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Sources: as part of its response to FTC inquiries, Facebook unearths emails that appear to show Mark Zuckerberg knew of problematic privacy practices — Internal exchanges uncovered in response to FTC probe could cast doubt on founder's commitment to user privacy, people familiar with the matter say
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Gizmodo, New York Post, BBC, Reuters, Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Insider, The Hill, The Guardian, Business Insider, CNN, CNET, CNBC, Newser, PYMNTS.com, Seeking Alpha, Mercury News, Vice, and Politico
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
After leaked images were published, Google tweets a teaser picture of the Pixel 4, expected in October, confirming at least two rear cameras — Google responds to leaks by posting an official image — Google just tweeted an image of the Pixel 4, a smartphone that the company isn't expected to ship until October.
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TechCrunch, GSMArena.com, AppleInsider, Android Beat, TalkAndroid.com, iPhone Hacks, Android Central, CNET, Wired, 9to5Google, Gizmodo, Android Authority, and CNBC
Tweets: @madebygoogle, @backlon, @backlon, @backlon, @llsethj, @mkbhd, @backlon, @dcseifert, @markgurman, @nickstatt, and @mhbergen
| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Bird confirms it is acquiring electric scooter and moped startup Scoot, which was valued at ~$71M, meaning Bird can now operate shared scooters in San Francisco — Bird is acquiring electric scooter and moped startup Scoot, confirming TechCrunch's previous report that the two companies were in acquisition talks.
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Scoot, PR Newswire, The Verge, Bloomberg, CNET, Engadget, Axios, and Crunchbase News. Tweets: @mbkeating
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Google says it is raising the maximum filter rules limit to 150K from the current 30K in the new Chrome extensions API, giving ad blocker devs more control — Google relaxes control on new Chrome extensions API that would have crippled ad blockers. — After being ripped to shreds by angry users …
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Google Online Security Blog, Chromium Blog, The Register, Wired, PCMag, VentureBeat, MSPoweruser, and CNET
Tweets: @chromiumdev, @ideafaktory, @justinschuh, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, @campuscodi, and @campuscodi
| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Walmart to integrate Jet.com's retail, technology, marketing, analytics, and product teams with its own e-commerce business; Jet.com president to leave in Aug. — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Walmart Inc on Wednesday announced a sweeping overhaul at Jet.com, an e-commerce retailer it acquired …
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The Verge, Walmart Inc., CNBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider
Tweets: @nanditab1 and @myurow
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will now let iPhone and iPad owners use its Android security key tech to verify sign-ins for Google accounts — Google will now allow iPhone and iPad owners to use their Android security key to verify sign-ins, the company said Wednesday. — Last month, the search … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Epic Games, maker of Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, says it has acquired video chat social network Houseparty for an undisclosed sum — What does a gaming company do after raising $1.25 billion? Acquisitions seem like a pretty good place to start. Epic Games — of Unreal Engine …
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Houseparty, Fortune, The Verge, Business Insider, CNN, Variety, Gizmodo, Deadline, CNET, Crunchbase News, and Blue's News
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| Jennings Brown / Gizmodo: |
The official app of La Liga, Spain's soccer league, spied on fans through phone microphones to catch bars pirating game streams; league now facing €250K fine — Spain's data protection agency has fined La Liga, the nation's top professional soccer league, 250,000 euros ($283,000 USD) …
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TechCrunch, The Verge, New York Magazine, Reuters, Ars Technica, Telegraph, NPR, The Guardian, EL PAÍS, ESPN, TorrentFreak, The Register, Slashdot, Engadget, The Daily Dot, and Silicon Republic. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Kevin Litman-Navarro / New York Times: |
Analysis plots 150 privacy policies by reading time and complexity, with Craigslist and DuckDuckGo among the best while Airbnb and Indeed are among the worst — In the background here are several privacy policies from major tech and media platforms. Like most privacy policies …
Tweets: @realavivahr, @oliviasolon, @sarahjeong, @legalwritingpro, @privacyproject, @drewharwell, @robinberjon, and @rmc031
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
In a letter to lawmakers, Facebook says it obtained data on ~187,000 users via its now-defunct Research app, including ~31,000 US users and ~4,300 US teenagers — Facebook obtained personal and sensitive device data on about 187,000 users of its now-defunct Research app …
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Slashdot, AppleInsider, and Seeking Alpha
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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Facebook, Inc42 Media, Digital Trends, Adweek, Gizmodo, Digital Information World, Lifehacker, Financial Times, TalkAndroid.com, TechSpot, Firstpost Tech, Washington Post, Inquirer, Coinspeaker, WRAL TechWire, BetaNews, The Guardian, IT PRO, Neowin, FutureSin, MediaNama, The Next Web, Fossbytes, PYMNTS.com, NBC News, Android Authority, Bloomberg, MSPoweruser, BGR, Forbes, Business Insider, Marketing Land, The Verge, CNET, and Engadget
