affects productivity by making it harder to read text — Dark Mode is the marquee feature of macOS 10.14 Mojave. Apple even gives it the top spot on the macOS product page, saying:
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
TaniGroup, which operates a B2B platform for Indonesian farmers to sell their produce direct to 400 SMBs that cater to 10,000 consumers, raises $10M Series A — In 2016, former World Bank analyst Eka Pamitra teamed up with five friends to start a business that would help farmers in their native Indonesia.| New York Times: |
Boeing changed 737 Max's anti-stall software, which initially relied on two types of sensors, to rely on just one in the last version, without disclosing to FAA — SEATTLE — The fatal flaws with Boeing's 737 Max can be traced to a breakdown late in the plane's development, when test pilots …
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| Meir Orbach / CTech - 24/7: |
PE firms Francisco Partners and Israel Growth Partners to acquire LiveU, an Israel-based developer of live broadcasting and streaming tech, for $200M — LiveU develops live broadcasting and streaming technologies negating the need for an outside broadcasting van, as the video is transmitted directly … | Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Researcher outlines how he discovered and exploited the now-patched KeySteal flaw in macOS to access and decrypt keychain passwords without admin privileges — IN EARLY FEBRUARY, an 18-year-old German security researcher named Linus Henze demonstrated a macOS attack that would allow … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Discord, and many other services were down throughout US during a major Google Cloud service outage, now resolved after 4+ hours — YouTube, Snapchat, Gmail, Nest, Discord, and a number of other web services suffered from major from outages in the US today.
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| Financial Times: |
CFTC says it is in very early talks with Facebook to understand if its upcoming cryptocurrency falls under the US regulator's jurisdiction — Facebook has begun talks with the top US derivatives regulator over its plans for a digital currency, in a sign of how the world's largest social media platform … Sponsor Posts
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