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Twitter removes a video tribute to George Floyd posted by Trump's campaign, saying it received a complaint from a copyright owner of at least one image — Twitter on Thursday removed a video tribute to George Floyd posted by President Trump's reelection campaign, claiming it had run afoul …
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| Bloomberg: |
As protests dominate headlines, Trump's campaign spent $1.48M on Google ads last week to promote his birthday; since July 2018, Trump has spent $26.3M on Google — - Campaign spends nearly $1.5 million in highest weekly total — Biden campaign spending peaked during heat of primary| Judd Legum / Popular Information: |
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Amazon to license Slack for all employees, while Slack will use underlying tech from AWS's Chime video-calling service to improve its video and audio calls — - Slack will draw on the underlying technology for Amazon Web Services' Chime video-calling service to deliver better video calls for millions of Slack users.
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Google researchers say hackers backed by China recently targeted the Biden campaign while Iran targeted the Trump campaign, but see “no signs of compromise” — Google security researchers say they've identified efforts by at least two nation state-backed hackers against the Trump and Biden presidential campaigns.| Tom Krisher / Associated Press: |
IIHS study of 5K+ crashes: self-driving cars would have prevented only a third, those caused by “sensing and perceiving” errors and driver “incapacitation” — DETROIT (AP) — A new study says that while autonomous vehicle technology has great promise to reduce crashes …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sensor Tower and Apptopia say Twitter broke US and worldwide single-day download records this week with 600K+ downloads and 40M US DAUs on Thursday — Civil unrest due to the nationwide George Floyd protests drove Twitter to see a record number of new installs this week … | Moxie Marlinspike / Signal Blog: |
| Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica: |
In a statement, Instagram says it does not provide users a copyright license to display images on other websites when using its embedding API — People may need to get permission before embedding someone else's Instagram photo. — Instagram does not provide users of its embedding API …
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| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Facebook will start blocking state-controlled media outlets from buying ads in the US this summer and is rolling out labels for ads and posts from those outlets — Facebook said Thursday it will begin blocking state-controlled media outlets from buying advertising in the U.S. this summer.
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| Reuters: |
ByteDance shuts down TopBuzz, its AI-based news aggregator that is an overseas equivalent of its Chinese news app, Jinri Toutiao — BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - ByteDance, owner of the global hit short-video app TikTok, has shut down its artificial-intelligence-based news aggregator TopBuzz …
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| Helene Fouquet / Bloomberg: |
France creates a €150M fund to protect home-grown tech startups from takeovers by foreign buyers, may increase it to €500M from early next year — - Finance Ministry sets aside up to 500 million euros for fund — Distressed tech firms may become ‘prey’ for foreign bidders
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Maze ransomware operators successfully attacked Conduent, a NJ-based business services company, for 10 hours, possibly due to Citrix NetScaler vulnerability — The Maze Ransomware operators are claiming to have successfully attacked business services giant Conduent, where they stole unencrypted files … | Gerrit De Vynck / Bloomberg: |
DuckDuckGo CEO: US federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions about how to limit Google's search business, as part of antitrust investigations — - Private search engine DuckDuckGo has spoken to states, feds — U.S. federal and state authorities are asking detailed questions …
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