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| Kashmir Hill / New York Times: |
In January, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit, in what may be the first known case of its kind — In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man's arrest for a crime he did not commit.
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Washington Post, NPR, BBC, The Verge, Wired, ACLU, Reuters, Ars Technica, and The Next Web
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Tweets: @cendemtech, @karlmorx, @alfredwkng, @geoffreyfowler, @evan_greer, and @terrinamajnoona. Thanks:@rogerwcheng
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google says it will auto-delete location and search data by default for new users after 18 months, as part of a broader expansion of its privacy options — A compromise between privacy and ad-targeting data — On Wednesday, Google announced broad changes in its default data practices for new users …
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The Keyword, New York Times, CNET, Android Police, Pocket-lint, BGR, XDA Developers, MSPoweruser, Bloomberg, Neowin, Android Central, The Irish Times, Trusted Reviews, TechCrunch, CNBC, BBC, VentureBeat, Tom's Guide, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Social Media Today, 9to5Google, and Protocol
Tweets: @sundarpichai, @lutherlowe, @sensherrodbrown, @pierce, @googleuk, @chrismaddern, @ericgeller, @caseynewton, @backlon, and @pierce
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
AWS announces Honeycode, a cloud-based tool that it hopes will help non-coders build apps — - Amazon already leads the cloud infrastructure market, and now it's expanding its cloud product lineup with a tool for people who don't code. — The Honeycode service will compete with offerings …
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TechCrunch, GeekWire, AWS News Blog, ZDNet, TechCrunch, BusinessWire, Bloomberg, and Tehrani.com
Tweets: @dinvesting, @quinnypig, @0xdabbad00, and @alexbdebrie
| Kate Irby / The Fresno Bee: |
Judge rules that Rep. Devin Nunes cannot sue Twitter for defamation over @DevinCow account, agrees with Twitter that it is protected by Section 230 in this case — A judge has ruled that Rep. Devin Nunes has no right to sue Twitter over statements made by a fake Internet cow, someone parodying his mother and a Republican strategist.
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Axios, The Hill, New York Magazine, The Daily Beast, Engadget, and Raw Story
Tweets: @kylegriffin1, @adamsteinbaugh, @kateirby, @kateirby, @kateirby, and @kateirby
| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Slack launches Connect, letting up to 20 organizations communicate in a single Slack channel, currently available to paying customers — Slack today announced the launch of Connect, a way for up to 20 organizations to communicate in a single Slack channel.
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Slack, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Engadget, Wired, MSPoweruser, Neowin, GeekWire, and TheStreet
Tweets: @sameer_singh17, @dcseifert, @slackhq, @tomwarren, @epro, @mikeelgan, and @ericlimer
| John Koetsier / Forbes: |
Apple's Identifier for Advertisers, critical to tracking mobile ad spend, will become opt-in with iOS 14, a privacy boon for users and a big loss for marketers — That tremor in the Force you felt yesterday probably wasn't shock at being able to text your car keys in Apple's new iOS 14 or do real-time offline translation with Siri.
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Wired, Adweek, iMore, CNET, Inc.com, CNET, Decrypt, and The Next Web
Tweets: @kickstand, @zouinedounia, @thezedwards, @benedictevans, @chrismessina, @drbarnard, @counternotions, @antoniogm, and @carnage4life
| Hannah Murphy / Financial Times: |
Sources: Facebook's head of trust and safety policy admits to a “trust deficit” on a call with 200+ advertisers, as the company tries to stem an ad boycott — Social media group hit by mass boycotts over political content moderation — Facebook has admitted to having a … | Tiffany Hsu / New York Times: |
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Tweets: @benandjerrys, @sachabaroncohen, @stevepasquale, and @andrewrking_eu
| Zachary Basu / Axios: |
The DOJ says it's charging Julian Assange in a superseding indictment with recruiting and conspiring with hackers affiliated with LulzSec and Anonymous — The Justice Department announced on Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged in a superseding indictment …
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U.S. Department of Justice, CNET, Associated Press, Business Insider, Washington Examiner, The Sun, The Daily Beast, Law & Crime, and ABC57
Tweets: @jamesrbuk, @jamesrbuk, @biellacoleman, @tonymc39, @louisemensch, @jasonleopold, @xeni, @ericgarland, and @ggreenwald
| Kosaku Narioka / Wall Street Journal: |
Olympus exits the camera business after 84 years to focus on medical devices, selling its camera unit to private equity firm Japan Industrial Partners — Under pressure from U.S. shareholder ValueAct Capital, Tokyo company to sell unit to private-equity firm Japan Industrial Partners| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon forms Counterfeit Crimes Unit, made up of former federal prosecutors, investigators, and data analysts, to fight counterfeiters on its site — Amazon has formed an internal “Counterfeit Crimes Unit” to bolster its fight against knock-off products on Amazon.com, as the company seeks to show customers …
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| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Fleetsmith, which makes enterprise management and security products for Apple devices, says it has been acquired by Apple — Mobile Device Management is at the heart of every Apple enterprise customer's network stack. Up until now, Apple has generally relied on third party companies …
