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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is trying a new approach to limit the distribution of deepfakes, argues that the definition is too broad and needs to be scoped — Mark Zuckerberg signaled today that Facebook might be taking a different approach to so-called “deepfakes,” synthetic videos created through …
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Mark Zuckerberg says weak US response to 2016 Russian election interference sent a signal to the world, and similar activity has increased from Iran and others — KEY POINTS — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the U.S.'s weak response to 2016 Russian election interference has inspired … | Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
YouTube gives users a “don't recommend channel” option and a way to pick topics of interest for videos showing in Up Next or homepage, now on iOS and Android — No matter how advanced algorithms get, none will understand your YouTube viewing preferences better than you.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC gives Verizon permission to lock cell phones to its network for 60 days after activation, despite open-access rules applying to Verizon's 700MHz spectrum — Verizon, seeking to deter theft, gets FCC waiver to lock phones for 60 days. — Verizon yesterday received the government's permission …
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| Zoe Schiffer / INSIDER: |
Report: ecommerce startup Brandless has hired John Rittenhouse as CEO after Tina Sharkey resigned in March amid tensions with SoftBank, which has a 40% stake — - In March, Tina Sharkey stepped down as CEO of Brandless, the direct-to-consumer retailer of “unbranded” household items.
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| Karl Bode / VICE: |
Researchers demonstrate how the US Wireless Emergency Alert system, which uses LTE networks, can be easily spoofed with “pirate” cell towers to cause mass panic — With a pirate cell tower, it's easy to send fake emergency alerts warning of a terrorist attack, nuclear bomb, or other disaster.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
ARM confirms that its lead CPU and system architect, Mike Filippo, has joined Apple; Filippo's LinkedIn says he began work in May out of Austin, Texas — Multiple reports have indicated that Apple plans to transition to its own ARM-based processors in Macs starting as early as 2020 …
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| Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg: |
San Francisco Pride says Google can still participate in parade after ~100 Googlers petitioned it to drop Google as a sponsor over handling of LGBTQ+ issues — Almost 100 Google employees are urging the organizer of this weekend's San Francisco Pride parade to kick the company out of the celebration … | Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Shopify says users can now message its 820K+ merchants through Apple's iMessage-based Business Chat service, and adds support for Apple Pay — Apple's Business Chat is no longer an exclusive club for big companies like the Four Seasons Hotel and Burberry. Cupertino is expanding the service …
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| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
Twitch launches beta of Subscriber Streams, which will let Twitch streamers who are Twitch Affiliates or Twitch Partners offer subscriber-only streams — A potentially useful tool for big events — Twitch is giving its well-behaved streamers a chance to offer a new …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
Google, UChicago, and its medical center sued in a lawsuit accusing the hospital of sharing hundreds of thousands of identifiable patient records with Google — SAN FRANCISCO — When the University of Chicago Medical Center announced a partnership to share patient data with Google in 2017 …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Less than a week after ransomware victim Riviera City paid ~$600K, another Florida town, Lake City, votes to pay ~$500K in BTC to ransomware hackers — Lake City officials give in and agree to pay nearly $500,000 to ransomware gang. — Less than a week after a first Florida city agreed …
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Tweets: @campuscodi, @michael_kan, @jeremiahg, @malwaretechblog, @padresj, @jaidbarrett, @michael_kan, and @gossithedog
| Karl Bode / VICE: |
In a joint letter, Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo tell the Trump administration that proposed Chinese tariffs would harm the game industry and cost gamers $840M — US consumers will pay a total of $840 million more for consoles than they would without Chinese tariffs, the companies warn.
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Tweets: @getfandom, @hcheadle, @tonygerdeman, @kifleswing, and @vice
| Will Sommer / The Daily Beast: |
Reddit “quarantines” r/The_Donald, which has 750K+ subs, over threats made against cops and public figures; quarantines show a content warning upon visiting sub — Users allegedly threatened law enforcement ordered to find Republican senators in Oregon who went on the lam to duck voting for climate-change bill.
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| Polina Marinova / Fortune: |
A profile of Jeff Jordan, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, who became a VC in his fifties and invested early in Airbnb, Instacart, and Pinterest — How Jeff Jordan is applying what he learned during his time at Disney, eBay, and OpenTable to help founders at Airbnb, Pinterest, and Instacart.
Tweets: @polina_marinova, @katiebaynes, @manuelabarcenas, @karanortman, @mikeslagh, @chrisfralic, @felixsalmon, @mrp, and @cquarles
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram says it will roll out ads on its Explore page, visible when users tap on Explore posts, starting with an ad for IGTV today — Ads everywhere — Ads are coming to more places on Instagram. Today, the social media platform announced that it'll soon start placing ads within the Explore page …
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Instagram for Business, CNN, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Thurrott, Cult of Mac, Engadget, CNBC, MSPoweruser, Vox, Business Insider, and iDownloadBlog.com
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| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
Candy Crush Saga maker King touts to UK MPs that, of the game's 270M players, 9.2M play for 3-6 hours per day, and 432,000 play for six hours or more — Executive of maker King tells MPs he does not believe there is addiction problem — A top executive at the maker of the multibillion … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd introduces Snapshots, bite-sized distillations of nonfiction books' key points — Subscription e-book and audiobook service Scribd is unveiling a new content type that it calls a Snapshot — a distillation of a nonfiction book's key points … Sponsor Posts
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