Tweets: @ow, @kurtwagner8, @kurtwagner8, @mikeisaac, @mikeisaac, and @joshconstine. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Helium debuts $495 cryptocurrency-mining Helium Hotspots that offer free p2p networking, promising greater coverage than WiFi, as 100 could cover an entire city — Cellphone plans are expensive. The average person spends about $80 per month on their phone plan, according to price comparison engine Flipsy …
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TechCrunch, AVC, The Helium Blog, Multicoin Capital, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, Tehrani.com, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Forbes, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@ryanthegentry
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Spotify launches a new US playlist, Your Daily Drive, updating throughout the day with music and news clips from the WSJ, NPR, and Public Radio International — All it's missing is weather and traffic — Spotify's launching a new playlist called Your Daily Drive that will incorporate news podcasts.| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
AT&T is launching the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, its first true 5G phone, on June 17, but it will only be available to developers or AT&T Business customers — But only for business users and developers — AT&T is launching its first true 5G phone, the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G, on June 17th.| New York Times: |
Sources: in a letter to Verizon last March, Huawei accused Verizon of violating 238 of its patents; the claims would exceed $1B in licensing fees — President Trump's dispute with China has landed on the doorstep of Verizon, with Huawei demanding that the American wireless giant pay licensing fees …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Researchers discover “Fishwrap” disinformation campaign recycling images and reports from past terrorist attacks and presenting them as breaking news — Over 215 social media accounts tied to effort to get followers through disinformation. — Researchers at Recorded Future …
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Recorded Future, CyberScoop, Threatpost, The Daily Beast, and The Guardian
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Ford expands on-road testing of 3rd-gen Argo AI self-driving cars with upgraded sensors to Detroit, following Pittsburgh, Palo Alto, Miami, DC, and Dearborn, MI — Now with upgraded sensors and more computing power — Ford is expanding on-road testing of its third-generation self-driving Fusion Hybrid to Detroit.
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Argo AI, Detroit Free Press, CNBC, Detroit News, Engadget, and Bloomberg
| Kate Krader / Bloomberg: |
Uber says it plans to start testing fast food deliveries by drone to designated safe landing zones in a trial in San Diego this summer — On an overcast Monday in May, I joined a group in a parking lot behind a San Diego McDonald's to witness the future of food delivery.
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The Verge, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, BGR, TechCrunch, Hypepotamus, PYMNTS.com, Telegraph, CNN, The Points Guy, and Engadget
Tweets: @zerobeta and @pastormelech
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is moving some production of US-bound Nest thermostats and server hardware out of China to Taiwan and Malaysia, avoiding punitive US tariffs — - Trump's tariffs push tech giant to boost Taiwan manufacturing — Google proved keener than other tech companies about shift
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Wall Street Journal, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Android Central, Silicon Valley Business …, Digital Trends, USgamer.net, Forbes, Pocketnow, 9to5Google, TechNode, Slashdot, BGR, Gizchina, Pocket-lint, Mashable, Axios, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Guardian, Bloomberg, and CNBC
Tweets: @marcorubio, @benktallmadge, @karanbhasin95, @wsj, and @namo_bharath
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Critics question Alphabet's Jigsaw subsidiary's decision to hire a disinformation vendor to run a campaign during research into state-sponsored disinformation — FOR MORE THAN two years, the notion of social media disinformation campaigns has conjured up images of Russia's Internet Research Agency …
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Engadget. Tweets: @sheeraf, @a_greenberg, @wiczipedia, @cwarzel, @wired, @nxthompson, @wiczipedia, @a_greenberg, @sheeraf, and @wiczipedia
| CNBC: |
French tech giant Dassault to buy Medidata, which provides healthcare software for clinics, in $5.8B deal; Medidata currently has a market value of $5.9B — KEY POINTS — Dassault said it was offering $92.25 per share for Medidata, a slight discount to Medidata Solutions' closing price of $94.75 on June 11.
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SiliconANGLE, GlobeNewswire News Room, Financial Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and Financial Times. Tweets: @chrissyfarr
| Sue Halpern / New Yorker: |
A look at proposed US election security legislation, much of it bipartisan, and how Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is stalling its progress — On May 21st, four commissioners who compose the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (E.A.C.) were asked to attest, in Congress …
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Slate and Washington Post
Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @jstrauss, @suehalpernvt, @ronwyden, @newyorker, and @justinhendrix
| Bloomberg: |
Crowdstrike closes its first day of trading at $58, up 71% from its $34 IPO price, valuing the company at about $11.41B — Software maker CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. raised $612 million in one of the biggest-ever initial public offerings for a cybersecurity company.
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Financial Times, Silicon Valley Business …, CNBC, MarketWatch, CNBC, NASDAQ.com, CyberScoop, Dark Reading, Crunchbase News, and Axios. Tweets: @jasonlk
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