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Fleetsmith Blog, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, VentureBeat, Apple Must, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, The Mac Observer, and TechSpot
Tweets: @fleetsmithhq, @reneritchie, @ryanaraine, and @benbajarin
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Trump's campaign has discussed moving away from Facebook and Twitter, potentially to platforms like Parler, following disputes with both platforms — Amid disputes with Facebook and Twitter, the president's team mulls whether to push supporters toward a different platform or put more emphasis on its own campaign app
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Fox Business, Gizmodo, and Input
Tweets: @kevinroose, @mikeisaac, @can, @joshuabrustein, @jesselehrich, @wexler, and @thestefansmith
| Los Angeles Times: |
An in-depth look at the systemic diversity issues that plague Silicon Valley giants and VCs, effectively shutting Black and Latino people out of the industry — It seemed like tech was turning a corner. — For years, the industry's giants had resisted calls to disclose workforce diversity data …
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CNN. Tweets: @csforca, @danbeucke, @alexpadilla4ca, @scrivenix, @latimes, @jmbooyah, @jmbooyah, @jeffbercovici, @jeffbercovici, @jeffbercovici, @jmbooyah, @lenny_mendonca, @jmbooyah, @jmbooyah, @latimes, @jeffbercovici, @latimes, and @latimes
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Sony launches a bug bounty program for the PS4, the PlayStation Network, and other Sony properties, paying from $100 to $50K+ for critical PS4 vulnerabilities — Sony will pay security researchers for bugs in the PlayStation 4 gaming console, its operating system, official PS4 accessories …
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PlayStation.Blog, CNET, BleepingComputer, TechCrunch, and Wccftech
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Review of email app Superhuman: elegant, detailed interface but you have to live with its fixed hotkeys, inconsistent filtering, and the steep $30/month price — $30 per month is too much for a Gmail app — Superhuman is one of the most in-demand startups right now …
Tweets: @caseynewton, @joshuabaer, @harrymccracken, @tonyromm, @jmalcoun, and @aaronklein
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Jumbo, which lets users easily manage their online privacy and mass-delete old posts, raises $8M Series A and releases a major app update — A year after its initial release, Jumbo has two important pieces of news to announce. First, the company has released a major update of its app that protects your privacy on online services.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources and documents detail a months-long cyberstalking and harassment campaign by members of eBay's security team against those behind the ECommerceBytes blog — Security employees allegedly orchestrated deliveries of live cockroaches, pornographic videos and a mask of a bloody pig's head| Judd Legum / Popular Information: |
Despite teaming with Science Feedback last year, Facebook has made climate disinformation ineligible for fact-checking by deeming it “opinion” — Facebook is “aiding and abetting the spread of climate misinformation,” said Robert Brulle, an environmental sociologist at Drexel University.
Tweets: @brooklynmarie, @ericgarland, @chriswarcraft, @scottpwaldman, @emorwee, @samesmail, @juddlegum, @emorwee, @pitchaya, @jayrosen_nyu, @aaron_strauss, @emorwee, @rockominn, @juddlegum, @juddlegum, @cwarzel, @jason_kint, @juddlegum, @chelseaclinton, @juddlegum, @bergopolis, @laurendw, @tvietor08, @juddlegum, @monteiro, and @emorwee
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram expands its TikTok rival, Reels, to France and Germany, after its 2019 Brazil debut, reworking the sharing model to be more public and less ephemeral — Instagram is expanding its TikTok competitor known as “Reels” to new markets, following its launch last year in Brazil.
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| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Black Amazon employees, many working in warehouses, urge Jeff Bezos to match his rhetoric on racial justice with actions to address “systemic” racial bias — From racist graffiti to missed promotions, employees say a “systemic pattern of racial bias” permeates the company.
Tweets: @kyweise, @kyweise, @teamcoworker, @kyweise, @mikeisaac, @staceynycdc, and @kyweise
| Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: |
Austin-based OJO Labs, which uses machine and human intelligence to personalize property recommendations, raises $62.5M led by Wafra — Austin-based OJO Labs closed on a $62.5 million round of funding led by Wafra, the company said Wednesday in a release. — OJO Labs, founded in 2015 …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Sources: California AG plans to seek an injunction as soon as today to force Uber and Lyft to reclassify drivers as employees under AB5 before the case is heard — California plans to file court documents on Wednesday seeking to compel Uber and Lyft to reclassify their drivers as employees within … | gvnshtn: |
An inside account of the security practices at Maersk leading up to and after the notPetya malware attack in 2017 and lessons learned from the recovery efforts — Maersk is the world's largest integrated shipping and container logistics company. I was massively privileged (no pun intended) …
Tweets: @briankrebs and @divinetechygirl
| Leah Nylen / Politico: |
Sources say DOJ and a coalition of state attorneys general are considering an antitrust investigation into Apple's App Store, following a similar EU probe — The Justice Department and a coalition of state attorneys general are taking the first steps toward launching an antitrust probe of Apple …
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iPhone Hacks, MacDailyNews, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, and The Mac Observer
Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1, @politico, @politico, and @politico
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